On Monday afternoon, between 1-4pm June 28, participants were
provided time and space before the conference "officially" started to gather
with colleagues around questions and themes that matter to them. These sessions
were open to all meeting registrants.
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.
PRESENTERS:
Alain Gauthier and Steve
Waddell
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
