2021 Global Leadership Trends: Exploring I&D and Leader Burnout

Summary

Inclusion, women leaders, resilience, burnout, what does new data tell us about the current impact on leaders around the world? How has the pandemic affected leaders at your organization?

Join us for this exciting interactive virtual event that explores findings from DDI’s 2021 Global Leadership Forecast study. The largest research study of it’s kind around the world.

Hear from DDI’s CEO, Dr. Tacy Byham, as she discusses global leadership D&I challenges, and work with Mathieu Baril, Managing Director for DDI Canada, in breakout groups to discuss how you are managing and preventing the challenge of burnout with the leaders in your organization.

What you can expect:

1. Highly interactive social learning session
2. New leadership research data obtained before, and during COVID-19
3. Copy of the research reports
4. Practical tips and tools you can leverage today
5. Network with peers in breakout groups and learn from their experiences

Speakers

Tacy M. Byham, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer – DDI Canada

Tacy M. Byham, Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer of DDI. As CEO, Tacy has oversight of DDI’s finance, R&D, talent management initiatives, global sales, marketing, consulting practices, and HR. She has personally managed DDI’s strategic client relationships with Keurig Green Mountain, ADP, BNY Mellon and Texas Children’s Hospital. Since taking the helm of DDI in 2015, Tacy has established a new strategic direction cascading to aligned initiatives and metrics to drive business transformation to meet changing business dynamics.

Additionally, she has driven significant market-leading investments in technology integral to DDI’s transformation and innovations. During her more than 20 years at DDI, she has led numerous strategic initiatives, including the creation of DDI’s Executive Development Practice and award-winning frontline leader development programs. She also has developed DDI’s Women in Leadership focus with her “#LeadLikeAGirl” campaign. DDI’s industry-leading learning systems have helped our client organizations around the world develop more than 1 million leaders annually improving business metrics such as productivity, turnover, downtime, and safety with an ROI ranging from 147% to 633%.

Tacy believes that leadership should be treated as a valuable profession that requires deliberate preparation and support. “We don’t send a surgeon in to an operation unprepared, and we don’t send a pilot into the cockpit unprepared. Why would we put the company’s most valuable assets in the hands of the least prepared leaders? This starts with their first leadership job and comes from a focus on leadership as a life-long pursuit.” A nationally recognized speaker and author in the field of leadership, Tacy’s wisdom helps leaders survive and thrive during critical transitions and unleash their potential.

Her book, Your First Leadership Job: How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others , coauthored with Rich Wellins, has sold tens of thousands of copies and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, Portuguese and most recently Spanish. Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., The Conference Board Review, Chief Learning Officer, and TD Magazine have featured her articles on topics ranging from the arrival of unprepared leaders, innovation, managing from the middle, and how to be a leader at home.

A staunch supporter of women’s empowerment and gender equality, she has harnessed the power of DDI to champion diversity and inclusion with clients as a method to leverage the collective genius within their organizations. Most recently, her #LeadLikeAGirl speech was highlighted along with President Barack Obama’s keynote at ATD International Conference & Expo.

Mathieu Baril, Managing Director – DDI Canada

Mathieu oversees all DDI’s activities in Canada, from market and strategy alignment to how the firm services clients to enable their achievement of business and cultural objectives. He leads a multi-talented team of leadership strategists, consultants and project managers who provide both insights and practical means to sustainably grow leadership capabilities required to execute on strategy.

In consulting engagements, Mat works with senior executives to ensure strategic alignment at the onset of large projects, provides leadership program design and governance consulting, and advises senior stakeholders involved executive succession decisions. As an executive sponsor for client engagements, he supports, guides and helps remove any barriers to achieving desired outcomes for Canadian and international deployments.

He is a regular speaker at conferences across the country and events specializing in progressive leadership development practices and strategic talent management aligned to the business.

His diversified experience includes working with organizations from the energy, financial, manufacturing, mining, retail, public sector and pharmaceutical industries.