Busting the myths of leadership
14 Mar 2022
Thursday 12 May | Busting the myths of leadership
About this event
Join this personal development breakfast discussion where you will have the opportunity to meet Kathy Cong, Company Matters’ newly appointed Managing Director and your host for this session.
Formatted as a hybrid event, you are welcome to join either in person or virtually. However in person numbers will be limited.
Our expert guest speaker, Blaire Palmer, will be busting the myths of leadership during this session. Blaire has spent the last 22 years coaching and challenging boards and senior leadership teams as they work out how to thrive – and how to ensure their organisations thrive - in these fast-changing times.
Key takeaways from this session:
- Busting the myths of leadership
- Leadership and authenticity
- Motivating yourself and others
- Breaking down hierarchy and silos
- Generation Y and the search for self-actualisation
- The role of “followers” in business as well as the role of “leaders”
Date:
Thursday 12 May, 2022
Timings:
08:30am – 09:00am | Breakfast networking session (for those attending in person)
09:00am | Session commences (for both virtual and in person attendees)
09:45am | Live Q&A
10:00am | Close
Format:
Hybrid event
Speaker details:
Blaire Palmer
Culture Specialist, consultant | Future of Leadership
Blaire Palmer is a world authority on the changing face of leadership and work. An author, speaker, coach, consultant and commentator on future trends in business, with more than two decades of experience coaching and provoking boards and senior leaders.
As one of the youngest female producers of the BBC’s flagship “Today Programme” Blaire spent a decade breaking stories and shaping the UK news agenda before her fascination with leadership and change led her to train as one of the UK’s first corporate coaches. Since then she’s written 3 successful books on the subject of leadership.
Blaire spends most of her days supporting and guiding leaders through change as they shape their company. Her speeches give audiences unparalleled insight into what’s happening in the most innovative Boardrooms in the UK and Europe, trends she’s spotting in her work and what actually works (and doesn’t) when it comes to change and leadership in real businesses.
Host details:
Kathy Cong
Managing Director, Company Matters
Kathy is an experienced company secretary and governance professional with over 19 years’ experience. Prior to joining Company Matters as its Managing Director, she was Equiniti Group plc’s Company Secretary for four years and then led EQ’s company secretarial and governance services business, Prism Cosec. Kathy has also worked in-house for Investec plc, a dual-listed international banking and wealth management group, for over 13 years.
With extensive international governance experience, Kathy is an expert in Financial Services, Risk Management, Due Diligence, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Corporate Governance. She is dynamic, versatile and commercially focused and highly skillful in a broad range of areas; successfully leading teams and creating efficiencies in working practices, with a particular emphasis on corporate governance, board support, regulatory and statutory compliance, subsidiary management, share options and managing change and transformation in fast growth companies.
Location
Address:
Link Group 6th Floor, 65 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7NQ
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