April Forum

An exclusive event for senior leaders to exchange ideas and insight

The April Forum

Leaders face increasing pressure to adapt in this fast-changing, uncertain world and there is no obvious silver bullet. The April Forum is a place where senior leaders can talk openly about the challenges they face and collectively move thinking on.

The meetings are led by invited guests and our Managing Partners, who between them have more than 100 years’ experience of working in strategy and implementation at senior level across all sectors.

Forums are held either in person or online, and always under Chatham House rules.

"The Forum is somewhere where you can talk about those things that keep you awake at night, where you can work through problems with others who might be going through similar challenges."

Tim Westall

Co-founder and Managing Partner

1 October 2026, London

AI in practice: turning potential into performance

AI is rapidly becoming embedded in how organisations operate, compete and create value. Yet, while ambition is high, the ability to translate that ambition into sustained impact remains uneven. The challenge is not in identifying opportunity, but in execution. Integrating AI into the fabric of the organisation - across processes, systems and decision-making - is proving more complex than anticipated, with implications for workforce capability, roles and ways of working.

Reconfiguring how work gets done, how decisions are made, and how value is realised is emerging as a new operational frontier.

Join us and a select group of senior leaders for a discussion on the realities of embedding AI, sharing perspectives, challenges and emerging approaches to translating potential into performance.

"The Forum was great – thank you so much for inviting me. It was a really fascinating conversation – it’s always really helpful for me to get a sense of how corporates (in particular) are thinking about mental health and wellbeing. Roger’s introduction and engagement of us all around the topic was a great way to start too. Really nice to have a chance to step away from the day to day – and to engage with such an important topic with other leaders. Perfect!"

Ian Sansbury, CEO, Mind over Mountains