In this special presentation Ian Berry looks at how leadership can be learned regardless of the talents we were born with. Additionally, he shares the 3 key paradigm shifts changing the face of modern business and what real leaders must do to be successful in business today. In this thought provoking presentation, Ian not only provides strategic advice but also offers insights on:

• Why leadership fails without management
• The power of the paradox that is leadership and management
• The 3 key paradigm shifts that are changing the face of modern business and that real leaders must make
• How leadership can be learned regardless of the talents we were born with
• Attracting, engaging, and retaining your best employees
• Improving value propositions to all your stakeholders
• Cascading strategy down to those who execute and thereby creating ownership
• Eliminating people problems

For almost two decades Ian Berry has been helping HR and leaders around the world to do today what others will only be thinking about tomorrow. Regarded by many as Australia's most engaging and inspiring business speaker, Ian is the author of three books, including his latest, Differencemakers - how doing good is great for business. 

Annette Moser-Wellman shares her insights on innovation through the model - 'The Five Faces of Genius'.  These 'Faces' represent creative thinking styles that HR and every leader must have if they are to be effective in today's marketplace.  Drawing from the arts and sciences, Annette shows people managers from all levels how to use the five skills to lead.  With over 20 years of business leadership experience, she outlines the skills of the next generation manager with energy and sense of humour that enlivens and refreshes audiences.  She includes rich examples from today's global market, as  explains what it takes to be a leader of ideas with corporations and within the market. 

Annette Moser-Wellman works with some of the world's leading companies from Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Company, JP Morgan Chase Bank and Kraft Foods to Microsoft, Starbucks and the Walt Disney Company.   Her expertise spans the range of strategy and vision planning to leadership development and innovation training. 

Her book, The Five Faces of Genius, Creative Thinking Styles to Succeed at Work, outlines five tools that leaders and HR need in the next generation of business. She also coaches leaders at the CXO level and assists them in understanding the relationship between controlling weaknesses and personal potential.  Her model helps HR and senior executives shape a compelling vision for the organisation.

In 2007, RBS had a relatively small presence in Asia with some 2,000 employees across the region. Then suddenly, with its well documented takeover of ABN Amro, that figure rocketed to 23,000 in an instant. Enter Brian McLaren from Europe, to oversee the HR integration of what still is the world's largest ever banking takeover.

Fast-forward to September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the near-complete unraveling of the world's financial system. The newly formed RBS Group found itself in un-chartered territory and Brian, along with his HR team, were faced with more professional challenges than many of us face in a lifetime.

In this fascinating inside case study, hear first hand how Brian and HR have faced and dealt with an incredible array of challenges and circumstances, including:

• The initial merger and transition of teams and departments  
• Developing single HR protocols across a newly enlarged region
• Maintaining morale during an about turn in markets and a sudden rationalization of the business
• Staff communication and transparency when legislation requires no disclosure
• Winning hearts and minds, whilst driving performance - when employees are uncertain as to their future role and employer
• Leading an HR team when 50% of their work is completely new territory

Brian McLaren has commented, "It is the most complicated task I have ever worked on by a long way. But I've never enjoyed the challenge quite so much."  Don't miss Brian and this very special Inside Case Study, only at HR Summit 2010.

This exclusive HR Summit presentation will highlight the increasingly important interface between HRM and CSR. It will demonstrate that good CSR strategies can supplement good HRM and have positive impacts on recruitment, retention and productivity. In particular, Dr Welford will highlight opportunities in the areas of employee volunteering linked to strategic community investment strategies that can increase employee morale and thus help to build your brand as well as the reputation of the business. It will also highlight the business case for a strategy on diversity and inclusion in an environment where top talent is still hard to find.

Richard Welford has twenty years of experience working in the fields of environmental management and social responsibility. He was one of the early pioneers in developing social audit and reporting methodologies with UK-based organisations such as The Body Shop, IBM and Eastern Electricity in the 1990s. Since then, his work has been increasingly Asian focused as a result of his current position as director of the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has sat on the Swire Environmental Committee as an external adviser for the past four years and has undertaken consultancy work with a number of leading companies, including MTR Corporation, Disney, CLP, Nike, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, HP, HSBC, Citigroup and Adidas.

Sacred Cows - a metaphor for organisational issues that everyone can see but no one wants to talk about - can harm even the most successful firm. In this Asia first presentation, Stephen Quesnelle shares this real life case study on the telecom producer Mitel Corporation with whom he worked as a Change Agent through the boom and bust years which took them from rampant technology fuelled growth to the challenge of staving off both competitive and organisational threats that could have wiped out the entire company.  In this engaging and humorous presentation, you will hear how Stephen worked with Mitel employees to develop mission critical leadership behaviours that put the cows out to pasture and turned Mitel Corp around, increasing bottom line profitability by a stunning factor of 40.

