Marshall Goldsmith
Bestselling author and world-renowned thought leader in leadership development, coaching, and human resources
What got you here won’t get you there: developing leaders for a challenging new world
Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. Applauded as one of the world’s best business thinkers Dr Goldsmith will discuss the major challenges that come with success and how to use ‘what to stop’ in leadership development and coaching. Participants will get to practice feedforward – a positive, focused tool for development that has been successfully implemented around the world. He will share the published results of research involving over 86,000 respondents on the impact of feedback and follow-up in leadership development. Finally, participants will learn a proven process that leaders can use to help themselves and their co-workers get even better – and how HR professionals can implement this process as coaches and facilitators.
Fons Trompenaars
Managing Director,
Trompenaars Hampden-Turner
Creating more out of less: servant leadership across cultures
In an increasingly global world, more and more businesses are expanding internationally and engaging in cross-national mergers and acquisitions. Globalisation not only provides a platform for unanticipated opportunities, but also provides extraordinary challenges.
As the workforce becomes more diverse, people are operating from, and interacting through, different values across countries and companies. The consequence of such a diverse workforce will be a ‘clash of cultures’. Will dilemmas that arise remain unsolvable? Not for servant leaders.
Experience has shown that servant leadership is the most effective approach when dealing with dilemmas resulting from cultural diversity and integration. Fons Trompenaars, highly-acclaimed expert on the understanding and reconciliation of cultural diversity, will demonstrate a path that leads to a better, higher value, superseding compromise. It is an effective process used to break the pattern of cultural stereotyping and counterproductive behaviours while reconciling opposing viewpoints.
Sue Meisinger SPHR
Retired President and CEO, Society for Human Resource Management
Past Secretary General, World Federation of Personnel Management
10 Things your CEO will never tell you, but HR needs to know
CEOs sometimes assume that their executives know, or should know, what he or she is thinking. Sue Meisinger will share 10 things your CEO will probably never say to you, but HR needs to know, gleaned from conversations with CEOs about their perceptions of HR, as well as from her own experience as a CEO. Based on this knowledge, Meisinger will also suggest action HR executives should consider taking.
Sue Meisinger is the retired President and CEO of SHRM, the world's largest professional association devoted to human resource management. Under her leadership, SHRM grew from 170,000 members to more than 250,000, and was recognised as one of the top 50 "Great places to work" in the Washington, D.C. area.
Barry Schwartz
Dorwin Cartwright Professor of social theory and social action,
Swarthmore College, Philadelphia
The loss of wisdom
Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. Schwartz argues that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and that practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world. However practical wisdom is becoming increasingly difficult to nurture and display in modern society, so attention must be paid to reshaping social institutions to encourage the use of practical wisdom rather than inhibiting it.
Barry Schwartz, author and contributor of more than 100 articles for professional journals has spoken to audiences globally including the British and the Dutch governments, businesses and trade organisations representing a diverse range of industries.
Adam Werbach
Global CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi S and foremost expert in sustainability strategy
Strategy for sustainability
Redundancies. Collapsing economies. Scarce resources. Out of this turbulence a movement is emerging globally in business. A new generation of companies is now embracing the future, where information is transparent, change is constant, resources are limited and regulations are demanding.
Organisations are realising profits by creating strategy for sustainability – engaging their employees to innovate from the bottom up and creating ‘North star’ goals that connect an enterprise and its people to the forces of change. Every business on earth is changing now and every one of us – whether as consumer, employee, executive or activist – can instigate powerful change in the way business works across the planet.
Adam Werbach is widely known as one of the foremost experts in sustainability strategy. Aged 23 in in, Werbach was elected the youngest ever President of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organisation in the United States. Now Global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, a global leader in sustainability consulting, employee engagement and brand activation, Werbach guides sustainability work from China to South Africa to Brazil, advising companies with nearly $1 trillion in combined annual sales.
Jim O’Brien
Retired Detective Inspector, Victoria Police and officer in Charge of the Purana Task Force
Getting the most from your team: lessons from Purana
Jim O'Brien is well-known as one of the highest profile police operatives in Australia. As Officer in Charge of the Purana Task Force, he was the man behind bringing Tony Mokbel back to Australia and breaking up his and some of the more widespread networks of Australian organised crime. O’Brien and his team's work also formed the basis of the hugely popular television series, 'Underbelly'.
O’Brien’s management and leadership in his police work are similar to those necessary for success in any endeavour. O’Brien will reveal however, you must be constantly aware of the downside and impact of getting things wrong as well as the immense rewards that come from great leadership that is well-directed.