Ray White yesterday hosted its eighth Leadership Academy in a bid to provide a world-class education for its members by offering a global perspective on leadership skills and best practice.
Ray White yesterday hosted its eighth Leadership Academy in a bid to provide a world-class education for its members by offering a global perspective on leadership skills and best practice.
Above Image: learning family: Dan White, Professor Boris Groysberg and Brian White, AO
Ray White’s Chairman’s Elite business owners enjoyed a case study session with renowned Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg.
The Boston-based professor led a highly interactive session on the Gold Coast with 320 Ray White members who had travelled from all over Australia and New Zealand.
He teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs.
He has won numerous awards for his research, which focuses on the challenge of managing human capital at small and large organisations across the world.
Later this week Ray White’s corporate team will get treated to the same high level educational session with Professor Groysberg to help them all hone their team leading skills.
Ray White Managing Director Dan White said the Leadership Academy was one of the most important events on the group’s calendar.
“We all have a duty to keep developing our leadership skills to provide the best environment for our people,” Mr White said of the 122 year old property giant.
Mr White said the confidence that Professor Boris Groysberg had given the group was his greatest gift.
He challenges all of us to be better in the leadership space and he believes in us. His stature and standing and his belief in us, is a great gift that he has given us. He has given us a lot of confidence to help the growth of our business,” Mr White said.
Dan White first met Professor Boris Groysberg more than 10 years ago in Boston at Harvard Business School.
In his eighth study tour to Australia, Prof Groysberg called the Whites “a learning family”.
“Out of all the different families I know, the Whites are running a business that spends by far the most amount of time on learning and development,” Prof Groysberg said.
“This is an investment in your balance sheet.
Ray White is a learning organisation and the Whites are a learning family. In fact they are the most learning family I know,” he said.
“People probably don’t realise that Ray White is actually a very complicated business within its industry.