Inspirational Leadership In Times of Crisis

A friend of mine works at Hostplus Super. She mentioned last week how grateful she is to have work, to have work she loves and to work for a great company with excellent leadership. I got curious and asked her to tell me more. I feel that we are overshadowed with negativity in the media right now about poor leadership, greedy property owners and people behaving strangely. It all relates to some kind of grief and it brings out the worst in us.

I believe that culture in business comes from the top, so I wanted to know what she thought about her CEO. She reckons he’s pretty cool. They have an all-staff Town Hall meeting on zoom every week. He is always there to listen but usually leaves the talking to everyone else. Last week was different, he spoke candidly for half an hour about the fund, his career, and life in lockdown.

Every part of the business was transitioned to work from home in March.

He’s really concerned about how staff are managing at the moment and his leadership team have been proactive in making special arrangements for staff who are all zoomed out, cooped up, or trying to juggle working with parenting during a pandemic. 

She went on to mention that he has a great team around him. As she spoke about his background I could hear that his story resonated with her. He grew up in the humble Northern suburbs and worked hard. I could hear the respect and pride that she had for him. I smiled. And then I googled him.

David’s leadership has been recognised by numerous industry awards, including the Australian Financial Review BOSS True Leader award and the Fund Executives Association Ltd's (FEAL's) Fund Executive of the Year Award. He is especially interested in what makes organisations tick – from creating an innovative culture to leadership values, strategy and teamwork at all levels.

He takes a leading role as Director of the E.J. Whitten Foundation, a not-for-profit charity for men's health, and is passionate about furthering the charity’s vision of increasing awareness of prostate cancer in men and raising funds for research.

His role as Director of Hotel Care Foundation (Vic) is further testament to his dedication to the wider community with funds raised and support provided to a number of charities and worthy causes each year.

Sounds like a good bloke to me. Do you know what your front line team says about you?

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