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Linkage’s Thought Leader Series is a convenient and cost-effective way to bring some of the most world-renowned leaders right to your organization. These 90-minute live broadcasts can be easily integrated into your existing leadership and management devel-opment programs. The broadcasts can be viewed by satellite and webcast and include an interactive Q&A session with the featured presenter. Additionally, Linkage makes the broadcasts available “on-demand” after the original broadcast date.

Malcolm Gladwellon Why People are SuccessfulJune 17, 201011:00AM–12:30PM ET

Dan Heathon How to Change Things when Change is HardMay 12, 201011:00AM–12:30PM ET

Spring 2010

Carlos Gutierrezon Leadership from Top to BottomMarch 11, 201012:00PM–1:30PM ET

Marshall Goldsmithon The Positive Actions Leaders Must Take to Start Winning AgainApril 14, 201011:00AM–12:30PM ET

Sheena Iyengaron The Art of ChoosingSeptember 15, 201011:00AM–12:30PM ET

Hank Haneyon A Roadmap to ExcellenceOctober 19, 201011:00AM–12:30PM ET

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The 2010 Thought Leader Series

Participate in WORLD-CLASS, interactive Management & Leadership training via Satellite, Webcast, and/or DVD

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Lynda Grattonon Creating Performance Driven Innovation within your OrganizationNovember 17, 201011:00AM–12:30PM ET

Michael Robertoon How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before they HappenDecember 8, 201011:00AM–12:30PM ET

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Carlos Gutierrezon Leadership from Top to Bottom

“Carlos Gutierrez understands the world of business, from the first rung on the ladder to the very top. He knows exactly what it takes to help businesses grow and to create jobs.”

Throughout his career, Carlos Gutierrez has witnessed many different styles of leadership and he has incorporated the best of these traits into his own life. His leadership journey provided him an up-close view of both corporate leaders and heads of state and from

his own experience ascending the leadership ladder. With firsthand experience in the vast opportunities America has to offer, Carlos Gutierrez has a rich range of perspectives on the world of business. He understands the point of view of the salesman just starting out, the immigrant forging a career in a new country, the corporate execu-tive steering a company with a household name, and the government official working to advance business around the world.

Participants in this program will learn:

• The varied approaches and surprising tactics all great leaders have in common

• Why having the will to lead and the desire to embrace risk cre-ates dynamic leaders

• How to foster environments where innovation can thrive and superior results can be produced

Carlos Gutierrez is the son of Cuban immigrants who began his career selling Kellogg’s cereal to small grocery stores in Mexico City and eventually rose to become the youngest CEO in the 100-year history of Kellogg Company. Gutierrez, faced the challenge of reversing the downward spiral in which the respected company found itself. Kellogg had been under-performing for more than five years and was losing out to its major competitor, General Mills. Pledging to boost profits, Gutierrez developed a strategy that would effectively reinvent how Kellogg did business and through a series of acquisitions expanded Kellogg’s presence in a number of non-cereal areas. Gutierrez directed the Kellogg toward brand building and launching new products to in-crease sales. To ensure Kellogg maintained its well-known and trusted name in its key categories, Gutierrez increased marketing efforts and entered into licensing agreements with leaders in children’s enter-tainment, including Disney and Nickelodeon. The new strategic plan executed by Gutierrez produced results. Between 1999 and 2003 sales increased 43 percent and earnings 131 percent. Because of his success there was speculation Gutierrez might be lured by a larger company to bring about another turnaround. In 2005, he was tapped to be the 35th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He now currently sits on the board of several companies including United Technologies, GLW Corning, and Occidental Petroleum.

Marshall Goldsmith on The Positive Actions Leaders must Take to Start

Winning Again “MOJO moves us to define who we are in a new and illuminating way! MOJO is a guidebook for the leaders of the future.”

— Frances Hesselbein

Mojo is the moment when we feel we’re ‘on a roll’, firing on all cylinders, and everyone around us senses it. When we’re moving forward, making prog-ress, achieving goals, clearing hurdles, passing the competition—and doing so

with increasing ease. Sports people call this being “in the zone;” oth-ers describe it as “flow.” Marshall describes it as Mojo--“that positive spirit toward what we are doing now that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside.” Mojo plays a vital role in our pursuit of hap-piness and meaning because it is about achieving two simple goals: loving what we do and showing it. And it becomes apparent when the positive feelings toward what we are doing come from inside us and are evident for others to see. In other words, it is the moment when there’s no gap between the positive way we perceive ourselves—what we are doing—and how we are perceived by others.


