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The Art of Framing Powerful Questions: Conversational Leadership and the World Café

Pre and post Forum tours highlighting the best of Oman; its people, landscape and culture.

April 2008

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The Souq is composed of a variety of informal and loosely associated groups and expected contributions are listed below.

Building Global Strategic Capabilities on The Foundations of Local Culture and Attitudes. Is There a Gulf Management Style?
Can the Gulf Arab Management Style provide competitive advantage? Help us to explore this important topic and guide our future research agenda.
Presenters
William Scott-Jackson Oxford Brookes University is Director of the Centre for Applied HR Research, Oxford Brookes (www.cahrr.org) spending most of his time carrying out research and consulting in the Gulf.

Building Community and Organizational Learning Across Cultures
Members of a community living and working in fifteen countries in the world, share our experience in such a way as to break down some of these barriers, examine our prejudices, create new relationships and enter into new relatedness with other sectors of society. As an organization we have 150 years experience corporately of serving people through education, health, community work and counseling.
Presenters
Christine Anderson leads an international programme in Rome for 32 senior executives from 22 countries
Veronika Schreiner has spent 20 years in the Philippines as a community worker and now lives in Germany

Interaction Between Individual Morals, Corporate Ethics and National Culture Presenters
Presenters
Dr Yuval Dror and Dr Uri Gloskinus

Building Connective Organizational Cultures
Explore how to build a connective organizational culture--one that links members to purpose, one another, and their best selves.
Presenters
Sherry Schiller - Schiller Center An internationally acclaimed organizational strategist, Sherry Schiller helps corporate, public sector, and nonprofit leaders navigate change, build constructive cultures, and unleash their organization's potential.

From Globalization to Global/Local Family and Consciousness
Can we evolve to a "True Global Family", join "heads and hearts" in meeting the challenges before us today? Using dialogue, small/large group sharing, and other activities to insure we have opportunities to be co-creative, co- explorers.
Presenters
Frank Cardelle Four Eagles Programs, Colombiano Instituto -Y-Liderasgo, Bogota, Colombia. With twenty-four years of working with psychology, leadership, team building, and coaching. in over 40 countries around the world, Frank appreciates the richness of cross cultural lessons. www.eaglescircle.org

Making Global Solutions Local - The Journey From Intent to Performance at the Major Energy Company
An outline of the approach and results of Shell EP Wells community in oil and gas explorations. Challenges: leadership, accountability, and effective response. The results: organizational learning as an implicit result, and performance improvement as an explicit result.
Presenters
Ivo Wenzler - Accenture
Peter Hendriks - Shell

Bridging the Divide: An Enquiry into Pluralism Ways to Transcend the Barriers of Conflict and Enjoy Our Humanity and Diversity
Presenters
Lucy Nusseibeh and Jona Rosenfeld - MEND

Engage to Create: Principles and Tools to Bring Out People's Voices
This workshop, based on Action Reflection Learning methodology, allows participants to experience principles and tools that create an engaging and participatory learning environment, while they work on their own challenges.
Presenters
Ernie Turner is founder and president of LIM and co-author of Action Reflection Learning. He has worked around the globe developing teams and leaders of multinational corporations like Volvo, Motorola, AstraZeneca, Merck.
Isabel Rimanoczy is a Legacy Coach and author, and a Research Member at SoL. Frequent speaker at international conferences; she is a Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University, USA.

Assessing Learning Organization: Michael Marquardt Model
By reviewing more than 10 learning organization models the researcher has found out that The Learning Organization Profile is distinguished over the other models by Its: comprehensiveness, realism, applicability, clarity and simplicity of application procedures, also it has been successfully used by over hundred organizations from every part of the world, It is recommended by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) as an instrument designed to diagnose and intervene in order to create a learning organization. It was implemented to assess the Institute of Public Administration in Saudi Arabia without facing any obstacles related to the differences of environmental background or the culture of the organization.
Presenters
Eiman Abokhodair - Director of Programs Institute of Public Administration Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. Ph.D In Higher Education Administration. MS. In Public Administration King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Work experiences: 21 years of experience in management training ( Planning , designing and conducting training programs) for Top and middle management. Consultant and researcher in the field of management.

