RoundtableLondon · 17 Sept
The Reputation Room
A private breakfast on trust, scrutiny and the next cycle of public leadership. Twelve members, one table, no note-takers.
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17 September · London
The Reputation Room
A private breakfast on trust, scrutiny and the next cycle of public leadership.
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Where the club is
2026
London
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Bourdon Street
Lisbon
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Rachel Oduya
Chief Executive
Northgate Energy
Whether an incumbent utility can be trusted with the transition.
Tomas Reinholt
Founder
Vessel Labs
Who gets to see their own data, and on what terms.
Helena Marsh
Campaign Lead
Fair Rent Coalition
The rules that decide who can afford to stay in a city.
Daniel Okoro
Chair
FTSE 250 portfolio
How quickly bad news reaches a board that would rather not hear it.
New to read
114
Members
23
Rooms held
6
Cities
9
Countries represented
01The Rooms
3 upcoming
Twelve people, one table, no note-takers. Places go to members first, and there are never enough of them.
SalonLisbon · 2 Oct
Club Hanwell Lisbon Salon
Dispatches from Europe's improvised boardroom, hosted over a long table by the water with members and invited guests.
Members
BriefingLondon · 28 Oct
Boards After Broadcast
A members' briefing on what institutions should do when the audience stops listening, with the report desk in the room.
Members
Past rooms
18 Jun · London
The Unwelcome Briefing
12 attended
14 May · Geneva
Capital Without Deference
14 attended
23 Apr · London
After the Broadcast
11 attended
5 Mar · New York
Who Owns the Sentence
16 attended
What came out of the room
A members' briefing on decision rights, now in the report.
Two members introduced in September are running a campaign together.
The reason we are all going to Lisbon in October.
02The Members
12 shown
Everyone here is trying to change something. If you want to meet one of them, ask.
Imogen Beecroft
Founding Partner · The Hanwell Group
Trying to change
How boards behave when the story is about them.
Chris Wilkins
Founding Partner · The Hanwell Group
Trying to change
What leaders are willing to say in the first person.
Rachel Oduya
Chief Executive · Northgate Energy
Trying to change
Whether an incumbent utility can be trusted with the transition.
Tomas Reinholt
Founder · Vessel Labs
Trying to change
Who gets to see their own data, and on what terms.
Helena Marsh
Campaign Lead · Fair Rent Coalition
Trying to change
The rules that decide who can afford to stay in a city.
Daniel Okoro
Chair · FTSE 250 portfolio
Trying to change
How quickly bad news reaches a board that would rather not hear it.
Sofia Arrighi
Director of Corporate Affairs · Ferrovia Group
Trying to change
What a national infrastructure company is allowed to admit.
James Belhaven
Pollster · Meridian Research
Trying to change
How politics reads an electorate that no longer answers the phone.
Aisha Rahman
Chief Strategist · Kestrel Partners
Trying to change
The idea that persuasion is a media buy.
Dr Nadia Sirkin
Senior Fellow · Institute for Sovereign Capital
Trying to change
How states screen the money they say they want.
Arif Lalani
Former Ambassador · Senior Advisor, The Hanwell Group
Trying to change
Where influence sits now that it has left the old capitals.
Eleanor Fitzhugh
Former Editor · Political Desk
Trying to change
What institutions sound like to people who stopped believing them.
03The Journal
8 pieces
Members and invited contributors, writing from wherever they happen to be standing. Some of them disagree with each other. Good.
“Reputation management is out. Reputation change is in.”
Chris Wilkins
You cannot manage a reputation. You can only create one — by aligning what you say with what you do.
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser
We make sense of the world through narrative. Story is not a nice to have.
04The Report
Members read it first
The First Hundred Hours
The club's study of decision rights in the four days after a story breaks, with the sequence set out in full.
Read the reportAlso worth your time
Podcast
The Continental Shift
Chris Wilkins and Arif Lalani on Europe's new decision-makers, and why influence has stopped following the old capitals.
Film
Rooms Without Deference
Filmed at a members' roundtable in Bourdon Street: five leaders on what authority looks like once nobody defers to it.
Membership
A table, and a journal that carries the argument on.
Membership is by invitation. Tell us what you are trying to change and we will tell you whether the club is any use to you.
We will ask you to talk to one of us before anything else happens. Sometimes the answer is that you would get nothing out of this, and we would rather say so.