• The three elements needed to maximize professional and personal mojo

• How to gauge work in terms of mojo• How professionals can measure both ‘personal’ and ‘professional’

mojo in their daily lives Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There is a New York Times best seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman award for Best Business Book of the Year. It has been translated into 23 languages and is a listed best seller in six different countries. Marshall has been ranked as #14 of the Top 50 Thinkers globally. The American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. Ma-jor business press acknowledgments include: Business Week – most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development, The Times (UK) – 50 greatest living business thinkers, Wall Street Journal - top ten executive educators, Forbes - five most-respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence – top five thinkers on leadership, Eco-nomic Times (India) and Fast Company - America’s preeminent ex-ecutive coach. Dr. Goldsmith’s Ph.D. is from UCLA. In 2006 Alliant International University honored Marshall by naming their schools of business and organizational studies - the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. Marshall is one of a select few advisors who have been asked to work with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams. He is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches. He served as a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years.

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Dan Heathon How to Change Things when Change is Hard

“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business.”

— Mark Sanborn

Consider change at every level—in-dividual, organizational, and societal. Maybe you want to help your brother beat his email addiction. Maybe you need your team at work to act more frugally because of the times. Maybe you wish more of your neighbors would

bike to work. Usually these topics are treated separately—there is “change management” advice for executives and “self-help advice” for individuals and “change the world” advice for activists. That’s a shame, because all change efforts have something in common: For anything to change, someone has to start acting differently. We believe there’s a way to do exactly that, and to see how, we’ve got to explore one of the most fascinating findings of modern psychology. This framework is designed for people who don’t have scads of authority or resources. Whether the switch you seek is in your family, in your charity, in your organization, or in society at large, you’ll get there by making three things happen. Come find out what those things are.


• The three part framework to help you change things in tough times

• How to make those change efforts stick• How to turn seemingly hard changes into much easier change

effortsDan Heath is the co-author, along with his brother Chip, of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die . Made to Stick is a Business Week and New York Times bestseller, and it has been translated into 23 languages, including Thai, Arabic, and Lithuanian. Amazon readers voted it one of the top 100 books of 2007, and Amazon editors named it the #2 business book of the year. Dan’s new book, Switch, is scheduled for release in February 2010. Dan co-authors a monthly column for Fast Company magazine and serves as a Consultant to the Policy Programs at the Aspen Institute. He has taught and consulted with organizations such as Microsoft, Macy’s, Nestle, and the American Heart Association. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Dan conducted research and wrote case studies for Harvard Business School, and more recently, he worked and taught in the executive education division of Duke University.

Malcolm Gladwellon Why People are Successful

“People don’t rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn’t.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Why are people successful? The secrets of success can be decoded—and copied and reconstructed. In his stunning new book, the bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink reveals the real—and mostly overlooked—secrets to extraordinary success. As in his

earlier books, Gladwell builds his case with stories of real people, bril-liantly told from an all-new perspective. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little atten-tion to where successful people are from: their culture, their family, and their generation. Gladwell explains what Bill Gates, the Beatles and other world-class successes have in common, how culture affects their careers and performance, why some cultures are good at math and what drives the so-called “achievement gap” in American educa-tion. Along the way, Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions about what makes a person successful. He creates an entirely new model for nurturing success and suggests ways to give people the best opportunities to succeed. Because we so profoundly personalize success, we squander human potential. We miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung.


• The kinds of circumstances and backgrounds shared by high performers

• The predictors of success we consistently overemphasize as well as those we continue to underemphasize

• Some provocative suggestions on how to nurture successMalcolm Gladwell has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, and practical to business and general audiences alike. He’s become so successful at this that, in 2005, Time Magazine named Malcolm one of its 100 Most Influential People. Malcolm’s book Outliers: The Story of Success is having an even greater impact than his first two books. In Outliers, Malcolm suggests an exciting new approach to helping people succeed by using the factors that really foster success. Outliers debuted as a #1 bestseller for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Publisher’s Weekly. He is the author of two other New York Times #1 bestsellers, The Tipping Point and Blink. With his first book Malcolm gave organizations new tools for understanding how trends work. In Blink he analyzed first impressions—the snap judgments that we all make unconsciously and instinctively—and he explores how we can master this important aspect of successful decision-making. Malcolm is a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His editor describes his work as a new genre of story, an idea-driven narrative that’s focused on the everyday and combines research with material that’s more personal, social and his-torical. He now has another bestseller, What the Dog Saw, a compila-tion of essays from his writings in The New Yorker magazine.

