LEADERSHIP FORUM

DATE

4 February 2025

LOCATION

Washington, USA

The Leadership Forum has become a meeting place for innovators, visionaries and change agents who seek to shape the future through social, humanitarian and business initiatives.
The forum discussed current challenges of modern leadership, experience of building effective teams, successful international practices and ways to implement new approaches in the field of management, humanitarian activities and state-building.

Key topics

 

Panel 1. The power of action: leadership in social and humanitarian transformations:

  • American leadership models: lessons and adaptation to the Ukrainian context
  • Opportunities for cooperation with global leadership centres: from training to project implementation
  • Development of leadership competences through partnership
  • The power of communities and initiatives in shaping a new generation of leaders
  • The role of leaders in state-building and society transformation

Panel 2. Leadership without borders:

  • Women’s leadership in wartime and post-war: examples of transformational initiatives
  • Innovative models of support for the most vulnerable groups
  • The role of technology in humanitarian missions: from ideas to global impact
  • Impact leadership: how to combine social missions with investments in the future
  • Building international and local communities to support women and children
  • Leadership models and the diaspora’s response to the war escalation in 2022

Speakers

  • Tymofiy Dovhaliuk – Founder and President of SALT Movement
  • George Hoskins – Executive Director of Maxwell Leadership
  • Anna Mishchenko – Director and partner of the Kyiv School of Public Administration named after Sergiy Nyzhnyi
  • Jeremy Kubecek – CEO of GiANT Worldwide
  • Iryna Paliashvili – President and CEO of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC)
  • Natalia Pavlenko – President of the Ukrainian Women’s Union of America
  • Ksenia Drahaniuk – Humanitarian activist and defender of the rights of women in the military, co-founder of the Zemlyachky Foundation
  • Olga Dyakova – Co-founder of Impact Force, co-founder of OII Meaningful Communication, Head of the David Lynch Foundation in Eastern Europe, social innovator and business leader
  • Marta Levchenko – Humanitarian and children’s rights activist, founder of the City of Goodness