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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

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Global economic impacts of COVID-19

19 November 2020

Cardiff economist unravels data on pandemic

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Building back better

8 October 2020

Briefing outlines initiatives for social and economic COVID recovery

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Disability inclusive working environments

30 September 2020

Briefing shares experiences of legal professionals during pandemic

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Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on BAME communities

10 September 2020

Briefing shares findings of Welsh Government report

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Timpson’s COVID challenge

14 July 2020

Leading UK retail service provider shares business insights

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From lockdown to turnaround

16 June 2020

Virtual briefing focuses on small businesses in post-coronavirus Wales

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Rejecting “back to normal”

21 May 2020

Briefing explores progressive measures for a post-pandemic world

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Fit for the future

23 April 2020

Briefing looks ahead to Wales’ new school curriculum launching in 2022

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Re-energising Wales

27 February 2020

Briefing explores the foundational nature of energy

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Recruiting with 20/20 vision

30 January 2020

Breakfast Briefing focuses on building tomorrow’s workforce