Let’s Talk... The Danger of Certainty

Amidst the increasing uncertainty which organisations and leaders are facing and feeling – from AI and technology disruption to tariffs and geopolitical conflict impacts on supply chains and markets – what if a significant danger is the danger of certainty?

On Wednesday 27th May at 12.30pm this free 45-minute, live, facilitated discussion explores “The Danger of Certainty” and why our instinct to simplify, control and “be right” can undermine better thinking, better decisions, and better leadership.

We will examine how certainty can:

• Close down curiosity and learning

• Oversimplify complex challenges

• Escalate conflict — or suppress it entirely

• Limit our organisational ability to survive and thrive amidst disruption in the age of AI

We will also explore what more effective leadership looks like instead: staying curious, working with complexity, and engaging constructively with difference — human and technological.

Why not join other like-minded leaders to discuss:

• Why certainty can be the enemy of good leadership 

• How to lead when you don’t (and can’t) know the answer 

• The relationship between certainty, complexity and conflict 

• How leaders can respond more effectively in an AI-accelerated world 

• Practical ways to stay open, adaptive and impactful

What you can expect: 

• A provocative, interactive conversation (not a webinar)

• Space to reflect, challenge assumptions, and test ideas 

• Practical insights you can apply immediately 

• Perspectives drawn from global leadership, conflict and transformation work

This is a 45-minute, live, facilitated session.

Places are limited. The session will not be recorded.

Mark Clark MBE is an Associate at Taylor Clarke and an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He works with senior leaders in public and private sector organisations worldwide, providing consulting, facilitation, executive coaching, and group coaching support to develop leadership, collaboration, and high-performing teams. He has 30 years’ experience at the intersection of leadership, complexity, and conflict, serving in the army and Foreign Office and working with different governments, NGOs, the Olympic movement, in corporate law and the private sector; in the UK, India, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Papua New Guinea, and Jordan, where he served for 12 years as CEO of Generations For Peace, a global peacebuilding organisation with 22,000 peacebuilders in 52 countries.