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Diversity as an Asset
This video explores how TRIUM develops leaders to work effectively in truly diverse, global teams. It explains why diversity goes far beyond gender or nationality, and shows how students are challenged to broaden their perspectives, listen to different ways of thinking and learn to leverage diversity as a strategic asset in leading global organisations.
In this video you’ll learn:
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Why TRIUM’s leadership journey centres on working in teams with participants from different countries, sectors, cultures and ways of thinking.
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How diversity is understood in a broad sense – including culture, background, experience and neurodiversity – and why that makes leadership more complex.
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How students are pushed to widen their perspectives by engaging with unfamiliar regional and national viewpoints.
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How learning to listen to, include and leverage different perspectives prepares executives to lead diverse global teams anywhere in the world.
Speakers:
Professor Hervé Coyco
Professor Connson Locke
Professor Robert Falkner
Full transcript
I think the uniqueness of the learning journey in terms of leadership development – and maybe the most challenging one for them – is to understand that they are going to work in teams of participants who’ve come from a variety of horizons, different countries, different professional backgrounds, different experience, different way of thinking.
So this idea of leaders being able to manage a diverse organization making people feel included, understanding the differences diversity is more than just male and female or different races. It’s different cultures. It’s different backgrounds. It’s neurodiversity. It’s a lot of different things and so it’s extremely complicated.
Students are challenged to broaden their perspective, to take in different regional and national perspectives that they may have not encountered before and that’s an important part of the leadership journey that we get students to embark on.
And one of the key skills that are going to develop in terms of leadership is this ability to listen to others who think differently and try to leverage this diversity as an asset.
And as they develop the skills, they are going to be really fully capable of leading global teams at any level of the world tomorrow.