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Breakfast Briefing series

The Executive Education Breakfast Briefing series is just one way we engage with the local business community and wider society.

The series offers business practitioners, policy makers, media, and other stakeholders, the opportunity to hear our latest research from across a range of business and management themes. Our diverse and inspiring speakers represent the world of academia and business practice. They bring with them new insights and new perspectives to challenge your current thinking and stimulate debate.

Inclusive breakfast briefings

The pandemic radically changed our breakfast briefings, enhancing the diversity of our guest speakers and audience. Within six weeks of the Spring 2020 lockdown, Cardiff Business School hosted its first fully online briefing using Zoom, which was then relatively new. These briefings helped our community stay connected and provided a sense of normalcy. Over the following year, participation surged, allowing us to invite presenters from afar and engage a nationwide audience, reaching individuals and organisations across Wales and beyond.

Our briefings have always aimed to facilitate networking within the business community. When restrictions eased, we were eager to resume in-person events. Now, our briefings are fully hybrid, allowing local attendees to join in person while accommodating those who are remote or unable to attend.

The onset of the pandemic and the associated lockdowns enforced change, but we have been able to turn the situation into a positive one, and our briefings are more popular than ever. If you’ve missed any of the sessions or would like to review what was discussed, please look at our 'Previous breakfast briefing' section below.

Join us at our next one: Pursuing international growth on Thursday 24 October 2024.

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Join our Cardiff Business School Community to receive invitations for future events, breakfast briefings, course information, and our monthly newsletters.

We are always keen to hear suggestions for new topics and themes for future briefings and welcome feedback on the sessions.

Executive Education

Recent topics have included gender pay disparity, building innovation in to organisations, tempting talent in to business, and information management and organisational liability.

Previous breakfast briefings

Cardiff Business School wraps up a successful year of breakfast briefings

25 July 2024

Cardiff Business School concluded its final breakfast briefing of the 2023-24 academic year with an insightful talk by the CEO of Transport for Wales.

Addressing productivity challenges in Wales

30 January 2024

In a recent Breakfast Briefing, the spotlight was on the pressing productivity challenges in Wales and potential pathways towards improvement.

Celebrating twenty years of the Living Wage

10 December 2023

Cardiff Business School marked Living Wage Week 2023 with a breakfast briefing which highlighted the pivotal role Cardiff University and Cardiff as a city play in this initiative.

Demystifying AI

13 November 2023

A recent breakfast briefing held at Cardiff Business School shed light on the top-level business applications of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Demystifying the circular economy

23 October 2023

The circular economy was the focus of a recent breakfast briefing event held by Cardiff Business School.

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The secret sauce that makes Greggs special

14 August 2023

At the latest session in Cardiff Business School’s Breakfast Briefing Series, the Chief Financial Officer of Greggs shared a unique insight into the company.

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The business of law: operations, investment, and ethics

4 July 2023

The economy of the UK legal sector was the topic of discussion at a recent breakfast briefing hosted by Cardiff Business School.

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Recruiting international talent

12 May 2023

The benefits of hiring international graduate talent and navigating the visa process.

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Enabling public servants to succeed

16 January 2023

What it takes to be a 21st century public servant was the topic of discussion at a breakfast briefing held at Cardiff Business School.

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Together stronger: values and visions of Welsh football

13 January 2023

Putting Wales on the world map alongside the values and vision of Welsh football was the topic of discussion at a Cardiff Business School Breakfast Briefing.