LeadForward Roadshow (Europe)
Join The Mentoring Club for a three-session virtual experience exploring how leaders across Europe can make better decisions, redefine success, and envision a meaningful future.
Through a keynote, panel discussion, and interactive visioning workshop, participants will reflect on how values shape decisions, how meaningful work can take many forms, and how each of us can move toward a future with greater purpose and impact.
Session 1 — IMPACT Decision Challenge: Supporting Values, Better Decisions, Greater Impact
Explore how Intent, Mandates, People, Alternatives, Consequences, and Trust can help you challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and make more thoughtful decisions aligned with your values and desired impact.
Session 2 — Redefining Success: Finding Your Own Path to Meaningful Work
Hear from people who have followed different career paths and explore how passion, purpose, fulfillment, and impact can shape your own definition of success and meaningful work.
Session 3 — Envision Your Future. Inspire Action. Create Impact.
Clarify what matters most, define your personal “North Star,” and identify practical actions you can begin taking toward a meaningful future.
Whether you are leading others, navigating a career transition, building something of your own, or asking what comes next, this Roadshow invites you to consider:
How will your values shape the decisions you make, the work you choose, and the impact you create?
Key Takeaways
Participants will:
Learn how to use the IMPACT Framework to make more thoughtful, values-aligned decisions.
Explore different paths to meaningful work and personal definitions of success.
Reflect on who they are, what matters most, and the impact they want to make.
Challenge assumptions or fears that may be limiting what they believe is possible.
Define a clearer personal “North Star.”
Identify practical actions they can begin taking through experimentation, learning, and adjustment.
Recognize the value of mentors, peers, and other “Thinking Partners” in supporting progress.
Target Audience
This Roadshow is for people across Europe and the world who want to lead with greater intention, make meaningful decisions, and create positive impact through their work and lives.
It is especially relevant for emerging and experienced leaders, professionals, managers, executives, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, independent workers, skilled workers, career changers, mentors, and mentees who are reflecting on their next chapter, redefining success, or seeking greater alignment between their values, work, and desired impact.
Dates
October 16 at 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM CEST / October 16 at 6:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Speakers and Moderators
Carrie Lomas, Olga Ismagilova, Mitch de Leon, Rukevwe Agbro, Sarah Bremer, Simon De Los Rios, Kimberly Wiefling, Hong Nguyen-Phuong
SESSION 1
Olga Ismagilova, FCMA, CGMA, is a finance leader, career strategist, sustainability professional, and mentor with more than 20 years of international experience. She has worked across 42 markets in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, helping professionals navigate transformation, career transitions, sustainable career planning, and purposeful leadership.
Carrie Lomas is a technology, innovation, and sustainability leader, entrepreneur, and educator with 27 years of senior leadership experience across Intel and IBM. Founder and CEO of Brand Conscience and Associate Fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, she created the IMPACT Framework to support more thoughtful, aligned decision-making.
SESSION 2
Simon De Los Rios leads SDLR Coaching and Consulting, helping professionals navigate career and life transitions while supporting senior leaders with decision-making, leadership, and sustainable performance. Formerly with Amazon, he spent more than 15 years in operations and logistics. He is an engineer, certified coach, mentor, and triathlete.
Mitch de Leon is a scale-up strategist, investor, and family office advisor focused on accelerating growth for startups and established companies. Founder of Xceleration Labs and Teleportation Hour, he works across Asia, the United States, and Europe in scaling, business development, corporate venture capital, and new venture building.
Rukevwe Agbro is a UK-based Senior IT Project Manager, PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner, consultant, coach, and author. She helps organizations strengthen project delivery and has trained more than 2,000 people transitioning into IT. She also supports new project managers with career clarity, interview preparation, and professional development.
Sarah Bremer is a German-English interpreter, language educator, and META-Health skin coach whose career spans operations, service, agriculture, locksmithing, education, digital projects, and coaching. Her work centers on communication, human behavior, and pattern recognition, with a practical focus on understanding context, meaning, systems, and what lies beneath the surface.
SESSION 3
Hong Nguyen-Phuong helps people navigate change, exercise good judgment, and take responsibility for the impact they make. His work combines decades of Silicon Valley experience with mentoring, leadership development, and emerging AI technologies.
Kimberly Wiefling is a global leadership facilitator, author, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. For 20+ years, she has helped leaders and teams across 50+ countries strengthen leadership, collaboration, innovation, and impact. Her work blends human leadership, AI, and sustainability to help people achieve what once seemed impossible.