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Exemplary Leadership: Vision and the Art of Seeing - Toronto

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PROFILE Master Degrees
EVENT TYPE Conferences
EVENT FORMAT Face to Face events
DATE 21st February 2019
TIME 18:30 - 21:00 (GMT -04:00)
LANGUAGE English
Exemplary Leadership: Vision and the Art of Seeing - Toronto

Master Class:  Exemplary Leadership: Vision and the Art of Seeing

In this master class, we focus on the essential leadership practice of developing and communicating a vision for an organization. We compare the vision of great artists to those of change-making business leaders who inspire us to view the world in new ways and to bring these views to life. We consider how these visionaries show the pathways and processes for becoming creative and innovative leaders who will shape change in the 21st century.

A few of the most influential business visionaries of our time, including Jack Ma of Alibaba, Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post, Travis Kalanick and Dara Khosrowshahi of Uber, and Elon Musk of Tesla, have created unique, driving images of what a company can imagine and implement to create maximum impact. As these organizations grow from start-up to global change-makers, their vision of themselves and the world shows continuous adaptation and innovation. What can we learn from them and integrate into our own unique leadership practice?

 

 

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

Sandra Comas teaches Leadership and Creativity at IE Business School and recently enjoyed a year as Visiting Scholar at Brown University. Professor Comas has taught at Yale, Stanford, the City University of New York, Singapore Management University, and IE Business School. She is a consultant in Leadership Practices, and has worked with several organizations, including IPG Mediabrands, Gotham Asset Management, Buhler, Digital Energy and Konstantine’s. Currently she is writing a book on exemplary leadership practices in history, business, and the arts.

Dr. Comas organized an event held in the Canary Islands to mark and reconsider the 525th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America. Recently she gave a TEDx talk at the Universidad de Navarra on Leonardo and the Artists: Leadership Lessons.

Professor Comas has delivered lectures at numerous conferences and educational institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, Brown University, Michigan State University, the University of Arizona, UCLA, American University, Universidad de la Laguna, and Yale. For ten years she specialized in finance, managing $1 billion in portfolios for TIAA-CREF and working in client relations at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. While working in the financial services industry, Dr. Comas became interested in joining the insights of the humanities with the real-life opportunities for great leadership and creativity in our professional worlds.

 

Our speakers

Teaches Leadership and Creativity at IE Business School

She has taught at Yale, Stanford, the City University of New York, Singapore Management University, and IE Business School. She is a consultant in Leadership Practices, and has worked with several organizations, including IPG Mediabrands, Gotham Asset Management, Buhler, Digital Energy and Konstantine’s. Currently she is writing a book on exemplary leadership practices in history, business, and the arts.