(K1) Sustainable Leadership: Harnessing the Multi-generational Workforce

Sustainable leadership requires an inside out approach-establishing a clear, values based approach to drive decision making. Sustainable leaders build environments which attract an unfair share of multi-generational talent. These leaders optimize the economic, environmental and social balance; mixing flexibility and accountability to mobilize all generations to take on a complex global business challenges. Sustainable leaders create organizations which generate meaning, challenge, choice and community.

• " Empirical data on what "matters" to everyone across generations
• " Hear how leaders are attracting talent, building branded cultures, and mixing accountability and flexibility
• " How to build "sustainable leadership" capacity at all levels.

Cynthia Scott, Ph.D. is the founder of ChangeworksGlobal, where she has provided the thought leadership and direction for leaders, teams and organization in a broad range of global organizations. She has provided the inspiration and tools for leaders as they guide their organizations through mergers, growth and transformation in the complex global environment. As the SVP of the Leadership Consulting Practice at Lee Hecht Harrison and the West Region Change Practice Leader for Towers Perrin she led and designed large scale transformation and leadership capability development projects. Cynthia is co-author of 14 books, including: Take This Job and Love it, Getting Your Organization to Change, Empowerment, Rekindling Commitment, and Managing Organizational Change. Her work has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Stanford Business School Newsletter, and others.

(K2) When Push Comes to Shove: Adult Learning Research and the Effectiveness of Executive Education

In their 2000 article, Executive Education in the 21st Century, Conger and Xin claimed that, in order for executive education programs to meet their potential to transform the ways in which organizations are led, those programs must rethink teaching and learning. Executive education programs are effective when they produce cognitive growth and strengthen participants' abilities to enact new learning. The body of research on adult learning in professional settings informs our thinking about how to best facilitate executive learning to maximize both the acquisition and creation of new knowledge and the application of new knowledge to transform organizations. In this session, we will discuss the latest research on how adults learn to address pedagogical challenges in executive education.

Marijke Kehrhahn, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Adult Learning at the University of Connecticut. Her research and practice specialties are workplace learning and professional development with a focus on transfer of training, the application of newly acquired knowledge and skills to improve individual and organizational performance. Marijke teaches courses in workplace learning and organizational learning and provides consultation to small and large companies, non-profit organizations, public agencies, and school systems. Her current projects include: designing formal and informal workplace learning for performance improvement, evaluation of HRD outcomes, and new approaches to professional development of healthcare professionals, finance professionals, and school administrators.

(K3) Multi-Modal Executive Learning - Learning Across the Globe

Explore how a "Multi-Modal" approach to learning can enhance executive and management education programs delivered at a distance. You will hear real life examples and gain an understanding of how next-generation technologies are creating the capability to transform the way business professional's access knowledge and enhance learning while dramatically reducing disruptions and time away from work.

Learn how Duke University's Multi-Modal Learning Model allows learning to take place when and where it is most convenient and at a lower cost, while remaining true to the learning values that have made Duke Executive Education among the top executive education providers in the world.

Raymond Smith is the former Associate Dean of Executive Education, Fuqua School of business, Duke University, and is currently the Associate Dean of Executive Education, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.. While at Duke he focused on ensuring that Duke offered high quality and innovative executive education programs that impacted the participants and their organizations in the USA and across the globe. He is the designer of the Multi-Modal Learning System that leverages new communication technologies to enable people from across the globe to engage in Duke Executive Education programs in interesting and dynamic learning environments while spending less time away from their workplace. Prior to Duke, Raymond was with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was responsible for the development of the concept of the Deutsche Bank Corporate University.

(K4) Breakthroughs by Design

Serendipity will always be associated with breakthroughs in the business world. However, hyper-competitive managers have mastered techniques to create breakthroughs by design. Some call it Blue Ocean Strategy others call it Radical Innovations and yet others call it Disruptive Technology. The fact is that if you can assemble the right cast of characters and put them through a structured set of exercises, the chances are that you too can reap the benefits of breakthrough thinking. Do you want to:

• Make your competition irrelevant?
• Delight your customers with unparalleled value?
• Enjoy super-normal profits?

Fasten your seatbelt for a breathtaking learning experience - breakthroughs by design!

Rajan Kamath, Ph.D. is founder of Artesiaa Consulting Group and has served as a consultant for some of the world's leading companies. Rajan serves as the Academic Director of Executive Education University of Cincinnati's College of Business. For the last 5 years Rajan has focused on helping senior managers plan and execute long-term strategy in North America, India, and China. Rajan has taught hundreds of managers how to use his "Sensing the Future" tools in the high-growth centers of Latin America including Lima-Peru, Santiago-Chile, Bogotá-Columbia, Mexico City -Mexico, and Quito-Ecuador.

Rajan was awarded the 1995 Shingo Prize for his contributions to manufacturing excellence. Named after the Japanese engineer Shigeo Shingo, Business Week considers the Shingo Prize to be the Nobel Prize of manufacturing. At the awards ceremony, President Clinton described Rajan Kamath as belonging to the group of management thinkers who "have helped make the very term "Made in the U.S.A." synonymous with high quality".