CURATED FOR FNB LEADERSHIP IN ACTION 2027
The Technology Is Live. The Value Needs an Owner.
A returning voice for the 2027 Leadership in Action series, built around the question leaders kept asking him: once the technology is switched on, who owns the result, and how do the people carrying the change know it is working?
Mpho Matsitse spent fifteen years on both sides of the same decision. At SAP he built the board-level investment cases that approved major technology spend across eleven African markets. At BCX he carried a R1.8 billion financial services profit and loss that depended on that spend delivering. He knows how value is promised, and he knows where it goes missing. His sessions are working conversations for leaders. Each one is researched against the bank’s own context and closes on three actions for Monday, with no motivational padding. Leaders leave knowing what to define, what to own and what to measure at thirty, sixty and ninety days. Speak So You Are Heard carries the second half of the work. A keynote changes how leaders think about a decision. The programme trains them to explain that decision to the people who carry it, to defend the reasoning under challenge, and to name uncertainty without losing confidence. The session opens the question, and the cohort builds the skill to act on it across teams.
About this collection
Every leadership team that puts new technology into daily work reaches the same moment. The tools are live, the training has run, and the next budget conversation asks a plain question about what changed. The answer depends less on the technology than on three decisions made around it: - whether anyone defined the value, - whether anyone owned it, - and whether anyone led the people who had to change how they work to capture it. Banks that give their leaders real ownership face a sharper version of this question. Ownership drives speed and judgement. When reporting lines are redrawn and AI tools enter credit, service and risk decisions, each leader still answers for an outcome that now depends - on colleagues in other teams, - on systems they did not build, - and on people who are quietly unsure what the change means for them. Leadership in Action has put leaders face to face with people who carried hard decisions. Its subjects so far include authenticity, resilience, judgement under uncertainty and leadership in the age of algorithms. The natural next chapter takes those conversations into the decisions leaders face on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon. A model recommends one course, their own judgement says another, and the team is waiting to hear which way they go. Mpho Matsitse returns to that conversation with an operator’s view. He has written the investment case and carried the result. He speaks for the people who were absent when a decision was made and who live with its consequences. When he addressed FNB leaders earlier this year on what AI copilots mean for a leadership team, the questions ran for more than half an hour. The 2027 sessions pick up where those questions stopped.
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