Search for Future Leaders

The expert panel of ACIG Group of Companies themed “Searching for leaders of the future” will be held at the 8th Gaidar Forum on 13 January.

Changes across all areas speed up amid the globalization. The concept of a VUCA world becomes increasingly popular with its uncertainty and complexity. We are moving into an era of ideas. This new times will definitely require new approaches to enhance management efficiency and brand new leaders.

The companies with strong focus on the identification and development of internal leadership, demonstrate a significantly higher income and profit compared to competitors that avoid such practices. There thus exists a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the availability and quality of a "reserve bench", i.e. potential future leaders and performance. These findings encourage investments in the programs identifying and developing high-potential employees.

In recent days, many different approaches and solutions in HiPo selection and staff capacity assessment have emerged, but the problems defining the goals and objectives of capacity assessment, the effectiveness of approaches to identifying HiPo, and the identification of the concepts of “potential”, “capacity model” still remain crucial in Russia and in the world.

During the debate, the experts will discuss solutions in capacity assessment, determine relationships between capacity model, industrial identity and management culture of companies, as well as make up an image of a leader sought to bring successful development to Russia.

The moderators of the discussion will be Viktor Tolmachev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at ACIG Group of Companies, and Nadezhda Ryabova, Vice President for Human Resources at Unilever. Among participants of the event are Natalia Pracht, Director of the Assessment Center of Rosatom Corporate Academy; Tatiana Belyaeva, Director of the Universities and Graduates Center of Rosatom Corporate Academy; Dmitry Gasten, Director of HR policy of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM; Nikita Cherkasenko, Director of HR Assessment, Training and Development at Rostelecom; Anna Butova, HR Practitioner at Severstal Management; Elena Aksenova, Director of the Corporate University of RusHydro; Marina Karban, Head of Corporate Programs at SKOLKOVO; Anna Guseva, HR Business Partner at IBM; Irina Novikova, HR Business Partner at IBM; Irina Kulakova, Head of HR Assessment and Development at Norilsk Nickel; Larisa Zelkova, Senior Vice President and Head of HR and Social Policy and PR at Norilsk Nickel; Aleksandr Komkov, Head of HR Assessment and Development at Severstal; Natalia Shishlakova, Deputy General Director for HR at Transmashholding; Victoria Porudeeva, Head of HR Assessment and Development at Transmashholding; Maria Savina, Deputy Head of HR at Russian Railways.