Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s Culture and Leadership conference in Sydney and Melbourne. We hope you were inspired by our speakers and their insights from real world experiences, to begin or continue your own journey’s. We are thrilled to share some of the highlights here with you.
If we are going to Change the World – One Organisation at a Time ™ we can only do it together with our amazing community – so thanks for coming out and supporting us.
WELCOME TO THE 26TH ANNUAL CULTURE & LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Human Synergistics CEO and Managing Director, David Byrum introduces our 26th annual Human Synergistics Culture & Leadership conference – presented in both Melbourne and in Sydney.
In this brief introduction DB explains how we specialise in developing and providing tools, information and proven change strategies that enable Individuals to discover, make aware, build acceptance and take action to be the best version of themselves everyday. We work with teams to be high performing, highly engaged and highly functioning units. We develop leaders and managers to understand the impact they have on their peers. And, lastly we help organisations build upon its culture to deliver its promises to their employees, customers and shareholders.
THE INGHAM’S STORY
Andrew Reeves, CEO and Managing Director and Grant Kerswell, Chief People Officer at Ingham’s Group Limited share the Ingham’s story to constructive culture.
Established over 100 years ago with a cultural legacy of aggressive / defensive behaviours, the business was sold into private equity in 2010. It was listed in 2016, and as a business at scale, the senior leadership team knew that the cultural journey would not arrive at a constructive destination until it shifted the behaviours, mindset and attitude of over 8,000 people across Australian and New Zealand. This meant transforming the leadership team was crucial to modelling the desired behaviours.
ARN MEDIA SHARE THEIR SUCCESSES, LEARNINGS AND FUTURE FOCUS
ARN Media is today a leading audio business in Australia with an exciting growth future. 1300 employees strong, with 54 radio stations, 36 markets and over 40 million podcasts per month and 8 million people listening each week. Ciaran Davis, CEO and Managing Director and Angela Ewers, Chief People Officer at ARN Media share their successes, learnings and future focus.
View the ARN presentation here.
SIOBHAN’S INSIGHTS ON STRONG LEADERSHIP THAT UNDERPINS CONSTRUCTIVE CULTURE
Former Regional VP Human Resources, Siobhan McGlinchey presents her findings on how strong leadership leads to solid culture and engagement. In her own words ‘all the tricks and trinkets don’t change culture, if the boss is a tool – people will not be engaged’. Her key take-outs to creating better leadership? Universal leadership is leadership – be consistent in the execution of your programs, build upon it and don’t get distracted.
DAVID BYRUM FACILITATES THE LEADERS PANEL
Why is culture the only game in town you need to win? This panel brings together a group of industry leaders for a dynamic discussion around culture and leadership in action.
We asked our panelists about the importance of culture and leadership, the role leaders should play, and for their own tips for people beginning their own journey.
With …
Matthew Tripolone, Managing Director IHG Hotels & Resorts, Australia and Pacific
Sophie Brown, Head of HR, Australia and NZ, Galderma
Zaklina Craig, Executive Director, People, Culture & Workplace, Business NSW
David Byrum CEO and Managing Director, Human Synergistics Australia
LEADING THE GAP – BRIDGING TODAY’S REALITY AND TOMORROW’S VISION
Head of Consulting at Human Synergistics, Corinne Canter discusses bridging the gap as we stand amidst the 4th Industrial Revolution.
This watershed event is in motion, and will bring change at a speed, scale and force unlike anything we’ve experienced before. It will affect the very essence of our human experience.
In this presentation, Corinne highlights how Culture and Leadership significantly assists a company become ‘future-fit’ and agile. These critical variables help organisations remain adaptive to external forces and remain nimble.
Download a copy of Corinne’s Presentation.
Want to learn more?
Check out our Culture Bites Podcast, where we take culture theory and turn it into everyday insight.