2011 Thought Leader Series

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Linkage’s Leadership Series helps Nokia realize

one of our company’s fundamental values:

leaders developing leaders.

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Linkage’s Thought Leader Series is a convenient and cost-effective way to bring some of the most world-renowned leaders right to your organization. These 90-minute live broadcasts can be easily integrated into your existing leadership and management development programs. The broadcasts can be viewed by satellite and webcast and include an interactive Q&A session with the featured presenter. Additionally, Linkage makes the broadcasts available “on-demand” after the original broadcast date.

Spring 2011 Fall 2011

The 2011 Thought Leader Series

Participate in WORLD-CLASS, interactive Management & Leadership training via Satellite, Webcast, LMS, and/or DVD

Helping thousands of managers & leaders achieve better results!

Call 781.402.5555 to register or for more information.

Atul Gawandeon How to Get Things Right in a Complex WorldMay 25, 2011 11:00AM – 12:30PM ET

Adrian Gostickon How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization March 23, 201111:00AM – 12:30PM ET

Steven Johnsonon Where Good Ideas Come FromApril 26, 2011 11:00AM – 12:30PM ET

Bill Conatyon Why Smart Leaders Put People before NumbersSeptember 14, 201111:00AM – 12:30PM ET

Faculty Member from Linkage’s Global Institute for Leadership DevelopmentOctober 11th or 12th, 201111:00AM – 12:30PM ET

Jason Jenningson ReinventionNovember 17, 201111:00AM – 12:30PM ET

Paul Sullivanon Why Some People Excel under Pressure and Some Don’tDecember 8, 201111:00AM – 12:30PM ET

Charlene Lion Open Leadership: Transform the Way You LeadJune 16, 201111:00AM – 12:30PM ET

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Adrian Gostickon How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization

“ If everyone is moving forward

together, then success takes care

of itself.”

—Henry Ford

Steven Johnson on Where Good Ideas Come From

“ An idea is not a single thing. An

idea is a network.”

—Steven Johnson

>> Spring 2011 speakers

Some teams make it look easy. Why is it that some business depart-ments or groups achieve world-class results and others fall short? Are Breakthrough Teams comprised of individuals with super-hero talent, DNA, or drive? Is there a secret to their success? Adrian Gostick found that breakthrough teams while always including competent people are not usually comprised of a preponderance of people with remarkable intelligence or unique expertise. They are not so-called Dream Teams. In fact we met dozens of breakout groups made up of people who up to that point in their careers had been more supporting players than stars. We began to realize that world-class results come only partly from who makes up these teams, but more importantly what these teams do.

During this program you will learn:

• The key traits found inside the world’s most stellar teams

• The steps these teams took to conquer barriers, exceed expectations and overcome mediocrity

• How the synergy that exists among teams within the world’s most respected and innovative organizations can be tapped by any group of individuals

Adrian Gostick is a global thought leader on workplace strategy and the author of several successful books on employee engagement. His latest WSJ bestseller, The Orange Revolution is recognized worldwide as the premiere book on how breakthrough teams and teamwork revo-lutionize a company, a community, and the world. The Carrot Principle has been a regular New York Times bestseller, and 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN. His research has been called “fascinating,” by Fortune magazine and “admirable and startling” by the Wall Street Journal. As a leadership expert, he has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, CNN, National Public Radio and others, and has been quoted in business publications such as The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Hall University, where he is a guest lecturer on organizational culture.

What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innova-tion happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, Steven Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward. Beginning with Charles Darwin’s first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? Most exhilarating is Johnson’s conclusion that with today’s tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it.


