Thinking long-term in a short-term world

Overview

Most organisations struggle to find a sustainable strategic path that can strike a balance between building resilience and building better, more prosperous enterprise.

Short-term survival instincts and knee jerk reactions to shocks or external pressures to perform can divert the organisation into downwardly spiralling situations that may be unrecoverable. A steady hand at the helm and clarity of the long-term objectives is required to steer through troubled waters.

Brett Hewett will share a few tips and tricks on how boards can play a role in helping the organisation both survive and strive. 

Brett Hewlett

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Brett is a professional director and consultant. He is an Independent Director and Chairman of Comvita Ltd (NZX:CVT).   
 
From 2005-2015 Brett was the Chief Executive Officer of Comvita. Prior to Comvita, he held a number of senior international roles with global packaging firm Tetra Pak. Other former Governance and Advisory board roles include: Chair of private company BlueLab Corporation Ltd; Non-Executive Director Derma Sciences Inc. (DSCI:Nasdaq) and SeaDragon (SEA:NZX); Chair of Priority One, Tauranga and Western BOP’s economic development agency; Enterprise Angels, NZTE’s Better by Design Advisory Board; Member of the Callaghan Innovation Stakeholder Advisory Group; and member of University of Waikato’s Management School Business Advisory Board. 
 
Brett has a Bachelor of Food Technology from Massey University, and a Masters of Business Administration from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland. He has also completed advanced management programmes at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. Brett is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors. He was awarded “Outstanding International Business Leader of the year” in 2013 at the NZ International Business Awards. 

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