When care is limited, leadership is a license to kill. Engineers know this in all we plan, design, build and maintain. We manage and lead people amid complexity to work together artfully to make things happen. We integrate multiple disciplines into a coherent whole. We make trade-offs across outcomes and resources. We evolve designs and build sustainable solutions. We are quiet achievers in a noisy world.

How then can we help people think and act differently through compounding crises knowing we also need to prepare for the next? How much of the way we think and act is transferable to the social context? Might we elevate our profession to help other managers and leaders shape society with the same care we display to our engineering? It’s a question for our time. If we stay quietly achieving while a world ‘snaps-back’, might our legacy contribution be a missed opportunity?

Dr Richard Hodge will explore these questions during his presentation to draw propositions to open discussion in the second half of proceedings.

Speaker: Dr Richard Hodge

Director, Dr Richard Hodge.com Pty Ltd | This Century Leadership

Richard is an expert in viable system design with a focus on sustainability. He has extensive experience across public, private and academic sectors as a consultant, general manager and company director. Richard advances new thinking for complex enterprises. He works at the enterprise, portfolio and program levels to design and deliver systemic interventions to improve outcome delivery, collaboration and interdependence across programs and their related work domains. Richard holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Approaches to Strategy & Execution (UniSA), a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies (ANU) and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics & Linguistics (Adel). He is a member of SESA, a member of the INCOSE Social Systems Working Group, and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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