No Plan Survives Contact: Making Strategy Work When It Reaches the Ground

Thursday 2nd July 2026, 09:00 BST National policies, governmental and corporate, read well on the page. Then they meet the ground, where competing priorities, thin resources, and local realities no framework anticipated stall them. Why does so much good policy fail in the delivery, and what separates the policy that holds from the policy that doesn’t? Join us for a candid hour on making strategy survive contact with the people who have to implement it and the communities who have to live with it. Speakers: Dr David Rubens - Executive Director, ISRM Nasser bin Nasser - Member, ISRM Advisory Strategic Board Marc Ablong - Deputy Director, CSP Dr Amjad Saleem - Deputy Director, CSWP