Carole Knight

White Rock Leadership Dynamics

Across the globe the emergence of revolutionary change such as shrinking global boundaries and resources, market demands, high customer expectations and an often volatile economic climate, is impacting on companies with regard to their technologies, operations, markets, demographics, principles, policies and values, making the job of the 21st Century business executive daily more challenging.

As organisations begin to experience these emerging realities it is imperative to predict, understand and manage them in order to maintain corporate success.

White Rock Leadership Dynamics specialises in the development of organisational leadership capability by providing business executives with a knowledge ecosystem that spans an exceptionally wide field of information about the complex world of today and tomorrow; enabling these executives to augment conventional business skills with broad-based general thinking in order to operate within an expanded field of awareness and knowledge, maximising opportunities and avoiding risks.

The expected outcome for participants is a significantly enhanced knowledge base and leadership capability that will contribute positively towards the translation of vision into strategy. The expected benefit for companies is significantly enhanced intellectual and human capital that will contribute positively towards the strength and success of the organisation.

“Versatility in management requires more than knowledge alone. It involves a broader humanity”.
Dr Anton Rupert

“Too many of the problems in societies today stem, in part, from leadership that is ill-prepared to deal with present complexity”.
Dr Jean Houston

Course Leaders:

Carole Knight

Carole Knight is a futurist, author, speaker and trainer who is exceptionally well placed to help companies be on target for the 21st Century. As a specialist in emerging trends and sustainability issues her expertise and knowledge base are constantly being expanded and refined through exposure to world-class thought leadership such as that gained through attendance at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable and the Diversitas 2nd Open Science Conference, both international events.

Professor Derrick Dickens

Professor Derrick Dickens is a Past Board Member of the World Federation of Advertisers and the South African Research Foundation, as well as being a Past Chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He has also served on various committees of the Advertising Standards Association.

As Deputy MD of BBDO Auto, Market Development Manager of TOTAL, Executive Director of the Association of Marketers and visiting Professor of Marketing at the University of the Witwatersrand, Derrick has unsurpassed experience in Management, Marketing, Advertising, Product Launches And Sponsorships. From a practical perspective he has organised many important events such as major motor rallies and the prestigious annual Loerie Advertising and Protea Awards, to name just a few. He lectures nationally and internationally on various aspects of Marketing. When time permits he pursues his hobby of aviation art.

Gareth Knight

Recently voted one of the most influential young men in South Africa by GQ magazine, Gareth Knight is a consultant, digital maven, entrepreneur, and open source evangelist. Educated as a zoologist, he is a veteran of two dot com crashes, one web 2.0 acquisition and currently runs Technovated, dividing his time between offices in London and Johannesburg. Previously, Gareth served in London as Director of Product Management for MyHeritage.com, a global family genealogy company based in Tel Aviv.

Before joining MyHeritage, Gareth landed seed funding from London’s top early stage investors to co-found Kindo.com, a global family social network with an international team spread around the world. He then led the Product team in London to roll out a localised version of Kindo in 17 languages within 6 months, as well as an aggressive search engine campaign, both of which resulted in users from circa 220 countries and an enviable growth rate. Kindo was voted one of the top 3 most promising Internet companies in the UK for 2008, and was later acquired by MyHeritage in August of that year.

Gareth is organising a web and emerging tech conference, the Tech4Africa Conference, which will bring global experience and perspective to the African continent.

Comments:

“Thank you once again for the wonderful workshop yesterday. There has been a buzz of positive comments from the team. The time and effort that goes into preparing and conducting a workshop of this nature must be huge - thank you so much!”

Nicole Lissner-deVries
Special Projects Manager
Independent Newspapers

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