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Sheena Iyengar on The Art of Choosing

“Choice is the only tool that we have to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.”

— Sheena Iyengar

In our world of interconnected com-merce, technological revolution, shift-ing political and cultural forces, our de-cisions have far-reaching consequences. Whether mundane or momentous, our choices give us the power to define ourselves and shape our lives. In this presentation, Dr. Sheena Iyengar

takes the audience into this complex and dynamic process, revealing why we make the choices we make, and how we can choose better. Whether she is speaking to students, community leaders or CEO’s of major corporations, Dr. Iyengar’s insights always leave attendees inspired about their power to choose.


• How leaders can improve on the skill of choice

• Why giving a customer, subordinate or colleague too many choices can actually be detrimental

• Why leaders choose against their best interests

• Whether the desire for choice is an innate trait or driven by culture

Sheena Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division of the Columbia Business School. She has taught on a wide variety of topics at Columbia for MBA and Executive MBA students, including leadership, decision making, creativity, and globalization. Dr. Iyengar was also recently selected by Columbia Uni-versity’s President’s Office to teach at the Global Leadership Fellows Program at the World Economics Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. One of the world’s experts on choice, Dr. Iyengar received a dual degree from the University of Pennsylvania, consisting of a B.S. in Econom-ics from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. in psychology with a minor in English from the College of Arts and Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University. During her studies at Stanford, Dr. Iyengar became interested in how people make choices, particularly the importance and universality of choice in people’s lives In 2002, she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Social Scientists by the Executive Office of the President. Throughout her career, her research has not only appeared in many respected academic journals but is also regularly cited in the media, including periodicals such as Fortune and Time magazines, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, on National Public Radio, and in popular books including Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz.It is her passion for this subject matter that led Dr. Iyengar down the extraordinary path of writing her forthcoming book The Art of Choosing (publication date March 2010). Whether mundane or life-altering choices define us and shape our lives. In her book, Dr. Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose Dr. Iyengar’s award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound.

Hank Haney on A Roadmap to Excellence

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hank Haney was once asked by Forbes Magazine for the parallels between planning for retirement and golf instruction. The answer he provided below can be applied by every corpo-rate leader as they think about the challenges of business success in 2010. Hank’s answer was “There are paral-

lels. The most important thing you can have is a plan, whether that’s for your investments or your golf game. You have to be patient. Both require long-term approaches. There are ups and downs, and you can’t get too high with the ups or too low with the down. Today’s program will provide the tremendous insight that can be applied anywhere from the 18th green to the boardroom from the founder of Hank Haney Golf, Inc. and top ranked coach of several major championship winners.


• The importance of having a roadmap to guide an individual or organization toward its goals

• How to better diagnose the challenges that currently exist

• Why organizations need to set realistic goals for their organiza-tion

Hank Haney developed his desire to teach while majoring in educa-tion at Tulsa University graduating in 1977. In the years since, Hank has enthusiastically set out to be a great instructor of the golf swing. He has steadily built a reputation as an instructor, not only to the club level player, but to touring pros as well. After working as either the Head Pro, Director of Instruction or Director of Golf at several large golf operations, Hank Haney opened his own golf instruction center in 1991. Hank Haney also operates 4 teaching facilities in the Dallas, Texas area. Hank Haney works with his students to develop an accurate plan to improve the flight of their golf ball. By giving cause and effect analogies, coupled with physical hands on examples, the student and instructor can create a relationship that will produce positive results. Hank has taught more than 200 touring profession-als from the PGA, LPGA, and European, Japanese, and Asian tours and his pupils have wonder every one of golf ’s major events in both the professional and amateur ranks. He has written articles for nu-merous publications including Golf Digest, Golf Illustrated Magazine and the Dallas Morning News. Hank has authored 4 books on golf instruction and has worked with many organizations and businesses including the following: Nike, Buick, General Motors, ESPN, Ely Lilly, CA, IBM, Nortel, EDS, American Express, FBR, Jones Day, Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, Breakfast Club of America, Chevron, Morgan Stanley, Arean Sports, Golfsmith, PGA of America, European PGA, and many others “My philosophy as a teacher is to teach my students to become their own best teacher by getting them to understand the flight of the golf ball and how it relates to the swing, with emphasis on swinging the golf club on their own correct swing plane”.

