CEO CONNECT

ceo connect

During CEO Connect you will carefully examine what you DO currently as the top executive within your organisation. You will have the opportunity to benchmark yourself against fellow CEOs from other organisations and industry sectors and share your leadership perceptions, based on your vast range of industry and organisation specific experiences.

CEO Connect will inspire you to SEE differently by giving you the opportunity to reflect on your own practices and challenges. Combined with discussion and observations by other participating CEOs you will develop new insights. You will be exposed to alternative leadership ideas presented by subject-matter experts.

By seeing differently you will start to THINK differently about alternative solutions and interventions for yourself and your organisation. CEO Connect will guide you in conceptualising such interventions to make them meaningful within your own specific environment.

Your potential to see and think differently will subsequently compel you to PLAN differently. Planning strategically from different perspectives is at the core of the program. CEO Connect will expose you to cutting-edge strategic planning theories and practices, enabling you to hone your skills and optimise your ability to develop, prioritise and implement your organisational plan.

Being exposed to different ways of seeing, thinking and planning will assist you in determining how to align and TRANSFORM yourself, your leadership team, your organisation and Board, and how best to manage your external environment. This is the ultimate aim of the CEO Connect Program.

program description and learning model

DO currently

SEEdifferently

THINKdifferently

PLANdifferently

TRANSFORMSelf, Leadership Team, Organisation, Board & External Environment

Connect with and learn from the best

> other highly-talented CEOs

> leading researchers at the University of Melbourne

> invited world-class subject matter experts

> Australia’s strategy and executive education expert, Program Director Marc Stigter

Transform yourself and your organisation

> CEO Connect goes beyond merely debating CEOs’ current practices. It follows progressive stages of a carefully designed and facilitated learning model aimed at different ways of seeing, thinking and planning for you to ultimately to transform yourself and your organisation

Global recognition through Australia’s leading University

> Participation in the CEO Connect Program is recognised by the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Business and Economics

program benefits

Who should participate?CEO Connect is designed exclusively for C-suite executives who have enterprise wide responsibilities.

The program is limited to 12 individuals drawn from large private, public and not-for-profit organisations.

CEO Connect is a year long program consisting of six half-day sessions and two scheduled dinner events. Each session is 4 hours, held between 8am-12pm, followed by lunch. The program commences in July 2011.

Friday 22 July 2011

Friday 23 September 2011

Friday 25 November 2011

Friday 27 January 2012

Friday 23 March 2012

Friday 25 May 2012

Participants from non-competing industries meet in groups of up to 12 peers. Each session is chaired and facilitated by Marc Stigter, CEO Connect Program Director.

The sessions will be conducted around the CEO Connect Learning Model and participants will also be able to determine topics to be explored. Typical topics include: Customer Centricity, Aligning and Engaging Employees, Emotional Intelligence, Managing Macro Economic and Social Variables, Managing the Board, Environmental Sustainability, Optimising and Maximising Organisational Assets and Risk Management.

The six scheduled ½ day sessions will be held at the Graduate School of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne, located at 198 Berkeley Street in Carlton, Victoria.

program format

Graduate School of Business and Economics

“What appeals to me is that CEO Connect goes beyond sharing experiences with peers. It takes you through various learning phases, is facilitated by an exceptional program director, and is offered though the University of Melbourne.”— Tony Gillies, Editor-in-Chief, Australian Associated Press

ceo connect

Marc Stigter Marc offers leading-edge insights and practices in the concept of strategy. These insights have been gained both as a global practitioner at executive level and as a research academic at doctoral level.

Marc is an Associate Director at both the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business and Economics and at Melbourne Business School where he directed the school’s flagship Advanced Management Program for 5 years. He recently submitted his PhD thesis at Lancaster University Management School (UK) whose doctoral management program is rated top 5 in the world by The Financial Times (2008). He also earned a Master in Management;

Master in Science; and a Master in Business Administration.

Marc held executive positions at Shell in the Middle East (Country Chairman), Asia-Pacific (Pennzoil Integration), and UK (Shell Downstream) and management positions at Lloyds TSB Bank (UK) and Metropolitan Life (USA). He currently manages the Critical Management Group, a boutique firm specialising in strategy and employee engagement.

Marc is the recipient of the 2006 Future Summit Leadership Award as presented by the Australian Davos Connection. He directs and facilitates the Copland Program, which is offered to Australia’s emerging leaders through the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). Marc also contributes to The Committee for Melbourne’s Future Focus Group, a leadership program for Melbourne’s future leaders.

Professor Simon BellSimon is chair and professor of marketing and Director of Executive Education at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Arts. Simon has worked extensively with industry as a consultant and executive educator.

In Australia he has worked with Goldman Sachs, Telstra, the Australia Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC), National Australia Bank, Honda, Bunnings and PWC. In the UK, Simon has worked with Shell, Royal Mail, BT, Allen & Overy, Rolls Royce, Ofcom and IBM.

Simon writes and consults on a range of issues including organisational learning, internal marketing and sales force management, services and relationship marketing, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and brand management. His research has focused on the retail and financial services industries and has been published in journals such as Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.

Professor Cynthia HardyCynthia is Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne. She previously worked in the Faculty of Management at McGill University, Canada. She is Honorary Professor

at Cardiff Business School in the UK, and has held visiting positions at a range of other institutions including the University of Leicester; the University of Ferrara, Italy; L’Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, France; Simon Fraser University, Canada; and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and an International Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management Research, UK

Cynthia’s research interests revolve around organisational change, discourse, and power and politics in organisations.

Professor Ian Harper Ian Harper is one of Australia’s best known economists. He has worked closely with governments, banks, corporates and leading professional services firms. As a member of the celebrated Wallis Inquiry, he was at

the forefront of financial market reform in Australia.

In 2008, Ian joined Access Economics where he is now a Director, following a 25-year academic career, including 16 years at Melbourne Business School.

Ian served as inaugural Chairman of the Australian Fair Pay Commission. In 2010 Ian was appointed to the Australian Advisory Board of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and in January 2011 he was appointed to the Victorian Government’s Independent Review of State Finances. Ian is sought after as a commentator and public speaker and has been described as “one of those relatively rare academics who can communicate extremely well with both the business community and the academic community”.

In 2000, Ian was elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and in 2009 to a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

program director

program presenters include:

“We believe that leadership and learning

are fundamentally linked. As a CEO, you are the

consummate life-long learner. CEO Connect will accelerate your individual

learning and help you focus on what really matters in

your organisation.”

— Marc Stigter, Program Director

Graduate School of Business and Economics

Invest in your futureThe annual fee for the CEO Connect Program is $16,000 plus GST.

about the university of melbourne and graduate school of business and economicsThe University of Melbourne’s consistent, strong performance in international rankings puts the University at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region and the world:

>No. 1 in Australia in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-2011 > In the highly regarded Shanghai Jiao Tong University the University is ranked 62nd internationally and 4th in the Asia-Pacific region

Research makes our teaching relevant and cutting-edge, in the recent Australian Government Excellence in Research (ERA) results University of Melbourne was ranked at the No. 1 in Australia.

The Graduate School of Business and Economics offers the highest quality business education and teaches across the areas of accounting, actuarial studies finance, economics, management and marketing. We are the leading business and economics school in the Asia Pacific region and have over 280 academic staff with a wealth of experience, expertise and research capability.

further informationFor more information about CEO Connect please contact: Marc Stigter, Program Director, CEO Connect Phone: +61 3 5988 5596 Email: gsbe-execed@unimelb.edu.au or visit www.gsbe.unimelb.edu.au

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