Influential and successful leaders like Eleanor Roosevelt or Washington Post publisher, Katharine Graham, were true to their core values and beliefs. They led through personal conviction, gaining power beyond their formal authority. Participants will examine their personal value propositions, assess their strengths and identify their leadership style. Questions and practice sessions will focus on leadership challenges drawn from participants' experience. Participants will leave this session empowered to be authentic leaders.

This session will examine the numerous reasons why those who are expected to lead in today's changing business environment are often uncertain of their calling and therefore fail to live up to their potential as leaders. The session will address the fears managers often feel when thrust into leadership roles and explore the skills and techniques needed to overcome those fears by analyzing the four characteristics of effective leaders.

With the increasing speed, complexity and data availability in today's competitive environment, superior decision skills are more important than ever. This workshop will help you improve your decision making skills by offering behavioral insights into how people actually think and make decisions. It then teaches the advanced critical thinking skills and creative strategies needed to manage unfamiliar, highly complex problems or decisions that involve significant uncertainty.

Organizing your objectives and commitments is a basic requirement for effective work. However, most models for doing this do not stand up to the speed, volume and intensity of transactions of sophisticated professionals. This workshop will define a workable method for "clearing the decks": freeing up your attention to maintain strategic focus, balance and creative thinking, and as a means of ensuring that things really get done.

All companies in all industries are facing rapid change that will uproot their traditional strategies and sources of competitive advantage. This workshop will help you discover new ways to sustain and renew organizational competitiveness. We will examine how changing industry structure and cutting-edge technologies are transforming the way that firms compete. We will develop an "ecosystem" perspective of strategy, enabling managers to explore and create new sources of advantage.