Skip to main content
Conference Keynote Onsite and Online

WOM2229. Opening Remarks | Stop Managing, Start Leading: Navigating The Future of Work Through Modern Leadership

In a recent survey by Fortune & Deloitte, nearly 60% of senior leaders said that attracting, recruiting, and retaining talent is among their organization’s biggest challenges. Beginning in mid-2021, "The Great Resignation" continues to the present day (with no sign of letting up); the pandemic led millions worldwide to a desire for more meaningful, more impactful, and purpose-driven work. Today's employees have a new "worth it" equation that values time, health, family, and purpose over work. And leaders relying on the old management playbook are increasingly hard-pressed to attract, engage, and retain top talent. In this dynamic keynote, Hamza Khan—the best-selling author of "The Burnout Gamble" and "Leadership, Reinvented"—will make the case that an organization's ability to thrive in the future of work depends on how its leaders treat their employees in the present. For how they treat their employees is how their employees will treat their clients. Leaders in attendance will be challenged to unlearn any counterproductive management practices acquired earlier in their careers. And they'll be encouraged to nurture a seemingly counterintuitive alternative: "modern leadership"—a human-centric, empathetic, self-disrupting, change-friendly, and values-driven approach to leading. It's the very same approach that enables leading companies to thrive even in chaos.


Learning Objectives:

  • Indicate the pitfalls of fear-based (punitive, avoidant, and maladaptive) leadership.
  • Recognize the business case for adopting a more human-centric approach to leading through change.
  • Identify how to operationalize & maximize four human-centric and change-friendly values: Servitude, Innovation, Diversity (& Inclusion), and Empathy.
Date/Time
CPE Credits
1.5
NASBA Field of Study
Personal Development
Level
Basic
Prerequisites
1-2 years in the profession
Advanced Preparation
None
Session Tags
Experienced Leader
Emerging Leader
Men in Leadership
Specialized Knowledge and Application