ILO Executive and Strategic Programme Turin, 12-16 January 2020

Speakers (in order of appearance)

Elisabeth Kelan Elisabeth Kelan, PhD, is a of Leadership and Organisation at Essex Business School, . Her research focuses on women in leadership, men as change agents for gender equality, generations at work, and diversity and inclusion. She has published two books (Rising Stars - Developing Millennial Women as Leaders and Performing Gender) and numerous peer-reviewed articles in academic journals. She won various awards for her research and the Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch. Her research is regularly discussed in the media.

She sits on the advisory board of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. She is an associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and and is on the editorial boards of the Britis h Journal of Management, Management Learning and Gender in Management. She is regularly providing thought -leadership and consulting to businesses and international organisations.

Professor of Leadership Elisabeth Kelan held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and was a Dahlem International Professor of Gender Studies at and Organisation, Freie Universität Berlin. Elisabeth Kelan worked at , King's College London, Cranfield School of Essex Business School Management, Zurich University and the London School of Economics and Political Science where she also earned her PhD.

Bettina Tucci Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas is the Director a.i. of UNICRI. She brings to the Institute a wealth of senior-level experience in the Bartsiotas management of complex international , with an emphasis on strategic planning, programme design, budgeting, and finance. Throughout her career, she has held leadership positions in various international organizations covering normative, development, humanitarian, and peace and security matters.

When she was appointed as Director a.i. UNICRI, she was Assistant Secretary-General, Controller of the Secretariat. She provides high-level policy guidance on budgetary and financial issues, oversees the development and implementation of the UN regular and peacekeeping budgets, ensures the accuracy of the organization’s financial statements, and the effective delivery of payments, payroll and treasury functions. From 1994 to 2014, she held various senior management positions at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna Austria, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York. Previously she held positions in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Washington, D.C. She has helped define the strategy and direction of the International Public-Sector Accounting Director a.i., Standards (IPSAS) and was involved in establishing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. United Nations Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance and investments from George Washington Interregional Crime and Justice University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and business administration from the American University in Research Institute Washington, D.C. She is a dual national of Uruguay and the United States.

Otto Scharmer Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and cofounder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS programme for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter coauthored with P. Senge et al). He is coauthor of Leading from the Emerging Future, which outlines eight acupuncture points for transforming capitalism. His most recent book, The Essentials of Theory U, outlines the core principles and applications of awareness-based systems change. In 2015, Otto Scharmer cofounded the MITx u.lab, a massive open online course (MOOC) for leading profound change, which has since activated a global ecosystem of societal and personal renewal involving more than 140,000 users from 185 countries. In 2019, he launched an annual innovation infrastructure called Societal Transformation Lab that supports place-based teams on reinventing economies, advancing democracies and regenerating learning and leadership systems worldwide.

Otto Scharmer earned his diploma and PhD in economics from Witten/Herdecke University in . A member of the World Senior Lecturer in the Future Council, he received the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT, and the European Leonardo Corporate MIT Management Sloan Learning Award.The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General appointed him to the UN Learning Advisory Council for the 2030 School and cofounder of Agenda. the Presencing Institute

Guy Ryder Guy Ryder was born in Liverpool in 1956 and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool. He has some thirty years of experience in the world of work, most of it at international level. He started his career in 1981 with the International Department of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). In 1985-88, he was Secretary of the Industry Trade Section of the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees (FIET) in Geneva.

In 1988, Guy Ryder became the Assistant Director of the Geneva Office of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and became the Director of that office in 1993. In 1998, Guy Ryder was appointed Director of the Bureau of Workers’ Activities of the ILO in Geneva. From 1999 until 2001, he held the position of Director of the Office of the ILO Director-General. From 2002-06, Guy Ryder was General Secretary of the ICFTU in Brussels initiating and leading the process of global unification of the democratic international trade union movement. At the creation in November 2006 of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), he was elected its first General Secretary.

In 2010, Guy Ryder returned to the ILO in Geneva and was appointed Executive Director with responsibility for International Director General Labour Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work – a position he held until his election as Director-General of International Labour the International Labour Organisation in June 2012. He is the tenth Director-General of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Organization (ILO)

Shivvy Jervis

Named one of Britain’s female Role Models of the Year 2020 and four-time national awardee, Shivvy Jervis is a Futurologist and Broadcaster cited by the Word Economic Forum as “a thought leader beyond compare”. Jervis’ talks and broadcasts on ‘human-perception’ AI, immersive workplaces, digital identity and the ‘Internet of Everything’ have earned an astonishing 24 pieces of industry recognition. The curator of TED Talks commentds Jervis as having “a remarkable ability to analyse the socio-economic impact of new technologies” and the UK’s former Digital Minister cites her “an extraordinary communicator”.

Award-winning Innovation Futurist, Advisor and Broadcaster

John Antonakis

John Antonakis is of Swiss, Greek, and South-African nationality. He is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Antonakis’ research is currently focused on leadership development, power, charisma, personality, and research methods.

He has published in journals such as Science, Psychological Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, as well as Harvard Business Review. Professor Antonakis has been identified as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Economics and Business by the Institute for Scientific Information.

