Agile Leadership in an Ever-Changing World

AGILE LEADERSHIP—Staying Ahead of the Pack in an Uncertain Economic Climate

The New Leadership America format is a series of three stand-alone sessions. Each 2009 session will be limited to 25 participants and will address leadership competencies critical to Agile Leadership in the current economic climate. The third seminar will have an optional trip to China to experience the realities of international assignments and provide participants a global perspective on the economy.

Conversations will center on using the expertise of Connective Leaders, who rely on multiple short-term coalitions, rather than long term alliances; who identify the talents of others to realize strategic goals; who collaborate and contribute to others' goals to achieve a larger good; who inspire others' responsibility and creativity to move the agenda forward; and who see mutual solutions where others see only mutual roadblocks.

AGILE LEADERSHIP—Staying Ahead of the Pack in an Uncertain Economic Climate
Chicago, IL
April 19-21, 2009

The opening session will use Chicago as a learning laboratory to explore rapid response solutions to matters posed by economic instability. Participants will discuss specific issues and explore unique solutions to the unusual challenges facing our organizations as well as our personal finances.

AGILE LEADERSHIP—Technology Innovations: Powering A More Flexible Leader
San Francisco/Silicon Valley, CA
July 19-21, 2009

Technology breakthroughs continue to create a growing awareness of connectedness at all levels. Nuclear energy, computers, satellite TV, lasers and biotechnology, organ transplants, space exploration, and the internet: all these and more have forced us to see the world as a single, albeit complicated, system, one immense set of interrelated pieces. Connective leaders who know how to bring together all the diverse, interdependent parties, even those who feel they have conflicting agendas, will achieve important goals more effectively in this new environment.

Googling, instant messaging, blogging, twittering, skyping and facebooking all became critical paths for communication and research in a nano-instant! Learn what is on the drawing board in technology for the near future that will impact your business. Return from this odyssey with tomorrow's tools ready to be the best informed leader of change.

AGILE LEADERSHIP—Navigating the World: Connecting the Global Economy Washington, DC,
October 11-13, 2009
Beijing & Shanghai, China
October 13-24, 2009

Whether continuing to China or ending the New Leadership America 2009 in Washington, DC. participants will gather valuable information from Washington officials on the state of the economy by the beginning of the fourth quarter. They will hear what is working and what is not working. Most importantly, they will have an intimate look at how the national and international financial and political climates affect the industries and organizations represented by the class members.

Following briefings from State Department officials and economic policy leaders in Washington, DC, 2009 Leadership America international participants will fly to Beijing. As a presentation of The Women's Museum, Leadership America will access the experience and expertise of the Smithsonian Institute to plan and implement this trip.

This overseas session will feature an incisive look at China's economy and its ever-expanding impact on the world marketplace. This session will provide an unequaled opportunity to connect to women leaders in a country whose destiny is inevitably intertwined with our own. The interaction among women leaders from China and the US will heighten global awareness of where and how our agendas coincide, provide resources to lead with connectivity and agility in a rapidly changing world forum, and create a global women's leadership network.

Tuition Costs:

$1,600—cost per individual stateside session

$6,000—cost for the individual international session

$259.00 Visa Fee—Deadline September 1, 2009

*None of the above costs include airfare or hotel accommodations. Tuition includes most meals.

**Includes airfare from Washington, DC to China by way of Chicago, airfare from Shanghai to most major US airports by way of Chicago, airfare within China, hotel accommodations and most meals.

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