In 2022 leading global organizations has become more complex than ever before. Longer term economic, demographic, technological, and climate trends together with immediate threats from the COVID pandemic and conflicts in Europe and elsewhere present both enormous challenges and opportunities for businesses.
Thriving in the fast-evolving environment of the 2020s and beyond requires leaders to master both old and new mindsets and skills. This session seeks to both identify these new mindsets and skills and to discuss how to assess and develop these characteristics in yourself and current and potential leaders around you.
Questions we will address:
- What is a “Global” Leader in 2022?
- How global are you?
- How do you select, evaluate, and develop leaders for global roles?
- Recommendations for improving the global mindset of your leadership team.
Participants will discuss:
- The 3 mindsets needed by global leaders in the 2020s.
- How to benchmark where they (and others) are on a 5-stage development continuum.
- How to better evaluate the capabilities of candidates for global roles.
- How to develop global leadership capabilities for themselves, teams, and organizations.
About our Speaker:
David is an experienced general manager and leadership development consultant who specializes in working with executives with complex international roles, and in helping organizations build their inclusive leadership capabilities. He is an unapologetic advocate for responsible, respectful globalization. An experienced speaker, executive facilitator and executive coach, David’s mission is to enable the global success of leaders, teams, and organizations. He believes that increasing respectful and inclusive communication and interconnectivity across boundaries of all kinds is the best path for building stable, peaceful, and sustainable communities.
Over the past twenty years, David has held executive roles with global consulting firms in Asia, the U.S., and Europe. His responsibilities have included building new business, restructuring organizations and teams, integrating strategic acquisitions, and working across complex global systems. Specific roles included Senior Client Partner and Managing Director of Korn Ferry’s Asia-Pacific Leadership and Talent Consulting business. He later served as Managing Director of the firm’s global Enterprise Learning business. David also was President of Aperian Global, a provider of leadership development, Inclusion and Diversity, and intercultural learning solutions. He led the international leadership consultancy for a well-regarded Danish consulting firm. Earlier in his career David designed and taught executive courses on Chinese, Japanese, and Indian management at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
David is CEO of Ionis International Ltd, a boutique provider of inclusive leadership consulting, learning solutions, and coaching services. David holds an M.A. in East Asian studies from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's degree in history from Cornell University. He speaks Japanese and currently resides near London.
(LinkedIn Bio)