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LFC Lecture with Jyrki Katainen, President of Sitra

The Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change was excited to welcome Jyrki Katainen, President of Sitra, former Prime Minister of Finland and alumnus of Tampere University, as the first speaker of the Leadership for Change Lectures in 2021. In his LFC Lecture, Jyrki Katainen discussed the megatrends of our future. The event took place on Zoom on 22 January 2021.

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The Leadership for Change (LFC) Lectures bring together skillful leaders with experience in dealing with change. Today’s societal challenges are complex and change processes require joint efforts of different sectors of society, which the wide variety of LFC lecturers reflects. The lectures are offered by the Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change enabling students to develop the kind of knowledge and expertise that is needed to explain and understand complex phenomena, become a visionary leader, and to change the world. Through the LFC Lectures we hope to allow the wider Tampere community also to have access to the advice and best practices of visionary leadership minds and organizations and so the lectures are open to the public.

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The application period to study in the master's degree programme in Leadership for Change is about to begin! The application period starts on 7 December 2022 and ends on 11 January 2023. When applying to the programme, you may choose from the three study tracks: European and Global Politics, Sustainable Business Management, and Governance for Sustainable Change. By interacting with staff members from various disciplines – business, governance, politics and international relations – as well as with different societal stakeholders, students will learn to foster new forms of engagement across sectors of the economy and society. The programme prepares the graduates to work in the private, public or third sector in tasks that involve analysing, planning and steering complex change processes.

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"As I listened to the keynote speech given by Sir Mark Lyall Grant , the Former National Security Advisor to the British Prime Minister, I was left wondering about the magnitude of change that we are all facing in 2022. I was left with questions such as what kind of world are we leaving behind for the generations to come, and whether we are able to tackle the multitude of conflicts and issues we are facing today. Should there be new ways of tackling these issues?", LFC student Aino Anttila asks in her reflections concerning the panel 'International security: The outlook for Finland' at the annual Leadership Symposium, organized in Tampere University in September.

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