He has received over $2.45 million in funding for his research, and frequently consults and provides talks, trainings, and Leadership Expert, workshops to private and public organizations on leadership. See his recent TEDx talk to get an idea of his latest research on Department of charisma. Organizational Behaviour, University of Lausanne

David Halpern

David Halpern, DPhil, is the Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team. He has led the team since its inception in 2010.

Prior to that, David Halpern was the founding Director of the Institute for Government and between 2001 and 2007 was the Chief Analyst at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. David Halpern was also appointed as the What Works National Advisor in July 2013. He supports the What Works Network and leads efforts to improve the use of evidence across government. Before entering government, he held tenure at Cambridge and posts at Oxford and Harvard.

He has written several books and papers on areas relating to behavioural insights and well-being, including Social Capital (2005), the Hidden Wealth of Nations (2010), and co-author of the MINDSPACE report. In 2015 David wrote a book about the team entitled Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference. Chief Executive The Behavioural Insights Team

Ruth Persian Ruth Persian is a Senior Advisor at BIT International Programmes team. Her work focuses on supporting improvements in public service delivery in low- and middle-income countries and building capacity in the application of behavioural insights and rigorous evaluation.

Prior to joining BIT, Ruth worked as an impact evaluation field coordinator for the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab in Nigeria. She also worked as an economist at the Ministry of Health in Burundi under the Overseas Development Institute Fellowship Scheme, where she focused on health financing and monitoring and evaluation in the health sector.

Ruth Persian studied Economics and Political Science at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Cape Town and holds a master’s in Economics from Oxford University. Senior Advisor, The Behavioural Insights Team

Maurizio Travaglini

Maurizio Travaglini is the founder of Architects of Group Genius. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the École des Ponts Business School in Paris and as a member of the Faculty Team of the “Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation” program at Harvard Business School.

As a consultant he practices in a space located within the blurred boundaries of innovation, change, learning, collaboration and co-design. He works together with his team, Architects Of Group Genius, to create the space for communities, organizations, individuals to identify and define their most critical challenges – and to develop new strategies and approaches to confront them, survive, thrive. The purpose of his work is to augment the individual and the collective capacity to deal with complex, systemic, Founder and Chief adaptive challenges, and to create the context for people to do their best work and develop themselves as leaders. Executive Officer Architects of Group Maurizio has conceived, designed, led and facilitated over three hundred projects on five continents, for some of the most admired Genius corporations, universities, and not-for-profit organizations in the world. Faculty Member Harvard University Graduate School of design

Greg Vines

Greg Vines has had an extensive career in strategic and executive management within Australia and internationally. The focus of his work has been on labour relations, organization and workplace change, governance, and human resource management.

Before this Greg Vines was Minister (Labour) with the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations and President of the Governing Body of the ILO in Geneva. He was also the spokesperson for the 42 ILO member States from the Asia and Pacific region and represented Australia at the G20, and other multilateral forums on labour and employment issues.

Greg Vines has also held senior executive appointments with Australia and Timor Leste Governments, and leadership positions with Australian trade unions. Though the international work he has engaged extensively with foreign governments, employer and union representatives, as well as a wide range of multilateral and international organizations. He is admitted to practice as a lawyer and has studied Deputy Director General law, management and labour relations in Australia and the USA. for Management and Reform, International Labour Organization

Analia Yacot is the Founder of CICRE® (Complementarity and Integration for Cooperative and Responsible Evolution), a system thinking Analia Yacot approach that enables leadership evolution through cooperation and co-creation. She has a background in international senior management as Director of Finance and Human Resources for Silicon Valley companies, giving her exposure to a diverse background and an understanding of the issues that global leaders face. A pioneer in the area of executive leadership coaching, Analia Yacot has undergone a major career transition moving from finance to this field during the late 90’s as she got passionate about the revolutionary research in neuroscience, and emotional and social i ntelligence. After +20 years and 10.000 hours of direct experience coaching leaders and teams of more than 100 different nationalities; she has observed that meaning and purpose at work produce great performance.

AnaliaYacot holds a Finance degree from UNLPam in Argentina and Executive trainings in Human Resources and Leadership Development at Stanford University and Wharton School. She has also studied Social Psychology and Emotional and Social Intelligence to enrich her understanding of groups and social dynamic on business environments. She is a Professional Certified Coach by the Internati onal Coach Executive Leadership Federation. Analia Yacot works internationally in English, Spanish and French and her clients include global companies as well as the United Coach, International Nations, NGOs, foundations and universities. Originally from Argentina, she resides in Switzerland since 2005. Leadership Development

DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY

Tom Wambeke

Tom Wambeke, Belgium, holds a master in Educational Sciences, a Master in Cultural Management and an Executive Business LEAD degree in Innovation at Stanford University.

Before joining the International Training Centre of the ILO he was assistant Professor at the University of Leuven and innovation coach at Open Higher Education. He is currently Chief of Learning Innovation which specializes in providing sustainable learning solutions with the objective to generate impact and organizational change.

