Keynote Address...9:00am to 9:45 am

Presented By: Annabel Beerel, Ethical Leadership Consulting

What makes for effective leadership? Well, first of all leadership is about managing change. Change arrives by way of new realities, which continuously present themselves at our doorstep. Whether big and highly significant or small and less significant, new realities always imply some form of change, and we typically find change difficult to embrace.

Effective leadership is the ability to frame and communicate new realities, especially difficult ones, and mobilize others to respond to the changes they demand. Effective leadership is about holding people's feet to the fire around unpalatable realities and intervening when people try to defer or conjure up realities they would prefer to deal with. Effective leadership is getting others to see that they need to adapt to change and supporting them in the change process. And, effective leadership is about eliciting the learning required in the adaptive process.

This opening keynote presentation will help you become more adept at grasping the importance of new realities and how to turn yourself into a strategic agent of change.

Biography:

Annabel Beerel is the former Professor of Social Ethics at Southern New Hampshire University where she held the Christos and Mary Papoutsy Distinguished Chair in Ethics. Annabel earned her Ph.D. in Ethics at Boston University; she holds a Masters Degree in Theology from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Massachusetts, and an MBA from Cranfield University in England. Annabel is also a South African trained Chartered Accountant.

Annabel spans the two worlds of business and academia. Prior to coming to the United States she practiced as an accountant; worked in the City of London as a Corporate Financier and Investment Banker; and started and ran her own business in Artificial Intelligence for eight years. During that time she created an international distributorship for her organization’s products and services.

Over the past twelve years, Annabel has conducted classes and seminars in Leadership and Ethics to a variety of audiences ranging from undergraduates to adult learners to senior executives. She runs her own international consultancy practice. Annabel continues to travel extensively, and present at numerous conferences.

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