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Lynda Gratton on Creating Performance Driven Innovation within

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Michael Robertoon How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before they

Happen “A good problem-finder recognizes that small problems often do not occur due to the negligence or misconduct of an individual. Instead, small errors frequently serve as indicators of broader systemic issues in the organization.”

— Michael Roberto

Do you want to find and prevent problems before they happen?

Are you tired of “fighting fires”? Start “detecting smoke” — so you can fix your company’s problems before they erupt into crisis! Your most dangerous problems are the ones you don’t even know about. Michael will help you hunt down those hidden, festering issues: the ones that could destroy your organiza-tion if you don’t discover them soon. Michael A. Roberto teaches the skill sets you need to become a world-class “problem hunter.” Roberto shows leaders how to get past dangerous information “filtering”, and watch how people behave, not just what they say. You can learn to pick meaningful patterns out of raw data and encourage smarter risk-taking and “useful failures.” Roberto first identifies the diverse, sometimes surprising reasons why problems typically fester in the shadows, ignored and unaddressed. You’ll discover how to become a business “anthropologist,” observing how your employees, custom-ers, and suppliers actually behave, not just how they’re “supposed” to behave. Last learn how and when to circumvent your gatekeepers to see crucial raw data...how to “connect the dots” among issues that seem unrelated, but are really signs of a deeper pattern.


• How to hunt down the potential disasters that lie hidden below the radar of most management planning and strategic decision-making

• The structural and interpersonal factors that prevent early detec-tion of hidden problems

• Some skills and techniques for making sure that you recognize them anyway

• How to build a culture that enables your team to act on what you’ve learned

Michael Roberto is a preeminent authority on strategic decision-mak-ing, senior management teams, and neutralizing hidden threats to your organization. Professor Roberto has studied how interpersonal dynamics cause catastrophic organizational failures (such as the Co-lumbia Space Shuttle accident and the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy) and how to structure decision-making processes for success. He helps senior executives build the consensus that successful implementa-tion of a strategy requires and uncover potential disasters before they destroy your strategy. His newest book, Know What You Don’t Know, helps business leaders find and prevent problems before they happen, with practical techniques for recognizing hidden signs of trouble and for defusing the potential threat. Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University.

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>> The High Impact Leadership Model™

Leadership ResponsibilitiesCreating the Vision: The leader and her/his team transform the charge or mission they have received from the organization into a vi-sion that creates passionate commitment and an unwillingness to fail.

Creating the Organization: The leader enables the development of an organization that is consistent with the vision and culture of its members, provides processes and structures capable of achieving strategic goals, is permeable to outside influence, and can adapt to changing economic, technical, financial and business environments.

Building a Culture of Innovation: The leader creates and sustains a culture that systematically anticipates future demands and seizes future opportunities.

Motivating the Team: The leader focuses her/his efforts on develop-ing people in the directions that will enable them to continue to be effective in the future.

Producing Results: The price of entry into a leadership role. The leader enables the organization and its members to accomplish ever higher levels of achievement.

Leadership CompetenciesFocused Drive: The competency of focusing on a goal and harnessing your energy in order to meet that goal

Emotional Intelligence: The competency of understanding and mastering your emotions (and recognizing the emotions of others) in a way that instills confidence, motivates, inspires, and enhances group effectiveness

Trusted Influence: The competency of effectively influencing others by evoking their trust and by placing trust in others to enable their success

Conceptual Thinking: The competency of conceiving and selecting innovative strategies and ideas for your organization

Systems Thinking: The competency of rigorously and systematically connecting processes, events, and systems

Leadership Skills For Emerging Leaders:Decision Making: The skill of using empowering processes to drive decisions and take action

Relationship Building: The skill of understanding the components of emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness that help you build the long-term networks you need

Leading Teams: The skill of inspiring and driving a team to go be-yond the expected

