INSPIRING BOLD LEADERSHIP & CREATING ENGAGED EMPLOYEES

Employees in a healthy cultures thrive. These cultures are created and passed down, inherited by the next generation of employees. The strongest leaders know to focus on a long-term strategy with an emphasis on corporate culture health for future generations to sustain.

For decades Dima Ghawi worked with Fortune 20 corporations and diverse teams around the world. Through her work in 19 countries with IBM in Leadership Training and Development, she gained critical insights into leading across global teams. She recognized that bold leadership, employee engagement, and DEI were not only inextricably linked, but they were also important across cultures.

Her experience has given her deep insights in how to be an effective leader in the global age:

• START WITH TRUST TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS: Trust is the basis for nearly all healthy relationships, and getting it starts with giving it.

• HIGHLIGHT SIMILARITIES: It’s easy to focus on cultural differences, but leaders must understand their team and pay attention to universal similarities.

• BE ADAPTABLE: Leaders must be able to adapt quickly to their team’s cultures and find what they value.

Audiences will learn:

• The wisest leaders recognize that corporate culture is learned and passed down to the next group of employees.

• The strongest leaders prioritize healthy employer/employee connection, and healthy, connected cultures produce connected, engaged employees.

• That inspired, courageous leadership involves assuming the responsibility of modeling and teaching healthy culture to create their organization’s next generation.

Key attendee takeaways:

• Disconnected employees diminish productivity and innovation, and this disconnection can be a significant factor in their leaving an organization – or worse yet, staying.

• Incorporating long-term strategies for the next generation of employees to adopt healthy culture is critical for sustained growth

• Creating a shared confidence in the future and a culture of belonging, connection, and inclusion are key to employee engagement