Executive Programme in Global Impact Leadership in Financial Industry (GILFI)
A strategic intervention for Presidents, CEOs, Boards, and regulators redesigning financial
institutions for an AI-enabled, uncertain global environment.
Mobilising Capital at Scale — With Digital, Data, and AI as Executive Decision Infrastructure.
The Financial Industry is at a Crossroads.
Are you Leading or Following?
- Do you face challenges to mobilize and deploy funds for delivering measurable and verifiable impact?
- Are you equipped with the knowledge and credentials to stand out as a global impact leader in the competitive financial industry?
- Is your current sustainability strategy working? Can it boost your profit, improve your asset quality and expand your market share? Or is it a cost center and ‘nice-to-have’ without any benefit to your institution?
- Are you fully equipped to combat greenwashing and safeguarding your institution against regulatory, legal and reputational risks?
A divide is emerging in global banking and finance — between institutions that shape what comes next, and those that are shaped by it.
Many strategies, governance models, and operating assumptions still in use today were designed for a world of stable globalisation, predictable regulation, incremental technology, and linear growth. That world no longer exists.
Capital, technology, risk, regulation, and trust are now shifting simultaneously. Institutions that fail to deliberately redesign how they allocate capital, embed data and AI, and govern risk will lose relevance — regardless of intent or legacy strength.
GILFI 3 places leaders on the right side of this divide — equipping them to deliberately unbuild what no longer works and build institutions fit for what comes next.
Redesign Institutions. Shape
Markets. Lead What Comes Next.
GILFI 3 is a strategic intervention for senior leaders making decisions that will define the future of banking and finance.
Redesign Capital
Allocation at Scale
Examine how institutions can mobilise capital at scale — aligning markets, policy, leadership, and balance sheets to drive growth, competitiveness, and real-economy outcomes without undermining trust or financial stability.
Shape Markets, Not
Just Respond to Regulation
Explore how leaders can influence rules, standards, and market structures — reducing uncertainty, attracting capital, and positioning their institutions as indispensable platforms within evolving regulatory and geopolitical environments.
Reframe Sustainability as Institutional Architecture
Move beyond sustainability as reporting or compliance. Examine how sustainability, when embedded into governance, capital allocation, and risk frameworks, becomes a driver of competitiveness, resilience, and sustained profitability.
Lead Under
Uncertainty
Build decision-making capability when data is incomplete, models are unreliable, and outcomes are non-linear — acting decisively while protecting institutional resilience and systemic stability.
Embed Data, Digital, and
AI as Core Infrastructure
Deliberately Build the
Future Institution
Participation is by institutional nomination and subject to confirmation.
Nomination Criteria
GILFI is open to financial sector executives and to-be-leaders. It is specifically designed for
Executive Leadership
Boards
Central Banks and Regulators
What GILFI 3 Enables Leaders to Decide — and Build
Over three closed-door days in Germany, leaders confront reality, redesign institutional architecture, and commit to what comes next.
- Confront which strategies, governance models, and operating assumptions are no longer fit for today’s financial environment
- Redesign how capital is mobilised, allocated, and governed to strengthen competitiveness, resilience, and balance-sheet quality
- Examine how AI, data, and digital infrastructure are reshaping origination, risk, pricing, and financial stability
- Lead decisively under uncertainty — when data is incomplete, models fail, and outcomes are non-linear
- Leave with clarity on what to exit, what to strengthen, and what to deliberately build across purpose, capabilities, risk posture, and technology foundations
GILFI 3 is delivered by the European Organisation for Sustainable Development (EOSD).
EOSD is a long-standing global organisation working with financial institutions, regulators, and public authorities on translating sustainability-related expectations into capital allocation, risk governance, and institutional design. Since 2009, EOSD has operated at the intersection of capital markets, regulation, and institutional performance, supporting banks, development finance institutions, and supervisors in developing practical operating models and decision frameworks.
EOSD’s applied work — including initiatives such as the Sustainability Standards and Certification Initiative (SSCI) — informs GILFI 3’s emphasis on institutional redesign, execution discipline, and defensible decision-making, rather than policy debate or compliance exercises. GILFI 3 draws on this background to provide a senior executive forum focused on capital mobilisation at scale, investment governance, and the integration of data and AI into leadership judgement in environments where margins are pressured and uncertainty is permanent.