Stephen Quesnelle is one of Canada's leading experts in applied behavioural science, delivering behaviour based strategy implementation to organisations around the globe. He has more than 20 years of change management and leadership development experience with a successful track record of implementing behaviour change plans that improve employee commitment, job satisfaction and productivity. Stephen has utilised his broad technical skills and organisational development background to improve business results for clients in the high technology, telecom, transportation, food services, oil & gas, insurance, pharmaceutical and public sectors.

A single principle of human nature drives all human behavior. Senior HR directors, CEOs and business leaders that understand and apply this principle can more successfully create work environments within their organisations that engage their people, improve productivity and generate bottom line profitability.  With knowledge and understanding of this one principle, all those attending this exclusive HR Summit presentation will be equipped to:

• Recognise the four universal fears that hinder employee development
• Implement organisational strategies that combat fear and resistance to change
• Identify the unique motivational needs of each employee
• Create working environments where employees are engaged and perform at their peak
• Evaluate the readiness of employees to accept new levels of responsibility and authority

Since 1988, Phillip Van Hooser has spoken, written and consulted on leadership and customer service issues worldwide. From his experience as a manager for FORTUNE 500 heavy manufacturing and consumer products companies and a director for a locally owned community bank, Phil knows firsthand the methods that equip executives and managers to lead their people more effectively and serve their customers more successfully.

HR Summit 2010 offers this exclusive presentation by Benedicte Hersen, ex-Vice President of HR, Airbus China. She'll take you on a first-person account of the HR strategies and practices behind Airbus' successful development of its China industrial footprint facilities. Benedicte was instrumental behind the scenes of the first China-assembled airliner, launched in June 2009. As well as creating a harmonised HR framework across several working sites in China, she took a central role in the company's recruitment, retention and development strategies. The result, as she shall share, has been a working culture of excellence for a pioneering company in Asia.

Benedicte Hersen was responsible for the implementation of a new HR governance system throughout Airbus China along with the definition of strategies needed to meet future business challenges efficiently. Entrepreneurial and pragmatic, Benedicte brings with her over 20 years of experience from various functions including: Engineering, Project & Program Management, Operations, Consulting and HR. She is known to be ready to meet any challenge requesting Change leadership, no matter the domain involved, and is presenting this Singapore exclusive inside case study only at HR Summit.

This HR Summit exclusive presentation combines the latest research from Harvard Business School and the field of neuroscience as well as real life practices from some of the world's most successful professional sports and business teams. It will assist you to deliver big improvements in areas that include: motivating and retaining employees, building managers, improving your organisation's executive leadership and coaching skills as well as developing higher performing teams. Since its launch, Scores on the Board has been used by organisations that operate on every continent, in every major industry and by every type of team. From executive leadership teams to front-line sales and service teams, from specialist technical teams to back-office operations teams, the system has helped teams achieve bigger improvements faster and propelled them to win National and International awards for excellence and innovation.

Bill Lang invented Scores on the Board" and has built an impressive career as an entrepreneur, international business consultant, business owner and executive coach specialising in leadership and team performance improvement. His extensive career profile includes working as a strategist and management consultant with KPMG, AXA, Macquarie Bank and McKinsey & Company. He also co-founded the FreeOnline business in Australia and Sharinga Networks Inc., the San Francisco-based technology company.

Join Karen Lawson, as she shares her insights and approach to designing, developing, and implementing a leadership development program. In this engaging and highly interactive session, you will learn what is involved in undertaking an integrated and comprehensive approach to developing your leadership pipeline. You will receive sample checklists and other tools to help implement a successful leadership development program within your organisation and you will leave the session with take home strategies including sample curricula, approaches and delivery options.

PLUS You will learn how to:

• Identify key elements/components of a successful leadership development program
• Adapt tools and techniques to your own leadership development program
• Examine various methods to develop present and future leaders

Dr. Karen Lawson is an international consultant, speaker and author specialising in organisation and management development as well as executive coaching. She has extensive consulting and seminar experience in the areas of team development, communication, leadership, and quality service across a wide range of industries. Clients include a variety of prominent organisations from financial services, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and education. In her consulting work with Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses, she uses her experience and knowledge of human interaction to help leaders at all levels make a difference in their organisations.