The Emerging Leader Summit 2023

PART I

Strategic Leadership: cultivating strategic thinking, acting, and influencing for the next horizon

The more uncertain your environment, the greater the opportunity—if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it.

Strategic leadership at the middle management level is of paramount importance as it bridges the gap between high-level strategic goals and their practical implementation within an organization. Middle managers serve as a critical link between senior leadership and front-line employees, and their ability to provide effective strategic leadership can significantly impact an organization's success..

Join us as we explore the critical building blocks of strategic leadership. The summit will cover the following:

• Understand the pillars of strategic leadership: strategic thinking, acting, and influencing.
• Use a strategic framework to organize thinking and make decisions
• Qualities essential for strategic leaders and how to develop them
• Apply the best strategic thinking and communication practices to maximize your organizational impact.

PART II

The breakaway sessions are an integral part of TELS, which allows our delegates to explore real business simulations and challenge them to apply their learning to solve problems. The breakaway sessions will feature real-life case studies and panel discussions.

GOAL OF THE EMERGING LEADER SUMMIT (TELS)

The main objective of TELS is to help organizations develop the next generation of leaders who will be able to:

- Bridge the gap between senior management and frontline managers 

- Prepare emerging leaders for future leadership roles 

- Balance the scale between efficiency and effectiveness 

- Strategic thinking and effective problem solving

Featured Speaker's Profile

Naomi Chitambira (Organization Development Expert). Naomi has over ten years of organization development experience. She has worked in Southern Africa Region in various roles, including leadership development and coaching, change management, culture change, organizational strategy, succession planning, and consulting. She is well versed with a host of tools to identify organizational development needs, design high-impact leadership development programs, manage the implementation, and make changes to optimize business results. She is a Doctoral Candidate–Doctor of Strategic Leadership (Regent University, USA). Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership (Regent University, USA), Master of Business Administration (South Africa), Certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach, Erickson Certified Professional Coach, Member of the International Coach Federation. She is an author and speaker.

Panel Speaker: Jabulani Hlatshwayo - Learning & Development Specialist, Ubombo Sugar Ltd, Eswatini.

He is responsible for partnering with the business to develop a country-wide learning and development strategy plan linked to business performance needs and competence gap ensuring an end-to-end learning and development programs covering key business processes. He supports the development of competences for key jobs, talent pipeline, provides expert advice on learning approach and methodologies to enhance learning experience and optimal competence development. He is the Champion for Engaged Performance Management, Talent Management and Employee Career Conversations at Ubombo Sugar. Jabulani holds a Master’s in Business Leadership (UNISA), BSc in Agriculture (UNISWA), Diploma in Agriculture (UNISWA) and Risk Management Certificate (UNISA) He is currently studying Industrial and Organizational Psychology with UNISA.