Diversity Executive Forum

Leading Change: Vision to Action

A four-part series for senior diversity leaders.

Program Schedule

  • January 25, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Web Conference: Orientation
    Presentation
    Whiteboard
  • February 22, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Web Conference: Introduction to Change Framework
  • March 20, 7:45 a.m. - 5 p.m.  - Diversity Executive Forum: Mapping Your Journey to Sustainable Change
  • March 21-22 - Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity (optional)
  • June - Web Conference: Ideas to Action & Moving Forward

Meet the Diversity Executive Forum presenter, coaching team and facilitator.

Reading List

Shifting Sands:  A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change. San Francisco, CA:  Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

The Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations.  Boston, MA:  Harvard University Press.

Switch:  How to Change Things When Change is Hard. New York, NY:  Broadway Books.

Terms of Engagement:  New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations.  San Francisco, CA:  Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World.  Boston, MA:  Harvard University Press.

Program Information

Why do most strategic change efforts fail?
How do you manage change efforts that stick?
What strategies and tools drive sustainable change?

The Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity invites your participation in a groundbreaking experience designed by and for senior diversity leaders to:

  • Engage with colleagues, experts and thought leaders in an executive level community of practice.
  • Explore the essentials of leading and managing systems
    change.

Series Overview:

  • Three web-based conferences (January, February & June 2012)
  • One full-day session (March 20, 2012 at the Multicultural Forum on
    Workplace Diversity in Minneapolis)

By the end of this series, you will:

  • Gain insights, skills and strategies to influence and lead complex organizational change.
  • Learn how to develop and implement high impact change strategies in a collaborative environment supported by a team of industry-leading experts.
  • Take Away: A roadmap for an implementation-ready change strategy that you identify and develop using.

Fees and Registration

Fees:

  • $995 (Diversity executive forum only, March 20, 2012)
  • $1295 (Diversity executive forum AND the Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity, March 21-22, 2012)

Register today.

University of St. Thomas - Minnesota Opus College of Business