2. “
Don’t judge each day by
the harvest you reap but by
the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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3. Welcome to the Leadership Revolution
I am delighted to extend a very warm welcome to the Leadership Revolution.
The evidence, from both academic research and business surveys, shows that workplaces with more effective
leadership and management capabilities are more productive, profitable and innovative.
It follows that lifting Australia’s leadership capability in order to enhance productivity, innovation and
sustainability is critical to our future.
It sounds like a no-brainer – but the leadership challenge is a complex one for policymakers and businesses.
While of course there are exceptions, there is a growing concern about the comparatively low standing of
leadership and management of Australia’s enterprises.
Using the measures of the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness
Yearbook, the perception of the standard of management practices among Australian employees relative to other
countries has been dropping, with our ranking falling from 8th in 2009 to 18th in 2014.
The Towers Watson 2014 Global Workforce Study found that only 51% of employees report that their senior
leaders are very flexible in their approach to new situations. The ability to adapt to changing internal and external
conditions and new situations, as well as respond to growth opportunities, is of course central to the capacity
to innovate.
The action we take now can create a turning point for Australia – and the changes needed must be shared by
all – businesses, government, the education sector, and organisations such as Ai Group.
We believe we should practise what we preach, and in 2015 Ai Group has a range of activities underway to
address this issue. The Leadership Revolution, Ai Group’s major event for the year, is a key launching pad for
these initiatives. And in gathering together a program of speakers that represents the international cream of the
crop when it comes to business strategy and leadership capability, we also intend to start a conversation that gets
our leaders talking about leadership.
What is clear is that a step change is needed to develop our leadership capability and evolve our organisational
structures and systems for Australia to improve its productivity and capacity to innovate.
We’ve started to have our say – in June, Ai Group launched a key policy paper, Addressing Enterprise Leadership
in Australia, in which we identified some key barriers to the improvement of leadership practices and proposed a
range of solutions. You’ll find a copy inside your packs today.
It’s a report that offers a basis for the discussion that Gary Hamel, Dave Gray and their fellow speakers today will
no doubt take to another level.
Australia’s future, its innovative capacity, competitiveness and economic sustainability depends greatly on the
capability of our leadership and the changes we make now. I’m sure you will leave today’s event ready to be a part
of that change.
Innes Willox
Chief Executive
Australian Industry Group
5. GARY HAMEL
Business Strategy Expert, Professor, Author
Over the past twenty years, Gary Hamel has authored 17 articles for the
Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s
history. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The
Financial Times and many other leading publica¬tions around the world.
He writes an occasional blog for the Wall Street Journal. Since 1983,
Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School, where he is
currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management.
As a consultant and management educator, Hamel has worked for
companies as diverse as General Electric, Time Warner, Nestle, Shell, Best
Buy, Procter & Gamble, 3M, IBM, and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts
such as “strategic intent”, “core competence”, “industry revolution”, and
“management innovation” have changed the practice of management in
companies around the world.
DAVE GRAY
Author of Gamestorming and The Connected Company
Dave Gray has spent his life answering the question, “How do people
understand?”
This simple question has led to deep explorations into human behaviour,
leadership, organisational dynamics, creativity and innovation.
In 1993 he founded XPLANE, a business design consultancy focused
on people-driven organisational capability building, change and
transformation.
He has written two books on change and innovation: ‘Gamestorming:
A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers’ and ‘The
Connected Company’, a blueprint for 21st-century organisation design.
Dave is also a co-founder of Boardthing, a collaboration platform for
distributed teams.
GORAN ROOS
Managing Director, Innovation Performance Pty Ltd & Adjunct Professor
Göran Roos is Adjunct Professor at ECIC, University of Adelaide, South
Australia; Adjunct Professor at University of Technology Sydney Business
School; and Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Business,
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
He is a member of the Council for Flinders University and also a Stretton
Fellow appointed by the City of Playford at University of Adelaide and
is chairing the Value Add and Industry Growth Sub-Committee of the
Economic Development Board of South Australia. Göran is a fellow of the
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).