For Senior Leaders:Strategic Thinking: The skill of using powerful frameworks and approaches for diagnosing and anticipating competitive threats and taking action on the strategic concerns of your organization

Communication: The skill of communicating and relating to a broad range of people internally and externally

Leading Change: The skill of understanding and using the most ef-fective tools and processes to drive needed change

For Both:Coaching/Mentoring: The skill of mastering a comfortable coaching style and using it strategically to improve performance

Personal Productivity: The skill of managing yourself and your priorities to take on additional challenges and be successful at the next level

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HIGH IMPACT LEADERSHIP MODEL™

The foundation that drives the selection of our speaker lineup is the High Impact Leadership Model (HILM). The HILM, co-developed by Linkage and Warren Bennis, is based on over 50 years of empirical observation into the behavior and performance of hundreds of thousands of managers and leaders around the world.

This observation culminated in a 2-year, longitudinal study comparing managers and leaders that consistently delivered better results with those who delivered only average results. The behavior-based competencies and skills found to differentiate the two sets make up the competencies, skills, and responsibilities in the model.

Over the last 12 years, the HILM has been validated and refined through application with over 100,000 thousand leaders and managers around the world making it one of the most reliable and valid leadership frameworks available today.

Each speaker within this series seeks to cover one of these areas but will touch upon several others within their presentation. Many companies will identify the areas that need to be covered within their organization and combine our upcoming lineup with our extensive on demand library to construct a customized, focused internal leadership series.

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For over a decade, thousands of customers have leveraged Linkage’s Thought Leader Series because of its tremendous quality, impact, and return on investment. Real customer examples include:

• A Fortune 100 multinational organization that re-brands the broadcasts as their own Distance Learning Executive Series and offers the programs to managers and executives around the world.

• A 60,000 person governmental agency that uses the live broad-cast as well as an Extended View Option (a DVD or Web recording that is circulated to those unavailable for the live broadcast) to ensure that its current executives and high-potential managers are continually honing their leadership skills despite travel and budget restrictions.

• A mid-size, high-growth private company that uses the series throughout the year by building the 90-minute broadcasts into a series of day-long blended learning development programs offered by its corporate university.

• A small not-for-profit organization that cannot usually afford live presentations from such world-renowned speakers, but uses Linkage’s Thought Leader Series to bring tremendous value, insight, and leadership lessons to their managers and executives at an affordable price.

Each broadcast is supported by technical assistance, participant materials, and facilitator guides.

The highest quality, most flexible, and

cost-effective management and leadership

training solution your organization can buy!

The world-class speakers are just the beginning. The Thought Leader Series is designed and supported with a Participant Guide and Facilitator Guide that provide numerous tools, resources, and learning activities to ensure real “take-away” value for your participants.

Whether you use these broadcasts as LIVE stand-alone development programs or integrate them into existing leadership development initiatives through the ON-DEMAND option, every program provides an exceptional complement to any manager or leader’s development plan.

Why do leading organizations choose Linkage’s Thought Leaders Series?

+ World-Class FacultyBring valuable content, insight, and perspective from world-renowned presenters at a fraction of the cost to hire them directly.

+ Global ReachUse a variety of proven distance learning options (Satellite, Webcast, and/or DVD) to maximize the global reach and impact of your training investment.

+ Cost-EffectiveAn unbelievably low “total cost per person” allows you to get maximum “bang for your buck” with exceptional program quality.

+ Interactive FormatGet your specific questions answered by the experts! Participants submit questions directly via telephone, e-mail, or fax before and during the live programs.

+ TimelyTimely & Convenient – A 90-minute, highly relevant learning experience that can occur in your conference room, at your desktop and/or at home LIVE or on your own time.

+ Integration with Existing ProgramsMany of our clients use the broadcasts as an integral part of their own management and leadership programs, combining them with additional live programs or developmental activities.

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Participant and Facilitator

Guides

These guides are created by an instructional designer in association with the speaker. They are designed to maximize the power of the broadcasts by increas-ing the essential transfer of knowledge into action. These comprehensive materials contain insightful pre-program readings to better prepare the facilitators and participants for the live event. They also contain many exercises and activities designed for groups of varying size and experience. Facilitators can select those that best support their unique organizational needs. The facilitator guides also contain over 15 pages of materials designed to assist newer facilitators with overall facilitation skills.

