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The Cantillon Conference

2025
Master of Ceremonies

It was an honour to be MC for this year’s Cantillon Conference in Tralee on February 13th. I had hosted the 2024 conference, and enjoyed it hugely, so I was delighted to be invited back for 2025.

There are conferences, and there are conferences. This one is special. It’s about economics, broadly speaking, in honour of the founder of modern economics Richard Cantillon who was born in Ballyheigue.

But in fact, it’s about a lot more than economics. This year’s theme was ‘Leadership Rewired’ and we had some incredible speakers on the podium giving us their thoughts on that.

These were :

  • John Fahey, Senior Economist at AIB;
  • Brian Kelly, founder of the Murasaki consultancy;
  • Professor Felicity Kelliher, Professor of Management Practice at SETU;
  • Major General (Retired) Maureen O’Brien; 
  • Fiona Stack, General Manager Radio Kerry
  • Professor Mary Horgan, Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer;
  • Dr Saranna Fanning, Assistant Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School;
  • John Barron, co-founder of the movement promotion company GoChallenge.

Here are some of the key take-home messages submitted by participants (via Slido) at the end of the conference:

  • Be the Solution
  • Invite young people onto the board of your organisation
  • Reverse Mentoring
  • Time to Act
  • Time to Rethink
  • Time to Move
  • The Imperfect Plan is still a plan
  • Collaborate
  • Take that step
  • Experiment
  • Speed up
  • Disruptive Innovation by looking at the simple and rethinking
  • Embrace a multi-culture mindset
  • Stimulate the brain with a 10 minute desk pilates exercise
  • Travel and expand the mind
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