Thriving in the storms ...
Every leader goes through the storms and this is where we talk about them.
We all carry pressure nobody else sees. The decisions with no right answer and intense resistance from multiple stakeholders that take us to a point where surviving stops being enough.
These conversations go to the eye of those storms, without polish or performance. Then they do the harder thing, find the opportunity inside the adversity, going from Surviving to Thriving in the storms.
A 240X Opportunity Mindset videocast, hosted by Dan “The Bulldog” Brown. CXOs talk about the storms of leadership, the challenges we face, failures that led to success, the moments that nearly broke them and what lessons came from those difficult situations.
Opportunity Mindset is the 240X Championship Standard of focus that enables you and your teams to thrive not simply survive in the midst of life's storms, winning through every challenge regardless of circumstances and knowing that adversity is always the advantage when positively directed at what really matters.
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A 240X Opportunity Mindset videocast, brings together a diverse mix of leaders, thinkers, adventurers, scientists, founders, and unconventional operators who have earned their perspective through experience rather than theory. These are people who have navigated uncertainty, made meaningful decisions under pressure, built things that matter, and learned what works when logic runs out.
Expect honest conversations about leadership, judgement, resilience, identity, purpose, performance, and what it really takes to create progress in complex environments. This is thoughtful dialogue with people who are still in the arena, curious, candid, and generous enough to share their insights from what have learned.
Kirsty Mason is Group Chief Information Officer at Go-Ahead Group, formerly the Group CIO of Bentley Motors.
Kirsty leads enterprise transformation through technology, data and AI in regulated, operationally critical organisations. Across 35 years in automotive, aviation, telecoms, logistics and travel, she has worked at board level, led international teams of 350+ and overseen portfolios of up to £700m.
Most recently, at Bentley Motors within the VW Group, Kirsty led an enterprise-wide technology, data and AI transformation, simplifying a fragmented estate, raising data and AI maturity, and delivering c.25% cost optimisation through supplier restructuring.
Kirsty is consistently in UK CIO100, Global CIO100 and Global CIO200.