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Recipe for Success: Fuel Your Goals for 2027

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22 Jan 2027   |   12:00 – 12:45

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Leadership Recharge 2027 Masterclass

Recipe for Success: Fuel Your Goals for 2027

What if one of the ingredients for a more successful, balanced and productive year could be found in your kitchen?

Location: Online (via Zoom)

Open to Institute members.

CPD hours (for IoL members): 0.75

What you'll learn

  • How cooking can help you slow down, think creatively and build resilience

  • How to sustain your energy throughout the year

  • Practical meal preparation tips and everyday habits that support your wellbeing

  • How to use food and cooking to encourage collaboration, creativity and connection in your team

Recommended for

All members of The Institute of Leadership, whether you're a confident cook or someone who rarely ventures beyond the microwave.

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Is this event CPD recordable?

Yes. This event is CPD-recordable for IoL members.

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Adam Kingl

Lecturer & Programme Director
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Rachel Mullings

IoL Membership Manager

With a career spanning an impressive range of industries, including media and entertainment, consulting and education, Adam Kingl has spent decades working in innovation, strategy, wellbeing, culture and leadership.  

Adam is the author of Next Generation Leadership (HarperCollins, 2020), Sparking Success (Kogan Page, 2023), shortlisted for Business Book of the Year in the Smart Thinking category, and Executive Eats: The cookbook for a better working life (Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2026). 

Adam is an adjunct faculty member at the UCL School of Management and Ashridge-Hult International Business School, and is an instructor and programme director at Imperial College, Moller Institute – Churchill College – University of Cambridge and the Hanken-Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, Adam was the Regional Managing Director for Duke University Corporate Education, leading the organisation’s business in Europe, and advising clients on issues of adaptability, performance, creativity, and purpose. Adam was also the Executive Director of Thought Leadership and Learning Solutions at London Business School for a decade. He has served as an associate of Saatchi & Saatchi and the Management Lab research institute. 

Adam is passionate about the future of work and the multi-generational workforce, and has authored a book on this topic, Next Generation Leadership.  His second book, Sparking Success explores how companies in any industry can enhance their innovative, adaptable and inspirational capacity with lessons from prominent leaders in the creative arts.  Adam’s third book, Executive Eats, examines how nutrition and wellness can improve a busy professional’s work life and performance.   

Adam’s keynote presentations are illuminating conversations that not only inspire new habits and innovations but also unlock issues within organisational culture. He speaks with warmth and compassion on paradigms of work and leadership, encouraging leaders to have different and better conversations, creating a simple and approachable path to transforming business success.  

He contributes as a writer and expert interviewee to The Financial Times, Sunday Times, Forbes, Fortune, The Guardian and Fast Company, among many others. 

Adam holds degrees from London Business School, UCLA, and Yale. He was raised in Silicon Valley, California and now lives in London.

With a strong background in membership, Rachel is passionate about building thriving membership communities and making your journey with us as smooth as possible. As a counsellor in her spare time, Rachel is particularly enthusiastic about The IoL’s focus on self-awareness through the MyLeadership tool.

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Adam Kingl

Lecturer & Programme Director

With a career spanning an impressive range of industries, including media and entertainment, consulting and education, Adam Kingl has spent decades working in innovation, strategy, wellbeing, culture and leadership.  

Adam is the author of Next Generation Leadership (HarperCollins, 2020), Sparking Success (Kogan Page, 2023), shortlisted for Business Book of the Year in the Smart Thinking category, and Executive Eats: The cookbook for a better working life (Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2026). 

Adam is an adjunct faculty member at the UCL School of Management and Ashridge-Hult International Business School, and is an instructor and programme director at Imperial College, Moller Institute – Churchill College – University of Cambridge and the Hanken-Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, Adam was the Regional Managing Director for Duke University Corporate Education, leading the organisation’s business in Europe, and advising clients on issues of adaptability, performance, creativity, and purpose. Adam was also the Executive Director of Thought Leadership and Learning Solutions at London Business School for a decade. He has served as an associate of Saatchi & Saatchi and the Management Lab research institute. 

Adam is passionate about the future of work and the multi-generational workforce, and has authored a book on this topic, Next Generation Leadership.  His second book, Sparking Success explores how companies in any industry can enhance their innovative, adaptable and inspirational capacity with lessons from prominent leaders in the creative arts.  Adam’s third book, Executive Eats, examines how nutrition and wellness can improve a busy professional’s work life and performance.   

Adam’s keynote presentations are illuminating conversations that not only inspire new habits and innovations but also unlock issues within organisational culture. He speaks with warmth and compassion on paradigms of work and leadership, encouraging leaders to have different and better conversations, creating a simple and approachable path to transforming business success.  

He contributes as a writer and expert interviewee to The Financial Times, Sunday Times, Forbes, Fortune, The Guardian and Fast Company, among many others. 

Adam holds degrees from London Business School, UCLA, and Yale. He was raised in Silicon Valley, California and now lives in London.

Rachel Mullings

Rachel Mullings

IoL Membership Manager

With a strong background in membership, Rachel is passionate about building thriving membership communities and making your journey with us as smooth as possible. As a counsellor in her spare time, Rachel is particularly enthusiastic about The IoL’s focus on self-awareness through the MyLeadership tool.