• The kinds of environments that foster the development of good ideas

• The seven key principles of the genesis of good ideas and see them traced across time and disciplines

• Lessons to be learned from various stories of innovation, discovery and invention from Darwin to You Tube

Steven Johnson is the best-selling author of six books on the intersec-tion of science, technology and personal experience. His writings have influenced everything from the way political campaigns use the Internet, to cutting edge ideas in urban planning, to the battle against 21st-century terrorism. Steven’s newest book is titled Where Good Ideas Come From: the Natural History of Innovation. His previous book The Invention of Air tells the story of Joseph Priestly, the Founding Fathers, and how innovative ideas emerge and spread in society and drive historical change. Both social critic and technologist, Steven has a genius for mapping the future—for predicting and explaining the real-world impact of cutting-edge developments in science, technology and media. He recently won the Newhouse School fourth annual Mir-ror Awards for his TIME magazine cover article titled “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live”. Steven has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and many other periodicals.

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Atul Gawande on How to Get Things Right in a Complex World

“ Better is possible. It does not take

genius. It takes diligence. It takes

moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And

above all, it takes a willingness to

try.”

—Dr. Atul Gawande

Charlene Lion Open Leadership: Transform the Way you Lead

“ Open Leadership is having the

confidence and humility to give

up the need to be in control while

inspiring commitment from people

to accomplish goals.”

—Charlene Li

What does simple idea of the checklist reveals about complexity, our biggest problem in modern life? The world has brought stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures plague us in virtually every realm of organized activity—health care, government, the financial industry, schools. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver on it—consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. What we’ve not understood properly is why we fail—and how something as simple as a checklist could make it possible to fly planes of extraordinary so-phistication or to cut death rates in surgery by half. Find out how this methodology can help you perform better every day starting now.


• The difference between failures of ignorance and failures of inepti-tude

• What checklists can and can’t do to help us cope with complexity

• How to understand the fierce resistance to checklists

• How to make checklists that work

As a practicing surgeon and an accomplished writer, teacher and speaker, Dr. Atul Gawande offers audiences a unique perspective on the human struggle to improve performance. Chosen for the 2010 TIME 100, Gawande is number five in the thinkers category. He was also chosen for the Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers 2010. He received the MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “genius prize,” for his writing and his efforts to improve surgical practice. Atul is the author of three brilliant bestselling books on medicine, culture and human experience. In his book, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Perfor-mance, Dr. Gawande uses the high stakes challenges he faces as a sur-geon to explore the universal struggle to perform well. Atul’s current book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is a New York Times bestseller. In this book, Dr. Gawande explores the importance of using the checklist and how it has revolutionized medical practice and saved lives. He is the Research Director for the BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health, a practicing surgeon, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.

Talk with your customers. Listen to your employees. These are long-time, well tested truisms of business. But ask organizations to engage with people on Facebook or Twitter and a look of sheer terror crosses their faces. The long held concept of command-and-control leadership is being tested as organizations are experiencing the largest technolog-ical and sociological shift of our generation. Charlene advises leaders how to feel in command in a world where they’re no longer in control. For example, how open, how transparent, how authentic, and how real do you need to be? More importantly, how do you leverage and measure the impact of using social technologies in your organization? Charlene lays out a new approach that today’s leaders must adopt for competitive advantage.


• Why being open and in control is possible

• The characteristics, skills, and behaviors of today’s “open” leaders

• Best practices in creating a coherent and effective social media strategy

• How to implement an “open” strategy

Charlene Li is an influential thought leader and guide on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interac-tive media, and marketing. The co-author of the business best-seller, Groundswell: Winning In a World Transformed by Social Technologies, Charlene’s newest book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead addresses the challenges facing leadership of the modern organization. Named “One of the Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company magazine, Charlene is the founder of Altimeter Group. Charlene is one of the most frequently-quoted indus-try analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, and The Associ-ated Press. Most recently, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.

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Bill Conatyon Why Smart Leaders put People Before Numbers

“ My main job was developing talent.

I was a gardener providing water

and other nourishment to our top

750 people. Of course, I had to pull

out some weeds, too.”

—Jack Welch

In the fast-changing global marketplace, the ability to create a steady, self-renewing stream of leaders is the only way for an organization to gain a lasting, competitive edge. Bill Conaty, a GE veteran who helped shape the modern face of human resources, presents strategies to attract and nurture top talent, and develop business leaders. If talent is the leading indicator of whether a business is up or down (and it is)… do you know how to accurately judge raw human talent and develop that talent? Successful leaders put people before numbers for the simple reason that it is talent that delivers the numbers. Success comes from those who are able to extract meaning from the events and forces affecting a business, and who are able to look at the world and assess the risks to take and the risks to avoid.