One-Hour Facilitator Preparation Call

This call is hosted in tandem with the instructional designer who creates the materials in association with the speaker. Dur-ing the call, participants are provided with:

• an overview of the speaker’s background and the material they will cover to help prepare facilitators

• a thorough knowledge of the program materials and how they can best be used to maximize the impact within their own organization

• an opportunity to ask questions about how to best facilitate the session with their particular group

Internal Marketing Materials

These materials are designed to increase awareness of, and maximize participation in the broadcasts. They include:

• a one-page, customizable, marketing flyer containing key learnings, a brief bio, and a picture of the speaker

• a brief paper on each program known as “The Background-er” that contains an overview of the topic and speaker to increase interest in the program and better prepare partici-pants for the program

• E-mail announcements for internal communication

Technical Support

A technical consultant will be available to work with you prior to each live program to assist with any technology-related questions or issues you have.

Linkage’s satellite broadcasts give us a valuable and cost-effective opportunity to keep our finger on the pulse of thought leadership. Anne Glass // CSC

The live broadcast and interview format gave me the rare opportunity to get to know the speakers as well as share in their valuable insights.Richard Ayers // AMD

The program covered the topics facing participants today and provided clear, simple models for dealing with leadership challenges.Jack Brown // Pemco Corporation

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Bringing together the people, tools, and technology for a truly distinctive learning experience!

SUPPORT MATERIALS AND RESOURCES

Linkage’s Thought Leader Series Library

Timeless leadership lessons in a convenient format designed to boost your organization’s internal leadership capabilities—from first line supervisors to C-suite leaders.

Consisting of 80 of the world’s greatest thought leaders, CEOs, political, and military leaders, the complete Thought Leader Series library offers a keynote retail value of $4.5 million at a fraction of the cost.

Downloadable directly onto your learning management system, the full series is yours to tap into at your leisure and to share with your leaders 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

For complete details, please call Linkage today at 781-402-5555.

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Leadership Responsibilities

Clayton ChristensenAuthor of The Innovator’s Dilemma presents:

Building a Successful Innovation-Driven Organization

How to Create New Growth Businesses in a Risk-Minimizing Environment

Building a Culture of Innovation

The leader creates and sustains a culture that systematically anticipates future demands and seizes future opportunities.

Producing Results

The price of entry into a leadership role. The leader enables the organization and its members to accomplish ever higher levels of achievement.

Jack WelchFormer chairman and CEO of General Electric presents:

Leadership & Management

Quint StuderAuthor of best-seller Results That Last presents:

Transforming a Corporate Culture to Drive Sustainable Results

Jack & Suzy WelchAuthors of Winning present:

Producing Results: Winning Through Flawless Execution

Richard BransonChairman and CEO of Virgin Brands presents:

Lessons in Leadership

Henry MintzbergAuthor of The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning presents:

Half Truths of Leadership

Phil Harkins & Dave LinigerCEO of Linkage Inc and chairman of Re/Max International present:

Everybody Wins: Proven Guidelines for Creating Unprecedented Growth

Michael TreacyGrowth & Strategy Business Transformation Expert presents:

Sustaining Double-Digit Growth in Any Economy

Marilyn Carlson NelsonChairman and former CEO of Carlson Companies presents:

How You Lead Matters

Rosabeth Moss KanterAuthor, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovations, Profits, Growth, and Social Good presents:

Leading a SuperCorp

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Rudy GiulianiFormer mayor of NYC presents:

Leading in Difficult Times

Creating the Organization

The leader enables the development of an organization that is consistent with the vision and culture of its members, provides processes and structures capable of achieving strategic goals, is permeable to outside influence, and can adapt to changing economic, technical, financial and business environments.

Margaret WheatleyAuthor of Finding Our Way Leadership for an Uncertain Time presents:

Leading in a Networked World

Ann RichardsFormer governor of Texas presents:

Refining Moments for Successful Leaders

Ken BlanchardLeading management expert and author of The One Minute Manager presents:

Creating a World-Class Organization

Michael HammerCreator of management theory of Business Process Reengineering presents:

Managing Without Structure

Tommy FranksFormer Commander of US central command presents:

Learning to Lead

Rick Belluzzo & Jay CongerFormer CEO of Quantum and author of The Practice of Leadership present:

Developing Your Leadership Bench Strength

Sherron Watkins & Joseph Badaracco, Jr.Enron whistleblower and Harvard Business School professor present:

Ethics in Leadership

Randy StreetCo-author, Who: The A Method for Hiring presents:

Using the “A” Method to Evaluate Talent

Peter SheahanLeading expert in workforce trends and generational change presents:

Future Proof: How to be Up in a Down Market

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Motivating the Team

The leader focuses her/his efforts on developing people in the directions that will enable them to continue to be effec-tive in the future.

