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"Leader Development" by Prof. Andrew Chan

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Prof. Andrew Chan, a visiting professor at NUCB BS conducted an online lecture on “Leadership Development”, an elective module for MBA students of the Global Leader Program. This course is designed to enable students to prepare themselves to become a leader of organizations and to create a dynamic personal leadership development plan.

Leadership development requires personal curiosity and reflection as well as personal openness and sharing in class discussions, group discussions, and one on one sessions with the professor. Leadership development concepts used in this course will be immediately applicable for students and useful for the rest of their lives.

Prof. Andrew discussed various cases to highlight the concepts of leadership journey in professional lives and how self-awareness and motivated capabilities support in changing the leadership roles from time to time. He also used various leadership models and learning videos from famous tech and startup leaders and showed how they transform their leadership developments into global corporate leaderships. Students also shared their experiences in context to their home countries about some certain cases related to integrated leadership.

By the end of the course, students are able to understand the various leadership concepts,
and equipped with ideas, techniques, and tools to assist themselves in their lifelong leadership development journey.

Prof. Andrew Chan Biography:
Dr Andrew Chan has over twenty years of tertiary education experience and active in research in organizational culture, knowledge management, strategic leadership, human resource, and power in organizations. He is strong in cultural awareness, a flexible and easy-going person having lived and worked in Hong Kong, KualaLumpur, New York, London, and China. His PhD is from Lancaster University Management School in 1998 and he received executive training from Columbia University in 2011.

Andrew is currently visiting professor at the Business School of Nagoya University of Commerce and Business in Nagoya, Japan where he teaches Leadership and Development in the MBA program. He bases in City University, in Hong Kong and before that, he taught in the School of Hotel Management of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and worked for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. His research papers have appeared in Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Organization Change Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Journal of Knowledge Management.

Academic Background: Ph.D. Lancaster University (UK)

Specialized Field: Organizational Culture, Knowledge Management, Strategic Leadership, Human Resource, and Power in Organizations.

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