can support them and their teams in delivering that are continuously refreshed and reinforced with quality work. thought leadership. The content challenges partners to grapple with strategic topics and translate them Reimagined leadership into the context of their clients. Termed ‘futurists’, more than 1,200 partners from across the network Leaders today are grappling with an ever have participated so far. increasing array of urgent challenges confronting the world. The New Equation is We also deliver programmes designed to accelerate our response to helping our clients and other the development of selected partners, to better stakeholders build trust and address these equip them to help both PwC and our clients identify challenges and the intertwined needs every and focus on the opportunities presented by the organisation faces - the need to build trust current world challenges. For example, the Network and deliver sustained outcomes. Achieving Leadership Development Programme (NLDP) is a both of these in today’s complex and fast- 22-month experience that provides 200 partners “My biggest takeaway from the leadership changing world requires a different form from over 40 member ifrms with the opportunity development programme was that being of leadership - one capable of reconciling to engage in a series of immersive activities and a global leader helps you become a better dilemmas, identifying, creating and preserving challenges, working with other partners from around local leader. Also I felt tremendously value, and delivering multidisciplinary solutions the network to expand their views of the world connected and saw the huge opportunity that draw on diverse talent and are powered and increase their effectiveness in leading through that the global network opens up for by technology. We have a variety of leadership complexity and uncertainty. To overcome physical clients, for us and - most importantly - programmes and development opportunities to travel constraints, we used virtual reality (VR) to the opportunity to meet with international grow these essential leadership capabilities. bring remote participants together to solve problems leaders of the ifrm and build pride in collaboratively in real time. Through the power of PwC’s purpose, commitment In the past year, we have launched our VR, participants were able to visit and experience and thinking.” ‘Reinventing the Future’ programme. This is a cities around the world before meeting virtually with major development initiative designed to ensure successful entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders Chaitali Mukherjee, that key client-facing partners are equipped to from those locations. As a culminating outcome Partner, PwC India support our clients in repairing, rethinking and of the experience, each partner then relfected on reconifguring their businesses in light of the their ability to lead through the sustained impact of massive changes happening in the world and COVID-19. Through inspiring TED-like talks, they to build a more sustainable future. It consists revealed how their leadership has evolved to be of a ifve-week series of seminars and tutorials prepared for the moment.