2007 Authentic Leadership Summer Program

Program Guests

Implementing Our Learning: A Musical Journey with Miha Pogačnik

Be prepared to embark on a musical journey led by the renowned Miha Pogacnik. Using his violin, he will unravel classical masterpieces in order to guide us through the stages of implementation, illustrating how new insight and learning become actualized, and how we can overcome obstacles along the way. He will then perform a Bach sonata in its entirety.

Miha Pogačnik is a legendary violin virtuoso, Slovenian Cultural Ambassador, business maverick, and "maker of magic." Miha has worked with scores of leading companies, such as Ericsson, Shell, IBM, Hewlett and Packard, BBC World, Saatchi & Saatchi, Whirlpool, Skandia Insurance, ABN Amro Bank, Nike, Body Shop and others. Miha has addressed the World Business Academy, the World Economic Forum, Davos and agencies of the United Nations. Since 1998, he has directed a highly innovative interdisciplinary Annual Business and Art Conference at the extraordinary Castle Borl-Ankenstein in Slovenia. Miha is also featured in Peter Senge's Dance of Change and Otto Scharmer's commentary on Theory U.

Otto Scharmer refers to Miha's capacity to play the "macro-violin" as an analogy for the highest-level performance in organizations. He often quotes Miha, who discovered that "in Chartres you actually cannot play your small violin, but you have to play the macro-violin.... The macro-violin is the whole cathedral that surrounds you."

Napier Collyns is cofounder of the Global Business Network, which was established in 1987 as a "learning community based on ruthless curiosity, collaboration, and powerful new tools for thinking about and shaping the future. GBN's network continues to span the globe, blending strategic thinkers from leading companies in established and emerging industries; visionaries from the sciences, arts, business, and academia; and a community of practice engaged in innovating and transferring tools for scenario thinking and strategic action." Napier is also a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and a member of Forum 21, International Futures Forum, and the editorial boards of Omnipedia-Thinking for Tomorrow and Geopolitics of Energy. Until recently he was a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a public director of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), editor-at-large for Doubleday Currency, a board member of the Strategic Management Society and a participant in the ICIS Forum.

Before joining GBN, Napier spent more than 30 years in the international oil industry, mostly with companies of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Venezuela, Nigeria, New York, London, and The Hague. He was a senior member of the small team at Shell that developed scenario planning in the early 1970s under the leadership of Pierre Wack. Since 1988 he has been scenario consultant to the Californian Energy Commission and has helped the national oil companies of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Venezuela, as well as major international oil companies and electric utilities, to develop their own scenario planning processes.

Napier will join the Authentic Leadership program on June 25 and will be a guest presenter in the first session of Art Kleiner's module on Scenario Planning: Preparing for Unknown Futures.

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