The “Rearchitecting the Financial System” online course created by CFTE and Elevandi Education on the occasion of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023, offers an insider view into the global transformations in the financial system.
Taught by the world-class speakers of Singapore Fintech Festival 2023, the course explores the key drivers behind the transformation of finance by addressing the topics such as digital infrastructure, payments, digital money and platforms for SMEs. Led by Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer of MAS and Chairman of Elevandi, the programme combines expert industry insights, breakdown of real-world case studies, structured knowledge and curated panels of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023.
The course is designed to upskill thousands of finance professionals, policy-makers and entrepreneurs on how finance is being transformed and aims to impact more than 5000 participants by2024.
Register for the course now for USD 40. Students. policymakers, and educators may enjoy a concessionary rate of USD 20. For a more detailed course description and additional information, visit the programsâs dedicated pagebelow. Please feel free to use the unique coupon code, RFS20Partners for a 20% discount. For the special GBSN member discount of 50% off, please email Julianna LaBelle, at jlabelle@gbsn.org.
Stanford Seed is looking for high-potential CEOs and founders based in Africa and South Asia who are motivated for growth.
The Seed Transformation Program is an unconventional, in-person and online learning experience that goes beyond acquiring business skills. Stanford’s world-renowned faculty and dedicated team of experts work with leaders and their management teams throughout their 10-month journey to growth.
The Seed Transformation Program is an unconventional, in-person and online learning experience exclusively for founders/CEOs with annual revenue between $300K â $15M USD.
Stanfordâs faculty and dedicated team of experts work with you and your management team, both virtually, and on location at your business, to help unlock growth opportunities. The Seed Transformation Program is designed specifically for business owners and up to five members of their senior management team. This program is led by world-renowned Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty and is supported by Stanford-trained advisors and experts.
Location: Auditorium Chilean Chamber of Construction â Av. Apoquindo 6750, Las Condes, Santiago
Industries worldwide are beginning to accept and discuss the roles that climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and other critical environmental challenges will play in global, national, regional, and urban markets. MIT is setting its sights on research and innovations that will deliver game-changing advances in humanityâs efforts to address these changes.
This conference will highlight the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiativeâs (ESI) knowledge and expertise on sustainable mining and the clean energy transition.
Do you want your CV to get noticed by employers? Do you find it challenging to write about your professional experiences is a way that gets you an interview? Are you unsure of how to highlight your transferable skills to land jobs without a ton of direct experience? This workshop is for you!
This is your opportunity to get personal support and professional expertise thatâs tailored to your job search! If youâre ready to finally land that job interview your time is now. You will be joined by industry experts from leading companies to work with you directly!
This is a hands on workshop that will be broken up intotwo parts: Best practices and top tips for CV writing Breakout rooms for CV review.
**You must bring your CV or Resume with you to join this workshop! **
Hereâs what you can expect:
â Network with experts and like-minded students and professionals
â Gain real-time feedback on your CV from experts
â Learn the most common mistakes candidate make and how you can avoid
â Learn how to stand out as a candidate
â Learn how to optimize your CV and make it bot-friendly
â End the day with a killer CV that boosts your chances of hearing back from recruiters that lands you that dream job!
**Note: Be prepared to share your resume with Experts and other attendees during the event and remove any personal information that you are not comfortable sharing live.
Click âRegisterâ to secure your slot. When the webinar launches, that same button will say âJoin with Zoom.â Click to join the event.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs arenât working for a surprising reason.
In collaboration with EPC Learning Labs, GBSN is pleased to offer a FOSTERing Belonging⢠a customizable program to member institutions. This custom program is designed to help business school administrators be better leaders and educators.
Research, out of the Wharton School of Business (1), shows that despite the almost $8 billion invested in DEI programs each year, this training falls short of changing behaviors and has a negligible positive effect on organizations.
A newly published study offers a clue about what is missing: belonging.
Belonging is different fromâand perhaps more important thanâinclusion. When employees feel they donât belong, they experience inauthenticity, sadness, and anger. Research suggests efforts to improve organizational DEI will inevitably fail if employees donât come to the table, or leave from it, with a sense of belonging. Other research supports this conclusion, too, reporting that when organizations do foster a culture of belonging, every aspect of organization performance skyrockets (see graphic).
Whatâs more, those employees who harbored a genuine sense of belonging reaped even greater individual accomplishments: doubling the rate of raises and breaking through promotion ceilings far more easily. Belonging is not only the nucleus of true organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion; it is also a cornerstone of individual and organizational success and advancement for everyone.
