Imran Rehman is the founder of Kokoro (bekokoro.com), where he’s built a platform that moves leadership development from static training to dynamic enablement. Working with hundreds of leaders and teams across Europe, he’s proven that the gap between learning and doing closes when development embeds directly into workflow through deliberate practice, real-time feedback, and daily micro-rituals. Kokoro now has multiple use cases showing how this practice architecture works, where leaders build capability inside the flow of work, not outside it. His stance is clear: don’t fix the people, fix the environment where they work.

Session (english)

The Future of Leadership: Workflow-Embedded Skills Development

Central Question: Why do leaders return from development programmes and nothing changes? The problem isn’t lack of frameworks. It’s the gap between learning and doing.

Thesis: Leadership development must shift from event-based training to workflow-embedded practice. At Kokoro, they’ve proven that capability doesn’t build in workshops alone, it builds inside the flow of work itself too sustainably, through deliberate micro-practices, real-time feedback, and daily rituals that compound into sustained performance.

What the audience expects: Imran Rehman will show concrete use cases of how teams actually develop leadership skills not through more theory, but through embedded practice. Methodologically, participants work through their real leadership development challenge, experience hands-on how people skills can be built into workflows and leave with practical next steps for their context. This isn’t an inspirational talk. It’s practical strategies for L&D professionals, leaders, and organisations ready to redesign how development actually works.