For most of us, summer either flies by... or flattens us.

Between back-to-back sprints and the lull of slower months, it’s easy to lose intention.

In this interactive session, facilitator and experience designer **Niels Caszo** (ING, Netflix, Synechron) will walk you through how to \*\*intentionally design your summer, \*\*as a leader and as a human.

You'll leave with clarity on:

*   What to pause, reset, or refocus before Q3
*   How to balance ambition with actual recovery
*   A personal framework to shape the season with purpose

This isn't just productivity porn or life-hacking fluff. It's about **building the kind of summer that energizes you and your team**, sets the tone for the second half of the year, and gives you space to breathe, think, and lead better.

Perfect for founders, operators, and anyone ready to stop surviving the summer, and start shaping it.


Summer Reset: Design the Season You Actually Want

**Let’s face it: most leadership advice still misses the mark.**

Managers are overwhelmed. Teams are burning out. Bad leadership is still more common than good, and most of it hides behind polished mission statements, endless meetings, and vague talk about “culture".

In this provocative session, two authors take the gloves off to challenge everything you think you know about management":

*   **Hugo Pereira** — author of *Teams in Hell: How to End Bad Management* and former Chief Growth Officer at EVBox, shares the four traits that make or break any team—and why most managers never build them.
*   **Juho Salmi** — author of *Big Boss' Playbook* and researcher with Aalto University, brings real-life stories of terrible leadership and the data behind how it happens again and again… even in companies that should know better.

**Together, they’ll unpack:**

*   Why bad leadership isn’t always toxic, it’s often just unintentional, misaligned, or outdated.
*   The difference between managing tasks and actually leading people.
*   How clarity, trust, adaptability, and deep work shape high-performing teams.
*   The myths we must unlearn about feedback, control, decision-making, and performance.
*   How AI, hybrid work, and psychological safety are rewriting the rules of leadership.

This isn’t a “how to be a boss” pep talk.

It’s a raw, practical, story-rich conversation between two leadership practitioners who’ve seen what works, and what sends teams straight to Hell.

**If you’ve ever worked under a bad boss… or wondered whether you might be becoming one, this is for you.**


Why So Many Leaders Still Suck: Two Authors on Ending Bad Management for Good

Leadership POV, by Ritmoo, is a webinar series offering sharp insights on forward-thinking leadership and the evolving workplace. In each 25-minute session, thought leaders share their perspectives on key leadership challenges.

Ritmoo is a goal management platform designed for founders and small businesses. We help teams stay aligned and focused by simplifying how goals are set, tracked, and communicated, using a modern and straightforward goal framework.