Dr Robert Kay Travels from NSW
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Dr Robert Kay's Biography
Dr
Robert Kay is a Co-founder and Executive Director of Incept Labs. He is also an
Adjunct Professor with the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance at
Macquarie University. Robert is interested in the interaction between
industry and academia and has been an active researcher and analyst looking at
issues such as leadership, resilience and innovation.
With a
career that has continuously moved between industry and academia, he was
formerly the Head of Strategic Innovation at Westpac Banking Corporation; a
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Organisational Development at UTS,
and a Research Analyst for Bovis Lend Lease.
Over
the last couple of years Robert has been commissioned to undertake multiple
studies of senior leaders from Australia's top organisations. These include a
study on CEO perspectives of organisational resilience, a world first
comparison between public and private sector leaders in relation to innovation,
and interviews with 100 Chairman on the relationship between governance and
organisational performance.
Combining
these studies have given Robert a unique perspective on the way in which
leaders think about the survival and resilience of their organisations and what
is needed to overcome the challenges of innovation and change for the future.
Robert is a sought after speaker where he received
the highest evaluation of any speaker in the last 10 years. His presentations
use an innovative combination of video and storytelling to illustrate complex
ideas in simple and practical ways.
Robert
has a first class honours in curriculum development and worldview change,
whilst his PhD involved the application of biological systems theory to
improving learning and resilience in organisations.
Speaking Topics Include
How to Innovate in a Large Mature Organisation
Innovating in a mature
organisation presents managers with a unique challenge. This presentation what
can be done when more of the same is not enough.
Engaging Stakeholders in the Change Process
Stakeholder engagement
requires much more than simply asking what they think, it requires knowing what
they think and building a strategy that's compatible with that.
Managing Strategic Risks
As the
world gets more uncertain, our old modes of dealing with risk continue to show
their shortcomings. This New uncertainty requires new tools and ways of
thinking to maintain organisational
resilience. This presentation provides a framework for dealing with the 'New
Uncertainty'
Decision Making for Growth
Why is
it so difficult for decision-making groups to pursue growth opportunities and
innovate? This presentation takes the audience on a journey through sociology,
psychology and neuroscience to explain why groups struggle to pursue new
opportunities and how they can overcome these challenges.
CEO Perspectives on Organisational
Resilience
This
presentation reports on the results of research with 51 CEOs from both private
and public sector organisations (including three of the top 10 ASX listed
organisations in Australia), on the factors that drive organisational
resilience. The most important of these is trust. The presentation involves
stories from the Gulf war and the massacre in Norway to take the audience on a
journey that powerfully illustrates the ways in which trust is created and
destroyed in modern organisations.
CEO Perspectives on Innovation
What
does a CEO mean when they say they want to innovate? This presentation reports
on world first research that provides a direct comparison between styles of
innovation in the private and public sectors. Twenty-five private sector CEOs
and 18 Commonwealth Departmental Secretaries were interviewed. The presentation
involves different stories of public and private sector innovation to
illustrate the difference between the two contexts and the factors that lead to
success.