Swiping Left or Right on Leadership Development

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University of Auckland, Business School

A public presentation on leadership development with guest, Professor Hannes Leroy of the Rotterdam School of Management.

Decima Glenn Room, Level 3, Sir Owen G Glenn Building

About the eventThe Aotearoa Centre for Leadership and Governance invites you to a public presentation on leadership development with invited guest, Professor Hannes Leroy.Leadership development (LD) is a multibillion-dollar industry. For executives, it is one of the top priorities worldwide as the complexities and challenges of leadership continue to mount. However, LD suffers a lack of coherence, scaffolded by fast decisions, limited time, budgets and heuristics, that run contrary to the expected returns (swipe left).Moving from snake oil answers, and left swipes, this presentation presents seven key areas executives and leaders need to engage with (swipe right), in order to ensure their LD programs are developing leaders able to succeed within the complexity of today’s world.... Agenda5:00pm - Refreshments and networking6:00pm - Presentation commences7:00pm - Presentation concludes About the speakerHannes Leroy is Professor in Leadership Development at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University, Netherlands and a Distinguished Research Professor at Exeter Business School. As Academic Director of the Erasmus Center of Leadership, Leroy helps to oversee the quality of leadership development at different levels (undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, and executive education). As a steward of the League of Leadership initiative, he oversees an international consortium of top business schools worldwide with the mission of enhancing quality standards of leadership development. Aligned with these efforts, Leroy has published numerous studies on leadership and its development in top journals, has taught a wide variety of leadership classes, and is the principal coordinator of various leadership development curricula.He obtained his PhD in applied economics from the University of Leuven and has a Master in Psychology from Ghent University. He is interested in authentic leadership and how to develop it. That interest includes not only a passionate and critical view of the concept of authenticity, but his past work also includes a better understanding of its unique outcomes (e.g., safety, error hiding and work engagement), antecedents (e.g., mindfulness training), and similarities and differences from related concepts (i.e., leader behavioral integrity, leader communication transparency). On the development side he is passionate about authenticity both in terms of developing leaders to use their unique or authentic self as a source of their leadership strength as well as the idea of real (i.e., actually moving the needle) leadership development.