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C-19 Innovation and Leadership Webinar Series: Communication Innovation and Leadership

Dates
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 09:00 to 10:00
Location
Online
Contact
OUBS Events Team

The Open University Business School (OUBS) has partnered with The Whole Thing Group to bring you a series of panel discussions with a select group of leading, international board level executive leaders that are faced with steering their business through the C-19 pandemic.

This is a unique opportunity for you to hear the experiences and lessons learnt by expert leaders and directors of change. Each panel will discuss one of our four business critical themes affected by this crisis: Business; Communication; Finance and Social innovation and leadership.

This webinar series will be broadcast live at the following UK times and dates:

  • 9am - 10am Wed, 3 June 2020 – Business Innovation and Leadership
  • 9am - 10am Wed, 17 June 2020 – Communication Innovation and Leadership
  • 9am - 10am Wed, 1 July 2020 – Finance Innovation and Leadership
  • 9am - 10am Wed, 15 July 2020 – Social Innovation and Leadership

Each session will run for up to 1 hour with a Q&A session at the end.

Co-hosted by

Professor J. George Frynas

Professor of Strategic Management at OUBS. George has been published extensively on topics in CSR, strategic management and international business, and is author and co-author of 4 books and over 40 academic articles. He is the Communications Associate Editor of the prestigious British Journal of Management and the International Journal of Management Reviews.

Simon Wallace

Simon is the founder and managing director of The Whole Thing Group and passionate about performance improvement. An MBA graduate of The Open University, he is a creative entrepreneur and trusted advisor to some great companies that are achieving great things.

Webinar 2 - Communication Innovation and Leadership, 17 June 2020

Guest Panellists

Lianne Braganza D’Sylva 

Lianne is Chief Marketing Officer at Cigna Insurance Middle East.

Experienced Leader with over 20 years of Marketing Communication expertise. Demonstrated history of working in the health, wellness and insurance industry with previous senior marketing and communication roles in retail and hospitality sectors. Skilled in Marketing Management, Business Planning, Integrated Marketing, Digital Strategy and Reputation Management.

Kate Pain

Kate is Associate Director, Digital Strategy and Capabilities, at Astellas Europe.

Over 24 years in communication roles across established markets region, such as Europe, Canada and Australia. Last 13 years in both client and agency side within pharma for, and in partnership with large management consultancies as well as emerging start-ups. Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Kate was a journalist for Time Inc, the Independent and BBC. She studied at the University of Sussex and the University of North Carolina, US, and has an MBA, Distinction, from the Open University. Kate embraces digital as a disruptor and is passionate about providing more convenient and seamless solutions for healthcare professionals and patients

Sara Roberts

Sara is the founder and CEO at Healthy Nibbles.

Sara founded Healthy Nibbles as a solutions led business delivering nutritional wellbeing within workplace and communities, through tech enabled healthy vending, unmanned retail, data & analytics and services. Prior to Healthy Nibbles, Sara founded a brand and innovation consultancy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sara sits on both the Global Nourishment Advisory Board and Covid-19 Taskforce led by the International WELL Building Institute, and she also acts as an Ambassador for Women’s Enterprise Scotland and is one of EY’s European Winning Women.

Register for this webinar by visiting the registration page hosted by The Whole Thing Group. Please note that clicking the button will open their website in a new window.

Watch webinar 2 on YouTube

Please note: All of the webinars listed above will be recorded and made available to view after the event on our YouTube playlist.

Partners

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The Open University Business School (OUBS)

The Open University has been a pioneer in flexible distance-learning for over 50 years. Founded in 1983, OUBS delivers transformational, high quality business and management education.

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The Whole Thing Group

Simplified focus on better performance, better lives for over 10 years. The Whole Thing Group provides global leadership, executive search and talent consulting services.