2006 Authentic Leadership Retreat

with Brian Bacon and Otto Scharmer

June 16-18, 2006

• Hear stories from the front lines of leadership in governments and multinational corporations worldwide.
• Strengthen your personal leadership skills.
• Reconnect with a deeper sense of presence and purpose.

Choose one area of focus:

Brian Bacon: Leading with Purpose, Vision & Values: The Art of Effective Execution

• Develop a personal compass and action plan for implementing your current direction.
• Cultivate the inner resources needed to mobilize your vision and confront the challenges before you.

Otto Scharmer & Arawana Hayashi: Leading for Profound Innovation & Change

• Access the subtle levels of knowledge and awareness needed to chart the best possible forward direction for yourself and your organization.
• Learn a model for innovation that draws on a depth of collective intelligence and responds to emerging opportunities with creativity and flexibility.

Brian Bacon: Leading with Purpose, Vision & Values: The Art of Effective Execution

Is it possible to integrate our personal values and passion with the corporate agenda? How? This session answers these questions and takes us to new heights of understanding on how to move our enterprise ahead in its growth path without selling our soul.

You will hear stories from the front lines of leadership in governments and multinational corporations worldwide and see the implications of today’s global environment for all aspects of your own work and life. You will get a clear focus on who you are, what you want, where you're going, and how to get there. You will go beyond self-evident leadership tricks into an exploration of the subtle keys to getting things done through others—being the detached observer, facilitating meaningful dialogue, drilling to find to the root cause, keeping an active not-to-do list, leading from behind, acting decisively, and being the embodiment of humility. You will also develop a personal action plan for the next chapter of your life, including your work, family, and personal development.

This session is based on Brian Bacon's celebrated Self-Managing Leadership course, which has over 100,000 alumni from 56 countries.

Brian Bacon is consultant and mentor to three heads of state and strategic advisor to senior management of numerous multinational corporations throughout the USA, Europe, Asia and Latin America. His clients include Ford, Ericsson, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, GE, Goodyear, Pharmacia, Proctor & Gamble, SAAB, British Aerospace and Volvo. Mr. Bacon is creator of one of the world's most successful leadership development programs, which has over 100,000 alumni from 56 countries. He is a former President of the World Business Academy in Washington and visiting scholar at the International Institute of Labour Studies in Geneva. Mr. Bacon is an engaging facilitator, known for his personal integrity, pragmatism, and skill in helping leaders link their personal vision with their organizational mission.

"Brian is a very rare facilitator and mentor in that he lives what he talks about. He brings his important message to such life that you absorb every piece of it. The environment he creates is the perfect one for approaching the complex questions around life and leadership. He has had a very big influence on our company throughout the world." —Anders Soderlund, Managing Director, McDonald's, Sweden

“Coming from a deep understanding of people and organizations in many lands, Brian has a very natural, unaffected style. He builds trust easily through his personal integrity. His work is extremely pragmatic, aimed at getting people to understand and articulate their vision for the future and linking that to the mission of the organization. Doing this across an organization results in an extraordinary competitive edge.” —Roy Dingle, Head of Global Internet Strategy, Computer Sciences Corporation, Washington

Click here to read an interview with Brian.

Co-sponsored by the Oxford Leadership Academy

C. Otto Scharmer & Arawana Hayashi: Leading for Profound Innovation & Change

The most pressing challenges leaders and teams face today require innovative thinking and collaboration across traditional boundaries—across departments, organizations, sectors, and cultures. Too often, however, we as individuals and organizations become entrenched in rigid patterns of behavior that limit our ability to transcend these boundaries and work together to effect deep change. To bring about the level of transformation required in our current environment, we need a new way of learning and of leading—one not limited to reflecting the patterns of the past but that tunes into the possibilities of the future.

This session is based on the "U model" featured in Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, co-authored by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers.

C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a founding co-director of ELIAS, a joint leadership development initiative of MIT, the UN Global Compact, and the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), along with leading multinational companies, international institutions, and NGOs. ELIAS uses the U process to help next-generation executives co-create profound systems innovations for a more sustainable world. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Center for Innovation and Knowledge Research, Helsinki School of Economics. An international action researcher, he is a co-founder of SoL and has consulted with multinational firms, international institutions, and NGOs in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With his colleagues, Otto has used presencing to facilitate profound innovation and change processes both within companies and across societal systems. He lives with his wife and their two children in Boston, Massachusetts. More information can be found at www.ottoscharmer.com

Arawana Hayashi is a senior meditation teacher in the Shambhala tradition and a core faculty member of the Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership. She was recently a senior teacher in residence at Karme Choling meditation center in Vermont. She is also a dancer and choreographer, with roots in Asian and Western arts. Arawana is also Artistic Director of the Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group in Cambridge, which presents contemporary and Japanese Bugaku dance concerts nationally.