Program Agenda: A Glimpse into Your
GILFI Experience
Capital is not scarce. Institutions capable of mobilising it at scale are scarce – because much of today’s institutional architecture was not designed for that purpose. This session challenges Boards, CEOs, and senior leaders to rethink how their institutions are designed, governed, and led – and what must fundamentally change for capital to be mobilised at scale while operating across regulatory, geoeconomic, national policy, and societal realities, without undermining credibility, balance sheets, or public trust.
Leadership Dialogue: What institutional changes are required to mobilise capital at scale, and how can leaders turn their organisations into indispensable platforms that crowd in private and public capital at speed and scale?
This session challenges leaders to actively shape the markets they serve by working with policymakers, investors, clients, and each other – so that capital flows into sectors and enterprises that drive growth, competitiveness, exports, and productive capacity. A strategic orientation of this kind is the foundation for building stronger lending and investment portfolios, more diversified revenue, and more resilient institutions. The session focuses on how leaders can build coalitions, influence rules and standards, and put capital, reputation, and leadership behind actions that reduce uncertainty, attract both domestic and international capital, and support investment into sectors that strengthen economies while also building more resilient and profitable balance sheets.
Leadership Dialogue: How can leaders work together to shape markets that attract capital at scale – and channel it into sectors that strengthen both the economy and their own institutions?
This session is built on a clear premise: institutions are deliberately designed – through governance, incentives, risk, innovation, digital capability, and talent – not simply inherited. Using the case of the Sustainability Standards and Certification Initiative (SSCI), the session shows how moving from siloed functions to an integrated institutional architecture expands institutional capacity and delivery. It demonstrates how sustainability, when integrated into core business, becomes a driver of modernisation, competitiveness, sustained profitability, and resilience – rather than a parallel reporting exercise.
Leadership Dialogue: Which decisions reshape institutions for competitiveness, resilience, sustained profitability, and real-economy outcomes?
AI-Enabled Origination as Core Institutional Infrastructure.
This session uses the RISE case to show how origination can be deliberately designed as part of institutional architecture, rather than allowed to remain fragmented. It examines how leaders can move from responding to individual lending and investment decisions to deliberately constructing portfolios – choosing where to create opportunity, what risks to take, and how balance sheets are positioned. The session shows how AI enables this shift by turning market demand into investable opportunities and embedding risk and return directly into origination decisions – enabling growth that is deliberate, transparent, and prudent. It also examines how portfolios can be constructed for the economy that is emerging, not the one that is fading.
Leadership Dialogue: Which leadership choices must you now make for your institution to
shape its markets – and its future performance – rather than respond to them?
Why Digital Is Not a Department — It Is the Institution
This session reframes digital, data, and AI as core institutional infrastructure, not support functions. It shows how data becomes a strategic asset, how AI becomes the decision infrastructure shaping credit, risk, and pricing, and why cybersecurity is now a financial stability issue. Leaders examine how central bank digital currencies, programmable money, and digital identity are reshaping payments, competition, supervision, and monetary transmission — and what must now be deliberately built, governed, and protected to retain institutional and systemic control.
Leadership Dialogue: Which decisions embed data and AI into the core of the institution?
Leading When There Is No Playbook
Leaders are immersed in the disruptions shaping today’s financial markets – currency shocks, cyber failures, regulatory fragmentation, and technology disruption – to examine how these forces interact, amplify one another, and reshape the strategic landscape. The session focuses on how leaders make decisions when data is incomplete, models are unreliable, and outcomes are inherently nonlinear – and how to act decisively without the illusion of certainty while protecting institutional resilience and systemic stability.
Building What Comes Next
After three days of confronting reality, designing institutional architecture, and testing decisions under uncertainty, this session is where leaders choose what they will now build. It focuses on how institutions must be deliberately reshaped to lead in AI-enabled, digital, and increasingly contested environments. Leaders identify what must be exited, what must be strengthened, and what must be newly built — across purpose, core capabilities, revenue logic, risk posture, and technology foundations. The outcome is clarity about what each institution will become — and the future it will now commit to creating
Event Details
- Date: 15th to 17th April 2026.
- Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
- Format: In-person, super-intensive 3-day program