Women in Risk Management Leadership SummitKatrina_Boyle

By Katrina Boyle, Executive Coach, Speaker, Facilitator and Writer

I recently had the privilege of speaking at and attending two interactive and insightful days at the Women in Risk Management Summit in Sydney. The theme for this year’s event was ‘Defining Moments’. Risk, audit and compliance industry leaders gathered to discuss some key leadership advice.

The summit was rich in collaboration, practicality and influence, inspirational stories of unexpected turning points that became career and leadership ‘Defining Moments’.

The summit was packed with thought leadership content, from innovation techniques, to mental toughness to authentic leadership. Sharing personal career journeys and individual lessons for navigating the paths to senior roles. The ‘defining moments’ highly resonated with myself and the delegates. Vulnerable moments and valuable failures are hard to grasp when you’re trying to learn from some book or formula, it was refreshing to hear real life stories of success and hardship from like minded women in the industry.

Always look out to learn more and develop

  • Put yourself out there for career advancement
  • Seize opportunities for progression
  • Step-up for career building opportunities
  • Volunteer for challenging tasks and projects

You learn more from failure than you do from success

  • Reflect and learn from your defining moments
  • Gain insight from your most valuable failures
  • Use ignition points to spark innovation and inspiration, and propel you

Create a leadership profile for yourself:

  • Learn how to pivot and make quick decisions in our fast-paced world
  • Take ownership of your achievements
  • Continuously develop yourself and your ability to lead others

Create a positive and productive team:

  • Mental toughness is essential to thrive under stress and pressure
  • Stop negative thoughts to cope more effectively with challenging situations
  • Manage your emotions in difficult leadership situations
  • Resilience leads to successful leadership

This is just a snap-shot of the insights from a valuable 2-day summit. I felt inspired and equipped with easy to implement strategies and techniques to enhance my own leadership effectiveness.

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