Foundations For Standards Leadership Training Course by ACTS & ACCURIS | UAE
Over 5 days, Foundations for Standards Leadership will immerse you in an intense, highly experiential setting, exposing you to the most current opportunities and challenges that standards present for businesses. Your journey will include business cases and practical approaches shared by dynamic, high-energy, and renowned experts.
This course is specifically designed to develop an extensive practical knowledge of those working with standards and conformity schemes – whether newcomers or seasoned professionals.
You will leave the program with a fully integrated view of standardization, its value for business, and a powerful toolkit so that lasting value can be delivered to your organization.
Value for the participants
- Build cross-functional abilities: Participants will strengthen their knowledge of the impact of standards for key business functions with application to multiple business contexts for maximum impact.
- Increase value creation: Participants will increase their awareness of how value can be created by integration standardization into both the strategic and core aspects of their organization.
- Become a better strategic decision-maker: Understand the complexity of the standardization ecosystem and the fundamental characteristic of standards will help you take better decisions for your company, with skills to identify sources of performance, competitive advantage, innovation, and sustainability, using standards.
Who should attend
New standards professionals and anyone working with or interested in standards and conformity assessment (C-suite, corporate managers, engineers, government and public administration staff, standards developing organization staff and volunteers, consumers, and faculty and students).
Course Instructor Biography:
Nicolas Fleury is a Swiss citizen born in 1967.
He is an advisor with 35 years of experience of leadership at international level, and one of the world’s most respected experts and influencer in standardization, with in-depth knowledge of ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, the world’s largest developer and publisher of International Standards, and of the global standardization ecosystem. He is co-founder and managing partner at Stractic Advisors, an advisory firm specialized in helping businesses, governments and organizations capture and maximize the benefits of standards and participate to their development. He is also the owner of Nicolas Fleury Leadership International, a firm providing strategic advisory services.
Mr. Fleury has been an active contributor to the development and the transformation of ISO. He was appointed ISO Secretary-General (Acting) in 2017 after having led every single function of the ISO Central Secretariat in Geneva, from standards development to the sales of standards, information technology, communication, capacity building, legal, human resources, and finance.
He was also a member of ISO's governing bodies (ISO Council, President's Committee, Strategy Committee, Nomination Committee and Oversight Committee), in charge of ISO's governance groups on commercial policy and finance. He was Chairman of the Board of the ISO Pension Fund.
Beside his role in ISO, he was Chair of the Geneva group of TIGER 21, the premier peer membership organization for ultra-high net-worth individuals.
He was President of the Municipality Council of Arzier-Le Muids in Switzerland, elected as independent candidate to serve the 2006-2011, 2011-2016 and 2016-2021 terms.
Mr. Fleury is a lecturer at various university programs, sharing his experience and knowledge about standardization, international relations, geopolitics, leadership, responsible management, management of not-for-profit organizations, and performing work environments and culture.
He is member of the advisory board member of GSEM, the Geneva School of Economics and Management of the University of Geneva, of the UNCTAD and Family Business Network (FBN) Joint Global Initiative Family Business for Sustainable Development, and of Hintsa Performance, a global leader in human high-performance coaching with clients from Formula 1 champions to Fortune 500 CEOs.
He holds a Master of Science (M Sc) in Economics, Business, and Industrial Sciences, with specializations in Marketing and Computer Science of the University of Geneva (1991), and an M.B.A. magna cum laude at the University of Geneva (2004). He also graduated from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne (Orchestrating Winning Performance in 2014, High Performance Boards in 2020 and Winning Sustainable Strategies in 2021).
Mr. Fleury is an Honorary Professor of the University of Qingdao in China and a Fellow of SES, the Society for Standards Professionals.
The "Foundations for Standards Leadership" course (co-created by ACTS & Accuris) equips you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the world of standards.