Justin Kirkland, account manager at Fujifilm Australia, has been voted the 2024 FESPA Future Leader, following an intensive two-day Future Leaders workshop.

Preceding the FESPA Australia Annual conference, the FESPA Future Leaders Program is a professional and personal development program to identify and develop emerging leadership talent.

Now in its third year, the program further develops the leadership skills of 12 experienced industry professionals in a two-day intensive workshop facilitated by Carl Harman.

To date, the program has had 36 potential leaders undertake its programme.

Lisa Michalanney, co-owner of Signage World in Adelaide received the second-place nomination. Both Kirkland and Michalanney will receive subsidised trips to FESPA in Berlin in May 2025.

Delegates from this year’s program included: Wayne Costain from DRK LBL, Anna Di Giantomasso from IVE Group, Justin Kirkland from Fujifilm, Mary Kung from Imagebox Group, Christopher La Greca from IVE Group, Lisa Michalanney from Signage World, Will Potts from Tint Design, Rahul Reddy from IVE Group, Peter Smith from HVG Graphics Media, Ben Templeton from Durst Oceania, and Emily Watterson and Chris Williams from Cactus Imaging.

“The Future Leaders program is one of FESPA Australia’s greatest achievements,” Davies told attendees of the FESPA Australia Annual conference.

“We have three objectives with this program. Our first is to develop the participants’ leadership skills using world-class coaching techniques normally accessible to leading executives.

“The second is to seed networking and relationships between diverse leaders by here and internationally. The final is to give the participants a deeper understanding of our industry and the opportunity to contribute to the debate on key issues facing our industry.”

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