September 2011 - MINDA Malaysian Directors Academy ...

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS 2011MINDA / NZTE BREAKFAST TALK WITH RUGBY LEGEND MRSEAN FITZPATRICK“Sporting Excellence to Invigorate Business Thinking”Type: Awareness & NetworkingDate: 12 April 2011Venue: Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur HotelMINDA organised its second breakfast talk this year entitled “Sporting Excellence to invigorate business thinking - CreatingSustainable Business Excellence” with Sean Fitzpatrick, a rugby legend, as its invited speaker. Sean Fitzpatrick was aninspirational All Black captain, leading the team in a record 51 tests between 1986 and 1997. He is the 2011 Rugby WorldCup Ambassador for New Zealand which will be hosting the Rugby World Cup this year. During the talk, Sean shared hisexperiences of turning the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team from failure into success and made several analogies ofsports and excellence to the business and corporate world. The highlight of the talk was when Sean invited all the gueststo join him in doing the “hakka”, with some Corporate Leaders on stage. The session was attended by 35 prominent CEOs,Directors and representatives of various GLCs.25BOARD VIEW_SEPTEMBER 2011BREAKFAST FORUM CO-HOSTED BY MINDA, GE,TALENTCORP AND BCG“21 Century Corporation: Driving Sustainable Leadership &Innovation”Type : Awareness ProgrammeDate : 6 May 2011Venue : Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur HotelMINDA together with GE and TalentCorp jointly hosted a Breakfast Forum themed, ‘21st Century Corporation: DrivingSustainable Leadership & Innovation’. The panel of speakers at the session included John G. Rice, Vice Chairman of GE,President and CEO of GE Global Growth and Operations, Johan Mahmood Merican, Chief Executive Officer of TalentCorporation Malaysia Berhad and Vincent Chin, Partner and Managing Director of Boston Consulting Group in SouthEast Asia. Its primary objective was to promote a deeper appreciation of the global challenges in light of a fast-evolvingbusiness landscape following the downturn in the global economy. The forum was a platform for top leaders from variousindustries to engage in the exploration of new growth opportunities. At the centre of this discussion was the premise ofhow companies need to remain relevant and competitive in today’s global marketplace, by remodeling their businessstrategies to place a stronger emphasis on the platforms of sustainable leadership and innovation.The forum was moderated by Dato’ Abdul Aziz bin Abu Bakar, the CEO of MINDA, and was attended by movers and shakersfrom Corporate Malaysia. Among the more prominent business personalities present were Datuk Dr. Syed Muhamad binSyed Abdul Kadir, Chairman of CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad , Tan Sri Datuk Dr Hadenan A Jalil, director of Maybank, Tan SriGhazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid director of Axiata Group Berhad and Azran Osman-Rami, Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia X.The forum was attended by more than 100 directors and HR practitioners from various GLCs and PLCs.