2006 Legacy Retreat with Peter Senge

October 11-13, 2006

As senior executives who are moving beyond formal leadership positions, we are poised to enter a truly generative phase of our lives. We now have the freedom to bring decades of experience and expertise to some of the pressing challenges of our time. How do we maximize this opportunity? What are the global issues of concern to us personally, and where are the leverage points of influence? What are the critical questions that haunt us, and that we long to explore with peers? What leadership capacities do we need to draw on and strengthen in order to make our best contribution now?

Join Peter Senge and 20-30 other intensively engaged and deeply reflective leaders as we come together for stimulating dialogue around these important questions:

• How do my current leadership challenges and dilemmas reflect larger patterns and trends?
• How can I increase my capacity to engender true optimism and confidence in myself and others, while holding questions that defy easy answers?
What is my most meaningful response to the chaotic and troubling conditions of our time?

This by-invitation event is for leaders who have been in executive positions in business, NGOs, and government, and who are transitioning into a new phase of their life and work.

It is the first of an ongoing series of retreats that will create and support networks of senior leaders who are striving to make a contribution in new and meaningful ways.

The Legacy Retreat is sponsored by the Society for Organizational Learning and The Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership.

Guest Participant

Peter Senge's participation will be integral to the retreat. He will lend his experience and wisdom to the dialogue and help to provoke thought and action. Peter has led and inspired large-scale change efforts in and across businesses, governments, and NGOs. He is also known as a warm and engaging story-teller, guide, and catalyst.

Peter Senge is the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning, a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of several books including The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization and most recently, Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, with Claus Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers. Peter has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. He has worked with leaders in business, education, health care, and government. The Journal of Business Strategy (September/October 1999) named Dr. Senge as one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years.