Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

11 May 2006

The CIMA Business Leaders’ Summit, CIMA Sri Lanka’s flagship conference and a premier event in Sri Lankan business circles, takes place on the 1-3 June 2006 at the BMICH, Colombo. With the theme “Unleash your potential” this premier event will help business leaders to continue their professional development and challenge them to explore how they can improve both individual performance and that of their business as a whole.

As a professional accounting institute whose primary focus is ‘Business’, CIMA makes a significant contribution to the management of the country through its annual Business Leaders’ Summit. CIMA has for the past 29 years successfully brought together important business personnel to discuss current and relevant issues, the outcome of which has continuously added value to the economic environment of Sri Lanka.

This year’s CIMA Business Leaders’ Summit seeks to explore the concepts behind, and the practical realities of, how countries and organizations can perform at the highest levels by unleashing the potential of people and it will attract some of Sri Lanka’s key business influencers as well as high profile speakers from overseas. Each year, the Summit generates great interest and offers top quality professional content which has a major impact on the way businesses and professionals conduct their affairs.

Our expert line-up of speakers will provide recent and relevant insight and challenge delegates to think laterally about how they can unleash their own potential as well as that of their people and organizations:

• Our Keynote Speaker for technical sessions is Mr Shiv Kera, business consultant and founder of Qualified Learning Systems Inc, Singapore. “Winners Don’t Do Different Things, They Do Things Differently"
• Dr Chintha Dissanayake, Industrial/Occupational Psychology Consultant of the Oxford Psychometrics in Belgium. She will present her paper on”Success – Hard Work or Just Luck?”
• Mr Elmo de Alwis, CEO and Managing Director of SIGMA Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd, Australia.
  He will present the paper, “Unleash Corporate Potential – The Role of the Business Leader”
• Dr Rob Yeung, will present his speech on the topic “Creating Your Personal Vision” and he is the Director - Business Psychology Consultancy, Talent Space, UK.
• Mr David White, Consultant, Whitehorn Consulting Ltd, UK. He will present his presentation  on “Creating Your Future”
• Mr Simon Murray, Chairman, Macquarie Group of Companies, Hong Kong.

“Creating a Galaxy”

An attendance of over 600 CIMA members, students and professionals from a broad spectrum of business and academic backgrounds is expected at this year’s conference, including allied events.

For further information on CIMA Business Leaders Summit please contact CIMA Sri Lanka Division on +94 112 503880 or e-mail colombo@cimaglobal.com
 

For further information, please contact:
Surangi Ranaweera
Asst. Manager Marketing & Promotions
CIMA Sri Lanka Division
Tel: 94 11 2503880   Ext. 212, Fax: 94 11 2503881
E-mail: Surangi.Ranaweera@cimaglobal.com

Notes to editors

1. CIMA (The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) is the only international accountancy body with a sole focus on business.  It is a world leading professional institute that offers an internationally recognised qualification in management accountancy, focusing on accounting in business, in both the private and public sectors. It is the fastest-growing UK-based accountancy body, in terms of members, in both the UK and worldwide and is the voice of over 155,000 members and students in 158 countries. In Sri Lanka alone, there are 1,700 members working in a variety of fields both in the private and public sector. CIMA students in Sri Lanka number more than 12,000.

2. CIMA prides itself on the commercial relevance of its syllabus, which is in tune with the activities of high performance organisations, and evolves continually to reflect the latest developments in global business. It is committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of members and students, and to maintaining public confidence in management accountancy. For more information about CIMA, please visit www.cimaglobal.com/

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