Season 1 Episode 8

Lillian Barnard on how to lead in the evolving workplace

01 June 2022 · 18:48 min

Microsoft South Africa CEO Lillian Barnard is one of the country’s leading technology executives, and has built a highly-skilled team to run the company. Barnard has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and has held various senior executive positions – both locally and abroad. She joined… Microsoft in May 2017 as Public Sector Director and was appointed as MD of Microsoft South Africa in March 2019.In this Business Talk interview, Barnard discusses how technology has transformed leadership over the past two years. She explains how the workplace has changed in this time, and that leaders have therefore needed to build hybrid environments that suit the new needs of their employees. Barnard contextualises this by highlighting key findings from Microsoft’s Work Reworked Research. She then details some of the challenges posed by the return to the workplace, or the adoption of a hybrid working approach, before expanding upon how leaders can approach these obstacles. Show more