A unique opportunity for DIN CEOs to meet and hear from one of the best speakers on leadership, purpose and the social responsibilities of business, Prof Alex Edmans

In this exclusive session for DIN Connected CEOs we will chat with Alex about his latest book 'May contain lies' and what housing leaders can learn from it.

In an age when CEOs are feeling more and more pressured to come up with answers to really tricky problems, whilst trying to manage numerous often competing agendas, our time with Alex will genuinely give you some fresh perspectives and new insights on how to achieve this.

Amongst some of the areas we expect to cover will be key themes including:

• Exploitation of Biases: how stories, statistics, and studies exploit our psychological biases, such as confirmation bias and black-and-white thinking, leading us to accept misinformation.
• Impact of Misinformation: the pervasive role of dishonesty in contemporary society and how it affects personal and professional spheres.
• Critical Thinking: the importance of critical thinking and practical strategies to distinguish between fact and fiction, helping readers make better decisions.
• Real-World Examples: examples, such as the Deepwater Horizon disaster and misleading diets, to illustrate how misinformation can have significant consequences.
• Combating Misinformation: How to combat misinformation by understanding the relationships between statistics and the science of cause and effect.

Who should attend?

This session is exclusively for DIN Connected CEOs.
There is no fee to attend, this is included as part of your DIN subscription.
We look forward to seeing you on the day.

About our speaker

Alex Edmans FBA FAcSS is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk’s Sustainability Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Alex’s book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He has won 26 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. His latest book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It was published by Penguin Random House in April 2024.