Leading for Longevity : The Board’s Role in Driving Innovation

In today’s fast-paced business environment, incremental improvements are no longer enough. Organisations must think boldly and embrace innovation to remain competitive and resilient. This session will highlight major global trends including artificial intelligence, digital transformation and sustainability—and their growing influence across industries.

Rather than a hands-on workshop, this session will offer a focused sharing by the speaker, drawing from personal experience in implementing innovation strategies, along with reflections on leadership styles such as transformational and servant leadership that effectively foster innovation.

A key emphasis will be placed on the role of workforce dynamics, particularly how diversity and generational shifts shape innovation culture. Participants will gain insights into creating work environments that support curiosity, collaboration and creativity.

By the end of the session, participants will walk away with thought-provoking perspectives and practical takeaways to begin cultivating an innovation-driven culture within their organisations.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Highlighting the urgency of innovation for organisational survival and growth.
• Recognise how innovative practices from lesson learned from industry
• Identify simple yet effective innovation process to improve service delivery.