Port Executive Leadership Circle

Introduction

Acquire the leadership skills and partner with other international port executives to conquer the challenges within the rapidly changing port industry.

Rapidly changing market dynamics present ports with major challenges. Port planning and development is no longer a long-term game. Product life cycles become shorter and circular, while industries are confronted with less determined futures. Ports within global supply chains are digital accelerators for efficiency and enablers of timely and reliable deliveries, instead of inevitable gateways where goods pass through. A mind shift is required to look critically at existing business models, while simultaneously developing new ones. Leading transitional change requires a different type of leadership. An executive in today’s port or port logistics industry should have ambidextrous leadership capabilities. Where issues are not perceived as dilemma’s, but as ‘both and’ considerations and solutions.

Learning objectives

The Port Executive Leadership Circle programme will: 

• inspire you and other participants by showing you the latest developments within the port industry. This includes visiting innovative and forward-looking activities around the Port of Rotterdam
• document, analyse and begin to solve some of the wicked problems you and your organisation are working with
• learn to use a leadership compass tool to tackle wicked problems
• make a detailed assessment of your leadership capacities and deliver individual coaching directed at addressing your personal and/or port-related challenges
• create a learning network around port excellence that connects you with an international network of industry peers
• provide you with access to documented best practices to use in future.

This is a programme of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. For more information about the programme, visit our website: RSM.NL/PORT