Webinar: Leadership Styles and How They Can Be Applied in Times of Stress and Conflict

April 28, 2021

Note: This webinar has been completed and if you would like to watch recording CLICK HERE.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

This webinar is hosted by the Myanmar Institute of Directors (MIoD) with kind sponsorship from Othrys, a strategic security and advisory business. Presenter Mr. John Taylor will speak about leadership styles and how they can be applied in times of stress and conflict. He will review the trend among many authorities on the subject who are now promoting humility rather than charisma as the essential mindset of a leader in business or government.

Who Should Attend

Board and senior management level members of the MIoD. This is a members-only event.

*Please register by 28^th April 2021 (12:00 pm).

SPEAKERS

	John Taylor worked in the British Foreign Office for 30 years before setting up his own training business. He has provided leadership and management training to corporates and governments all over the world. John has also coached CEOs and senior officials in strategy and communication skills. He is now an associate with Othrys, an ethical security company based in the UK. He has recently been appointed as a senior research fellow at Kings College London in the Department of War Studies. He has co-authored four books and several academic papers including ‘Bad Apples, Identify, Prevent and Manage Negative Behaviour at Work” and “Revealed, Using Remote Personality Profiling to Influence, Negotiate and Motivate”.
	Nick Watson is Director Networks for Othrys Ltd.  He is a former senior British diplomat and Arabic-speaker who served in a range of Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan and Egypt. More recently, Nick spent nine years as a partner at Hakluyt, a network-based advisory business, including three years in Tokyo working with leading Japanese companies and three years running the firm’s Middle East business.  Nick’s career in both the public and private sectors has been based around the development, structuring and leveraging of professional networks as a basis for providing high quality insight, advice and judgement to senior decision-makers. He has recently founded a company that takes a network-based approach to providing impartial, expert advice on technology innovation and its protection. Other areas of interest include Middle East advisory, coaching and mentoring, education and cross-cultural communication. He also sits on the Council of the University of Sussex, its governing body and on the Advisory Council of UC Berkeley’s AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship and Development.
	Thiri Thant Mon is the CEO of the Myanmar Institute of Directors and the Managing Partner of Pegu Partners.  She has over 20 years of experience in the US, UK and Myanmar, including as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and the member of the senior management team at Yoma Strategic Holdings in Myanmar.  She is a board member of Dawn Microfinance Myanmar and a trustee for Turquoise Mountain Foundation.  She holds a BA in Economics from William & Mary, an MBA from the London Business School and a Director Certification Diploma from the Thai Institute of Directors.