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The 1st SoL Global Forum
Espoo, Finland - June 11-14, 2003

Keynote & Plenary Sessions

SoL's Learning Journey
Peter Senge, Göran Carstedt , Arie de Geus, Sherry Immediato
Related Materials:
SoL's Purpose and Principles
Marblehead Letter of Invitation

Opening Session Welcoming Reception
Members of the 1st SoL Global Forum Design Team (Christoph Mandl -Austria and Irène Dupoux-Couturier -France)


Inventing Desired Futures in a Global Society
Peter Senge
Related Materials:
Executive Champions' Workshop - August 12-15, 2003
"Looking Back, Leaping Forward" - Mieko Nishimizu

Managing the Macroshift to a Sustainable World
Erwin Laszlo

Improving Business Performance and Organisational Transformation by Developing the Leadership Quality
Juha Rantanen, Ahlstrom Corporation

World Café
David Isaacs, Bo Gyllenpalm, and Margaret Gyllenpalm

To the Desert and Back: The Story of the Most Dramatic Business Transformation on Record - Unilever
Tex Gunning (President of Asia Pacific, Unilever Bestfoods), Philip Mirvis, Karen Ayas and Joseph Jaworski

Why the 1st SoL Global Forum was held in Finland. Learn about Finland's national strategy to become a knowledge society.

Highlights and Memories - Powerpoint slides from the 1st Global Forum Closing session, Saturday, June 14

In five sets of parallel sessions over the three days, participants shared stories and sought feedback about how they are applying organizational learning tools and methodologies in private and public sector organizations.

Regional tensions and opportunities were highlighted as some sessions shifted to a broader cross-community learning focus. And research was presented in the areas of innovation, leadership development, education and large scale change.

Several learning groups have committed to sustaining the energy captured in these sessions by continuing to work together on these issues over time.

SoL is grateful to our hosts from SoL Finland who graciously welcomed us to their beautiful country while modeling an enterprise and integrity to which the whole SoL community can aspire in building our future together.

Video, slides and stories from the Global Forum are now available. Please note you will need RealPlayer installed on your computer to sample the multimedia clips. Participants of the Global Forum can view additional session materials such as presentation slides, photographs, and multimedia clips by visiting the 1st Global Forum home page