Acknowledging Diversity
This session shows a practical application of Theory U, developed for education. It helps to positioning your activities, convictions and roles in the context of your team, organization and network.
Presenter
Pieter Schrijnen, is working in the education of planners and engineers, doing research into 'planning as learning', on policy-making as learning process. Active in the Dutch SoL Fractal

LIFELONG LEARNING: Looking into the Future...
Presenters
Adrian Cottin and Simi Benhamú - SoL Venezuela

Corporate Education as Strategic Tool in the Civil Construction Industry
Presenter
Fausto de Bessa Braga - Universidade Federal Fluminense

Training and Teaching across Different Cultures
Presenters
Gerhard Apfelthaler- FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences,
Steve Bakalis- Victoria University of Melbourne,
Martin Neubauer - FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences and
Thomas Schhmalzer - FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences

Teaching Organizational Learning - What Can We Learn?
A dialogue about learning and teaching Organizational Learning: What are cultural differences in learning Organizational Learning? What are appropriate ways to teach Organizational Learning knowledge in different cultures?
Presenter
Christoph Mandl Professor at the School of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna; Research Council Member of SoL; Founding Member and Council Member of SoL Austria; http://www.mlp.co.at/index_en.html

Workshop on Transitioning to a Knowledge Economy in the Gulf Region
The workshop will cover the fundamental principles of Systems Thinking, and provide a framework for understanding complex systems. Participants will be actively involved and will contribute by providing examples based on their personal experience.
Presenters
Andrea Bassi Senior Modeler Andrea specializes in modeling resource depletion, energy, and environmental issues for MI's Threshold 21 (T21) model. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in System Dynamics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Building the Village That Will Raise Our Children
As the world is losing its villages and its sense of connectedness among neighbors, it is losing some of its capacity to raise its children through a village culture of shared values, beliefs, and behaviors. At the same time more schools are being built throughout the world. These schools, however, are primarily designed to teach specific knowledge and skills. Why not design these schools to also be places where teachers, students, leaders, and parents work and live out of shared values and ideals? Why not build an intentional school culture that will not only educate young people in the academic disciplines, but also ensure that they honor the values of their heritage and are prepared to flourish in the global culture?
Presenters
Charles Elbot, Director Denver Public Schools Office of Intentional School Culture, Denver, Colorado

Bringing Business, Education and Civil Society Together Through Actualizing the Global Knowledge Creating Web (GKCW)
An interactive Souq experience with conversation, multi-media and hands on activities demonstrating the fusion of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Creation for larger webs and organizations.
Presenters
Edward A. Jones Ph.D. is SOL Japan Fractal Coordinator, Senior Researcher at Tama University, an event and exhibit producer and multi-media and text author on Knowledge Creation and Organization Learning.
Kyoko T. Jones is the Founding Director of the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund and a published author and recognized expert on international education.

Vulnerability and the Leadership Values Shift
This session examines the power of vulnerability in leadership, as understood by people with a disability who have transformed their situation into a unique contribution.
Presenter
Greg Jemsek- Leadership Plus is a leadership consultant working throughout Australia in community leadership programs, including those for people with a disability. Greg's focus is on the leadership development of program participants.

Learning and the Whole: Experiencing an Alternative View of Leadership
The workshop will explore, against the backdrop of Theory U, the distinction between thought/me and awareness/us - the latter being the transformative field of potential, the Whole - and it implications for leadership
Presenters
Kriben Pillay- The Leadership Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal is a senior lecturer in the Leadership Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the editor of Noumenon, a journal that critically investigates issues of transformation within the nondual perspective

Wisdom & Leadership: Linking the Past, Present & Future
Presenter
Bruce Lloyd - Professor of Strategic Management

Taking It Personal - Valladolid
Presenters
Jim Clarke - EvVox Coaching México

Turtle Camp Leadership Experience - Building Sustainability at an Individual, Community and Global Level
Partnering with the remote Australian Aboriginal community of Mapoon, this 6 day Leadership Experience not only provided the opportunity to contribute to a significant ecological project but also offered leaders the time to critically and thoughtfully reflect on themselves and their businesses - particularly in identifying ways to evolve their present day leadership practice into one that addresses corporate and social responsibility and the need for an environmentally sustainable world.
Presenters
Global Leadership Foundation was established to provide leadership pathways and build leadership capability for people from all walks of life. Its Co-Founders - Gayle Hardie and Malcolm Lazenby and their Associates follow three guiding principles, Self-Awareness & Personal Transformation, Collaboration and Stewardship, to develop vital and exciting projects and programmes which challenge, engage, stimulate and inspire leaders to look at themselves and rethink the way in which they relate to others, the communities in which they operate and the world around them. Karen Delvin is a Director and Founder of Bridges - providing a specific focus on the development of senior leaders from a personal and organisation perspective. Karen is engaged with clients in both the public and private sector and is nationally recognised for her innovative and challenging leadership transformation work. Her practical and extensive skills in leadership development, organisation change and coaching enable her to tailor approaches with clients that achieve both personal growth and business success.

