L E A D E R S H I P

Sessions will cover the characteristics of successful leaders and how internal auditors can enhance their own leadership capabilities.

CS 1-9
The Paradox of Identity: Evolution of Your Internal Brand as a Leadership and Organizational Asset
Alan Hilburg, Hilburg Associates

With little doubt, Sawyer's observation that internal auditing has migrated from being an accounting-oriented role to being a management-oriented role is an "achievement of identity." Functionally, he's right...but do you really feel more respected, more valued? Or, do you still sometimes feel that to everyone else in your organization you, as an internal auditor, are perceived as men and women who don't really work in offices...but rather toil deep in the bowels of your institution?

In this session, participants will:

Build a personal brand identity map.
Learn how to get invited to all the important meetings.
Understand how to redefine, revalue and rebrand RIM in your organization.
Build a bridge to the rest of the organization to increase your professional value.
Become genuinely multi-lingual, learning a new language with sustainable fluency.
Build a 21st century communications bridge to the rest of your organization.

FIELD OF STUDY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

CS 2-9
Diversity: The Leadership Challenge
Steve Bucherati, Coca Cola

America’s most successful companies are increasingly relying on the diversity within their own organizations to grow their businesses. There is both a compelling market-based and workplace-based business case for driving this work forward. At the same time, it is also critical to establish a workplace fairness monitoring function within the business to ensure equity across your employee population. Learn about the criticality of both diversity and fairness.

In this session, participants will learn how to:

Understand the business case for diversity leadership.
Understand the linkages between the marketplace and the workplace.
Think about diversity more broadly than traditional norms.
Understand how to leverage the diversity of others, and how your own individual diversity can benefit an organization.
Understand why workplace fairness matters.

FIELD OF STUDY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

CS 3-9
The HD Leadership Program
Kelly Barrett, The Home Depot

The Home Depot utilizes a Leadership Program within its Internal Audit function to attract and retain high caliber associates. The Leadership Program is designed to develop future leaders of The Home Depot by allowing them to gain experience in all business areas of the company, get exposure to executive management through their audit work and report outs and receive extensive coaching and professional development.

In this session, participants will learn how to:

Recruit, assess and hire the right associates into a leadership program.
Understand the on the job training, coaching and mentoring the program provides.
Understand the performance management process.
Understand how the leadership program fits within the rotational internal audit program.
Create a career path for associates who complete the program.

FIELD OF STUDY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

CS 4-9
Your Network Equals Your Net Worth
Genevieve Bos, TradeWind Partners

America’s most successful women in business dramatically enhance their business goals, development needs and biggest passions through building the right relationships and then strategically putting them to work. Learn how top leaders build relationships with America’s most influential people in business to support their business and life goals.

In this session, participants will learn:

How to create sustainable relationships with highly influential people who want to support your personal and business goals.
Secrets from America’s most influential women in business and how they successfully leverage relationships to support their careers and lives.
How to gain priceless insights and competitive advantages that deliver sustainable bottom line results.

FIELD OF STUDY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

CS 5-9
Attributes of a Highly Successful CAE
Richard Chambers, The Institute of Internal Auditors

The role of the CAE has never enjoyed a higher stature than it does today. Successful CAE’s are not only leaders and senior executives within their own organizations, but they must also possess a strategic mindset and demonstrate executive presence to successfully navigate the board room and “C Suite.” In this session, Richard Chambers will draw on almost 35 years of internal audit experience (including almost 13 years as a CAE of multi-billion dollar enterprises) to identify the characteristics of “highly successful” chief audit executives.

CS 6-9
Retaining and Motivating Internal Audit Staff
Karl Riem, Wells Fargo
Michael Shapow, Robert Half

Companies are striving to keep internal audit professionals at a time when there are limited budgets to maintain employee satisfaction. Robert Half Management Resources issued a survey to participants of the IIA Global Auditing Information Network to gain insight into how organizations are motivating and retaining internal auditors.

After this session, participants will understand:

Reasons why internal audit staff leave an organization.
Best practices for retaining high-quality internal audit staff.
Common internal audit staff retention mistakes.
Non-financial motivators for internal audit staff.
Tips for effective internal audit staff communication.

FIELD OF STUDY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

CS 7-9
Change? Bring it On!
Joanne Smith, Delta Air Lines

The acquisition of Northwest by Delta is the largest airline merger in history and the complexities of bringing two global carriers together under one common network, technology platform, frequent flyer program and service standard are significant. However aligning employees to a common service and identity is perhaps the most challenging aspect of this historic merger. In this session Joanne Smith, who leads 21,000 flight attendants and is responsible for onboard services on 4,000 flights per day, will discuss change management and the process of embracing cultural change.

In this session, participants will learn how to:

Be an agent of change as opposed to managing change.
Identify “landmines” (barriers to successful change).
Define the “what’s this divided by me” strategy.
State a clear vision (define the end game).

FIELD OF STUDY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT