Impactful leadership in a virtual world

We’re on a mission to support businesses worldwide to harness leadership and management skills, and behaviours in their people and businesses.

Businesses worldwide have had to adapt the way they lead their teams and change their strategies for workforce skills development. So, with constant change and a shift to virtual working, how are businesses supporting the wellbeing of their workforce, ensuring performance is maintained, and their customer experience is not impacted?

ILM’s thought leadership series aims to stimulate discussion and enable business leaders to share experiences and best practice on coping through change, building future leaders and driving business growth.

leadership speakers

Listen to business leaders from around the world share learnings from the past ten months, discuss what makes leadership most impactful and answer the burning questions on every employer’s mind. How can we create an impact in business through remote working?


About the speakers

We have brought together speakers from across the globe with a wealth of experience in Learning & Development, strategy and people development.

Carina Matthysen l Manager: XcLer8 L&D l HC Momentum Life l South Africa

With over 30 years’ experience in L&D, Carina is passionate about equipping and supporting leaders on their leadership journey and to help all employees make the mind shifts needed to be successful within their current environment and adapting to all the external changes.

Dr. Jarmo Kotilaine l Economist & strategist l Middle East 

Dr. Jarmo Kotilaine is an economist with an interdisciplinary perspective who had devoted most of his career to understanding and enabling economic development in emerging economies. Drawing on his in-depth knowledge, Dr Jarmo shares insights from his latest work “Trials of Resilience: How COVID-19 is Driving Economic Change in the Arab Gulf.”

Ms. Rekha Weerasooriya l General Manager customer experience & people development l Dialog Axiata PLC l Sri Lanka 

With over 20+ years’ experience in Customer Experience and Human resources. Rekha is responsible for Customer Experience & Service Culture Transformation to deliver best in class service experience for the Dialog Enterprise customers, by developing people capability and driving customer advocacy. She has pioneered new ways to improve performance and mental health during virtual working at Dialog and brings some great examples to share.

Anand Sudarshan l Independent Director on Board of NIIT, & Founder & Director of Sylvant Advisors l India 

Experienced Founder, Corporate Executive & Board Member with a recognised history working in the technology & education industries. With a passion for people development Anand brings insights and experience on how businesses can make technology work for them.