Foundations for Leadership

Initiating and sustaining profound change

Dates: October 3-5, 2006

Facilitators: Peter Senge and Beth Jandernoa

Location: Bedford Glen Hotel , Bedford, MA, USA. (Formerly known as the Renaissance Bedford Hotel)

Capacity: 36 participants

Tuition: $2800 for SoL members
$3500 for non-SoL members
(This rate does not include the cost of accommodations or dinner)

To Register:
Download the registration form, or contact Stacy Bougie at stacy at solonline.org or at +1-617-300-9560.

Contact Stacy Bougie at stacy at solonline.org or at +1-617-300-9560 for non-profit and team rates as well as for scholarship information.

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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 people's 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 program goes deeply into the domains of 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 Associates and was conceived by Charlie Kiefer, Robert Fritz and Peter Senge as a three-day leadership program then titled "Leadership and Mastery." This course was the origin of The Fifth Discipline.

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Anticipated Learning
The Foundations 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 vision as 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 profound connections between personal mastery and systems thinking, seeing that deep change in our social systems and in oneself are inseparable from each other.

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Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for everyone commited to deepening their capacity for effective leadership - including those in senior management positions and those with no formal authority. Teams are encouraged to attend to further develop their collective leadership.

All participants are asked to make no other commitments between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m on the first two days of the program, and to plan to leave the hotel after 5:30 p.m. on the third day.

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Facilitators
Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is founding chair of SoL. 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.

Beth Jandernoa is an organizational learning consultant who divides her time between the U.S. and South Africa. The scope of her work includes leadership development, dialogue, large-scale participative change interventions, as well as mentoring programs for emerging women leaders. Beth established and directed a Corporate College for Executive Leadership for a $3 billion company with 48,000 employees. She has over 20 years of experience with business, healthcare, education, government, and community non-profit clients. Her recent clients have included Hewlett-Packard, Intel, BP, and Detroit Edison. Beth has taught the SoL Core Course since 1995 and has served on the faculty for Columbia University and University of Michigan's Advanced Program in Organization Development, and for the 10-month Leadership for Collective Intelligence Course offered by Dialogos.

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To register or for more information, contact:

Stacy Bougie
Phone: +1-617-300-9560
Fax: +1-617-354-2093
E-mail: stacy at solonline.org

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.

Some organizational members have tuition-free spaces available. These slots are allocated by the liaison officer for each member organization. If you need help contacting your liaison officer for more details, Stacy Bougie will be happy to assist you.