Foundation for Leadership

Foundation for Leadership Schedule for 2002

Dec. 3-5 Boston Area

Upcoming Course

Date: Dec. 3-5, 2002
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Telephone: To be determined
Fax: To be determined
Duration: 3 days
Capacity: 40 participants
Facilitators: Robert Hanig
Peter Senge

Contacts
Angela Lipinski
Tel. 508-771-7322
Fax 617-354-2093
E-mail alipinsk@solonline.org

Jackie Tabb
Tel. 617-300-9560
Fax 617-354-2093
E-mail jackie@solonline.org

Program Description
The purpose of this course is to explore the human sources of natural leadership.Leadership is both deeply personal and inherently collective. At its essence it concerns the capacity of a human community to shape its destiny and, in particular, to bring forth new realities in line with peoples deepest aspirations. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of how they can facilitate change, both within their organizations and their personal lives. This is an excellent follow-up for graduates of the Core Competencies Course, as it goes deeper into several domains introduced there; notably, personal mastery,collaborative inquiry, and the systems perspective applied to sustaining pro-found change. Much of the learning occurs through the interaction between participants.This program originated in 1978 as an offering through Innovation Associatesand was conceived by Charlie Kiefer, Robert Fritz and Peter Senge as a three-day leadership program then titled "Leadership and Mastery." In many ways, this course was the origin of The Fifth Discipline.

Anticipated Learning
The Foundation for Leadership workshop places a strong emphasis on the core learning competency of a creative orientation and the discipline of personal mastery. Participants spend significant time developing their personal visionas well as one they desire for their organization. Much of the learning arises through the interplay of personal and interpersonal work. The special contribution of this leadership course comes as people discover the deep connections between personal mastery and systems thinking, seeing that deep change in our social systems and in oneself are inseparable from each other.

Audience
This course is intended for managers at all levels, internal or external consultants,as well as individuals interested in deepening their capacity for effective leadership. SoL courses are one benefit of SoL membership. We also reserve a limited number of seats in these programs for potential members and others interested in this work.

Facilitators

Robert Hanig is a vice president for DIAlogos, Inc. as well as maintaining aprivate consulting practice. He was formerly a vice president with Innovation Associates, Inc. and Arthur D. Little, and the director of the Leadership Practice. At ADL, Robert directed both the companies public training offerings and in-house programs for clients focused on large system change. His client list includes Motorola, British Petroleum, Intel, Nike, AT&T, UNOCAL, Shell Oil, and the World Bank. He also works extensively with Peter Senge and is a member of the governing council of the Society for Organizational Learning. Prior to joining Innovation Associates, Mr. Hanig was president of D.M.A., Inc.,an international training company, working at the leading edge of human creativity and personal effectiveness. He has also held senior management positions in areas of information management and manufacturing managementat companies including Apollo Computer, High Voltage Engineering and Erewhon Foods.For a global oil company, Mr. Hanig designed and led a multi-year intervention using the tools and methodologies of organizational learning to transform a mix of refineries into a world class manufacturing system. Through the design and delivery of educational sessions, individual coaching, and side-by-side consult-ing with the refineries managing directors, Mr. Hanig helped the company move from a hierarchy to a team-based structure, produce better business results, and develop the capacity to accelerate learning into the future. After only a short period of time, the successful transfer of learning organization tools and know-how is already evident at both the corporate and refinery level.Mr. Hanig attended the City University of New York. He has written various articles as well as contributed to books such as The Dance of Change   co-authored by Peter Senge published by Doubleday. He has lectured throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia on leadership, applied creativity, communication, and personal and organizational effectiveness.

 

Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL); a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990) and, with colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith and Art Kleiner, co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994) and a fieldbook The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (March, 1999), also co-authored by George Roth. In September 2000, a new fieldbook on education was published, the award winning Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education, co-authored with Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton, and Art Kleiner. Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. His areas of special interest focus on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals.

 

SoL courses are one benefit of SoL membership. We also reserve a limited number of seats in these programs for potential members and others interested in this work. If a portion of the sponsorship fee has been allocated to educational programs your company may have tuition-free spaces available for which you are only required to pay the $500 registration fee. These slots are allocated by the liaison officer for each member company. If you do not know your organizations liaison officer, feel free to contact Angela Lipinski at SoL for that information.

Registration information will be available soon

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