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The
Inn at Penn, Philadelphia, June 7, 2001
Conference
Agenda
Conference Presenters
Online
Registration
Business firms, government agencies, and
non-profit organizations know that leadership is increasingly critical
throughout the ranks. Most also
have a good appreciation for what their managers and administrators require for
effective leadership within their respective enterprises and markets.
What is less clear is how best to develop
leaders. Most companies find that
traditional leadership development programs are difficult to sustain in the
faster-moving environment of flatter organizations and scarce resources.
But if the old programs no longer work, what does?
Among the challenges facing leadership
development initiatives are the following:
Who
should be included in such programs?
Should leadership development initiatives include only high-potential
managers, or should they draw all managers?
What
is the right balance between classroom experiences, action projects, and
executive visits?
Can
alternative arrangements, such as visits to battlefields, exposure to ropes
courses, practice in rowing 8-person shells, or mountain trekking provide useful
experiences for driving home the principles of leadership and teamwork?
Where
can you find examples of companies like your own that
have developed exemplary
leadership programs?
This conference focuses on the pragmatic steps
that make for effective leadership programs .
conference
agenda
7:45
- 8:00 a.m. Continental
Breakfast and Welcome: Peter
Cappelli, Director, Wharton Center for Human Resources, and Michael
Useem, Director, Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management.
8:00
- 9:30
Good
to Great, Jim
Collins,
co-author of Built
to Last and author of Good
to Great.
9:30
- 9:45 Break
9:45
- 10:45 How Companies
Are Building Leadership, Robert Browning, Director, Global Career
Planning and Development, Colgate-Palmolive; Daniel Holland, Head,
Leadership Development Practice, Towers Perrin; David Shabot, Managing
Partner, Korn/Ferry.
10:45
- 11:45 How
the U.S. Armed Forces Is Building Leadership, Admiral Henry G. Chiles
(ret.) and Commander J. T. Vazquez, U.S. Naval Academy; Lt.
Col. Greg J. Dardis, U.S. Military Academy.
11:45
- 1:00 p.m. Lunch Speaker:
Developing
Leadership at Xerox, Anne Mulcahy, President and COO, Xerox
Corporation.
1:00
- 2:00 Movers and
Shakespeares, Kenneth and Carol Adelman.
2:00
- 3:00 Developing
Leadership at Dupont, Charles Holliday, CEO, DuPont, and Robert
Cooper, Planning Director, Knowledge Intensive University, DuPont.
3:00
- 3:15 Break
3:15
- 4:00 The
War for Talent 2000,
Helen
Handfield-Jones and Parke Boneysteele, McKinsey & Co.
4:00
- 5:00 Leadership Development at General Electric, Steve
Kerr, Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer, Goldman Sachs (formerly Vice President, Leadership Development, and Chief
Learning Officer for General Electric Company).
5:00
p.m. Cocktail Reception
conference presenters
 Kenneth
and Carol Adelman,
Principals, Movers and Shakespeares: Ken is former U.S. ambassador to the
U.N. and chief U.S. arms negotiator, and co-author of Shakespeare in Charge:
The Bard's Guide to Leading and Succeeding on the Business Stage (1999);
Carol is a former official of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
They demonstrate how the works of William Shakespeare are being used to
develop leadership in many organizations.
 Parke Boneysteele,
The War for Talent 2000 Team, McKinsey & Co.
Robert Browning, Director, Global Career Planning and Development, Colgate-Palmolive
Company.
Peter
Cappelli,
George W. Taylor Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human
Resources at the Wharton School, and author of The
New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce (1999).
Admiral
Henry G. Chiles (ret.),
Distinguished Professor of Leadership, U.S. Naval Academy.
 Jim
Collins,
co-author of Built to Last (1994), and author of Good to Great
(forthcoming in 2001) and “Level 5 Leadership” (Harvard Business Review,
Jan., 2001).
 Robert
Cooper, Planning Director, Knowledge Intensive University, DuPont.
Lt. Col. Greg J. Dardis, Director
of Studies in Leadership and Management, U.S. Military Academy
 Helen
Handfield-Jones, The War for Talent 2000 Team, McKinsey & Co.
Daniel
Holland, Principal and Head,
Leadership Development Practice, Towers Perrin.
 Charles
O. Holliday, Jr.,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont.
 Steve
Kerr, Managing
Director and Chief Learning Officer, Goldman Sachs (and formerly Vice President, Leadership Development, and Chief
Learning Officer for General Electric Company).
Monica
McGrath, Director of the
Leadership Program, Wharton School, and President, Resources for
Leadership, Inc.
 Anne M. Mulcahy,
President and Chief Operating Officer, Xerox Corporation.
 David
Shabot, Managing Partner, Korn/Ferry
International.
Michael
Useem, Professor of
Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at
the Wharton School, and author of The
Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons
for Us All (1998) and Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win
(October, 2001).
Commander
J. T. Vazquez, Chairman,
Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law, U.S. Naval Academy.
A
drawing will be held at the conference for multiple copies of the latest books
by our conference speakers, including those by Kenneth Adelman (Shakespeare
in Charge), Peter Cappelli (The New
Deal at Work), Jim Collins (Built to Last), and Michael Useem (The
Leadership Moment).
A
grand prize
drawing will held at the conclusion of the conference for free attendance
at a multi-day learning program offered by Wharton Executive Education.
Program options include the Strategies for E-Commerce, Critical Thinking and Decision-Making,
and the Leading Organizational
Change (other Wharton Executive Education programs can be viewed by clicking here).
To
register online for the conference, click here;
to reserve a hotel room, click here;
and to receive updates on the conference, submit your e-mail address to lead@wharton.upenn.edu.
Discounts
are available to companies associated with the Center for Human Resources and
the Center for Leadership and Change; students and alumni of the Wharton
Executive MBA Program; and members of the Advisory Board of Wharton Executive
Education.
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