MASTERCLASS How to make your team 360degrees confident enough from sharing crazy ideas to innovative implementation for SMEs, startups and corporate teams with Robin Maillard


Event time

01/16/2026 12:00PM - 01:00PM CET

Event location

Available online

Event information


Short description:

Innovation rarely fails because of a lack of ideas. It fails because teams don’t feel confident enough to speak up, experiment, and turn bold thinking into action. This masterclass gives leaders and teams a practical, human-centered roadmap to build 360° confidence — the psychological, cultural, and operational conditions that allow people to share “crazy” ideas and transform them into real innovations.
Based on research on management, work, and organizational behavior, and grounded in real business cases, this session helps organizations move from hesitation and silos to trust, clarity, and execution.

What will you learn?

  • How to create psychological safety without lowering performance expectations
  • Why confidence is the missing link between ideas, innovation, and impact
  • How to structure teams so ideas don’t die after brainstorming
  • Practical tools to move from experimentation to implementation
  • The leader behaviors that unlock initiative, ownership, and innovation

for who: 
Leaders, managers, founders, and team leads in SMEs, startups, and corporate teams who want to foster innovation, engagement, and execution.

This masterclass is also suitable for:
HR, innovation, transformation, and strategy professionals; team coaches; and organizations preparing for AI-driven change.

About the teacher:

Robin Maillard is a researcher at The Conference Board, a global, non-partisan research organization that helps leaders navigate the world’s most complex business and societal challenges through evidence-based insights. Founded over a century ago, The Conference Board supports senior executives at leading companies globally, with a strong focus on the future of work, leadership, productivity, and workforce transformation.

Within the Human Capital Center, Robin works on large-scale research projects exploring how technology, AI, and data are reshaping work, skills, organizational structures, and reward systems. His work combines quantitative analysis, executive surveys, and applied research to translate complex trends into practical, decision-relevant guidance for business and HR leaders.

Robin is closely involved in research on technologies’ impact on work and organizations, with a particular focus on why many initiatives fail to scale—and what organizations can do differently. He is especially interested in the human and organizational dimensions of technology adoption: mindset, leadership behaviors, skills, culture, and how employees can be empowered to identify meaningful AI use cases themselves.

With a background in interdisciplinary and quantitative research, and experience across data analysis and business intelligence, Robin helps organizations move beyond experimentation toward sustainable, human-centered AI readiness.



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