EVENTS
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 16, 2007
Contact: Robin
Micket (860) 548-7894
Rensselaer’s Leadership Seminar Series PresentsStrategic Thinking and Leading Change
EVENT: The Leadership Seminar Series presented by Rensselaer’s Centers for Professional Development focuses on real-world, outcome-driven strategies, and innovative methods for leading change. In today’s business climate, globalization, the rapidity of change, and social, economic and environmental mandates make the global business environment less predictable and more challenging than it was just a decade ago. Customers, stakeholders, and society expect and demand superior products, services, and operations with reduced impacts, and improved corporate social responsibility. Such expectations extend to the contributions and actions of supply networks, partners, allies, and others that are linked to the corporation. To meet the challenges, leading corporations are developing highly capable leaders for achieving positive results in the present, correcting defects and burdens from the past, and inventing powerful future positions.
DATE: June 11, 2007
TIME: 8:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
LOCATION: Seminar Hall, Rensselaer Hartford Campus, 275 Windsor Street, Hartford, CT
REGISTRATION: $175 per person (Price includes free parking and beverage breaks)
SEMINAR SCHEDULE: The seminar, Strategic Thinking and Leading Change, will feature the following presentations by Rensselaer faculty from the Lally School of Management and Technology: “Leading Change through Enterprise Thinking and Executive Leadership,” by David L. Rainey, Ph.D., Professor; “Managing Culture: An Essential Competency for Enterprise Leaders,” by Robert R. Albright, II, Ph.D., Associate Professor; and “Improving Investment Strategies and Mitigating Risks,” by Randall G. Peteros, J.D., Assistant Professor. Dr. Rainey will provide the opening remarks and will moderate a round table panel discussion on “The Implications for Leadership Development and Sustainable Success.”
THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP: Leadership is the most critical core competency of 21st century corporations. Human capital is the strategic resource for leading change and improving performance. The complexity of globalization, shortening product life cycles, and the proliferation of information, among many other driving forces, makes decision making more challenging. The capabilities and qualities of executive leadership are among the most important variables in creating future value and sustaining long-term performance.