13.00

PRE-CONGRESS PROGRAMME WITH OPTIONAL MODULES

13.00–14.30

Optional Module 1 (Section of Women Managers invites): Unconference H2H (heart to heart) – relationships are everything.
• Process optimisation
• Energy and leadership
• Mindfulness
• Creativity and psychological safety
• Agility in larger systems

Optional Module 2: Thematic-business networking is aimed primarily at small to medium enterprises
• Challenges for SME growth at the tipping point

Optional Module 3 (Section of Young Managers invites): Meet & Greet on the GH Bernardin terrace
• Development leaps: Can you do it yourself or you need start-ups?

15.00–15.15

MANAGEMENT CONGRESS 2019 OPENING

Aleksander Zalaznik, President of the Managers' Association of Slovenia (MAS), and Saša Mrak, Managing Director of the MAS

PART 1: THE MANAGER OF THE FUTURE – and the European initiative #ManagersforFuture

Leading in an Era of Constant Change - The Head, Heart, and Hands of Transformational Leadership
Jim Hemerling, Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group, San Francisco

15.45–16.15

Holistic and Heuristic Leader: how to get to personal and professional excellence?
Dr. Tatjana Andersen Dragović, Master Certified Coach, Executve Educator, Leadership Lecturer and Researcher, University of Cambridge

16.15–17.00

Debate: What will the managers of the following decades be like to successfully navigate their organisations in stressed conditions?

Participants:
• Jim Hemerling, Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group,
• dr. Tatjana Andersen Dragović, Master Certified Coach, Executve Educator, Leadership Lecturer and Researcher, University of Cambridge,
• Medeja Lončar, CEO of Siemens Slovenia and Croatia and Vice President of the MAS, and
• Igor Verstovšek, procurator of Cosylab and Young Manager 2018.
Concluding comments: Ebba Öhlund, Ledarna – Association of Swedish Leaders with more than 90,000 members and a member of the European umbrella organisation CEC European Managers.
The discussion will be moderated by Saša Mrak. 

17.00–17.30

Break

PART 2: SLOVENIA’S DEVELOPMENTAL BREAKTHROUGH

17.30–18.10

What should businesses prepare for in uncertain times?
Luca Martini, Partner, Advisory Leader of PwC in Southeastern Europe

What have we learned from the last crisis? The story of the numbers.
Analysis of the business performance of the Slovenian economy and key indicators and readiness for a possible new cooling of the economy
Milan Dragić, Director, Bisnode for SE Europe

Global megatrends and opportunities for Slovenia
Gregor Benčina, President of Group Slovenijales, initiator of Greentech Slovenia

Five points for higher wages – can we be a society of agreement to avoid a worst-case scenario? 
Participants:
• Zdravko Počivalšek, Minister of of Economic Development and Technology,
• mag. Ksenija Klampfer, Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, 
• Lidija Jerkič, President of the Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia,
• Aleksander Zalaznik, President of the MAS, and
• Boštjan Gorjup, President of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia and Manager of the Year 2018.
The discussion will be moderated by Jurij Giacomelli, editor-in-chief of Outlook, member of the Observatory of MAS and Managing Director of Giacomelli Media.

19.00–19.05

Awarding the most active members of MAS in 2019

PART 3: GALA EVENING

BMW reception and a gourmet introduction to dinner

The inspiration and motivation of Ishmael Beah, one of the most sought after young speakers, author of world’s bestselling books and a goodwill ambassador at UNICEF

Awards: 
• GEMA Certificate, 
• Include.All and  
• Manager of the Year.

After party on the terrace with Softnet Company