UPDATED EVENT INFORMATION as at 20 July 2021

Due to current CoVID-19 restrictions, the decision has been made to hold this month's Seminar via Zoom on Wednesday 28 July 2021. 

All current registered attendees will be contacted with updated event information and Zoom links. For new event registrations, you will still be able to register as normal through the Registration Link below.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the HRMinds office.

Please join us in hearing Maria Leske discuss the work that Mercer do with their clients to help them protect critical roles across their organisation through building Succession Pipelines. Specifically you will learn about how companies go about:

1.     Establishing pools of internal successors through assessing the bench strength and succession readiness of internal talent; 

2.     Establishing pools of high-potential external successors aligned to organisational roles; and

3.     How they provide detailed internal succession plans for each critical or pivotal role.

Maria Leske   

Talent & Capability Practice Leader | Career 

Maria is a Practice Leader at Mercer and leads the Talent and Capability Practice area.

She has worked across many top 100 ASX companies in a broad range of industries, including Financial Services, Entertainment, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Construction, Mining and Oil & Gas, Retail and Energy.

Maria draws on twenty years of business and human capital experience, she brings deep leadership and talent experience to deliver growth for businesses. Maria is a trusted advisor on a full range of complex people decisions, from board appointments to executive selection and building capability through leadership assessment and development.

She has conducted Executive and pivotal role succession planning, executive acquisition, along with talent identification and development initiatives for clients across various industries; lead numerous business-wide talent programs that have delivered significant, positive results.

Her Executive Coaching has allowed her to be  a confidential sounding board for executives who have needed support to navigate critical moments in the business.

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts with Honours, University of Monash.
Bachelor of Social Work.
Registered Family and Couples Therapist.
Accreditations:  SPQ, OPQ, Saville, GeneSys, GPI, Assessor
Technical competence:  Assessment centre design, Capability frameworks, Survey Design, Data analysis
Advanced understanding of:  Executive level operating environment, Clinical diagnoses and how they play out in a workplace, Family systems theory, Psychological assessment methods and tools.