Seminar 3 - Developing Leaders for Innovation and Change

SEMINAR 3:

SEMINAR NAME	Developing Leaders for Innovation and Change
DATE	11 June, 2013
VENUE	Lancaster University, Lancaster
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS	John Burgogyne, Lancaster University Business School John Bessant, University of Exeter Business School
PRESENTERS	Sue Smith, Lancaster University Business School Allan Macpherson, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse Nick Theodorakopoulos, Aston Business School, Aston University Jean-Anne Stewart, Henley Business School, University of Reading
DESCRIPTION	Building new leadership and management talents has been defined as a particular challenge for MSBs (CBI, 2011). The purpose of this seminar is to assess what literature and practice suggest to be the defining characteristics of leaders within MSBs in dealing with the multi-level dynamics suggested above. Amongst the questions to be explored is the role of leaders in fostering ‘developmental readiness’ across the organization, and concrete steps that leaders might take for fostering knowledge creation and dissemination such that day-to-day innovation is part of organizational functioning (Hannah & Lester, 2009). Implications for leadership development will be discussed and we expect debate to centre on best practice examples drawn from high-performing MSBs.