• A process to convert subjective judgment about a person’s talent into an objective set of observations that can predict success

• How to assess the characteristics and capabilities of rising stars and new hires

• How to map out a course for unleashing the full potential of a workforce and taking any business, in any industry, to the next level

Bill Conaty was legendary for his ability to attract and nurture top tal-ent and develop business leaders. As senior vice president for Human Resources at GE from 1993 to 2007, he was responsible for all human resources activities for GE’s 330,000 employees worldwide. One of the most visible achievements was successfully managing the CEO suc-cession and transition process from the legendary Jack Welch to Jeff Immelt. The cover story in Human Resource Executive magazine hailed his handling of “one of the most important CEO succession challenges of the century.” In 2004, Bill Conaty was named Human Resources Executive of the Year. In great measure due to the management development and training programs Bill engineered, BusinessWeek declared that GE had “the most talent-rich management bench in the world.” Bill is the co-author, with Ram Charan, of The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers which relays valuable principles for creating a steady, self-renewing stream of leaders.

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>> The High Impact Leadership Model™

Leadership ResponsibilitiesCreating the Vision: The responsibility of anticipating future demands and seizing future opportunities while providing meaning, context, and motivation throughout the organization.

Creating the Organization: The responsibility of building and devel-oping the structure for high performance.

Building a High Performance Culture: The responsibility of creat-ing an environment in which employees want to develop and achieve.

Driving Growth through Innovation: The responsibility of building a culture that systematically anticipates future demands and seizes future opportunities.

Producing Results: The responsibility of setting goals, monitor-ing progress, and driving flawless execution to achieve results in a competitive world.

Leadership CompetenciesFocused Drive: The capability of focusing on a goal and harnessing your energy in order to meet that goal – a balance between focus and drive.

Emotional Intelligence: The capability of understanding and mastering your emotions (and those of others) in a way that instills confidence – a balance between perception and emotional maturity.

Trusted Influence: The capability of evoking trust from others and placing trust in others to enable them to succeed – a balance between commitment and empowerment.

Conceptual Thinking: The capability of conceiving and selecting innovative strategies and ideas for your organization – a balance between innovation and big picture thinking.

Systems Thinking: The capability of connecting processes, events, and structures – a balance between process orientation and mental discipline.

Leadership SkillsStrategic Thinking: The skill of using powerful frameworks and approaches for diagnosing and anticipating competitive threats, and taking action on the strategic concerns of your organization.

Communication and Negotiation: The skill of communicating and relating to a broad range of people internally and externally and using that ability to reach understandings and agreements.

Leading Change: The skill of understanding and using the most ef-fective tools and processes to drive needed change.

Coaching and Mentoring: The skill of mastering a comfortable coaching style and using it strategically to improve performance.

Problem Solving: The skill of employing analytical abilities, prag-matism, and other tools to resolve complex problems in a variety of contexts.

Leading Teams: The skill of inspiring and driving a team to go be-yond the expected.

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HIGH IMPACT LEADERSHIP MODEL™

The foundation that drives the selection of our speaker lineup is the High Impact Leadership Model (HILM). The HILM, co-developed by Linkage and Warren Bennis, is based on over 50 years of empirical observation into the behavior and performance of hundreds of thousands of managers and leaders around the world.

This observation culminated in a 2-year, longitudinal study comparing managers and leaders that consistently delivered better results with those who delivered only average results. The behavior-based competencies and skills found to differentiate the two sets make up the competencies, skills, and responsibilities in the model.

Over the last 12 years, the HILM has been validated and refined through application with over 100,000 thousand leaders and managers around the world making it one of the most reliable and valid leadership frameworks available today.

