Webinar
Business owners, employees and stakeholders within Australia’s Food and Agribusiness sector are invited to attend our Leadership webinar focussing on adapting to change and how to deal with uncertainty in the business environment.
With presentations from a panel of Leadership experts and real-world business examples, the webinar will provide participants with a suite of tools to assist in decision-making along with techniques to navigate through uncertain and complex business environments.
Topics and Outcomes
- The impact of change on the brain – Silvia Damiano from About my Brain Institute
- Dealing with uncertainty – Dr Allan O’Connor from the University of South Australia - Centre for Enterprise Dynamics in Global Economies
- Rethinking the way you think – Jesús Miguel Fernández and Anastasiya Loukienko from VIA Co
- Interviews with: Anita Evans from Five Ducks Farms and Karen Lavecky from Land of Plenty
Key outcomes for participants:
- Understanding how change impacts people physically and neurologically and how change needs to be managed
- Gain principles for making decisions in an uncertain and complex business and social environment
Presenters
Silvia Damiano
About my Brain Institute
Silvia Damiano founded the About my Brain Institute in 2009, with the purpose of democratising leadership & neuroscience to shake up how we develop ‘the human’, ‘the leader’ and ‘the creative’ we all carry within. She has a passionately held belief, that leaders in our global innovation economy and their organisations must radically change long-held ideas of what constitutes effective leadership.
From Australia to the world, Silvia has presented to thousands of audiences, both as a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. Working in different countries and across many industries, Silvia has helped teams and organisations improve business performance. Silvia’s clients have described her as a passionate, dynamic, a highly experienced speaker and master facilitator on the topics of Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Change, Neuroleadership and Engagement.
Dr Allan O'Connor
University of South Australia
Dr Allan O’Connor is Associate Professor Enterprise Dynamics and Co-Executive Director of the Centre for Enterprise Dynamics in Global Economies at the University of South Australia. With engineering and business qualifications, his early career involved Business Development roles with SMEs, including his own ventures.
In 2003, Allan commenced his academic career to pursue research that informs entrepreneurs, management, policymakers, and regional development agencies on how to identify opportunities that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. Allan has led several funded projects including establishment of the Australian Cluster Observatory in 2014, has published more than 50 international manuscripts on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and has been recognised as Australia’s leading researcher in innovation and entrepreneurship by the Australian newspaper in 2020 and 2021.
Jesús Miguel Fernández and Anastasiya Loukienko
VIA Co
Anastasiya Loukienko and Jesús Miguel Fernández have vast experience in business, leadership, people and culture. They’ve worked with up-and-coming startups (including Eucalyptus, Flare, Zip Co), Australian success stories (including Atlassian and Canva), all the way to mega-successful Fortune 500 companies (Google, Cisco, Baxter, and Woolworths).
More importantly, both have spent many years studying the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and physics. They discovered that the latest research in all of these fields, when applied to the art of leadership, is a game-changer. They were inspired to create VIA Co to spearhead the next wave of innovation in the field of executive decision making.
Host
Dr Barry McGookin
FIAL General Manager Innovation
Barry is an innovation manager with 30yrs in the food manufacturing industry and has held senior technical, innovation and commercial leadership roles in companies with key food manufacturing companies in Australia. An inventor by nature, Barry has created new products & processes for domestic, Foodservice and export markets, while leading innovation culture development within companies. While a member of a range of national advisory teams, Barry is now leading initiatives to strengthen the Australian innovation culture and capability to help companies find increased success both domestically and overseas and better connect the Australian research and manufacturing sectors.
Barry is an innovation manager with 30yrs in the food manufacturing industry and has held senior technical, innovation and commercial leadership roles in companies with key food manufacturing companies in Australia. An inventor by nature, Barry has created new products & processes for domestic, Foodservice and export markets, while leading innovation culture development within companies. While a member of a range of national advisory teams, Barry is now leading initiatives to strengthen the Australian innovation culture and capability to help companies find increased success both domestically and overseas and better connect the Australian research and manufacturing sectors.
Terms and Conditions
- FIAL reserves the right to cancel/change the event itself and/or speakers, guests, agendas, presenters without prior notice.
- Ticket cancellation must be communicated to FIAL in writing no less than 24 hours prior to the event. Cancellations made within the 24-hour period prior to the event will not be eligible for a full refund.
Disclaimer
- Food Innovation Australia Ltd (ABN 50 164 124 609) (‘FIAL’) makes no representation, warranty or guarantee, that participating will result in any specific outcomes;
- Items outlined in promotional material or descriptions may without notice change or be cancelled; and
- FIAL is not liable in any way arising from your participation. You must rely on your own independent expert advice.
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