Marcus BuckinghamAuthor of best-seller Go Put Your Strengths to Work presents:

Leverage Your Strengths

Mike KrzyzewskiHead Coach of the Duke Blue Devils presents:

Coaching to Win: Developing People and Teams Who Excel

Warren BennisThe world’s foremost authority on leadership and best selling author of On Becoming a Leader presents:

The Most Common and Often Fatal Flaws of Leadership

David BreashearsWorld-class filmaker, adventurer and mountaineer presents:

Vision, Courage and Passion

Creating the Vision

The leader and her/his team transform the charge or mission they have received from the organization into a vision that creates passionate commitment and an unwillingness to fail.

Benazir BhuttoFirst female prime minister of Pakistan presents:

Diversity

Mikhail GorbachevFormer head of the Soviet Union presents:

Global Leadership

Michael PorterForemost expert on competitive strategy presents:

Creating a Vision for Competitive Advantage

Sandra TaylorFormer senior vice president of Corporate Social Responsibility with Starbucks Coffee Company presents:

The Business Case of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Leadership Competencies

Systems Thinking

The competency of rigorously and systematically connecting processes, events, and systems.

Peter SengeAuthor of the Fifth Discipline presents:

Systemic Leadership and Change

Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Peter SengeLeading management experts present:

The Keys to Leading/Managing Change/Strategy & Systems Thinking

Trusted Influence

The competency of effectively influencing others by evoking their trust and by placing trust in others to enable their success.

Dave UlrichProfessor, University of Michigan presents:

Creating Your Own Leadership Brand

Louis GerstnerFormer chairman and CEO of IBM presents:

Organizational Transformation

John MaxwellInternationally recognized leadership expert presents:

The Five Levels of Leadership

Stephen M.R. CoveyAuthor, The SPEED of Trust presents:

Leading at the Speed of Trust

Emotional Intelligence

The competency of understanding and mastering your emotions (and recognizing the emotions of others) in a way that instills confidence, motivates, inspires, and enhances group effectiveness.

Dan Goleman Best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence presents:

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership—Bottom Line Results

Bill GeorgeFormer chairman and CEO of Medtronic presents:

Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value

Richard BoyatzisAuthor, Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion presents:

Leading in a New World

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Larry BossidyFormer chairman of Honeywell presents:

Execution

Ken BlanchardLeading management expert and author of The One Minute Manager presents:

Excellence in Management and Leadership

Warren BennisThe foremost authority on leadership and best-selling author of On Becoming a Leader presents:

The 6 Core Leadership Capabilities

Focused Drive

The competency of focusing on a goal and harnessing your energy in order to meet that goal.

Conceptual Thinking

The competency of conceiving and selecting innovative strategies and ideas for your organization.

Thomas FriedmanAuthor, The World Is Flat presents:

The Status Quo Is Not an Option: The Leader’s Role in Globalization

Warren BennisThe foremost authority on leadership and best-selling author of On Becoming a Leader presents:

Leadership

Howard SchultzFormer chairman and CEO of Starbucks presents:

Leadership

Seth GodinCalled by BusinessWeek the ultimate entreprenuer of the information age presents:

Idea Marketing

C.K. PrahaladCo-Author, The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers presents:

Strategy in the New Competitive Landscape

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Leadership Skills

For emerging leaders

Decision Making

The skill of using empowering processes to drive decisions and take action.

Malcolm GladwellBest-selling author of Outliers, The Tipping Point and Blink presents:

The Power of Rapid Cognition for Business Leaders

Noel TichyCo-Author of Judgment and one of BusinessWeek’s Top 10 Management Gurus presents:

How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

Michael UseemAuthor of The Go Point—When It’s Time to Decide presents:

Reaching the Go Point

Relationship Building

The skill of understanding the components of emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness that help you build the long-term networks you need.

