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Professions, such as aviation, healthcare and defense are inherently risky. Critical life or death decisions are the norm in these professions. Professionals serving in these domains rely on structured decision-making frameworks to deal rapidly devolving situations, that mandate clear thinking, structured execution and repeatable processes.

Similarly, today, business leaders and executives operate in a turbulent business environment, marked by geo-political crises, changing marketplace conditions, technological breakthroughs that disrupts industries, and more. Consequently, the ability to make critical decisions under duress, i.e. scenarios where stakes are high and the consequences of decisions far-reaching is not longer a nice-to-have, but a key leadership trait.

In the high-stakes, high-pressure scenarios, such as navigating a market crash, handling a security breach, managing a product recall, tackling a global pandemic or guiding team through a turnaround, Leaders need to make split-second decisions, often under uncertainty. The ability to make sound, justifiable and reproducible decisions under pressure with long-term impact is not only a valuable Leadership trait, but also an existential necessity. The ramifications of such decisions on an organization's ecosystem is profound, affecting employees, partners, suppliers, customers, and more.

The talk, based on my book, titled: "Mayday! Mayday! Decision-making under duress" will equip you with proven frameworks - derived from aviation incidents - to effectively and efficiently deal with mission-critical environments. This talk will introduce leading decision-making frameworks used by pilots and aviation professionals to help you navigate uncertainty, manage risk and ensure effective action, especially during Mayday scenarios.

I am Mithun A. Sridharan, entrepreneur, author, educator and keynote speaker on Strategy, Management Consulting and Digital Transformation. I am the Founder of forschrift - an online learning platform on regulatory frameworks and Think Insights - a leading website on Strategy, Leadership, Management Consulting and Digital Transformation. As a strategy and technology executive, I advise corporations derive value from their strategic transformations, investments and portfolios. My 23+ years of institutional experiences trace Amazon Web Services (AWS), KPMG, Publicis Sapient and Oracle, where I incubated and scaled several technology and business consulting practices. I also served as the Managing Director at BlueOS LLC, where I founded and led the company to a successful acquisition by a Swiss holding group. I also serves as a Member of Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, a Thought Leader at Forbes Technology Council, Advisor on the Migration Advisory Council at the City of Heidelberg (Germany), a Reviewer for ANSI Standard for Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management at the Project Management Institute (PMI) as well as the Chapter Director at Startup Grind, where I lead initiatives promoting entrepreneurship in Germany. I also founded Global Aspire Network e.V - a non-profit think tank to promote ideas globally. I am a TEDx speaker and organizer and I regularly share insights on strategy, governance and emerging technologies at industry conferences and corporate events. I have contributed thought leadership to high-impact journals and magazines, such as Forbes, World Economic Forum, the American Banker, Wired, Bloomberg, etc. I hold an MBA from ESMT Berlin, a Master of Science from Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, both in Germany and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Madras, India. I am based in Heidelberg, Germany.