The unit he is leading has a double mandate: to strengthen the Centre’s in-house capacity to apply state-of-the art learning and knowledge sharing methods and technology, and to provide (e)-learning services to outside partners on a global scale. In this context he works closely together with UN agencies, development banks, international organisations, governments and NGO’s. As a certified international facilitator (IAF) he’s actively involved in strategy facilitation, participatory knowledge sharing, networked learning and ICT4Development. This he Chief Learning combines with a passion for complexity adaptive thinking, foresight analysis and futures exploration. Innovation, ITC-ILO

Ariane Sabet Ariane Sabet is Learning Portfolio Manager in the Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management at the UNSSC. She is responsible for the design and delivery of the UN Leadership Exchange for colleagues at the USG and ASG level, the UN Leaders Programme for Directors, and the Leadership, Women and the UN Programme, as well as a range of other high-impact initiatives. Maintaining and expanding academic partnerships, she also serves as Manager of the MBA in Managing International Organisations, in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch.

Prior joining UNSSC, she served as faculty at Norwich University’s Master of Arts in Diplomacy, focusing mainly on Global Diplomacy and State-Sponsored Terrorism. Previously, she held academic positions in Slovakia, Switzerland and the United States in the areas of International Relations, Political Science and Management. She brings over 20 years of experience in international organizations, academia, education, and private sector ventures.

Learning Portfolio Ariane Sabet holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from St. Gallen University, Switzerland, where she specialized in Political and Leadership Manager, Knowledge Ethics and an MA in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, spending part of her studies at Centre for Leadership Harvard and Columbia Universities. and Management, United Nations System Staff College.

Georgiana Ward- Booth Georgiana Ward-Booth is an Associate Fellow in the Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management at the UNSSC. Together with Ariane Sabet, she works on the design, development, and delivery of leadership programmes including the Leadership, Women and the UN Programme for experienced female staff, the UN Leaders Programme for staff members at the director-level and tailor-made leadership development initiatives. She is also experienced in working on international research and knowledge sharing initiatives in various areas related to social and criminal justice. Prior joining the UNSSC, she has worked as a research fellow for international universities and research centres, including for the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) where she contributed to the design and facilitation of various capacity-building and training initiatives including a post-graduate programme in investigative and legal psychology. Since joining the UNSSC she has developed a keen interest on the declinations of the normed-based and principled characteristics of UN leadership at the individual, collective and cultural level and what this implies in the present and future global context vis-à-vis thecnological and societal changes. Associate Fellow, Georgiana Ward-Booth holds an MA degree in International Peace and Security from King’s College, London. She has been engaged in Knowledge Centre for various discourse analysis projects at the academic level, and she is passionate about socially engaged contemporary artistic narratives and Leadership and identity formation. Since 2018, she is part of the Executive Council of African Art Dialogues, a not-for-profit organisation that provides a forum Management at the Venice Biennale to share knowledge on contemporary African art and to expand and strengthen the relationships between art UNSSC professionals, academics, and social and cultural actors.

Paola Abbate

Paola Abbate holds a Master's Degree in Mass and Multimedia Communication at the University of Turin (2004), and she is currently attending an Edx MicroMasters Programme in Instructional Design and Technology. Prior to joining the ITCILO, she has worked for the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games Organising Committee. She joined the ITCILO in 2006 and the DELTA Programme – Sustainable Learning Solutions in 2012.

Paola Abbate has a background in the organization of large training events, e-learning platforms management, and instructional design. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.

DELTA, International Training Centre of the ILO

Rosalia Armao

Rosalia Armao is a Programme Assistant in the Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management at theUNSSC. She is responsible for programme logistic preparations, administrative coordination and relationships with clients, participants and faculty.

With a background in business and foreign languages, prior to working with the UNSSC, Rosalia Armao worked in the private sector and in tourism. She spent two years in Paris working for a private company before moving back to Italy. She has over 10 years’ experience in the organization of events with national and international organizations.

Programme Assistant Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management UNSSC Alexandra Giordano

Alexandra Giordano has recently joined the UNSSC team. She provides the secretarial support collaborating with KCLM department. Before joining the UN System Staff College Alexandra Giordano has worked at ITCILO starting from 2014.

She graduated in economics from the Moscow Institute of Business and Law and languages from the University of the Russian Academy of Education. Alexandra Giordano is Russian and speaks fluently in English and Italian while studying Spanish.

Individual Contractor UNSSC Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management

Veronika Hrubá

Veronika Hrubá is Associate Fellow in the Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management. She is the coordination focal point of the MBA programme in Managing International Organisations – an MBA specialisation co-designed and co-delivered with the University of Stellenbosch Business School. She also works on other leadership programmes, including the Leadership, Women and the UN Programme and the UN Leaders Programme. She has a particular focus on communications and alumni community building. Before joining the UNSSC in September 2017, she worked as an executive assistant in the Korean Business Centre and as a translation project coordinator, both in Prague. For two years, she collaborated with the Institute of Political Marketing, an organizati on whose goal was to spread know-how about instruments of political marketing in the Czech Republic. Veronika Hrubá holds a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in French Language and Political Science. She is fluent in Czech, French, and Engl ish and is currently studying for her Master's degree in Media and Communications at Charles University in Prague. Associate Fellow, UNSSC Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management