08:30 to 09:00
Breakfast and Registration
Overview
February 10, 2023
08:30 to 12:30
AEDT
AESC's Australia Forum will connect Executive Search professionals to engage in conversations about the big issues impacting executive talent and the profession.
Register to explore:
Competencies of Great Leaders
The Executive Talent Agenda in 2023
Technology: What are the Opportunities and Risks for Our Profession
Panel: Inclusive Search Practices
Sessions
09:00 to 09:45
Competencies of Great Leaders
360 research of the best C-suite leaders shows there are four meta-competencies. These four competencies fit neatly with our philosophy of leadership driving engagement, and engaging driving performance. Join Peter Berry as he unpacks the core competencies of successful Australian leaders and explains how executive assessments add science and rigor to selection and development. This session comes from a perspective that Leadership is consequential, measurable, and improvable.
Speakers
Peter Berry
Managing Partner
Peter Berry Consulting
Peter Berry
Peter Berry
Managing Partner
Peter Berry Consulting
Peter established Peter Berry Consultancy Pty Ltd in 1990. He is an accomplished keynote speaker, facilitator, and executive coach. Peter specializes in leadership development, coaching, change management, business performance, and team building for leaders within the public and private sectors in Australia and globally across various industries. Peter’s competencies include strong leadership skills, sound business acumen, strategic thinking, and strong diplomacy skills.
Peter’s experience includes over 20 years as a Director and Associate with Melbourne Business School and was an Associate at Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He is also a regular speaker at The Executive Connection (TEC).
Peter’s most recent book, ‘The CEO Checklist’, is a management guide to excellence in leadership, business, and performance. His previous books include ‘The Big Picture – 9 steps to business excellence’ and he has co-authored the research, ‘Leadership in Australia’, ‘What makes High Performing CEOs’, ‘Female Leadership in Australia’ and ‘Emerging Leaders in Australia’. Peter has also delivered thought leadership presentations around Australia and globally.
09:45 to 10:30
The Executive Talent Agenda in 2023
Few of us have the confidence to make predictions about where the economy and geopolitics will take us in 2023, but one thing is certain, whether it's boom times or another crisis, the role of leadership is more important than it's ever been. Join us as we unpack what issues top the agenda for HR leaders in 2023, and how can our profession help.
Speakers
Dharma Chandran
Chief People Officer
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Dharma Chandran
Dharma Chandran
Chief People Officer
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Dharma was appointed to the role of Chief People Officer at the ABC in October 2021. Dharma joins the ABC with a broad range of experience in senior human resources, strategy, legal and corporate communications roles as a consultant, corporate executive, and non-executive director across Australia, Asia, and the Middle East.
Dharma’s previous roles include Partner within Boyden Australia’s Leadership Consulting Practice, Partner in Charge of KPMG Australia’s People Advisory Practice, Managing Partner of Ernst & Young’s Far East Area Performance & Reward Practice (based in Hong Kong), Leader of Towers Perrin’s Asia-Pacific Financial Services Practice (based in Singapore) and Leader of Hewitt Associates’ Asia-Pacific M&A Practice (based in Kuala Lumpur).
He has also held permanent and interim senior executive roles at McKinsey & Co, Westpac, Suncorp, Leighton Holdings, GFG Alliance and Emaar (based in Dubai).
Dharma has been a member of the Advisory Board or Panel for several NSW Government institutions, including iCare NSW and Service NSW. He has served on the Board of Mortgage Choice as a Non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit and Risk Committee and is currently a Non-Executive Director of 7-Eleven Australia, a position he has held since 2016.
10:30 to 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 to 11:45
Technology: What are the Opportunities and Risks for Our Profession
We may be on the cusp of big changes when it comes to technology and executive search. Technology has undoubtedly changed the search process over the past decade by helping us effectively source talent, interface with clients, and improve productivity. The next decade may bring even more significant changes as AI and machine learning change how we source, assess, and onboard talent. Not to mention the ever-important issue of cybersecurity, with increased security risks on the horizon in 2023. A must-attend session.
