Tuesday | 2 March 2021 (Facilitator: Professor Uantchern Loh)

• Registration

• Session 1 – Describe what cultural diversity is and why it is important to the board
  Cultural diversity is the invisible hand that influences and guides companies, and is crucial to a company’s ability to develop and implement appropriate strategies. This session examines how cultural diversity can be defined and why it has become a key item on the board agenda.
• Session 2 – Discuss how cultural diversity is linked to stakeholder engagement and purpose
  This session discusses how cultural diversity is inextricably linked to stakeholder engagement and purpose. This link, when successfully managed, can lead to long–term value creation for stakeholders.

• Networking Break

• Session 3 – Determine how culture diversity should be measured and recognise the early warning signs of a misaligned culture
  The measuring of cultural diversity provides an early warning system for culture misalignment. Therefore, it is important to identify clear indicators of cultural diversity and to set targets against those indicators to steer the organisation in the right direction.
• Session 4 – Recognise how companies should embed cultural diversity in the boardroom and within the organisation
  Cultural diversity implementation demonstrates how companies are embedding cultural diversity within the organisation through its policies, mechanisms, and processes. It defines the efforts in ensuring linkages between cultural diversity, and the decisions made within the company, be it at board,  management or employee level.
• Session 5 – Learn how to evaluate cultural diversity and report to stakeholders
  This final session is focused on how to measure cultural diversity within the organisation. It is a litmus test of the board’s effectiveness in committing, measuring, and implementing cultural diversity in the organisation.

• End of Programme