Understanding Complexities (Vicious Nature of Problems): Nurturing Our Hearts by Seeing the Generative (Virtuous) Capacities of Nature Within Us
Presenters
Sheila Damodaran LOPN (Singapore),
Coach O Kereteletswe Office of the President, Botswana,
Madhavi Kapur School Principal

Building Local Capability in Petroleum Development Oman through Workplace Learning
Sharing knowledge between Omani Staff and forum participants, in order to build on the work that Shell International and Petroleum Development Oman has been doing over the last 2 years to develop organizational capabilities.
Presenters
Barry Pieters and Lester Desmond - Shell International

Dialogue - A Tool for Building Empathy
Presenters
Sanjay Khandagle, Surya Rao and Arun Garg - Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd.

From Hatred and Violence to Dialogue and Cooperation: Activists in Binational Peace Organizations Facing Inner and External Complexities
Presenters
Yosef Goldman - Shatil

Applying System Dynamics-Based Tools to Promoting Cross-Sector Dialogue and Mainstream Sustainability Issues
The workshop will cover the fundamental principles of Systems Thinking, and provide a framework for understanding complex systems. Participants will be actively involved and will contribute by providing examples based on their personal experience.
Presenters
Andrea Bassi, Senior Modeler specializes in modeling resource depletion, energy, and environmental issues for MI's Threshold 21 (T21) model. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in System Dynamics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Speeding Up Team Learning Through Building Trust
Presenters
Arun Garg, Alla Surya Rao And Sanjay Khandagle - Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd.

Achieving Continuous Excellence Through Emotionally Engaged Teams in Hindustan Petroleum
This interactive session, will share with the session participants: stories and exercises HPCL has used, mindfulness practices and emotional management techniques to build "Team EQ", and continually develop new skills to create a desired future.
Presenters
Moola Parameshwar - Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd.

Economic Developments in The Czech Republic - Case Study
Our session will contain some information about the transition economy and the developments of the Czech Republic s economy. We will do our best to present our work as a contribution to the Learning Souq. By so doing, we will provide historical background of the Czech economy through the years and try to outline the economic reforms and developments. This would lead and give am idea of how Europe was remarkable for the fact that a great number of peoples and nationalities live within its bounds and therefore the encountering of many cultures and as a result in the past this led to frequent clashes and military conflicts.
Presenters
Jitka Kloudova is Associate Professor at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Management and Economics, Czech Republic and Vice-Dean for Science and Research and International Relations at Faculty of Economy and Business, Bratislava University of Law, Slovakia. She lectures on Macroeconomics and European Integration Processes.
Macit Koc is a Lecturer at Ministry of Higher Education, Deaprtment of International Business Administration, College of Applied Sciences, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman, He is a member of Research Committee, and lectures in the fields of Marketing, Business and International Business. He is also a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Jitka Kloudova, at Thomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic.

Organizational Culture as Tacit Knowledge in Action
We want to share the story of a project that we realized as a working group of SoL Austria. The project concerns the correlation and interdependence of Organizational Culture and Organizational Learning in the development of the Austrian Bioenergy Centre.
Presenters
Anita Frank born in Vienna, studied Spatial Planning and Regional Development at the Viennese University of Technology; has been working for the Viennese University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences and is still a lecturer there; has bee working for an Austrian Funding Agency and has been leading an academic spin-off program; since 1999 member of SOL Austria.
Hanna Mandl born in Vienna, studied music at University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna; has been working as violinist and violin teacher; is working now as dialogue facilitator, systemic consultant and coach at Mandl, Luethi & Partner; is senior Partner of metalogikon; since 2001 member of SOL Austria.

The Body and Conversation Café
An experimental World Café using body (silence, movement, rhythm and voice) along with conversation. How can we involve the body to enrich the way we connect with each other and explore the questions that matter to us?
Presenters
Pierre Goirand - Sol France and Stephen Meng

Saudi Aramco's Global HR Initiatives
The presentation will review as assessment of global readiness, a skill-development program for working effectively across borders, and an executive development program to build cross-cultural understanding and geopolitical awareness of China, Korea and Japan.
Presenters
Patrick Carmichael - Saudi Aramco has over 30 years of international HR experience in training, OD, executive development and talent management. Presently he is in charge of talent management for Saudi Aramco's Refining, Marketing, and international operations.

