Talent, Leadership and Learning
Zoom Interactive Event: Effective Leadership Development in Disruptive Times
Our 2019 research, Digital Disruption: Exploring the Implications for Leaders and Leadership Development, examined the leadership capabilities required for success in the digital age and the implications for leadership development. In this interactive webinar, attendees will work collaboratively, prompted by the latest thinking in leadership development from IMD faculty, case studies and facilitated discussion among participants.
Attendees will have the opportunity to:
- Compare experiences around the critical leadership challenges faced by their organisations and share how they are tackling them.
- Gain deeper insights into the principles of effective leadership development and consider how these might be implemented within their organisations.
- Discuss how to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of leadership development and how to apply these ideas in practice.
- Collaborate with peers in co-creating solutions to leadership challenges in their organisations.
Who is it For?
This masterclass is aimed at those with responsibility for the strategy, design, delivery and evaluation of leadership development initiatives within their organisation who are willing to share experiences in an expert led, collaborative environment.
Speakers
Prof. Katharina Lange
Affiliate Professor of Leadership, IMD Business School
Katharina Lange is Affiliate Professor of Leadership. She specializes in teaching executives globally about leading self, leading teams, and leading organizations, and in building resilience at the individual, team, and organizational level as well as leading customer-centric organizations. She has a strong track record of designing and directing innovative executive education programs for virtual, face-to-face, and blended learning.
She directs IMD’s custom programs for Mondelez, BAE Systems and E&Y.
Lange’s teaching on self-leadership focuses on creating better awareness of a leader’s bright and dark sides. In her sessions, executives discover the key values that motivate and inspire them. Just as importantly, they discuss how to integrate their weaknesses with courage and humility into their (professional) lives and learn to speak from the heart.
Vicky Smith
Head of Learning & Development, Brewin Dolphin
Vicky Smith, Head of Learning and Development, Brewin Dolphin Reporting directly to Group HRD Vicky leads the Learning agenda for Brewin Dolphin, a FTSE250 Wealth Management firm with 33 offices across UK and Ireland). She is responsible for group wide learning strategies that support culture change and talent development covering Leadership & Management Development, digital partnerships and regulatory learning, apprenticeships, client skills and wealth manager development. Prior to joining Brewin Dolphin 7 years ago, Vicky’s career included starting-up and, for 7 years, co-owning a consultancy business generating over £30m productivity improvements for small and mid-cap firms in private and public sectors. She studied for her MBA at Durham Business School which led to spending 6 years in their Executive Education arm developing a highly successful portfolio of accredited management development programmes for senior business executives in the UK and Overseas.
Amelie Villeneuve
Global Head of Innovation & Transformation for Talent & Recruiting, UBS
Amelie holds a BA, MA and M Stud from Oxford University and a Doctorate from Cranfield in internationalisation and strategy. After a short career in film, she moved into financial services, starting with studying markets, then in M&A studying companies. She was an early member of Duke Corporate Education, helping it to become number 1 in the world for 11 years in a row by The Financial Times. She also helped to grow the consultancy arm of Corporate Executive Board before opening the Duke Asian offices in Singapore. She then moved to Google and led business leadership development globally.
