The following are the Special Interest Groups that I would have liked to lobby for
but I am afraid that
volunteer duty called and so I was unable to take advantage. Yet I learned much from the quiet
conversations that take place only behind the scenes.
Artful Presence: Finding Wholeness on the Tides of Change
Organizational Learning Principles in Education
Sustaining Multi-Sector Partnerships by Developing Collaborative Leadership
Monday, June 28
On Monday afternoon,
between 1-4pm June 28, we will provide time and space before the
conference "officially" starts for you to gather with your colleagues around questions and
themes that matter to you. These sessions are open to all meeting registrants. Please indicate
when you register which of the following sessions you want to participate in.
SIG01: Building
a Values-Based Organizational Culture: From Common Sense to
Common Practice
ATTENTION:
This Special Interest Group session has been cancelled.
What does it mean
to lead by values in our organizations, and what difference does leading in
this way make in the company culture? How do change agents cope with the challenges of
leading by values, and by what means can we communicate the stories and results that these
leaders generate? Our conversations will focus on various approaches to leading by values,
including: transforming individual know-how into shared organizational knowledge; developing
leadership in self, others, and the larger organization; and building a values-based organizational
culture.
PRESENTERS: Ari Jokilaakso
and
Riitta Suurla
SIG02: Artful
Presence: Finding Wholeness on the Tides of Change
To lead along the
rapidly moving tide of change demands extraordinary presence and
adaptability. That is, we must develop the ability to tap into our innate capacities to navigate the
unknown. This "navigational intelligence" is based on an "engaged presence" that
allows us to
see all experience as valid and so develop a heightened attention to find our way in the most
ambiguous of circumstances. Our conversations will explore presence in the context of four
pathways that lead to the deepening of personal presence and in restoring the health of the
"commons" as a space for deep listening and collective presence.
PRESENTER: Michael Jones
SIG03: China's
New Roadmap: Balancing Social Well-Being with GDP Growth
Recently, the leaders
of China's National Congress met to reexamine the effect of the nation's
rapid economic growth on the social well-being of its citizens. China's leaders are questioning
the assumption that a country's strength lies in its ability to create new knowledge and
technological innovations. They want to secure a society that balances material well-being with
all-round human development, enhanced social relations, and nurtured ecological environments.
Join a conversation to explore the actions we can take to build healthy, responsible
communities and set up global networks to support these efforts.
PRESENTER: Zhaoyi Wu
SIG04: Sustaining
Multi-Sector Partnerships by Developing Collaborative Leadership
Skills
In the last decade,
partnerships across the public, private, and civil society sectors have been
advocated as the new development paradigm. Yet few multi-sector partnerships have
consistently delivered on their expected outcomes. Explore the capacity-building framework
that one alliance used to enable country teams to start and sustain multi- sector programs. Our
conversations will center on the key challenges and learnings of developing co- leadership skills
to achieve that result, including an action-inquiry approach to identifying and accelerating the
shifts leaders need to make in habitual ways of thinking and behaving.
PRESENTER: Alain Gauthier
SIG05: Coaching
at Intel: The Value of Realistic Measures and Methods
Intel has established
a formal, comprehensive coaching process for the organization, HR/OD
professionals, and senior management. Learn about this process, including the differences
between legacy coaching, executive coaching, coaching for alignment, coaching for
development, and life coaching. What creates the greatest value for the individuals being
coached, and how do we measure these factors? Our conversation will focus on the
meaningfulness and usefulness of Intel's current methods and measures. Generate additional
best-known methods and "lessons learned" for establishing a coaching process and using
measures in a large organization.
PRESENTERS: Sean Dailey
and
Nora Hughes
SIG06: Feminine
Models for Leading Globally
Feminine characteristics,
which exist in both women and men, bring a different perspective to
leadership. What are the qualities unique to "feminine leading and leadership"? How are these
expressed (and encouraged or controlled) around the world? Is there a difference in the results
that emerge? What challenges do "feminine leaders" face and how do they transcend these in
action? How can different kinds of leadership collaborate to make a sufficient and sustainable
world that works for everyone? Join our dialogue around these and other key questions,
stories, myths, models, and perspectives.
PRESENTER: Heidi Sparkes Guber
Monday, June 28,
1:30-4:00 p.m.
SIG07: Improving
the Business Case for Taking on Sustainable Development
How can we easily
measure the current sustainability performance of our organization so that
conversations to improve sustainability can begin? How can we integrate sustainable practices
into our business strategy so that it becomes part of the way we do business? Come explore a
proposed business model for engaging an organization in creating a shared sustainable vision
that is integrated into the business plan. Our conversations will focus on ways we can help
people change their mental models about sustainable development and make choices that best
fit their particular organization.
