What makes for sustained (and guilt-free) executive success through disruptive and ambiguous times?

Members’ Drinks with the author of The Agile Executive

Today’s business leaders face the daunting task of leading others through turbulent times.

Leadership and management expert, Dr Marianne Broadbent will lead a discussion about how today’s executives can develop the mental agility to do this by following non-linear career paths, drawing on their passions, gaining insights from others, and accepting that there are always trade-offs in what they do. Drawing on her own eclectic career she will also address the question of how leaders can help build agility in others.

Describing herself as a “guilt-free female executive”, Dr Marianne Broadbent has had a wide-ranging career. She is currently a Managing Partner and co-owner of NGS Global, an international leadership advisory, board and executive search business and a Founding Partner of Arbiter Leadership Technologies, the developer and repository of the consulting approaches and tools used in the NGS Global Leadership Acuity Practice. Prior to joining NGS, she was a global Group Vice-President and then a Senior Vice-President of the US-headquartered, NYSE-listed professional services firm, Gartner Inc. She is currently a board member of The Conversation Media Group. She was a Finalist in the Telstra Business Women of the Year and is a mentor for women and men, as well as for organisations

Marianne has held a Chair of Management, been Associate Dean and led the Senior Executive MBA at the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School. She is a Distinguished Academic Fellow of MBS and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She also co-founded the Australian chapter of the international engaged-philanthropy group, Social Venture Partners. Marianne’s third book is “The Agile Executive: Embracing Career Risks and Rewards” published by Melbourne books.