dr. rebecca homkes

• Survive, Reset, Thrive: Winning Strategy Through Volatility and Uncertainty
  Based on her award-winning book, Homkes demonstrates why traditional strategic planning fails in volatile markets. She teaches leaders her signature "SRT" loop: proactively stabilizing operations (Survive), resetting strategic customer and market choices (Reset), and building an agile, high-performance organization (Thrive).

• Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in the AI Era

  As artificial intelligence reshapes operating and business models, leaders must reevaluate their competitive advantages. Homkes bridges strategy and digital transformation, providing a clear executive roadmap to identify which parts of your strategy require a hard reset and how to deploy AI to accelerate organizational learning velocity.

• The Black Box of Execution: Operating on Full Blast

  Most strategies fail during execution due to slow decision-making and organizational siloes. Homkes shares practical frameworks for building an execution cadence. Audiences learn how to establish high agility in decision-making, build deep trust across teams, and align execution with clear, shared strategic priorities.

speaker Bio: 

Dr. Rebecca Homkes is a globally recognized strategist, business educator, and author who has spent fifteen years advising fast-growing companies and Fortune 500 enterprises on how to navigate radical change. She is a Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School (LBS), serves on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Henderson Institute, and is the Global Faculty Director of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Active Learning Program. She is the author of Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times (Kogan Page, 2024), named the 2025 Leadership Book of the Year.

Dr. Homkes’ strategic authority is rooted in deep, global advisory experience across several sectors. She has worked with leading executives in Europe, the Americas, and the GCC region, helping organizations build resilience during major macroeconomic crises. A frequent presenter at high-level forums including the World Economic Forum, she holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. Based in London and Miami, she actively helps leadership teams simplify complex environments, align their strategy with execution, and turn disruptive threats into long-term market opportunities.

Summary (Core Conviction):

Dr. Homkes’ core conviction is that uncertainty is not a threat to be managed, but a resource to be harvested. She rejects static, long-term plans in favor of dynamic strategic execution, proving that the most successful companies are those that master the velocity of learning and adapting. Her signature framework, The SRT Loop, provides organizations with a highly actionable strategy to move from defensive survival to offensive growth, making her an indispensable speaker for C-suite retreats, board meetings, and strategy kickoffs.

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