PRESENTER: Henry Frechette
Monday, June 28,
2:00-4:00 p.m.
SIG08: Organizational
Learning Principles in Education
How do we participate,
lead, support and nurture transformative change in our education
systems? The prevailing metaphor of education in the 20th century has been the assembly line.
This mental model has been adeptly resistant to change. What is missing? How do we move
from the rhetoric of educational transformation to reality? What roles can the tools, processes
and principles of organizational learning play? Our conversations will explore how learning
organizational tools and principles can be used in educational settings to construct conditions to
increase individual and collective learning, build learning communities (classroom, grade level,
department, school, district) and increase the capacity to be creative versus reactive with
pressures to increasing student learning. Join our dialogue around these and other key questions
and perspectives.
PRESENTERS: Micah Fierstein
and
Madeline Nold
Ari Jokilaakso
is vice president, human resources, at Outokumpu Technology
(www.outokumpu.com). His background is in R&D and metallurgical engineering (with a
number of publications in scientific periodicals and conference proceedings). He is a member of
the SoL Finland Board and the leader of SoL Finland's dialogue group for organizational
members. He is most interested in contributing to values and learning in organizations.
Riitta Suurla,M.A.,
is trainer, values consultant, author, and managing director of Skills
Academy Ltd. She has worked as a project manager in international networking projects (with
IACEE, Parliament of Finland, and the European Commission). She has authored several
books on values, dialogue, lifelong learning, and knowledge management. She is a member of
the SoL Finland Board and the leader of SoL Finland's dialogue group for values, ethics, and
sustainability. She has developed the Aristos—method™ for practicing values (values create
skills).
Michael Jones
is a pianist, author, recording artist, seminar leader, and speaker. His solo
debut album Pianoscapes (1983) was the first recording on the Narada label. Since then he has
composed and recorded 13 CDs and performed worldwide. Michael has also been a
consultant and leadership educator for many years. Currently, he is on the core leadership
faculty of Dialogos LLC and the Executive MBA and community leadership programs with the
University of Texas, San Antonio. He has an M.A. in adult learning from the University of
Toronto. For more information, please visit www.pianoscapes.com
Zhaoyi Wu
is president of Cindalex Resources, Inc. and adjunct professor of Peking
University. As a SoL China coordinator, he has developed learning web sites and edited the
Chinese translations of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and The Dance of Change. He teaches
"Project Management," "Intercultural Management and Communication," "Organizational
Learning and Corporate Change," "Knowledge Management," and "Train the Trainers"
courses
for major international and Chinese corporations and universities. He obtained his doctorate
from the University of Massachusetts, USA.
Alain Gauthier
focuses his consulting and coaching work on innovative approaches to
collaborative leadership development and organizational learning. A graduate from H.E.C.
(Paris) and a Stanford University M.B.A., he has served a large variety of client organizations
both in Europe and North America, and is currently executive director of Core Leadership
Development. He has adapted in French three of the Fifth Discipline books by Peter Senge,
and is an associate author of Action Inquiry.
Sean Dailey
attained his doctorate degree from UCLA in counseling psychology and
completed his internship and clinical research at South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach,
California. After 5 years in the clinical realm, Sean launched into Corporate America as an
industrial/organizational psychologist for the Boeing Aircraft Company. After 3 years in
operations and production, Sean returned to the Organizational Effectiveness Group to work at
the newly constructed Boeing Leadership Center as a program designer and executive coach.
Sean joined Intel in October of 2000 as an organizational consultant in the Assembly Test
Group.
Heidi Sparkes
Guber is cofounder of TriGlobal Associates, a consulting consortium
specializing in organizational transformation, collaborative learning, and strategic breakthrough.
She is also an investor and activist in The Hunger Project, funding strategic planning and
leadership development programs for women elected to village leadership in South Asia and
grassroots activists in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
Henry M. Frechette
has 22 years of experience in the learning and consulting services. He
was a professor in human resource management at Northeastern University's business school
before joining the Forum Corporation. At the Forum he held a variety of management
positions, including VP of Feedback Services and SVP of Client Research and New Product
Development. He spent 7 years consulting and facilitating senior management teams in the area
of organizational learning with Innovation Associates. Since then, he has founded two
companies and worked in the area of collaborative learning and virtual team learning. He has
published numerous articles and speaks frequently on systems thinking and organizational
learning.
Micah Fierstein is
director of the Change Institute. He has been helping transform the
organizational culture of schools and classrooms for 26 years. Micah is a contributor to
Schools that Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. He has presented at national conferences
such as Systems Thinking in Action, Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development,
International System Dynamics Society, National Council of Continuing Education and
Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership. He received his master's in education from
Harvard University and doctorate in education from Oregon State University.
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