Leadership Transformation for an Emerging New Era:

Rethinking leadership to drive creative and innovative organisational and digital transformation in an AI-driven digital, climate change and sustainability era.

Dates: May 15th – 16th , 2024

Venue: Virtual (online)

The 2nd Annual Conference will be jointly hosted by the School of Leadership and Management at Arden University and Northampton International Business School, University of Northampton. The conference will run virtually (online) over two days under the above theme.

Aims of the Conference:

Specifically, the conference aims to:

1. Provoke an introspection into the current state of affairs in corporate leadership in the context of AI and digital technologies amidst global crises.
2. Inspire constructive debate and develop practical strategies to transform leadership approaches as an enabler for holistic organisational and digital transformation.
3. Explore how leaders can leverage AI and digital technologies to deliver the requisite skills to shape the future of work and navigate the transition.
4. Unravel/probe the perceived relationship between inclusion, sustainability and growth (Madgavkar et al., 2023) to develop holistic and scalable frameworks for seeking and exploiting opportunities for building partnerships between MNCs, Public Companies and SMEs to optimise inclusive growth outcomes for society.

Conference Themes:

1. Harnessing Digital Strategies in Strategic Management and Leadership
2. Developing scalable, sustainable strategies in the digital age to address climate change and drive sustainability and inclusive growth ethos.
3. Partnerships, Students and SMEs as agents for Digital transformation.
4. Circular economy: Is it the panacea to current global crises?

Acceptable Formats of delivery:

• Case Study/research presentations (20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&As)
• Digital Pre-record (asynchronous)
• Interactive Workshops (30 minutes up to 1 hour)
• Posters
• Discussion Panel (30 minutes)
• Pecha Kucha (TBC)

Registration via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/kahgEuEFwq

Key Dates and Deadlines:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: Please submit to [email protected]: 31 st March 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: 14th April 2024
• Paper Presentation/Poster submission: 12th May 2024
• Full Paper/Extended Abstract Submission for Proceedings: 15th August 2024