CIMA focuses on challenges in business leadership

The CIMA Business Leaders Summit 2011 will take place at the Cinnamon Grand Colombo from June 21 and 22. The two-day flagship event in the CIMA calendar is expected to attract over 500 diverse groups of corporates, business leaders and professionals. The theme of the summit - changing challenge-challenging change - is rightly coined to draw focus what the business leaders are up against.

Given such speed of change, the challenges faced by individuals, businesses and nations push us to collectively challenge the changes that we have already been made to survive.

The best example in the most recent times is the story of iPad. Within a year of the launch of the iPad, Apple themselves had to challenge their own product, which one would have thought to be a break through innovation.

It is in this background we have sought international and local speakers to share their thoughts from individual to a nation how survival is possible by challenging changes in the changing challenge environment

The summit will feature a lively mix of both local and global personalities from the corporate world. Patricia Gallardo Director of CSR and Sustainability Shangri-La International Hotel Management, Ltd. Hongkong will deliver the Keynote speech at the inauguration. Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka will start the conference sessions with the keynote address on June 22, the second day of the summit.

Other speakers at the conference includes Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Dr Nitin Pangarkar, Motivational Speaker, USA Jessica Cox, Chief Belief Officer, Future Group, India, Dr Devdutt Pattanaik, Managing Director, CIMA, UK, Andrew Harding, Managing Director, Sampath Bank, Harris Premaratne, Deputy Chairman, Browns Group, Ajith Devasurendra and Director Seylan Bank, Group CEO, Taprobane.