The Conference Board

Debra Kassarjian
Director of Consumer Insights of Taco Bell Corporation

"The whole experience is incredible. The people I've met through this, the industry-wide experiences I'm exposed to, and the great personal friendships that are maintained are invaluable."


 

Leadership Training and Development Group

Leadership Development

Leadership Forum: Ethics + Business Performance
A new program, limited to 15, launches in June for high potential leaders reporting to the CEO. Tailored to participants' priorities, it explores the tension at the intersection of ethical leadership and business performance, addressing the challenges, and identifying best practices for fostering ethical leadership throughout the organization.

Leadership Experiences
Many senior-level executives identify Leadership Experience programs as the next generation of professional development. The Conference Board Gettysburg, Normandy and Waterloo Leadership Experiences immerse participants in unique learning experiences.

Gettysburg
Revisit the Battle of Gettysburg in the context of today’s management challenges, affording you the opportunity to spend quality time focused on building the leadership skills you need to succeed. more

Gettysburg: C-Level
Analyzing the achievements and failures of those in the thick of combat helps you focus on the parallels to your own business and can instruct, inspire, and better equip you to guide your people successfully through times of chaos and change. more

Normandy
D-Day, with its many leadership successes (and failures), provides a rich terrain for learning important leadership skills—skills that are invaluable when leading a team through times of business chaos, risk, or uncertainty.  more

Waterloo
By studying military leadership, both in victory and in defeat, these programmes identify and explore key elements of good management and strategic decision-making that can help business executives lead their companies to success.  more

 

 Events/Forums

Conferences

Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship
Value-Driven Corporate Responsibility

 

Leadership Development Conference
Building the Organizational Capability to Lead in Complex, Uncertain Times

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Councils

Council on Learning, Development and Organizational Performance
Serves its members in the areas of individual/organizational learning and development.

 

Council on Development, Education and Training
Serves corporate leaders in the areas of individual/organizational learning, development and renewal.

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Forums

Leadership Forum: Ethics + Business Performance
This forum is a unique leadership development opportunity limited to 15 high potential leaders who report to the CEO and are being groomed for advancement.

 
 

Research Working Group

Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer
This working goup will address knowledge-retention challenges that organizations face due to shifting demographics and the search for new leadership talent.

 

Global Leadership Development: Maximizing Value in Challenging Times Research Working Group
This working group will assess the insight of international assignees on their experiences on global leadership and how the effectiveness of global leadership can be dispersed to others throughout the organization.

 

Webcast

Navigating the Politics of Your Organization

 
 

 Publications

Executive Action Reports

Promoted to Fail? How Executive Coaching Can Improve Performance in Newly Promoted Executives
Promotion to a new position with increased, often corporatewide responsibilities can be a tremendous challenge. The following narrative explains how executives in one organization used coaching to prevent a manager from "derailing" in a new position.

On The Record with Ivan Seidenberg
The CEO of Verizon Communications, Inc., New York, New York, explains the importance of developing global managerial talent and implementing cost control methods.

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Research Reports

Leadership, Governance, and Accountability: A Pathway to a Diverse and Inclusive Organization
This report has profiled organizations that have strategically aligned diversity and inclusion practices with general business goals.

Mid-Market CEO Challenge: 2007 Edition
This survey based report provides an overview of the challenges currently faced by CEOs in the mid-market sector.

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