Vital Leadership in the Digital Age

Join IE on March 3rd for an event that features expert Nick van Dam who will share many helpful insights. There is no fee to attend and there will be time for you to connect with other ambitious professionals in Frankfurt, too. The session will be followed by a networking cocktail where you can meet IE representatives and the speaker.   

Every organization will go through a digital transformation over the next decade. Success in digital transformations requires the right digital savvy and vital leaders who embrace human leadership practices. Leadership effectiveness drives organizational performance, yet half of all organizations face some kind of leadership gap that they are not able to fill. Leadership has been studied for thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of articles, books and videos have been published over the last few years. Organizations are drowned in leadership advice and it is not necessarily helping them. In this masterclass, Dr. van Dam will discuss what competencies really matter to organizational performance and how organizations can successfully build leaders at scale. He will address the need for a Human Revolution and develop Vital Leaders.  Nick is a contributing author of the McKinsey book ‘Leadership at Scale’ and he will feature research, insights from over 26 McKinsey experts and lessons from successful leadership development programs. 

Speaker: Dr. Nick van Dam 

Nick is an internationally recognized thought leader, advisor, keynote speaker, researcher, facilitator and best-selling (co) author of more than 25 books on Corporate Learning, Human Resources Management, and Leadership Development. Dr. van Dam has over 30 years of business experience as a former Partner, Global Chief Learning Officer, HR-Executive, and Client Advisor at McKinsey as well as at Deloitte. As an advisor, he has served more than 100 clients around the world. 

Dr. van Dam serves on the IE University Board of Directors and is Chief Learning Officer. He is the Chief of the IE Center for Corporate Learning Innovation and a member of the IE Center for Health, Wellbeing, and Happiness. Nick is a Professor at IE University, Nyenrode University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Academic Director of a number of programs including the Masterclass for L&D Leadership; Masterclass HR Leadership; Executive Master in Positive Leadership and Transformation and the Young Talent Journey Program. He is affiliated with McKinsey & Company as an External Senior Advisor and Faculty member. 

Nick has written numerous articles for various publications and has been quoted by Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Business Week, India Times, Information Week, Management Consulting, CLO Magazine, and TD Magazine. 

Under the patronage of the European Parliament Federal Ministry of Education & Research, he received the 2013 Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award for “shaping the future of organizational learning and leadership development.¨ 

Nick is the founder of the e-Learning for Kids Foundation, which has provided free digital lessons for more than 20 million underprivileged elementary school children.