BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Public Space - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Public Space X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://publicspace.nl X-WR-CALDESC:Evenementen voor Public Space REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251018T140000 DTSTAMP:20260415T223448 CREATED:20251013T142228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T142228Z UID:10000464-1760518800-1760796000@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Contributions at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2025 in Prague DESCRIPTION:On October 15-18\, 2025 Steven P.M. de Waal PhD will be contributing at several events at the 27th ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference in Prague. \n\nHe will present insights from his books Make Health Care My Care! Seven Routes to a Healthy Health Care System (published in Dutch\, 2023) about innovations by civil leaders in health care and Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership (Amazon\, 2018)\, which delves into how new ICT and media technologies have disrupted traditional power dynamics.\nHe will chair a roundtable about the question ‘Is Trust in leaders shifting from virtue to competence?’. A lively discussion exploring how public expectations of leaders may be shifting from valuing their virtues to emphasizing their competence\, and what this means for trust and leadership in the future.\nAnd as chair of the ILA member community on Trust & Leadership\, co-founded with Ted Baartmans\, he will co-host the workshop ‘How Human History Shapes Trust\, Collaboration and Influence’. This panel discussion brings together three experts from diverse fields to explore how historical trust-building\, cooperation\, and social resilience have influenced leadership-followership dynamics. What if our understanding of leadership and followership has been shaped by myths rather than historical reality? Traditional narratives emphasize hierarchy\, dominance\, and competition as the primary drivers of human survival. However\, emerging research suggests that collaboration\, trust\, and emotional intelligence have been the true catalysts of human success. Leading together means interdependence.\n\nRead more about De Waal’s overall focus for these events ‘Is Trust in leaders shifting from virtue to competence?’ or download the paper he submitted for the conference. \nDownload hier het persbericht (in Dutch) URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/contributions-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2025-in-prague/ CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Afb-ILA-2025-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231016 DTSTAMP:20260415T223448 CREATED:20230928T132350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T145752Z UID:10000401-1697068800-1697414399@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Contributions at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2023 in Vancouver DESCRIPTION:On October 12-15 2023 Steven P.M. de Waal PhD will be discussing why ‘Good’ leaders also need ‘bad’ skills at several events at the 25th ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference in Vancouver (Canada). He will also chair the workshop ‘Business Leaders as a force for Good in Society’. \nFind out more about his contribution in this blog. URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/contributions-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2023-in-vancouver/ CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Vancouver-skyline.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230418T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230418T123000 DTSTAMP:20260415T223448 CREATED:20230417T091826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T114645Z UID:10000390-1681815600-1681821000@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Libraries as strong institutions - Workshop at EBLIDA conference Luxembourg DESCRIPTION:‘Who is afraid of library power? Empowering citizens for a democratic and sustainable society’ is the central theme of the 31st EBLIDA Council & Conference in the National Library Luxembourg\, on 18-19 April 2023. \nAt the conference Steven de Waal will host a workshop in which participants will explore what makes libraries stronger democratic institutions. Social media have disrupted relations in the public arena; citizens have new ways to request a place at the table and to let their voice be heard. This concerns the heart of our democratic system\, its political architecture\, public leadership\, and the roles of public institutions. What can libraries learn from this\, and which role can they play? \nSteven de Waal looks back on this workshop in his blog ‘Libraries as essential democratic institutions in the new public arena’. URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/libraries-as-strong-institutions-workshop-at-eblida-conference-luxembourg/ CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Luxemburg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211021T122000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211021T130000 DTSTAMP:20260415T223448 CREATED:20211001T142126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T142152Z UID:10000353-1634818800-1634821200@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Presentation at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2021 in Geneva DESCRIPTION:Does the New Digital Media Landscape provoke Good or Bad Public Leadership?