We are excited to announce that Lord Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics and renowned Olympic gold medallist, will join the SSOW London Big Ideas Stage this October as the keynote speaker. In an Olympic year, it could hardly be more timely to welcome Lord Coe to the conference, where he will share his insights on leading change from the front – and for turning bold vision into bold reality. Packing his speech with anecdotes from his storied and varied career as an Olympic athlete, an MP and London 2012 Chair, as well describing his turnaround of the British Olympic Association and his presidency of World Athletics through troubled times, Lord Coe has plenty to teach our leaders about leading transformational change for organisations on a global stage. Lord Coe’s key themes of leadership, collaboration, crisis management, building resilience, handling change and challenging the status quo will resonate particularly well with our shared services and GBS leaders community. A passionate believer in creating a clear, strong vision for an organisation, he will share his approach to building a simple, transferable set of values which are adhered to at every moment and by every employee - whatever their role. This vision, he contends, is key in times of change and turbulence.