New Leadership in the Financial Sector

The course will stimulate the participants to take the step from management to leadership in their own organisations based on a well-considered set of values and a conscious balancing of interests and loyalties. Prominent lecturers from the worlds of science and business will contribute to this course. The modules offer the participants a framework for their positioning in complex dilemmas that, by definition, require weighing up interests. In this course, rules will be considered instruments rather than purposes in themselves. The emphasis will be on principles, not on rules.

The participant will learn to think from varying paradigms and he will sharpen his ability to view situations and his own position from the balcony. The course will primarily focus on the ethical perspective, but sociology, psychology and the economic sciences are also fertile paradigms for deepening and broadening. Every module will leave time for dialogue in which the connection will be made to everyday practice in organisations.

Insights after the Course

The need of executives to come to a kind of leadership that has a direct link to the current shifts in the financial sector but also does justice to the personal authenticity is great. Comenius does not offer ready-made answers but, more than anything else, will offer a learning context in which the ethical compass will be sharpened. It also will further develop the capacity to make responsible choices in unstructured situations. The participant will learn to reflect on the basis of implicitly personal values as well as on the standards used within the work context.

Practical information

Duration
6 x 2 consecutive days, spread out over 11 months

Start
2 x per year
The autumn edition will start on 1 December 2011

Locations
Centrally in the Netherlands

Admission
Based on a mutual exploratory conversation.

Groep
A maximum of 16 participants 

Participant’s profile

The course is intended for experienced directors and people with end responsibility who are working in the financial sector or who are responsible for the financial policy within their organisations. They are able to work and think at academic level, and are aged from forty upwards. We will strive to achieve a balanced distribution of the participants coming from different target groups (banks, insurances, asset management, consultancy, accountancy, pensions, and people with end responsibility in financial matters).

Lecturers

Lecturers collaborating in the course 'New Leadership in the Financial Sector'

include:

• Drs. George Möller (former CEO Robeco Group);
• Prof.Dr. Andreas Kinneging (University of Leyden);
• Prof.Dr. Jan Verplaetse (University of Gand);
• Prof.Dr. Martin van Hees (University of Groningen);
• Prof.Dr. Harry Garretsen (University of Groningen);
• Prof.Dr. Janka Stoker (University of Groningen);
• Dr. Donald Kalff (CEO Impact). 

Programme & procedure

The programme consists of six connected modules of two days each, that will deal with the following topics:

• Ethics and value development;
• Rationality of markets and businesses;
• Leadership and power;
• The customer’s interests;
• An organisation with integrity;
• Personal freedom and morality.

The course will offer an insight into the latest scientific views and will also deal with the practical consequences and dilemmas when these views are applied in an organisation by managers. Every module will include space for an actual case. The evening programme will leave room to enter into a dialogue with prominent managers from the financial sector.