Corporate breakfast for Human Resources representatives: Developing Leaders in the Digital Age

The event, organized by the IE Corporate Relations department, gathered IE’s community of local partner organizations to discuss and exchange experiences on how to develop leaders in the digital age.

As IE Chief Learning Officer, one of professor’s van Dam top priorities is to raise awareness on the need to train leaders on the mindsets, expertise and behaviors required to perform effectively, while empowering their teams, in the framework of this disruptive XXI century.

WHY DO LEADERS HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR NEW MINDSETS, EXPERTISE AND BEHAVIORS ON XXI CENTURY CORPORATIONS?

With organizations undergoing unprecedented shifts and the nature of work moving to an increasingly decentralized model, leaders now more than ever need to help their organizations adapt quickly to new realities. Despite leadership development being a top priority for most CEOs, the results seldom achieve their objectives. Leadership programs fail to make a meaningful difference to business performance, and organizations fall short on the leadership talent they need.

In this workshop, Dr. Nick van Dam addressed why most leadership development efforts fails and what organizations can do to develop leaders at scale. He leveraged insights from a new McKinsey book ‘Leadership at Scale’ that he has co-authored. Deeply fact oriented, the insights on leadership development are grounded from over 375.000 data points and the global experience of more than 25 senior leadership practitioners.