ICON NSW: Professional Services Leadership with Mark Rigotti, Global CEO at Herbert Smith Freehills

Mark Rigotti has spent over 10 years in senior leadership roles in law firms including the last 6 years as Global CEO of Herbert Smith Freehills. He will be discussing his lessons learned from those experiences - both successes and failures. There will be some reflections on how to be effective in leading people in a professional services environment as well as the 101 other elements that make up the complexity of leading professional services firms. Mark will also provide his view on the relationship between CEO’s and CMO’s and how he believes they can work together in the most effective manner. His leadership touchstones include objectives:

• To professionalise leadership and management – to make it more 'business like' and step away from the feudal systems of the past, so as to compete.
• To elevate the role and contribution of Leadership – both formal and informal and to make leadership development purposeful and effective, so as to leverage leadership to improve performance and sustainability.
• To drive a high performance culture – one that is constantly seeking improvement year on year, so as to lift performance and improve market position
• To get change ready with a culture of appropriate innovation – not painful conservatism, so as to continually adapt to survive and thrive.

It promises to be a very informative session and we hope to see you there!

Speaker:

Global Chief Executive Officer and Partner - Herbert Smith Freehills

Mark Rigotti is the Global Chief Executive Officer and a Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills. He has responsibility for the global strategy and operations of the organisation. This role involves leading the firm of in excess of 4,750 people across more than 27 offices spanning Australia, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the USA with annual revenues approaching A$2 billion. It is underpinned by a deep belief in serving clients as well as possible, obsessing about their needs and constantly asking clients about what they need and want. Prior to that Mark led the Corporate and Finance divisions of the firm as well as practising as a finance lawyer with a focus on project financing.

Mark is a member of the firm's Global Partnership Council, Chair of the Global Executive and Immediate Past Chair of the Global Diversity and Inclusivity Group.

Mark is also a director of various Not for Profit organisations including the European Australian Business Council; Redkite and Marymount International School for Girls (London).

He is also a member of the Business Council of Australia and the Financial Services Institute of Australia.

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