Episode 15 - Correlation Between Emerging Market Leadership Skills and Post-covid Leadership Requirements with William Lumentut
Empathy, agility, and humility are all soft skills that have been highlighted several times over the past weeks across multiple of our podcast episodes. A question often asked by our clients is ‘Where can we find this type of talent?’It is the right time to think about the talent readiness to face and embrace this unpredictable storm. Restructuring alone might not be the answer with the new reality, as companies ought to consider how mentally agile, diverse and ready their organisations and leadership teams are for the unknown future. Hence today we have chosen to deep dive into the correlation between emerging market leadership skills and post-covid leadership requirements as there is argument to say there are many synergies to explore. Why could emerging markets offer us an interesting talent pool? What are some of the skillsets we are referring to? How can companies take a progressive approach to ensure they can increase their cognitive diversity levels by looking at emerging market talent and subsequently reduce blind spots?Today’s guest speaker is William Lumentut, a seasoned emerging market leader who was born in Indonesia and has lived in Asia, Africa and Europe. William has more than 20 years of commercial and leadership experience across different industries including working experience at P&G, Danone and Novartis.