Insights from the FA Experience: Richard Hytner, former Deputy Chair of Saatchi and Saatchi

An authoritative presenter who is skilled at reading the audience and managing the room. 

  • Second in command might be most suitable role: be a Beta Baboon not an Alpha Baboon
  • We need to kill the myth that leadership is all about the leader.
  • Leadership teams are hugely ambiguous
  • We still do need out and out leaders, but leadership is at its best when is collective and shared with reciprocity derived from trust