Leadership for the emerging world is everybody's business: even yours and mine!

Stella Cornelius

Conference Speakers:

Dexter Dunphy AM Emeritus Professor at the Centre of Corporate Governance, Faculty of Business, UTS

Michael Rennie Managing Partner McKinsey & Company Australia

Gianni Zappala Associate Professor Centre for Social Impact

Paul Gilding Advisor and advocate for action on climate change and sustainability

Rosemary Sainty Head, Responsible Business Practice,St James Ethics Centre

Serena Rix Tripathee Country Director Search for Common Ground Nepal

Explore new leadership ideas and practices

How do we create prosperous and innovative organisations that act with integrity, creativity and care? How do we combine social responsibility with an organisation’s economic mission?

The 7th Spirituality, Leadership and Management (SLaM) Conference will bring together keynote speakers and presenters to inspire new ideas and thinking on how we may approach the complexities of leadership in organisations in the 21st century.

Our world is changing.  We face tough challenges: economic crises, energy crises, climate change, dwindling resources, geo-political meltdown and overpopulation. These same challenges also bring opportunities for change - on a personal, organisational and global scale - as never seen before.

Leadership for the emerging world will explore approaches to leadership that are responsive to the emerging world. It will celebrate life and encourage human potential, by focusing on how each one of us can make a meaningful difference.

The conference provides an opportunity for CEOs, directors, executives, business owners, professionals, academics, students and social innovators to explore values-inspired leadership and ways of improving organisational performance:

• Hear leaders discuss their latest work, case studies and ideas.
• Explore new directions for personal and organisational action.
• Increase creativity through participatory activities: interactive workshops, theatre, conversations, creative spaces, stories and writing.
• Connect with like-minded people who are involved in transforming organisations.
• Discuss tough questions such as:
  • How do the current troubles reflect on our ethics and values? What do we want for the future? 
  • What does it mean to bring spirituality into leadership and management in organisations? Does this enhance business performance?
• Shift our current patterns of thought and action to lead into the future.

The conference will be a thought-provoking and reflective learning experience where we will exchange and build on ideas together – creating new thinking and ways of leading and operating within organisations.

The conference commences on Thursday evening, 11 February 2010 and ends at noon on Sunday, 14 February.

Venue: St Joseph’s Centre for Reflective Living is at Baulkham Hills in the north-west suburbs of Sydney. Accommodation is on-site or at nearby Quest Apartments.

JOIN US AND REGISTER NOW – places are filling fast! Registration closes on Monday, 8 Feb, at midday Sydney time.

Organisations are invited to participate in the conference as sponsors. A limited number of exhibition spaces are still available at our Saturday Marketplace to promote products and services at minimal cost. For enquiries email enquiries@slamconference.org.au

SLaM is committed to enabling people and organisations to function with integrity, creativity and care, so that our emerging world is a desirable place to be. It does not subscribe to, or promote any particular belief system. We have a very broad notion of spirituality that includes conscious living, a sense of meaning, celebration of life and the possibility of personal transformation.

Enquiries: conference coordinator enquiries@slamconference.org.au