'Reshape your business':

CIMA Technical Symposium

CIMA Profile and Communication thought leadership specialist Gillian Lees will deliver the keynote address on 'Enterprise governance - Restoring boardroom leadership' at the CIMA Technical Symposium 2009 at the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel on December 3.

Gillian has over a decade of experience in working on the corporate governance issue and was heavily involved in the IFAC/ CIMA Enterprise Governance project. She played an instrumental role in developing the CIMA Strategic Scorecard which promotes boards focussing on both aspects of conformance and performance. She has written articles in numerous publications and has presented widely on enterprise governance and the scorecard.

She is currently developing CIMA's thinking on how organizational boards can engage in strategy more effectively, particularly in the context of a downturn.

The recent turbulent conditions in the world's economic and financial markets have thrown the spotlight on corporate governance again.

While there are many contributory factors to the crisis, one key theme that surface time and time again is the ability of boards or equivalent governing bodies of organisations to oversee strategy and risk effectively.

In this backdrop Gillian's keynote will focus on how board's effectiveness can be enhanced, in the areas of overseeing strategy and risks.

She will address the behavioural and structural issues underpinning board effectiveness. She will provide thought leadership on how organisations can create a culture in which strategy proposals are challenged constructively and effectively, and what approaches can be taken by boards to govern risk throughout the business cycle.

'Reshape your business' is the topical theme of this year's symposium; and will focus on business critical areas of enterprise governance, strategic sustainability, shareholder value creation, developing business intelligence, strategic execution, and performance measurement delivered by an eminent line of local and foreign speakers.