\nPresentation by Steven P.M. de Waal at the 23rd ILA (International Leadership Association) Annual Global Conference in Geneva. \nThe internet technologies are giving increasing power to citizens. We are now in the midst of the digital civil revolution. This new civil power requires a different style of leadership as ‘one-of-us’- citizens\, combined with rhetorical skills and aimed at the common good. That is one vision\, still a hypothesis. The other one is that this new civil power will be misused by bad leadership: threatening\, divisive\, rhetorical skills aimed at conceiling the leader’s own interest (demagogue)\, provocative for riots. \nWhat will be the outcome in this new battle for public authority? What to do about it in leadership development? \nDisruption in markets and marketstrategies has its roots in the new internet technologies. They gave us platforms\, apps\, websites and social media. This last one changed fundamentally the media landscape\, by adding a third mediachannel of\, by and to citizens themselves. It is directly aimed at them\, filled with their own productions and opinions and a powerful tool for their bottom-up organization of public protest and opinion (‘swarm behaviour’ and ‘permanent public grandstand’). It now also leads to disruption of democracy\, politics and public services\, because it gives new power of information\, data\, exchange and self organization to citizens. It’s no longer just about technology\, but about power\, institutional change and so\, also in changes in the necessary public authority and leadership. It can be analyzed as a ‘digital civil revolution’\, because it is not just a new phase in an ongoing industrial revolution\, but a totally new phase that changes not just industry or economy\, but also societies\, worldwide humanity\, institutions and politics. \n“… not just a new phase in an ongoing industrial revolution\, but a totally new phase that changes not just industry or economy\, but also societies\, worldwide humanity\, institutions and politics.” \nOf course\, because these revolutions take time to make their big effects\, we are now in the middle of experiencing and observing its nature and impact. At this moment we can only come up with hypotheses about the new kind of public leadership\, that is necessary or more fitting or gaining dominance in this fundamentally new strategic context (which of course will influence other kinds of leadership). \nCharacter and Values\nAt the ILA conference in Ottawa in 2019 I discussed if these disruptions will lead to the dominance of civil leadership. In this Round Table many agreed certainly with the strategic analysis of the ‘digital civil revolution’. At the same time there was much doubt if it was not too naive and optimistic about civil leadership as the most fitting new leadership\, missing the bad leadership that was using these same channels to convince citizens or spreading fake news or gaining followership for wrong intentions. Beneath this there was of course a discussion about the influence of the ownership by the commercial providers of the internet industry: yes\, it is a new media channel to citizens\, but they don’t have the ownership of it\, neither on the selection of what they are seeing! The participants at the Round Table thought I was right in describing that the new leadership should have an attitude and style of ‘one-of-us’- citizens\, but that certainly didn’t mean they would have the right character or the right values that fitted the interests of citizens and ‘the common good’! They then pointed to such succesful leaders as Boris Johnson in the UK and Donald Trump in USA. \nPublic Authority\nSo\, in the digital ILA conference of 2020\, which was to be held at San Francisco\, I focused my topic on this next issue: What will ultimately win public authority in this battle for new leadership: rhetorical skills or character and values? Of course I tried to settle this debate on middle ground: The right kind of leadership in character and values will win public authority\, from the moment they have better rhetorical skills. So\, the battle is not between good and bad leadership\, but about rhetorical skills! At this moment many civil leaders are missing these skills\, which is then\, of course a temporary phenomenon! And maybe\, further to be investigated\, bad character leads to faster acquiring and performing rhetorical skills? Of course\, this was not fully accepted at that time in the discussion in several rounds. The discussion mainly focused on my underlying assumption that citizens know what is in their best interest and that they want to and can look beyond rhetorics to (the right) character and values! This is fundamentally a question about the value and sustainability of (representative) democracy\, a discussion that can be expected from this ongoing disruption of democracy! \nThis question as put in the title will be the next phase in this ongoing discussion about the impact of this new revolution in mankind on public leadership\, as a third round in the ongoing yearly ILA conferences. \n \n  URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/presentation-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2021-in-geneva/ LOCATION:Geneva\, Zwitserland CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ILA-2021-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110 DTSTAMP:20260415T223448 CREATED:20201013T093437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T114635Z UID:10000250-1604534400-1604966399@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Roundtable at ILA (International Leadership Association) Virtual Global Conference 2020 DESCRIPTION:Steven de Waal will host a roundtable at the ILA (International Leadership Association)\, Virtual Global Conference\, 5-9 November 2020: \nThe Battle for New Public Leadership: Rhetorical Skills Versus Character and Values?\nThe new internet technologies have disrupted markets. They now also lead to disruption of democracy and public services\, giving increasing power to citizens. Level 1 in this disruption of democracy is classical as the disruption we now know from markets: persons from outside politics now win elections\, mostly by using the platforms and new media channels better than their opponents. Level 2 of this disruption of democracy is still more specific and fundamental: the rise of private persons\, while staying outside politics and even explicitly avoiding every connection with it\, winning public leadership in addressing specific public concerns or issues\, mostly better and more explicitly than the incumbent ‘professional’ politicians.\nThis leads to two major questions about public leadership (and the vision and expectations on leadership in general)\, that Dr. Steven P.M. de Waal will address in this roundtable session:\nQuestion A. Is the new public arena only rewarding rhetorical skills and not true character and right values?