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Join Grace Harding, CEO of Ocean Basket, for a refreshing conversation on driving impact through authentic leadership, courageous decisions and creating opportunities that matter.

 

Grace builds businesses. She leads the people inside them.
As CEO of Ocean Basket — a seafood restaurant brand operating across 16 countries — her approach to getting results is equal parts deep human investment and the highest standards of performance. As a single, unified thing.

 

Grace’s view is simple: “people-centric” had its moment. What leaders need now is to be impact-centric — obsessed with relevance, clarity, and meaning, because those are the things that actually move people to perform. She has spent her career proving that the leaders who win are the ones who can hold both: the numbers and the humans, the strategy and the soul.

 

Her background spans fashion retail, marketing, people and culture, and strategy. She has built leadership teams, reset entrenched cultures, and transforms the complex into clear simplicity. A coach to senior leaders and a speaker who ditches the jargon, Grace puts the outcome on the table first, makes the picture unmistakably clear, and leaves a room full of people who see things they didn’t see before — and want to do something about it.

 

That’s how you build a tribe!

The Startup Huddle event provides a platform for entrepreneurs to discover solutions to the challenges they face through purposeful engagement with a broad array of voices from the local community, who can also share their experiences.

 

Startups are given context about the topic at hand, which includes tools, tricks and techniques from experts. This can take up to 10min. Thereafter, they will be given 2-3 minutes to tell us about some of the challenges they have encountered in their business venture. Participants then get into small groups where they Huddle for a 10-minute -interactive activity. Each group selects a team member or two to share what they discussed. The Huddle will close off having equipped the techies with practical and value-add experience they can use in their startup journey.