Leadership is the focus of discussions at the next Digital Editors Network meeting to be hosted by the BBC World Service's Group Digital Development Editor Dmitry Shishkin at Broadcasting House on 21 November 2018.

"#LeadershipDEN going to be an afternoon when we will share our experiences and strategies dealing with leading change in newsrooms," says Dmitry, who has been at the forefront of the BBC World Services most ambitious expansion since the 1940s, seeing the addition of 12 new language services over the last 18 months.

"What does it take to lead perpetual change (which, frankly speaking, never stops!)? How do people in matrix “bridge” or direct leadership roles deal with stress from working in complex and ever-changing environments? What are the practical implications of driving diversity projects - gender, age, sex, class and many others - in media? How do organisation support their “change agents”? How do they keep developing those whose job it is to develop others? How do we protect ourselves from burn-out as we gradually realise that our tasks never end and the job is really never fully done."

In addition to Dmitry, other speakers include:

Minter Dial, strategy consultant and co-author with Caleb Storkey of Futureproof: How to get your business ready for the next disruption. The book, which recently won the 'Embracing Change' category in The Business Book Awards 2018, explores the three core mindsets and twelve disruptive technologies that you must have in today’s age to help you grow your business, see success and get ready for the next disruption.

Jane Barrett,  Global Head of Multimedia, Reuters

Lucy Keung, who is a professor and internationally-acknowledged expert on strategy, innovation and leadership, with a strong focus on the impact of digitalization.Lucy Kueng, Google Digital News Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford

Jon Holmes, Home Page Editor at Sky Sports Digital and founder of Sports Media LGBT+ network

Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia, founder of Talent Investors and creator of Best Bosses coaching project

 Additional speakers to be confirmed. 

The event on Wednesday, November 21st will run from 2pm-6:16 pm at BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA,  with registration opening at 1:15 pm and conversations afterwards continuing into a networking reception that wraps at 7:30pm.

Co-sponsored by the Media Innovation Studio at UCLan and the Innovation Research Group, discussions will be chaired by the DEN’s co-convenors Lucia Adams and François Nel. 

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