SPEAKERS MELBOURNE & BRISBANE
6. SPEAKERS MELBOURNE & BRISBANE
ANDREW STEVENS
Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre
Andrew Stevens is a Non-executive Director and was formerly the
Managing Director of IBM Australia and New Zealand.
Andrew is the Chair of the Australian Advanced Manufacturing Growth
Centre, a Director of MYOB Group Limited, the Australian Chamber
Orchestra, the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL Club, and CEDA. He
is an Honorary Member of the Business Council of Australia and is also a
member of the Advisory Executive of the UNSW School of Business.
Andrew is a member of the Male Champions of Change, a group of CEOs
and Company Directors working with the Sex Discrimination Commissioner
to make gender equality a reality. He is also a member of the Chief of the
Australian Defence Forces Gender Equality Advisory Board.
NICK FREEDMAN
Leadership Mentor and Facilitator
Since 2002, Nick has built and facilitated more than 100 leadership and
cultural transformation programs throughout Australia. His client list
includes Westpac, Coca-Cola, Salesforce, Fairfax Media, Ray White and NSW
Government. His focus is on creating tailored learning journeys that build
conscious leaders and collaborative cultures.
Nick works with the premise that everyone has a deep level of clarity and
purpose within them and sees his role as helping them uncover it, so they
can ‘walk their true path’. His 2014 TEDx talk, ‘10 Questions I asked the
Ocean’ brings his ideas about navigating the journey consciously to life.
THE
DR PATRICK STAEHLER
Founder of fluidminds Switzerland
Patrick coined the expression ‘business model innovation’ when he wrote
his Ph.D. thesis at the University of St. Gallen in 2001. As an author and avid
blogger he constantly challenges our “thinking boxes” and encourages
organisations to re-think their business. He is a lecturer in the executive and
master programs at several prestigious universities (University of St. Gallen,
Zeppelin University, Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology)
for business model innovation and strategic innovations, the founder of
fluidminds Switzerland and co-founder of fluidminds Pty Ltd.
7. MEGAN LILLY
Head of Workforce Development, Australian Industry Group
Megan Lilly is the Head of Workforce Development for The Australian
Industry Group (Ai Group) and Chief Executive of Australian Industry
Group Training Services (AiGTS). Across these roles Megan is responsible
for the development of all education and training policy as well as relevant
service delivery, and oversees the Registered Training Organisation,
Group Training Organisation and other workforce development services.
Prior to this she was the Chief Executive Officer of Business Services Training
Australia, the national industry advisory board for the business services and
related industry sectors. Before joining the national board she held several
senior management positions in various Victorian TAFE institutes.
INNES WILLOX
Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group
Innes Willox is Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, a leading
industry organisation representing businesses in a broad range of sectors
including manufacturing, defence, ICT and labour hire.
His current appointments include:
• Alternate Director of Australian Super
• Board Member of Innovation Australia
• Board Member of National Industry Capability Network
• Member of Emissions Reduction Fund Expert Reference Group
• Member of International Trade Remedies Forum
• Member of Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration
Innes served as the Australian Consul General to Los Angeles from 2006 to
2008, where he represented wide-ranging Australian interests on the west
coast of the United States, including in the areas of trade, finance, culture,
bio-technology, environment and energy sectors.
THE
SPEAKERS MELBOURNE & BRISBANE
8. A noble purpose
inspires sacrifice,
stimulates innovation
and encourages
perseverance.
