Events

From understanding iterative strategy, flexible IT architectures, rapid funding mechanisms, and carefully curated ecosystems of partners, we share lessons learned from working with executives and leaders at the edge. Maximus Directors are joined by special guest speakers Maria Digregorio, CFO, The Salvation Army, and Ayala Domani, GM Future Business, AGL, both of whom have significant experience leading successful transformations including technology, commercial and culture-based transformation agendas, and Dan Monheit, Co-Founder of Hardhat and Australia’s leading thinker on Behavioural Science, brand transformation and consumer behaviour.

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Along with the severe health and humanitarian crisis caused by the pandemic, executives around the world face enormous business challenges: the collapse of customer demand, significant regulatory modifications, supply chain interruptions, unemployment, economic recession, and increased uncertainty. And like the health and humanitarian sides of the crisis, the business side has been lunged into new ways of making decisions, in strategy, operating model, people and technology. Maximus Directors are joined by Amir Haramaty, Chief Commercial Officer at SparkBeyond,and Emma Hogan, Secretary of NSW Department of Customer Service, and to talk to the differentiators of 21st century leadership and the job to be done this year.

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After a year of unexpected lockdowns, working from home, and dwindling motivation, many leaders feel challenged by the prospect of fostering a growth mindset within their teams. Julie Trell, SheEO Australia Country Lead, joins Maximus Directors Mark Sowden and Shane Currey to review the year that was, the impact on morale and share leadership strategies that will turn what feels like the impossible into momentum.

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Purpose is the north star, the anchor, the stabiliser in a crisis that helps us confidently steer in new directions. Purpose connects us deeply to one another and something greater than ourselves. We believe that purpose is just the beginning. True leadership is measured in impact, and impact requires conviction. John Chambers (Exec GM Future Business and Technology at AGL Energy), and Tiffanie Ireland (Director of Two Point Co. Indigenous Engagement Consultancy), two extraordinary leaders who have overcome enormous challenges to live and breathe their purpose daily and transform their organisations and the world around them, join Maximus Directors James Keeler and Katherine Boiciuc for a fascinating exploration of purposeful leadership.

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As uncertainty reigns, the near future of the first-horizon occupies the minds and resources of leaders across industries. Yet it is the second-horizon, the medium-term, which will prove most challenging as leaders grapple with the impact this crisis will have over the coming years. In this livestream, Andrew Gardiner, Chief of Commercial Property, Melbourne Airport and Trudi Mares, Executive Director, Transport Shared Services, Corporate Services – Transport for NSW, join Maximus Directors Brent Duffy and Mark Sowden, and talk to how they navigated the past 12 months, the impact COVID has had on their industries, and their approach to planning for the second horizon.

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David Dzienciol, Chief Customer Officer & Chief Commercial Officer, NEXTDC, and Evan Thornley, Executive Chair, LongView. join Maximus Directors James Keeler and Katherine Boiciuc, to explore the capabilities which underpin organisations, enable senior leaders to navigate uncertainty and guide organisations with the power of foresight.

Visionary executives create energy by pulling the future forward and forging their own pathway to the future. Continuing our Black Swan series of livestream events, Maximus Directors Mark Sowden and James Keeler are joined by Charmaine England, Managing Director Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health ANZ, and, Chris Sullivan, Former Executive Group Director, Coca-Cola Amatil to the discuss the opportunity to refocus and mobilise energy across an organisation by connecting people with an enhanced purpose. A must as we continue an uncertain and asynchronous re-entry across the country.

Commencing our Black Swan series of events, Maximus Managing Directors discuss the criticality of purpose, conviction and culture as we navigate asynchronous re-entry across the country. Joined by guest speakers Alva Devoy, Managing Director at Fidelity Australia, Ben Pollack, CEO Urbis, and Amy Brown, Deputy Secretary, Strategy & Delivery for Department of Premier and Cabinet (NSW), our livestream lifts the hood of organisations, bringing truths and insight from the real world.

Concluding part 3 of our ‘Shaping our future post COVID-19’ series, we review the three leadership approaches that are currently playing out in market; protecting, progressing, or stuck in the in-between. Acknowledging the scale of disruption to strategic plans and horizons, Maximus Directors are joined by Founder and former Director of Flight Centre’s UK operation Mandy Johnson, and now author of two acclaimed books, Winning the War for Talent and Family Village Tribe – The Evolution of Flight Centre where they talk to the potency of developing and exercising foresight in the coming periods, and the criticality of a strong North Star to navigate.