Speakers
Simon Townsend
Director and Co-Founder
TCS Insights
Simon Townsend
Simon Townsend
Director and Co-Founder
TCS Insights
Simon is a Design Thinking professional who specializes in Human Capital. Focusing on the human element of innovation, he strongly believes that everyone can help define and sculpt the future. Simon uses tested Design Thinking techniques to develop teams and design processes. With his eye on the business's long-term future, Simon demystifies technological advances and social media strategies to provide simple-to-implement approaches to recruitment processes and talent sourcing. He is the co-founder of TCS, a recruitment team assessment platform, and the Principal and Founder of twelve2, a talent management consulting firm.
Aaron McIntosh
Managing Director
Invenias Bullhorn
Aaron McIntosh
Aaron McIntosh
Managing Director
Invenias Bullhorn
Aaron McIntosh is the Managing Director of APAC for Bullhorn, a global leader in Recruitment Automation Technology.
As Managing Director, he works with owners and senior leaders of recruitment agencies on how to utilize technology to fuel their growth strategies.
Bullhorn is the global leader in software for the staffing industry. More than 10,000 companies rely on Bullhorn’s cloud-based platform to power their recruitment processes from start to finish. Headquartered in Boston, with offices around the world, Bullhorn is founder-led and employs more than 1,000 people globally.
Jonathon Morse
Managing Partner, Australia
Johnson Partners
Jonathon Morse
Jonathon Morse
Managing Partner, Australia
Johnson Partners
Jonathon has over 20 of executive recruiting experience and is a recognised leader in advising organisations on the recruitment, assessment, development, and retention of digital, technology, telecommunications, and security talent. His clients have varied from large global corporations to high growth, entrepreneurial, and private equity owned companies. In addition to Chief Digital, Information, Technology and Security Officers, and their key leaders, Jonathon also has experience leading the recruitment of regional leaders, country managers, CEOs and top executives for digital, technology, telecommunications and cybersecurity vendor and professional services companies. Prior to joining Johnson Partners Jonathon spent seven years growing revenue lines year on year for global, top tier organisational consulting firm, Korn Ferry. Holding a multi-faceted professional services leadership role spanning full P&L ownership of New Zealand and sector leadership across APAC for the Telecommunications Industry. Additionally, Jonathon led the growth of a key marquee account, and the Security portfolio across the region, with his reputation built on the sale and delivery of customer-centred services that build client advantage. During this time Jonathon also authored white papers that have been showcased at an APAC level, covering topics including the changing role of leaders in a digital world. Jonathon holds a Master of Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management.
Cynthia Cottrell
Career Business Leader, Pacific
Mercer
Cynthia Cottrell
Cynthia Cottrell
Career Business Leader, Pacific
Mercer
Over the last 20 years, Cynthia has helped hundreds of private and public sector clients reimagine how work gets done. She is passionate about helping clients translate their strategy into something they can operationalise, by aligning both the tangible elements of the organisation - people, structure and process - and the intangible elements - motivations, relationships and culture. She has deep expertise in digital transformation, M&A, employee experience, strategy, organisational change and design.
As the Leader of Mercer Pacific’s Workforce Consulting and Products business, Cynthia is responsible for strategy, execution and building a sustainable culture that delivers value to clients. Cynthia and her team solves for clients’ workforce needs through Mercer’s deep capabilities and breadth of solutions across organisational design and transformation, workforce strategy, HR transformation, Cloud HR, talent and leadership solutions, rewards consulting, employee experience, executive remuneration consulting, salary and benefit benchmarking, M&A advisory and learning solutions.
Cynthia has held various executive leadership roles in multiple geographies. Previously a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, Cynthia led the Organisational Strategy consulting business for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, she held leadership roles across IBM Global Business Services that included market (territory), business functional and global roles.
