Leadership Session: The CEO

​📚☕️ A morning session for anyone curious about leadership, power, and how companies really get built.

​Join us at Ormeau Labs on 19 February, 9:30–10:30am with Michael Aldous and John Turner, authors of The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry.

​The book explores Britain’s corporate leaders across the twentieth century the characters who reached the top, how they got there, and what their leadership tells us about performance, productivity, innovation, and the wider economy.

​👤 Michael Aldous is a business historian and Senior Lecturer at Queen’s Business School, QUB, with a background at LSE. His work focuses on how leadership and organisational decisions shape firm performance and entire industries.

​📊 John Turner has been Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen’s University Belfast since 2005. His research spans banking, financial markets, bubbles, and crises and what we can learn from them over the long run.

​Expect sharp insights, real-world lessons, and plenty of discussion

​Plus good coffee to start the day right!