\nQuestion B: Is there (internationally) proof of this second level disruption: Are there now more examples of new private persons gaining public leadership from outside politics? \nDisruption in markets and marketstrategies has its roots in the new internet technologies. They gave us platforms\, apps\, websites and social media. This same technological revolution now also leads to disruption of democracy\, politics and public services\, because it gives new powers of information\, data\, exchange and self organization to citizens. It’s no longer just about technology\, but now about power\, institutional change and changes in the necessary public authority and leadership. \nTwo levels of this disruption can be analyzed. Level 1 is classical as in the markets: persons from outside politics suddenly win elections\, using the new technologies better and more systematic\, like Beppe Grillo in Italy\, Trump in USA and Johnson in UK. Level 2 is still more fundamental\, because it changes the battle ground as such: the political arena is no longer dominant\, we now see the rise of private persons\, without participating in the political arena and not even having any political ambition\, directly winning public authority and public leadership\, like Greta Thunberg and many informal leaders organizing bottom up now all kinds of public protests\, like in Hong Kong and Beirout. \nThis leads to two major questions about leadership.\nQuestion A. Is the new public arena not only rewarding rhetorical skills to address this new permanent public grandstand and so\, are true character and the right values no longer important in winning positions of public leadership? Because this new public arena is so dominant and people now have the power of opinion\, public protest and massive organization all leadership\, not only formally public or political\, but also that of private companies and organizations\, must be willing and capable of addressing this new public arena. This will of course influence heavily the selection processses for all kinds of leaders everywhere. So this disruption of the public atmosphere can lead to a change towards a totally new kind of leadership\, and maybe not for the best.\nQuestion B: Do we see proof of this second level disruption (and maybe in terms of leadership this is more promising and hopeful than the first disruption?): Do we observe the rise in countries around the globe of these new private persons gaining public leadership? \nThe main purposes for Steven de Waal to initiate this meeting is:\n1. To discuss these findings and analyses with people from all kinds of backgrounds and countries and\n2. To investigate and collect data and examples from around the globe that might support or refute these issues. \nDownload a brief overview of his topic that Dr. De Waal’s used during the Interactive Roundtable Discussion. \nFind out more about the start of this international discussion with Dr. De Waal at ILA’s Global Conference in Ottawa in 2019. URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/roundtable-at-ila-international-leadership-association-virtual-global-conference-2020/ CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ILA-2020.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191114 DTSTAMP:20260415T223448 CREATED:20191106T145035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T104140Z UID:10000300-1573603200-1573689599@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:The #DigitalCivilRevolution and #CivilLeadership as the only answer - Public Sector Executives Helsinki DESCRIPTION:On November 13\, 2019 Steven P.M. de Waal (PhD) will lecture about ‘The #DigitalCivilRevolution and #CivilLeadership as the only answer’ at the forum “Public Sector Executives: Transforming Finland’s Public Sector” by Management Events Finland. \nAs citizens call for improved public services\, the world governments are moving to modernize their legacy operations for greater efficiency\, cost-effectiveness\, and better quality of life. The Public Sector Executives forum gathers top executives from the state and local government departments and major public organizations to discuss the latest public sector trends and solutions\, such as IoT and automation. Gain deep insights from expert talks\, and exchange thoughts with industry’s leaders through peer-to-peer matchmaking sessions at the event. \nDr. de Waal’s main message\, following his book ‘Civil leadership as the Future of leadership’ (Amazon 2018)\, will be that it’s not just digitalization or new technologies that are challenging or changing things\, but that the main change is not technological\, but in the attitude and power of citizens themselves. So\, following the disruption of markets\, they are now disrupting democracy and public services. We certainly need new public leadership to ‘harness’ this disruptive power. \nHow to adress people’s worries in a sensible\, considerate and convincing way\nPeople now have the tools to organize themselves\, as we can see in all kinds of public protests\, like the Yellow Vests in Paris or in Hong Kong and the Middle East. Elements that are causing these disruptions and are explained in the book are: there now is a permanent public grandstand\, the public opinion is for the first time of and by the people themselves\, people can organize themselves from the bottom-up in short time and massive numbers (he calls this #swarmbehaviour) and runner-ups are winning elections because they better know how to use these new technologies. The public protests are based on the new technologies because now an individual or a small group can organize their supporters online within a few days to show up in public with a multitude of 10.000 people. To do that they no longer need representative organizations or unions. It is a fast and massive movement\, but it is now organized from the bottom up by individuals who are spokesmen for a bigger unrest or concern. Instead of just focusing on this protest and the reason they are on the streets\, we should certainly also focus on the new leadership that is necessary to listen to and address their worries in a sensible\, considerate and convincing (leadership!) way! \nAs his audience in Finland will be of Public Sector Executives they will certainly recognize the deep turmoil and unrest that is going on in the public and political domains. Of course they will be very interested in Dr. de Waal’s basic analysis and advice about the new civil leadership that is now required. Looking forward to this opportunity! \nDownload Dr. De Waal’s presentation here URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/the-digitalcivilrevolution-and-civilleadership-as-the-only-answer/ CATEGORIES:Open inschrijving ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Helsinki-video-poster-2560x1150_tcm8-132186.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR