Established supply chain networks and trade flows are under strain. Procurement and supply chain professionals are working with new rules - described as a "rupture in the world order", by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier this year.
The geopolitical context has evolved since those remarks. While risk management has always been a fundamental skill, we are witnessing a shift in priorities for sourcing decisions and supplier partners.
As part of the CIPS Great Conversation, speakers will explore what this all means for the future of the profession. We'll ask:
- How do we embed organisational, cultural and human resilience in our teams?
- How does the remapping of established supply and logistics routes affect procurement?
- Should we be rephrasing supply chains as "supply webs"? And why does it matter?
- How do functions go beyond supply chain resilience with supply chain viability?
And come with your questions for the opening session of CIPS Risk & Resilience Week 2026!
Loading feed
Speakers
Please register to view the resources
Past Events
60 Mins | 29 April 2026
Time to Lead: insights from the CIPS Global State of Procurement & Supply 2026
Confirm cancellation
Something went wrong.
An error occurred trying to play the stream. Please reload the page and try again.
Close
Dr. John Glen was a senior lecturer in Economics and latterly Director of the Centre for Customised Executive Education CCED at Cranfield School of Management in the UK. After 18 years at Cranfield John retired from the School at the end of September 2017 and is now a visiting fellow at Cranfield.
John has extensive experience as a facilitator of top teams working with talented leaders on innovation and growth strategies in 40+ countries and from many more cultures. His focus is on top team deliberations around strategy, innovation, operating models, leadership and culture to promote growth and strategic value for shareholders.
John has worked extensively with the Kuehne and Nagel organisation for the past 10 years. Currently, he advises the boards of Kuehne and Nagel UK, Kuehne and Nagel South and Central America, and has worked on a wide range of engagements across Europe with Kuehne and Nagel. John has also advised a number of regional boards of global orgainsations including G4S Africa and DP World (Europe).
As of November 1st 2012 John was retained by CIPS as their economic advisor. In that role, John is speaking widely to procurement and supply chain practitioners about the impact of Brexit. John is also a member of the Brexit impact group that reports to the National manager of Kuehne and Nagel UK.
John appears regularly on BBC radio and television commenting on the UK macro-economy, the UK banking industry and the economics and finance of sport.
John teaches on a number of international MBA programmes in Germany, Belgium, South Africa and the Netherlands and has delivered executive education programmes to a large portfolio of corporate clients including Kuehne and Nagel, Jaguar LandRover, EMC2, Sony, Vodafone, REXAM, Pfizer, BAE Systems, Trust Re, Etisalat, ARI, HSBC and SABIC.
Organisational resilience and team performance expert Chris Tamjdidi is co-founder and Managing Director of Awaris, an international leadership development and cultural transformation company working with over 200 organisations. Chris specialises in resilience, a deep understanding of the mind and body connection, authentic leadership and systemic cultural transformation.
He has led more than 300 leadership and resilience projects annually with global companies, as well as personally coached senior executives across the private and public sector.
Chris is the co-author of The Resilient Culture: How Collective Resilience Leads to Business Success, which has been translated into four languages and won prizes at international book awards.