Professor Christopher Abraham

CEO & Head – Dubai Campus,
Sr. Vice President – Institutional Development at S P Jain School of Global Management
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Professor with 3 Masters and a PhD. Certified Design Thinker with 33 years’ experience in management consulting, and management education. Currently he is the CEO – Dubai campus at the S P Jain School of Global Management, a Top 10 ranked business School.

Prof. Abraham has been a visiting Professor at universities in Australia, USA, Canada, Singapore and UK. A TEDx and keynote speaker, he has done assignments for The World Bank, The Executive Council, Emirates Airlines, SEWA, Aramex, DHL, P & G, LG, etc.

Twice Awarded “Best CEO in the World” and Twice winner of the Education Leadership Award

Regularly Interviewed in CNBC, Dubai Eye, Dubai TV etc. Global Advisory Board Member – World CMO Council (Council of Chief Marketing Officers)

His areas of competence are Strategy, Innovation, Future Studies, Neuroscience of Decision Making, Positive Organizational Behavior, Design Thinking and the Science of Happiness.

Speech:
1st Day – October 21st
Procurement in VUCA World

• The current state of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity)
• How Digital Transformation is influencing the VUCA World
• How Digital Transformation in VUCA World is transforming businesses and its varied functions across the world
• How these disruptions are also affecting the procurement function?
• Providing a new prospective on VUCA (Vision, Understanding, Clarity and Agility)

Maciej Trybulec

Partner, Talent Center President of Sanofi Pasteur (2011- 2019)
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An expert with over 27 years of experience gained at work in large pharmaceutical corporations. For the last 8 years, President Sanofi Pasteur, including 2 years, when he was also responsible for Ukraine. His special interests concern the challenges posed to leaders in the VUCA era, developing leadership skills that can cope with the times of “permanent change” in which we live. He introduced in his organization a “turquoise” way of functioning, which focused primarily on the development of its employees, achieving at the same time excellent business results. A member of Sanofi’s strategic project Global Leadership.

For 5 years he has been a coach and mentor of Polish and foreign managers. He conducts trainings on leadership in times of change, strategy building, team motivation, art of presentation.

He is a member of the Association of Professional Speakers, an expert in the ThinkTank Council, and a Digital University speaker. He is also a member of an international group that is working on the idea of effective communication. The leader of the “Pole of Excellence” project, which includes the development of managers from 17 European countries.

Founder of Boehringer Ingelheim Business Academy. The originator and founder of the Marketing Excellence Club. Founder and president of the Santo Subito Association. A graduate of the Krakow Medical Academy. Scholarship holder from Wiliam Harvey Institute, London, UK. PhD student at Univeristy University in Philadelphia, USA, where he wrote his doctoral thesis.

Speech:
1st Day – October 21st
The transformation of leader in VUCA times

• VUCA: what is life like at the verg of the next civilization breakthrough
• Which challenges of the modern world must a leader face
• What to do to be an effective leader in this “new normality”, effectively lead your teams and keep your life balance