2006 Authentic Leadership Summer Program

Leader as Communicator with Mark Rittenberg

Being knowledgeable, creative, and insightful can take you a long way in achieving your leadership goals. But to truly express, inspire, and engage requires the development of exceptional communication skills, beginning with listening and extending through a clear focus on what is important and the effective use of voice and body.

This highly participatory module will help you dissolve barriers to effective communication, so that the real communicator can emerge. Using exercises that draw on the theater arts, you will learn how to project energy, confidence, and clarity with physical and vocal expressiveness. You will learn the basic building-blocks of communication, including concentration, energy, listening, awareness, and presence, and you will learn how to apply these skills to building relationships in your workplace. You will learn how to think fast and respond clearly when under pressure, and you will increase your ability to bring power and passion into the workplace through authentic communication.

Mark Rittenberg is founding director and CEO of Corporate Scenes. For 20 years he has helped organizations create communities of excellence, and individuals to become true leaders through the power of communication. He teaches expressive communication and presentation in executive education programs at the Kellogg School of Management, the Hass School of Business, the University of San Francisco, the Weatherhead School of Management, and the Olin School of Business.

Mark's experience extends around the globe, across cultures and industries. He served as both a mediator and communication specialist for the UNESCO Middle East Peace Process forum, and he has helped rebuild the self-esteem and confidence that was shattered in Black communities during years of segregation. He has served as guest faculty at Harvard University, providing art-based teacher training workshops with a focus on development of self-esteem among youth in the inner cities. Mark holds a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco.

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