Gary Hamel
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10. TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
8.30am – 9.00am REGISTRATION
9.00am – 10.40am OPENING SESSION
9.00am – 9.05am Welcome Peter Ryan
ABC correspondent
9.05am – 9.10am Introduction - Driving collaboration Innes Willox
Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group
9.10am – 9.55am The radical new world of management Gary Hamel
Business Strategy Expert, Professor, Author
9.55am – 10.25am Interactive Q & A Gary Hamel
Business Strategy Expert, Professor, Author
10.25am – 10.30am Conscious leadership Nick Freedman
Leadership Mentor and Facilitator
10.30am – 11.00am MORNING TEA
11.00am – 12.35pm SESSION TWO
11.00am – 11.30am Leadership to Drive Innovation in Advanced
Manufacturing
Goran Roos
Managing Director, Innovation Performance
Pty Ltd & Adjunct Professor
11.30am – 12.00pm Panel discussion Goran Roos
Managing Director, Innovation Performance
Pty Ltd & Adjunct Professor
Andrew Downs
Group Managing Director, Sage Automation
12.00pm – 12.30pm Creating Customer Value through
Design-Led Thinking
Patrick Staehler
Founder of fluidminds Switzerland
12.30pm – 12.35pm Conscious leadership Nick Freedman
Leadership Mentor and Facilitator
12.35PM – 1.35PM LUNCH
1.35pm – 3.15pm SESSION THREE
1.35pm – 1.55pm Leadership in a Digital World Andrew Stevens
Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing
Growth Centre
MELBOURNE
AGENDA
THE
11. TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
1.55pm – 2.05pm Q&A Session Andrew Stevens
Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing
Growth Centre
2.05pm – 2.35pm The Future of Leadership
in Australia
Includes Q&A and moderated discussion
Megan Lilly
Head of Workforce Development,
Australian Industry Group
2.35pm – 3.15pm Interactive panel discussion – Rising to the
Leadership Challenge
Moderator: Peter Ryan
Megan Lilly
Head of Workforce Development,
Australian Industry Group
Andrew Stevens
Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing
Growth Centre
Dave Gray
Author of Gamestorming and The
Connected Company
Ross Pilling
Chairman & Managing Director, BASF
3.15PM – 3.35PM AFTERNOON TEA
3.35pm – 4.45pm SESSION FOUR
3.35pm – 4.20pm The Connected Leader Dave Gray
Author of Gamestorming and The
Connected Company
4.20pm – 4.35pm Interactive Q&A Dave Gray
Author of Gamestorming and The
Connected Company
4.35pm – 4.40pm Conscious leadership Nick Freedman
Leadership Mentor and Facilitator
4.40pm – 4.45pm Close of the Conference Peter Ryan
ABC correspondent
4.45PM – 6.00PM COCKTAIL AND NETWORKING HOUR
JOIN US FOR AN HOUR OF NETWORKING AND COCKTAILS TO FINISH THE DAY
THE
MELBOURNE
AGENDA
14. TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
7.00am – 7.30am REGISTRATION
7.30am – 7.35am Introduction and Welcome Innes Willox
Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group
7.50am – 7.51am Peter Ryan introduces Dave Gray Peter Ryan
ABC correspondent
7.51am – 8.35am The Connected Leader Dave Gray
Author of Gamestorming and the
Connected Company
8.35am – 8.50am Q & A Session Peter Ryan
ABC correspondent
Dave Gray
Author of Gamestorming and the
Connected Company
8.50am – 8.51am Peter Ryan introduces Andrew Stevens Peter Ryan
ABC correspondent
8.51am – 9.10am Leadership in a digital world Andrew Stevens
Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing
Growth Centre
9.10am – 9.20am Q & A session Andrew Stevens
Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing
Growth Centre
THE
BRISBANE
AGENDA
15. THE
TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
9.20am – 9.50am Rising to the Leadership Challenges Moderator – Peter Ryan
Panel:
Andrew Stevens
Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing
Growth Centre
Dave Gray
Author of Gamestorming and the
Connected Company
Megan Lilly
Head of Workforce Development,
Australian Industry Group
9.50am – 9.55am Closing Remarks Innes Willox
Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group
9.50AM – 11.00AM COFFEE AND NETWORKING
BRISBANE
AGENDA
16. An enterprise
that is constantly
exploring new horizons
is likely to have a
competitive advantage
in attracting and
retaining talent.
Gary Hamel
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