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Executive Symposium

Leadership for Transformative Governance Models

A high-level executive symposium for ministers, undersecretaries, and public authority leaders in Oman

Ertiqaa
2025

Transformation Outpaces Governance

Governments are making rapid progress in digitising services, deploying shared platforms, and advancing national AI strategies. In Oman, these efforts are strongly aligned with Vision 2040 and reflected in successive Digital Transformation Annual Reports.

  • Digital initiatives are spread across institutions, but accountability for outcomes is unclear
  • Platforms and data exist, yet citizen experiences remain fragmented
  • Leaders are expected to steer transformation without always seeing where their mandate begins or ends

The Approach

The symposium was designed as a high-level executive forum, not a training programme. It created space for reflection, peer dialogue, and shared sense-making among ministers, undersecretaries, governors, regulators, and CEOs of public authorities.

Four Progressive Blocks

  • Leading with Co-Intelligence

    Understanding how leadership changes when humans, digital systems, and AI work together, and how to manage organisational and emotional dynamics.

  • Leading for Life Events

    Shifting from institution-centric digitalisation to citizen-centric service design across life events.

  • Leading for Value

    Examining how digital technologies create value and risk, including unintended and systemic effects.

  • Leading Towards Transformative Governance

    Exploring governance models, trade-offs, and leadership roles required to steer transformation across institutional boundaries.

The Outcomes

The symposium produced outcomes appropriate to its senior audience, rather than prescribing solutions, it encouraged leaders to surface assumptions, tensions, and practical constraints from their own contexts.

A shared leadership language for digital transformation
Greater clarity on roles, mandates, and accountability
A reframing of digital transformation as a governance and leadership challenge, not an IT project
Increased confidence among leaders to guide transformation without needing technical expertise

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