Sustainable Profitability - A New Business Model for Change
Presenters
Tara Kimbrell Cole - SYNOVATIONS® Pte. Ltd

Ghana Responsible Mining Alliance: A Corporate Citizen Model for Sustainable Community Development and Responsible Industry
The Ghana Responsible Mining Alliance introduces a new, and continually evolving, model for strengthening cooperation between global industries and host communities in developing countries where they are doing business.
Presenters
Elizabeth Randolph RTI International is Director for RTI International's South Africa Office. She supports RTI business development on the Africa continent, in: health, governance, conflict resolution, ICT, and education in Southern and East Africa.
Rebecca Gadell, RTI International is a senior communications and governance professional with RTI International, is a communications leader and innovator known in international development for bringing insight into complex situations and relationships.

Human and Organizational Development through Values
This model and methodology is based on the premise that we develop values in phases and stages that reflect different world views and different ways of understanding and coping with reality. It enables us to identify what are the skills, learning processes, leadership and management styles required to reach desirable values.
Presenters
Concepción Yaniz in Education and Degree in Psycology, she is profesor in Deusto University and Director of support service to teaching in The Institute of Education at the. She is a member of the research team "Development of skills and values"
Lourdes Villardón in Psychology. She is professor in Deusto University and Principal Researcher of the research team "Development of skills and values".
Itziar Elexpuru is PhD. in Psychology and Degree in Education. She is the Director of The Institute of Education at the University of Deusto and professor in this University. She is a member of the research team "Development of skills and values"

Learning from Large Scale Interventions
Join this interactive research lab. What are conditions for success in learning across boundaries with LSI? This lab will result in a large creative treasury map for further journeys in this challenging field.
Presenters
Tonnie van der Zouwen works as an independent organizational consultant and researcher in the field of interactive change and whole systems work. She is doing a doctoral thesis on a framework for meaningful change with Large Scale Interventions.

Developing Generative Change Leaders across Sectors: An Exploration of Integral Approaches
We will share key results of a nine-month field research project within the Generative Change Community and Global Leadership Network, and enquire collectively around optimal conditions for developing the cross-sectoral capability of change leaders.
Presenters
Alain Gauthier - Core Leadership Development - is a senior international consultant, facilitator, coach, and educator whose work focuses on developing integral capabilities for change leaders across the public, private and civil society sectors

Open Futures: Creating Environments Where Innovation Can Emerge
Presenters
Hank Kune- Educore BV,
Edwin Kuil - RWS Corportate Learning Center
Ton Van der Wiel - Office for the Senior Civil Service Netherlands

Sustainability - The Consultants Role in Stimulating Radical Innovation and Facilitating Profound Change
Focus is the role of professional consultants in stimulating innovation and facilitating profound change for a more sustainable development. Consultants working with crossover innovation will be invited to join a network of consultants working for the common good.
Presenters
Lars Wang graduated as Master of Technology (1983) and has also completed studies in management and consulting. He is partner in the strategy consulting group insam as in Drammen, Norway (www.insam.no). He has experience from a wide range of fields, having worked as management consultant, strategy advisor, process consultant and project manager. He has worked for ministries, regional- and local authorities, as well as companies often within a private-public partnerships context. The projects are often characterized by their crossover approaches involving several stakeholders. Lars has also worked within the field of innovation and sought to extend the concept of innovation from a mere technical approach to also include social, environmental and organizational perspectives. Community development and the sustainable development have been of major concern in several of his projects. Lars does also possess international experience, e.g. strategic adviser in a comprehensive program for environmental protection and local sustainable development in Serbian municipalities (2003-07).

Theory ∞: Co-Transform Between Excellence and Innovation into Sustainability
Theory infinity proposes the integrated way between excellence and innovation, and indicates how to avoid such dilemma that excellence caused the stiffest or innovation caused the messiest, in the course of co-transforming constantly, presencing the sustainability of truth, beauty, goodness, holiness and love.
Presenters
Kingkong Lin - Santafe Management Co Nowadays the Diagrammatica experts in Taiwan, regards combining the systems thinking between east and west as the purport, proposes the holistic dynamic systems theory: Theory infinity, to offer theoretical foundation of patterns facilitation. Presently the general manager of Santafe international Consulting Management Co., Ltd.

How to Change the World? The Role of Individual in a Systemic World?
Presenters
Ville Keranen and Tatu Tuohimetsa - Team Academy / Monkey Business

Self-Organizing Lessons From "Hastily Formed Networks"
Presenters
Jeff Clanon - Founding SoL

The New Path of Organizational Development Research Paper: OD Within Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
The Organizational Development (OD) process outlined in this paper suggests a new approach; a dynamic process of generating the evolution of cultural and collective intelligence alongside organizational evolution, implying continuous development and change.
Presenters
Emilia Lenghel - SOPL European Action Research Researcher, United Nations; academic experience as University Professor (Lecturer by contest) in charge with International Projects Development and Coordination, and Business Consultant with experience within East European markets