Punching Above Your Weight: Leadership Lessons from the World Stage

Cost: Free

In this conversation, we'll dig into what diplomacy actually teaches about leadership you can use:

• How to move people you don't control
• How to lead through a crisis you didn't cause and can't stop
• How a small player wins against much bigger ones
• How relationships, not tactics, are what compound over a career

Daniel will also share the story behind the Stelios Foundation North–South Business Cooperation Awards — a €500,000 prize fund for entrepreneurs trading across the border, which he helped create with easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Applications are open until 7 September 2026, with a €150,000 Gold Award on offer. If you're building something cross-border, this is non-dilutive money worth chasing — and you'll hear how to go for it.

This isn't a diplomatic memoir. It's practical, direct, and built for the people in the room who have to lead something themselves.

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