‘Get REAL’: SLT Strategic Partner at CIMA BLS 2013

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Sri Lanka Telecom, the premier telecommunication service provider in Sri Lanka, continued to extend its support to the CIMA’s Business Leaders Summit, the flagship event of the CIMA’s business calendar organised with the sole purpose of enlightening the business leaders of Sri Lanka’s corporate world on global business leader’s best practices and what’s in store as ‘next practices’. The fully sold out program is based on the theme ‘Get Real – Radical Evolutionary Authentic Leadership’ and will feature a lively mix of both local and global leaders from the corporate world. Lalith de Silva, Group Chief Executive Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom commented that good leadership is key to the performance of companies. “Today’s dynamic and extremely volatile and challenging markets call for a different type of leader – a leader that is REAL, and demonstrates the qualities of radical, evolutionary, authentic leadership. This timely and exciting theme will no doubt provide great insights into leadership and make this year’s conference very interesting and knowledgeable. Sri Lanka Telecom, as the Strategic Partner, is proud to extend our wholehearted support towards CIMA’s Business Leaders’ Summit 2013 towards empowering professionalism in Sri Lanka.” Bradley Emerson, Regional Director, Middle East, South Asia and North Africa said: “The challenge nations and businesses face today is apprehending reality, for the reality keeps changing every minute. CIMA Business Leaders Summit 2013 will challenge the participants to ‘Get REAL’. Getting REAL in today’s context is about being radical within, being evolutionary in both thought and action and be authentic to be relevant in leadership. For CIMA, enhancing knowledge is business as usual and the CIMA Business Leaders Summit is the pinnacle of such an effort. We attempt to draw knowledge from people who have influenced the business globally. An effort of this nature needs support from the corporate world and we are indeed pleased that Sri Lanka Telecom has committed to be the Strategic Partner for the CIMA Business Leaders Summit for this year. CIMA greatly appreciates and thanks the management of the Sri Lanka Telecom for supporting CIMA over the past decade in an effort to transform national ability to global capability.”

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