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» SAVE THE DATE - EDRT MEETING! |
Our Spring 2012 Meeting is taking place on May 22-23, 2012 at Hotel Commonwealth in Boston, MA. More information regarding our upcoming meeting will follow soon! |
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» WELCOME |
Welcome to The Executive Development Roundtable!
Founded in 1988 as an institute at the School of Management at Boston University devoted to the study of issues in leadership and executive development, the Executive Development Roundtable (EDRT) continues to build a community of executive development professionals who are passionate about the field of leadership and developing world class leaders.
What makes a leader a leader? Can we help leaders improve their skills? Can we identify high potential leaders among our younger staff and help them grow? What traits, issues, worries, experiences and challenges do leaders share? What can a body of academic researchers and real-world practitioners from leading organizations do together to help executives and senior leaders maximize their own and their companies’ potential?
These are the driving questions of EDRT and they continue today.
EDRT operates at the unique intersection of academic research and contemporary real-world business applications. EDRT Members, who represent leading corporate, public and non-profit institutions, have the strategic advantage of learning from and contributing to the latest applied research on how successful executives drive their organizations and why executive development remains a key competitive advantage in business today.
EDRT provides members with a collegial and open environment where upper-level leadership and executive development professionals can discuss best practice solutions, obtain industry-specific benchmarking tools, and gain the overall professional development they need. EDRT meetings, facilitated by world-class speakers and thought leaders on executive development, include closed-door, roundtable discussions of leaders from a wide cross section of industries, where confidential ideas may be shared, where problem-solving is a group effort, and where the sharing of both familiar and unique organizational challenges help build a deeply rewarding network. EDRT faculty, whose work on leadership and executive development is well known and respected throughout academic and practitioner circles, provide corporate members with the tools of solid quantitative and qualitative research, readily applied. Here, long-term learning communities and rich friendships are built. Once a year, the Marion F. Gislason Award is given to a distinguished individual in the leadership development field for the excellence of his/her work in advancing the state of knowledge or act of practice.
We celebrated our 20th Anniversary, but the first 20 years are only the beginning. In addition, we are especially proud and excited to announce our alliance with the Center for Creative Leadership for our joint membership option with the Creative Leadership Council, as described in our Highlights. These are exciting times for EDRT! We look forward to working with you to develop the next generation of senior leaders. Thank you for your visit and interest.
To learn more about EDRT, check out this article on Fostering Leadership about us from the BU School of Management's Builders and Leaders magazine.
EDRT Informational Brochure
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» EDRT MEMBER NEWS |
On January 18, 2012, Leader to Leader Institute's board members decided to honor their CEO & President, Ms. Frances Hesselbein, by renaming the institute after her. Ms. Hesselbein describes this as one of the greatest honors of her life. According to the press release, the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute's mission is to strengthen and inspire the leadership of the social sector and their partners in business and government.
Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the organization continued its work and mission as the Leader to Leader Institute from 2003-2011 by providing social sector leaders with essential leadership wisdom, inspiration and resources to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social sector organizations.
Today, The Hesselbein Institute connects the public, private and social sectors with curated resources and relationships to serve, evolve and lead together, pursuing its mission in three primary goal areas: developing leaders of character and competence; providing dynamic global mentorship, training and service opportunities; and engaging, informing and enhancing the leadership journey of incoming generations of leaders.
Today, to serve is to live is not a foreign language, continues Hesselbein, emphasizing the importance of fostering leadership grounded in the passion to serve, the discipline to listen, the courage to question, and the spirit to include.
To view full press release click here!
We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to EDRT member organizations Devon Energy , Bingham McCutchen, Millennium Pharmaceuticals: The Takeda Oncology Company for being ranked among Forbes Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For".
Devon is ranked No. 28, up from No. 41 last year, while Bingham McCutchten is No. 30 & Millennium Pharmaceuticals: The Takeda Oncology comes in at No. 35.
To view the full list click here!
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» HIGHLIGHTS |
EDRT has just released the January 2012 edition of the EDRT Newsletter including member news, new research topics, meeting recap, among other interesting and valuable information. To check out the EDRT Newsletter- January 2012 click here!
Thanks to our participants and the cooperation of the Boeing Leadership Center the EDRT Fall 2011 Meeting on "Driving Business Results through Leadership Development" was a great success! Check out the Overview & Agenda here! Also check out all the meeting presentations and materials under Member Resources!
A Creative Alliance: Welcome to the Center for Creative Leadership and the Creative Leadership Council!!
As a way to maximize learning opportunities for both Boston University and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), we have forged a joint membership plan between EDRT and the Creative Leadership Council (CLC) to enhance both organizations’ membership offerings, and, more importantly, bring a more robust association for our current and future members. We are delighted to announce the establishment of the EDRT & CLC joint membership option!
Check out this interesting article on Lesson from WWII Leaders published in the Washington Post by one of our members- Col. Charles D. Allen! |
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