Keynotes and workshops
I speak and run workshops on leadership, judgement and enterprise resilience, drawing on military command and corporate leadership.
Signature Keynote & Executive Workshop
Evolving programme
Leading Without Retakes
Leadership, judgement and performance when consequences cannot easily be reversed.
Leading Without Retakes draws on high-consequence operations and enterprise leadership to examine how individuals and teams decide well despite imperfect information, pressure and competing demands. When the margin for correction is narrow, disciplined preparation and judgement become essential.
The keynote in five questions
- What makes a decision consequential?
- How does pressure alter perception and behaviour?
- Why do preparation, rehearsals and clearly understood intent matter?
- What does a leader owe the team when certainty is impossible?
- What should success and failure teach us afterwards?
Choose a format
Leading Without Retakes · Keynote
Signature keynote
45–60 minutes · Keynote
Leadership and judgement when decisions cannot easily be reversed, in five questions.
Leading Without Retakes · Workshop
Executive workshop / Leadership Lab
Half day or full day · Workshop
A facilitated lab where leadership teams practise decisions under pressure.
One-to-one mentoring
Beyond the Uniform
Veteran-to-Corporate Transition Session
30 minutes · Online · ₹1,599
A one-to-one session with Amit Dabas for military veterans moving into corporate careers.
Leading Without Retakes · Keynote
Signature keynote
45–60 minutes · Keynote
- Suggested duration
- 45–60 minutes, with an optional moderated conversation or Q&A.
- Audience
- Conferences, executive leadership gatherings, management offsites, professional associations, higher-education audiences and cross-functional corporate events.
Participants are invited to reconsider the distinction between confidence and judgement, decisiveness and haste, control and preparedness, and individual heroics and collective capability.
Audience takeaways
- a sharper appreciation of consequence
- questions to test decision quality
- greater respect for professional dissent
- a practical understanding of preparedness as a leadership discipline
Leading Without Retakes · Workshop
Executive workshop / Leadership Lab
Half day or full day · Workshop
- Suggested formats
- A half-day facilitated programme or a full-day executive learning experience. A more immersive two-day adaptation may be developed for appropriate leadership cohorts.
- Audience
- Senior and emerging leaders, executive committees, cross-functional leadership teams, crisis leaders and managers with consequential operational responsibility.
The workshop moves beyond listening. Participants work through ambiguous situations, distinguish facts from assumptions, examine decision rights, challenge one another’s reasoning, confront trade-offs and conduct structured after-action reviews.
Possible participant outputs
- a personal decision-quality checklist
- a team decision-rights map
- a structured after-action learning template
- commitments for applying the principles in the workplace
One-to-one mentoring
Beyond the Uniform
Veteran-to-Corporate Transition Session
30 minutes · Online · ₹1,599
A one-to-one session with Amit Dabas for military veterans moving into corporate careers. Discuss roles that fit your experience, how to explain your military background to employers, and what to do next.
Selected engagements · 2019–2026
Where Amit has spoken and taught
Other topics
The Blind Spot of Winning
How success can erode the doubt, challenge and risk awareness that produced it. In development alongside the manuscript of the same name.
Building Elite Teams
Individual leadership, team character and mission orientation in high-performing teams, from earlier keynote and workshop engagements.
Beyond Security
Moving protective functions from activity and compliance to risk visibility, assurance, crisis readiness and commercial value.
Additional topics for selective engagements
Technology and Human Judgement; Leadership Across Military and Corporate Contexts; Leading Through Disruption; Building a Culture Where Bad News Travels Early.
Enquiries
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