Leadership Programs of Other Organizations
From the Wharton Leadership Digest:
Abbott
Laboratories
American
Express Strategic Planning Group
ARAMARK
Corporation
Armstrong
World Industries
Cargill
in Latin America
CEO Academy
Clorox
in Chile
Degussa
DuPont
Entergy
Corporation
Ford Motor Company
International
Forum
Lucent Technologies
Movers
and Shakespeares
National
Defense University - Information Resources Management College
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Petróleos
de Venezuela (PDVSA)
PNC Advisors
SAFECO
Insurance Company
Sprint
Corporation Staff Associate Program
U.S. Air Force Academy
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S.
Military Academy
U.S.
Naval Academy
Center for Creative Leadership:
The Center for Creative Leadership is a nonprofit educational
institution headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina that provides
leadership training programs and publishes leadership research studies.
The Chief Executive Leadership
Institute: A forum for peer-driven
leadership education between and among company executives and research
scholars, with the goal of integrating emerging knowledge with the career
systems of leaders and their organizations.
Danish International
Continuing Education (DiEU): DiEU is a provider of courses on leadership and management in Denmark
and abroad, with many of its open-enrollment and customized offerings in
English.
Federal Executive Institute:
Since 1986, the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) in Charlottesville,
Virginia, has provided leadership training for more than 16,000 senior
public administrators. Drawing on executives from U.S. agencies, state and
local governments, and even foreign governments, FEI offers a four-week
program in "Leadership for a Democratic Society," and shorter
programs ranging from "Leadership Communication" and
"Facilitating Government: How to Make Things Happen" to
"360-Degree Leadership" and "Coaching Skills." The
faculty of FEI also provide consulting services to public agencies that
are seeking to restructure their operations and develop their leadership.
General Electric Company:
General Electric Company provides leadership development through its
education and training programs at Crotonville, New York, described by GE
as "the world's first major corporate business school."
ImprovEdge:
ImprovEdge uses the techniques of improvisation
theater in seminars and courses to develop creativity, build teamwork, and
foster fast thinking: "All the advantages of Outward Bound
with none of the blisters!" For an example of its application
in the classroom, click here.
International Leadership
Association and the Center
for Advanced Study of Leadership, University of Maryland: For those with a
professional interest in leadership, including managers, scholars,
educators, community activists, consultants, and trainers, the association
provides information, contacts, and an annual meeting, and the university
center promotes research on leadership.
Peter Drucker
Foundation: The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, founded in
1990, provides educational opportunities and resources to assist social
sector organizations, and publishes Leader to Leader.
Team Concepts:
Team
Concepts develops leadership and teamwork through an integrated,
interactive training programs using sports, seminars, and motivational
speakers. Organized
by former Olympic competitors, it mounts customized programs for
companies, and it runs a three-day open-enrollment program at Lake Placid,
New York, where it draws on the bobsled, luge, skiing and other facilities
of the winter Olympic Games.
U.S.
Army War College: Established in 1901 and based in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, the U.S. Army War College draws more than 300 officers and
civilians for a ten-month learning program on leading large organizations in
fast-changing and unpredictable environments. A portrait in Education
Week is available here.
World
Economic Forum: Based in Geneva, the World Economic Forum is an international
membership organization drawing leaders together from business, government
and academia. In 1992, the World Economic Forum launched the Global
Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) initiative to assist the building of global
leadership in the post-Cold War era. The mission of GLT is to create a
worldwide network of young leaders for addressing contemporary economic
and social problems.
Global Leaders for Tomorrow are individuals younger than 43 who hold
positions of considerable influence and responsibility. They are based in
business, politics, public interest groups, the media, and the arts and
sciences. Each year the Forum selects 100 new participants worldwide.
Among the GLT ranks can be found Lawrence Summers, Anatoly Chubais and
Bill Gates.
The Forum invites GLTs to a special program on the occasion of its
well-known Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and to its Regional
Economic Summits in locations ranging this year from Harare and Hong Kong
to Salzburg and Sao Paulo. There GLTs participate both in private meetings
and in the public program to build their personal contacts and to meet
with world leaders such as former US Senator Bill Bradley and Lord Yehudi
Menuhin.
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