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Andrew Bastawrous
Leading through Uncertainty
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Andrew Bastawrous helps leaders bring clarity and purpose to uncertainty, drawing on his work as an eye surgeon and global health innovator. A three-time TED speaker and OBE recipient, he won the 2023 Tällberg Global Leadership Prize.
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Andrew Bastawrous OBE is an eye surgeon, professor, and social entrepreneur who helps leaders find clarity and purpose when the path ahead is uncertain.
As founder and chief executive of Peek Vision, Andrew has built technology, data intelligence, and partnerships that have reached more than 20 million people affected by avoidable sight loss. He has delivered three TED main-stage talks and received the 2023 Tällberg Global Leadership Prize for his work in global health.
Andrew's experience building technology, partnerships, and delivery systems across some of the world's most complex health environments gives him practical, board-relevant lessons that go beyond theory. He shows leaders the hidden work required to move an idea from a promising pilot to system-wide adoption, and how to earn the trust that determines whether new technology and innovation actually get used.
Audiences leave his sessions with a field-tested way to decide, align, and move before certainty arrives, a framework for turning purpose into operating discipline under pressure, and a sharper understanding of how to build coalitions that move stuck systems when no single organisation can act alone.
For organisations navigating AI disruption, fragile trust, and rising expectations, Andrew offers board-relevant guidance built from experience turning a problem others overlooked into a global movement.
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Andrew Bastawrous draws on his experience building global health technology under constant uncertainty to offer a field-tested way to decide, align, and move before every answer is in. He addresses the pressure leaders feel to wait for complete information before acting, and the cost that waiting carries. Drawing on real decisions made at scale, Andrew gives audiences a practical approach for turning uncertainty into momentum rather than paralysis, and confidence to act decisively when circumstances keep shifting.
Andrew explores how mission survives contact with real constraints: limited resources, competing priorities, and pressure to deliver fast. He shares how turning organisational purpose into everyday operating discipline sharpens trade-offs, strengthens culture, and improves performance precisely when pressure is highest. Rather than treating purpose as a slogan, Andrew shows leaders how to embed it into decisions that hold up under scrutiny, giving teams a clearer basis for judgment calls when the easy answer is not available.
Andrew unpacks the hidden work of scale: the gap between a promising pilot and system-wide adoption. Drawing on his experience building health delivery systems across fragmented institutions, he shows why evidence alone rarely changes behaviour, and what it actually takes to align incentives, institutions, and stakeholders who pull in different directions. Audiences come away with a clearer picture of where their own good ideas stall, and a practical approach for moving them from promise to impact.
Andrew argues that the future belongs to technology people trust, adopt, and champion, not the loudest idea or the most elegant prototype. Drawing on his work building health technology used by millions of people in low-resource settings, he shows leaders what determines whether innovation actually gets used on the ground. Audiences leave with a sharper understanding of what builds or breaks trust in new technology, and how to design for adoption from the outset rather than as an afterthought.
Andrew shows how uncommon coalitions move stuck systems when no single organisation holds enough power, data, or legitimacy to act alone. Drawing on his experience building partnerships across governments, health systems, and technology providers, he explains how to align organisations with different incentives around a shared outcome. Audiences leave with a practical framework for identifying the right partners, building genuine alignment, and moving complex, fragmented systems toward action rather than gridlock.
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Andrew Bastawrous structures his sessions around case material drawn directly from building Peek Vision — using real decisions made at scale as the basis for practical frameworks on acting under uncertainty, embedding purpose into operational discipline, and moving ideas from pilot to system-wide adoption.
Prof. Andrew Bastawrous OBE speaks on leading through uncertainty, turning organisational purpose into operational strategy, and scaling innovation across complex systems. He is the founder and CEO of Peek Vision, which has reached more than 20 million people affected by avoidable sight loss, a three-time TED main-stage speaker, and recipient of the 2023 Tällberg Global Leadership Prize.
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