Tim SandersAuthor of best-selling Saving the World at Work presents:

Leadership and Likability

Keith FerrazziFounder & CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight and author of Never Eat Alone presents:

Relationships for Group Success

Bruce TulganRecently included in a Financial Times listing of the world’s greatest management thinkers presents:

How to Turn Age Diversity Into a Strategic Advantage for Your Organzation

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For senior leaders

Strategic Thinking

The skill of using powerful frameworks and approaches for diagnosing and anticipating competitive threats and taking action on the strategic concerns of your organization.

Gary HamelHarvard professor and leading expert presents:

Strategy on Innovation and Strategy

Madeleine Albright Former US Secretary of State presents:

Global Leadership

C.K. PrahaladCo-Author, The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers presents:

Making Strategy Work-The Future of Value Creation

Leading Change

The skill of understanding and using the most effective tools and processes to drive needed change.

Margot Morrell and Warren BennisBest-selling authors present:

Shackleton: A Leadership Journey

Tom PetersAuthor of all-time best-seller In Search of Excellence presents:

Creating the 21st Century Organization

Change & Leadership

Leadership and Change

Leading Teams

The skill of inspiring and driving a team to go beyond the expected.

Doris Kearns GoodwinPulitzer Prize-Winning author and world renowned historian presents:

Team of Rivals

Patrick Lencioni Author of BusinessWeek best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team presents:

Building and Leading a High Performance Team

Kimball & Mareen FisherAuthors of The Distance Manager and co-founders of The Fisher Group present:

Leading High Performance Virtual Teams

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For both senior and emerging leaders

Coaching/Mentoring

The skill of mastering a comfortable coaching style and using it strategically to improve performance.

Noel TichyCo-Author of Judgment and one of BusinessWeek’s Top 10 Management Gurus presents:

Leader As Teacher

Marshall Goldsmith Author of Wall Street Journal best-seller, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There presents:

Coaching for Leadership

Coaching & Feedback

Pat MitchellPresident and Chief Executive Officer of PBS presents:

Leader As Mentor

Personal Productivity

The skill of managing yourself and your priorities to take on additional challenges and be successful at the next level.

Tony SchwartzAuthor of The Power of Full Engagement presents:

Building Individual & Organizational Capacity in the Age of Overload

Tom DavenportAuthor of Competing on Analytics presents:

Maximizing Knowledge Worker Productivity: The Next Generation of Management

David AllenAuthor of Getting Things Done presents:

The Keys of Execution: Successful Strategies Leaders Use to Get Things Done

Stephen CoveyOne of Time Magazine’s 25 most influential Americans and author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People presents:

Unleashing Human Potential

Communication

The skill of communicating and relating to a broad range of people internally and externally.

Phil HarkinsAuthor of Powerful Conversations presents:

Communicating With Impact

Nick WashienkoLeading expert on Executive Communication and former director of the Professional Development Program of Boston University presents:

Effective Leadership Communication

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• Extended View via DVD—The best choice for organizations not requiring live program-ming, Extended View enables facilitators to preview the broadcast and determine how to best position it within your unique organization and culture. This option affords maximum flexibility in that you can view the broadcast during times most convenient for you and your leadership teams within the defined viewing period.

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Partial client listAllmerica Financial

American Home Products

Amgen

AT&T

Bausch & Lomb

Berlex Labs

The Boeing Company

The Campbell Soup Company

Cisco

Computer Sciences Corporation

Constellation Energy

Dell

Discover

Disney University

Dow Corning

Florida Power & Light

Gap, Inc.

Genentech

General Mills

Genworth Financial

Harley Davidson

Hewlett-Packard

Ingersoll Rand

Intel

JC Penney

JP Morgan Chase

Key Span Energy

Kohl’s

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Los Alamo’s Natural Laboratories

Lubrizol Corporation

Mastercard

Medtronic

Microsoft

McDonald’s Corporation

Monsanto

NASA

New York Life

Nokia

Northwestern Mutual

Panama Canal Authority

Pemco Financial

Pfizer, Inc.

Procter & Gamble

Rockwell Automation

Solvay Pharmaceuticals

Sprint

Toyota Motor Sales

TSMC

US Census Bureau

University of California

US Army

US EPA

US FDA

US Navy

USDA

US Steel

University of Notre Dame

VA Learning University

World Bank

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