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Victor
Saad
Chief Talent Officer
NextGen Growth Partners
Victor Saad - Founder, Experience Institute / Chief Talent Officer, NextGen GP - is a talent leader, coach, and educator dedicated to helping people navigate transitions in work and life. In 2012, he designed his own master’s program, The Leap Year Project, completing 12 projects in 12 months and culminating in a TEDx talk and published book celebrating learning through risk. Following this, Victor founded Experience Institute, an organization that helps students and professionals develop essential skills through experiential learning. His work in education earned him recognition on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015. Victor also serves as a Lecturer in Design at Stanford’s School of Engineering, where he helped transform experiential learning into a core part of the curriculum. Today, he is Chairman of the Board at Experience Institute and Chief Talent Officer at NextGen Growth Partners, supporting founders and CEOs in growing and transitioning their businesses.
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18 November 2025 11:45 - 12:30
Interactive roundtable discussions
We're putting you at the heart of the discussion for this next session. Each table will have a pre-assigned topic and host - all you need to decide is which conversation you want to join. We'll host break out convos for 30 mins and then all come back together as a group to share the most interesting talking points from each table. Topics include: - Driving employee engagement through career development - AJ Brow - Organizational and leadership development - adapting at different scale companies - Andrea Cooper - Enabling an AI-ready workforce - Reporting up to the board - data-driven storytelling - Succession planning and nurturing the leaders of tomorrow - Building a data-driven decision making playbook with advanced people analytics
18 November 2025 10:15 - 10:45
Designing Change: How Leaders Inspire Transformation at Every Level
Explore how leaders can guide personal, team, and organizational transformation using design thinking principles. This interactive session highlights practical strategies to navigate change, align teams, and turn disruption into opportunity. Key takeaways include: Leading personal and team transitions with purpose Shaping culture through leadership and direction shifts Driving organization-wide transformation in dynamic environments