Cynthia is a patent holder for a cloud-based CRM application that she developed that leverages data from multiple systems and user-generated inputs to enable personalised learner support and mentoring. Cynthia's application is currently used by the United States Army to support more than half a million soldiers and civilians engaged in training around the world.
11:45 to 12:30
Panel: Inclusive Search Practices
What are the critical steps from search strategy through to onboarding where we can enhance the probability of success when seeking to hire diverse candidates? What are the potential derailers throughout the process? How can inclusion be built into the candidate experience throughout? And how do we ensure that there is a successful onboarding process, so the candidate is best set up for success? Join us for a candid panel discussion and bring your hard questions.
Speakers
Ty Wiggins
Executive Director, Executive Transitions & Development
Russell Reynolds Associates
Ty Wiggins
Ty Wiggins
Executive Director, Executive Transitions & Development
Russell Reynolds Associates
Ty Wiggins advises leading companies on leadership transitions and executive onboarding to ensure more expedient paths to effectiveness. Based in Sydney, Ty has a doctorate in Leadership Transitions. He leverages his deep academic and consulting backgrounds to provide CEOs, boards and senior leadership across industries with the skill and advice needed to enact transformational change. Before joining Russell Reynold Associates, Ty founded Converge Consulting, an executive-development focused firm. While leading that company, he worked with regional and international clients to develop leaders during transitions into C-suite roles. Previously, Ty was a sessional lecturer within the Master of Business Coaching Program at the University of Wollongong. He also spent 10 years working in the financial services industry after starting his career as a professional basketball coach.
Ty holds a BS in social sciences from the University of South Wales. He also holds a Master of Business Coaching, MBA, with honors, and PhD in leadership transitions from Sydney Business School at the University of Wollongong.
David Evans
Managing Partner
Watermark Search International
David Evans
David Evans
Managing Partner
Watermark Search International
As Managing Partner, David is responsible for the leadership, strategy and direction of Watermark Search International. Having been fortunate to be part of Asia Pacific’s fastest growing HR Outsourcing business, as well as the world’s largest HR Firm, David has considerable experience in Australia and overseas in growing and scaling businesses.
Whilst leading the firm, he also conducts executive searches and personally focuses on building and shaping leadership teams to grow businesses. Appointing CEOs and their direct reports typically in Private Equity backed businesses. David gets involved at due diligence stage assessing Leadership teams and their capacity to grow as well as conducting executive searches to identify the best global talent and supporting them throughout their journey.
David hosts Watermark's Agile Leadership Lessons podcast which focuses on the experience of current leaders to help them better achieve business and career goals.
Prior to his role at Watermark, David led the Sydney operation for a Global Search firm and earlier was on the Executive Leadership team for a Global HR Outsourcing business where he grew Technology, Outsourcing and Executive Search business. After the successful exit, David transitioned with the business to work for the world’s largest private HR firm with revenues of $12bn, based in Dubai; he was on the European Executive leadership team.
Carol Lewis
Director
Stanton Chase
Carol Lewis
Carol Lewis
Director
Stanton Chase
Carol Lewis has been involved in executive search and board appointments for over 20 years, working for a number of local and global organizations. Her clients include listed corporations, diversified conglomerates, private equity businesses, and multinationals with a presence in the Asia Pacific region. Carol is a passionate supporter of diverse working environments and has been instrumental in the placement of a number of Australia’s leading female executives. Prior to joining Stanton Chase, Carol was a Partner with global search firm Boyden and previously was Managing Director within the C-Suite & Board Practice at Allegis Partners. Before establishing a career in search, Carol held senior executive roles in professional services. She completed her business studies at the University of Melbourne. Carol has served on the Board of Women in Banking and Finance (WiBF) for 10 years. She is a member of the executive search working group of the 30% Club in Australia, and on the Advisory Council to the Foundation for Development Cooperation.
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