“The Measure of Leadership Is Not How Many Depend on You” — Dr. Ellen Hagan Challenges Leaders on Integrity at Gold Coast Leadership Conversation 2.0
The Gold Coast Leadership Conversation 2.0, held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, opened with a powerful call to ethical leadership from Dr. (Mrs.) Ellen Hagan, Founder and Group Chief Executive of L'AINE Group and Co-founder of Legacy Girls College, who served as Guest of Honour and Principal Voice at the University of Gold Coast's flagship event, themed “The Business of Building Leaders: Developing People Who Drive Performance, Productivity and Profit.” In her opening remarks, Dr. Hagan challenged leaders across sectors to move beyond building successful organisations and focus instead on building people of character capable of sustaining that success responsibly. “You are not really building a business,” she told the gathering. “You are building people who will build the business.” It was a statement that reframed leadership not as a function of control, but of conscience — a responsibility to shape people who can be trusted with influence long after the founder has steppe...