Business leaders agree diversity and inclusion are the key to success
Our leaders of tomorrow will need to fully understand how to embrace diversity and achieve inclusion. They will need to understand how innovation and digital disruption is going to affect our lives, our work places and our behaviours. “These things are essential if our future leaders are going to lead our businesses, communities and economies in a truly meaningful, harmonious, respectful, and responsible way.
The E-LEAD Leadership Summit is an intensive one-day event and will feature high profile speakers including Danny Celoni, CEO, Pepsi Co, Australia and New Zealand, Vivek Gupta, Vice President and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Australia and New Zealand, Major General, Fergus McLachlan AO, Commander, Australian Army, and Professor Ian Jacobs, President and Vice Chancellor, UNSW Sydney, among many others.
How businesses can survive the Christmas 'blackout period'
"We are facing the combined challenge as both a start-up and a business which relies on funding from the corporate sector," says Majeed. "To cope, our business minimises our activities during this period. While we would like to offer courses during this time of year, the lack of funding makes it very difficult.
School leavers lack leadership skills to succeed in the workplace
We have modelled the Step Up, Stand Out program on contemporary leadership development approaches used by the world’s leading universities such as Yale and Harvard. “Our aim for the 2018 program is to bring together a highly diverse group of high school students to facilitate a dynamic, contemporary and rewarding leadership immersion.
Australia’s top leaders and CEOs converge on Sydney at the E-LEAD Summit
The focus of the summit is leadership in the 21st century and the key themes will include leadership, digital disruption, diversity and inclusion. Apart from keynotes, three panel discussions will focus on these topics with relevant leaders, like Samantha Turner, Diversity and Inclusion Lead for the Westpac Group and Victoria Park, Diversity and inclusion Director at PwC.
Skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity don’t require technology, but the fact that up to 40% of Australian jobs will be automated within 10-15 years means that a thorough understanding of current and emerging technologies is crucial.
Helping them grow and flourish from the early stages of their professional lives will only lead to positive outcomes. Leadership development should not be limited to those who can afford it. It should be available to all people across all sectors of our society. Money, access and power should not dictate who accesses leadership development opportunities. Everyone is capable of becoming a great leader if given the opportunity to learn, be mentored and appropriately supported.
