A fireside conversation with a recent Rise Women in Broadcast Award nominee provided a host of key insights into the strategies of effective leadership that provide food for thought into 2024 and beyond, reports Mark Mayne.
In a final webinar to close out 2023, IBC365 held a fireside chat-style discussion with recent Rise Women in Broadcast Award nominee Abi Hemingway, Managing Director, Jackshoot to tease out some of the key questions around leadership. While few would disagree that good, effective leadership is central to business success, defining exactly what that ‘looks like’ for any particular enterprise is a much more complex question.
Hemingway began logically, by tackling a definition of leadership itself. “Lots of people do consider leadership to be at a very high level - country or government level - or the top of a huge organisation, but every day we have leaders in our lives...
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