Why Smart Leaders Get Change Wrong

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Why Smart Leaders Get Change Wrong

Why Smart Leaders Get Change Wrong

When

29 Jan 2026

Time

8:30AM-10:00AM

Arrival

8:30 AM

Where

Trident Hyderabad, HITEC City

For whom

CEO & CFO Forum

Departure

10:00 AM
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Why do data-driven leaders still struggle to make change stick?
In an era of AI disruption, capital abundance and heightened stakeholder scrutiny, CEOs and CFOs increasingly function as a joint leadership core, tasked not just with strategy and capital allocation, but with shaping behaviour across the organisation. Yet dashboards, forecasts and business cases rarely shift mindsets or make change stick.
In this session, Biju Dominic will draw on neuroscience and behavioural economics to unpack a core leadership paradox: rational analysis often blinds leaders to the psychological and emotional forces that truly drive decisions. He will explore how cognitive bias, emotional circuitry and social conditioning influence leadership judgment, and why even well-designed transformation efforts fail.
The session will offer a practical, science-based framework to help CEOs and CFOs make better decisions together by combining logic with intuition, numbers with narrative and strategy with behavioural design.

Key Takeaways

Why experience, intelligence and data can increase, not reduce, decision risk

How CEO–CFO dynamics shape culture and organisational behaviour

Why most transformations fail at the human, not strategic, level

How to recognise and counter bias, escalation and emotional blind spots

Practical tools for decisive, human-centred change

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