VERIDUCIA CONVERSATIONS

Experience worth bringing into fiduciary judgement.

VERIDUCIA Conversations brings together world-leading thinkers and practitioners whose work can help trustees make better decisions under changing conditions.

Each session takes one idea from outside the fiduciary world and asks a practical question:

What can trustees learn from it?

Live. Moderated. Focused on judgement, responsibility and the quality of professional decision-making.

IN CONVERSATION IN 2026

Sir John Kay

Economist. First dean of Oxford’s business school and co-author, with Mervyn King, of Radical Uncertainty.

Kathleen Sutcliffe

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University. Co-author, with Karl Weick, of Managing the Unexpected.

THE PRINCIPLE

Conversations about the judgement at the heart of fiduciary work.

Trustees gain most from better ways to think about the problems that already define fiduciary work: uncertainty, conflicting interests, incomplete information, organisational reliability, professional challenge and responsibility for decisions affecting others.

VERIDUCIA Conversations invites people with deep experience in those questions to examine them with trustees.

The guest brings the expertise.

We bring the fiduciary problem.

The conversation connects the two.

WHAT EVERY CONVERSATION ASKS

EXPERIENCE

What has the guest learned from years of research, leadership or practice that is difficult to capture in a procedure?

FIDUCIARY JUDGEMENT

How does that experience change the way a trustee should understand a real professional problem?

PRACTICE

What could a trustee or trust company do differently afterwards?

The 2026 Conversations

02 · 5 NOVEMBER 2026 · 17:30 SWITZERLAND

Sir John Kay

Economist · First dean of Oxford’s business school · Author of Other People’s Money, Radical Uncertainty and Obliquity

Deciding when more analysis does not remove uncertainty

Technology can produce more information, more scenarios and more apparently precise answers. But some of the most important fiduciary decisions remain irreducibly uncertain.

CENTRAL QUESTION

When more analysis cannot remove the uncertainty, what must still come from human judgement?

03 · 10 DECEMBER 2026 · 18:00 SWITZERLAND · 01:00 SINGAPORE (11 DECEMBER)

Kathleen Sutcliffe

Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School · Co-author of Managing the Unexpected and Still Not Safe

When compliance is not the same as reliability

How trust companies can strengthen everyday reliability as compliance grows and people, generations and circumstances change.

CENTRAL QUESTION

How can a trust company remain genuinely reliable when compliance grows, procedures multiply, and the people and circumstances it serves keep changing?

WHY THESE CONVERSATIONS EXIST

VERIDUCIA is being developed around a simple proposition: technology can support professional judgement, while the responsibility to exercise it remains with the professional.

The quality of that judgement rests on how professionals understand uncertainty, challenge assumptions, recognise weak signals, use information and preserve the reasoning behind important decisions.

VERIDUCIA Conversations explores those foundations.

THE FORMAT

45 minutes. One question worth examining properly.

30-minute moderated conversation

15-minute participant Q&A held under the Chatham House Rule

English

Online

Registration required

AUDIENCE

For people entrusted with decisions affecting others.

Trustees, trust company directors, family office practitioners and professionals working with families across Europe, the Caribbean and Asia.

Register

Registration takes place on Zoom. You will receive the invitation by email.

Sir John Kay · Deciding when more analysis does not remove uncertainty

5 November 2026 · 17:30 Switzerland / 16:30 London

Kathleen Sutcliffe · When compliance is not the same as reliability

10 December 2026 · 18:00 Switzerland / 17:00 London / 01:00 Singapore (11 December)

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