Imperial Hotel

Name: Brief the Boss – Melbourne
Start: 2026-08-06T18:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-08-06T21:00:00+10:00
Location: Imperial Hotel

2-8 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Get Directions

Events at this venue

August 2026
Brief the Boss – Melbourne

August 6 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Imperial Hotel 2-8 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000

The super sector's key decision makers have some serious questions about the future. And they want to hear what our Future Leaders think. For the launch of ASFA's new Future Leaders event series, we're flipping the script on professional development events. There's no stage, no mic, and no politely eating your dinner while listening to […]

Amy C. Edmondson

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organisational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Her prior books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming (Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organisational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities. 

Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and the UK in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages, and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award.

Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller’s mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organisational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University.

August 2026

Katherine Forrest

Sessions

Parallel 5C: Retirement Product Strategies: Navigating Diverse Paths to Member Outcomes

James Koval

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Alastair Ramsay

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Shane Moore,

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Niamh Carey

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Nathan Bonarius

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Mary Delahunty

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Sinem Kalenderoglu

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Gemma Kyle

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Adrian C

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Kate Farrar

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Joseph Mitchell

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Vasyl Nair

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Kristian Fok

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Kevin Fernandez

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Vicki Doyle

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Louise Davidson AM

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Peter Chun

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Eoin Burke

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

John Livanas

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Debby Blakey

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Cath Bowtell

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Natalie Previtera

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Laura Catterick

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Josh Cross

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Lt Gen Michelle McGuinness, CSC

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Jamie Bonic