Fostering belonging matters in the classroom as well as the conference room.
So, whatâs the difference between Inclusion and Belonging?
The Society for Human Resources Management defines inclusion as âthe achievement of a work environment in which all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute fully to the organizationâs success.â Letâs face it: inclusion is an administrative policy enacted by organizational leaders, and itâs also only part of the answer to a complex organizationalâand humanâchallenge.
Belonging is completely different.
The desire to belong stems from our innate human need for self-esteem and acceptance as part of a supportive group. Even with the most inclusive set of organizational policies in place, employees may not feel like they truly belong. As a result, performance flounders, employees suffer negative health consequences, and turnover soars, especially among underrepresented groups.
Workplace belonging originates in the way people are treatedâday in and day outâespecially in meetings, where employees typically spend more than half their time. But few leaders and colleagues understand how to generate consistent feelings of belonging during these meetings. All too often, people unwittingly trigger the exact opposite sentimentâalienation and lonelinessâespecially for those from underrepresented groups. When team cohesion fragments, organizational performance suffers. This is where EPC Learning Labs comes in.
Why does the failure of typical DEI programs matter to business schools?
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business schools themselves need to be more diverse, equitable, and inclusive if they are to lead in this area.
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business schools want to generate a bigger impact from the DEI programs they offer to students and organizations.
That is why GBSN is partnering with EPC Learning Labs to offer this transformative program for business schools worldwide.
How can you create feelings of belongingâŚacross your institution?
FOSTERing Belonging⢠is a unique program that helps participants, especially leaders, spark feelings of belonging for everyone. The content comprises two parts and is delivered in an unparalleled learning process (see below).
The first draws on brain science to introduce a framework describing three modes of thinking. This framework provides surprising insights about when and how individuals experience âthreatâ responses. These responses trigger sets of biases, decisions, and behaviors that lead to alienation and loneliness.
Building on these modes of thinking, the second part of the program introduces FOSTER, a set of five strategic principles that, if followed, can generate genuine feelings of belonging and inclusion in meetings. These principles gain traction with specific processes and facilitation techniques and methods designed to transform every meeting into a high-performance, culture-building opportunity. Mastery of this content ensures that all meeting participants feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued.
LEARN
2-Hour Virtual Training Sessions
PRACTICE
Fortnightly EPC sessions to develop microlearning communities
MASTER
Final meeting to assess mastery and celebrate meaningful change
Gather Colleagues and Bring a FOSTERing Belonging⢠program to your Institution.
EPC Learning Labs’ program approach delivers a key ingredient missing in most DEI initiatives. It also transforms individual and team performance while helping to create the organizational culture that most leaders, managers, and employees are desperate to establish.
This program is designed to be customized and delivered to one institution at a time.
It is not an open enrollment program.
Cohorts
For optimal results, program cohorts must be between 15 and 30 participants.
Virtual Format
All programs are delivered in a virtual format and specially structured and delivered to avoid âZoomâ fatigue.
Meet the Expert
Jackson Nickerson
Executive Vice President and Chief Social Scientist, EPC Learning Labs
Jackson Nickerson has a long and distinguished career teaching, researching, consulting, administering, and entrepreneuring (see Wikipedia here). Starting out as an assistant professor in 1996, he became the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy at Olin Business School, Washington University.  Jackson was a co-creator of Critical Thinking@Olin, which won the inaugural MBA Innovatorâs Award from the MBA Roundtable. With AACSB he created Leading in the Academic Enterprise, a series of leadership development seminars for administrators from assistant deans to provosts.
As the Associate Dean and Director of Brookings Executive Education from 2009 to 2017, he led many innovations including one of the first Executive Master of Science in Leadership degrees in the nation, doubled executive enrollment, and increased revenue by 75%. He was the first ever senior fellow at the Grameen Foundation. Â He is a Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at Insper in Sao Paulo and a frequent collaborator with Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Post Graduate School. His research spans organization and strategy topics best described as strategic leadership. A consultant for scores of companies and government agencies, he advises on strategy development, inclusion and diversity, and processes to ensure that leaders solve the right problem the first time. Jackson is the chief social scientist for EPC Learning Labs LLC.
Jackson holds a Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy, an M.B.A., and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, all from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Before entering academia, he was a control systems engineer with NASAâs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Interested in bringing the FOSTERing Belonging⢠Program to Your Institution?
Connect with us to learn more about how you can help your institution master FOSTERing Belongingâ˘.