Each speaker within this series seeks to cover one of these areas but will touch upon several others within their presentation. Many companies will identify the areas that need to be covered within their organization and combine our upcoming lineup with our extensive on demand library to construct a customized, focused internal leadership series.

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Bringing together the people, tools, and

technology for a truly distinctive learning

experience.

Thousands of customers have leveraged Linkage’s Thought Leader Series. Real customer examples include:

• A Fortune 100 multinational organization that re-brands the broadcasts as their own Distance Learning Executive Series and offers the programs to managers and executives around the world.

• A 60,000 person governmental agency that uses the live broadcast as well as an on-demand option to ensure that its current executives and high-potential managers are continu-ally honing their leadership skills despite travel and budget restrictions.

• A mid-size, high-growth private company that uses the series throughout the year by building the 90-minute broad-casts into a series of day-long blended learning development programs offered by its corporate university.

• A small not-for-profit organization that cannot usually afford live presentations from such world-renowned speakers, but uses Linkage’s Thought Leader Series to bring tremendous value and leadership lessons to their managers and executives at an affordable price.

Why do leading organizations choose Linkage’s Thought Leader Series?

+ World-Class FacultyBring valuable content, insight, and perspective from world-renowned presenters at a fraction of the cost to hire them directly.

+ Global ReachUse a variety of proven distance learning options to maximize the global reach and impact of your training investment.

+ Cost-EffectiveAn unbelievably low “total cost per person” allows you to get maximum “bang for your buck” with exceptional program quality.

+ Interactive FormatGet your specific questions answered! Submit questions directly via text, e-mail, or fax during the live events.

+ Timely & ConvenientA 90-minute, highly relevant learning experience that can occur in your conference room, at your desktop and/or at home LIVE or on your own time.

+ Integration with Existing ProgramsUse these broadcasts as LIVE stand-alone development programs or integrate them into existing leadership development initiatives through the on-demand option.

The highest quality, most flexible, and cost-effective management and leadership training

solution your organization can buy!

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The world-class speakers are just the beginning. The Thought Leader Series is designed with a Participant Guide and Facilita-tor Guide that provide numerous tools, resources, and learning activities to ensure real “take-away” value for your participants.

Participant and Facilitator Guides

These guides are created by an instructional designer in as-sociation with the speaker. They are designed to maximize the power of the broadcasts by increasing the essential transfer of knowledge into action. These comprehensive materials contain insightful pre-program readings to better prepare the facilita-tors and participants for the live event. They also contain many exercises and activities designed for groups of varying size and experience. Facilitators can select those that best support their unique organizational needs. The facilitator guides also contain over 15 pages of materials designed to assist newer facilitators with overall facilitation skills.

One-Hour Facilitator Preparation Call

This call is hosted by the program moderator. During the call, participants are provided with:

• an overview of the speaker’s background and the material they will cover to help prepare facilitators

• a thorough knowledge of the program materials and how they can best be used to maximize the impact within their own organization

• an opportunity to ask questions about how to best facilitate the session with their particular group

Internal Marketing Materials

These materials are designed to increase awareness of, and maximize participation in the broadcasts. They include:

• a one-page, customizable, marketing flyer containing key learnings, a brief bio, and a picture of the speaker

• a brief paper on each program known as “The Background-er” that contains an overview of the topic and speaker to increase interest in the program and better prepare partici-pants for the program

• E-mail announcements for internal communication

Technical Support

A technical consultant will be available to work with you prior to each live program to assist with any technology-related questions or issues you have.

Linkage’s satellite broadcasts give us a valuable and cost-effective opportunity to keep our finger on the pulse of thought leadership. Anne Glass // CSC

The live broadcast and interview format gave me the rare opportunity to get to know the speakers as well as share in their valuable insights.Richard Ayers // AMD

The program covered the topics facing participants today and provided clear, simple models for dealing with leadership challenges.Jack Brown // Pemco Corporation

“SuPPORT MATERIALS AND RESOuRCES

Linkage’s Thought Leader Series LibraryTimeless leadership lessons in a convenient

format designed to boost your organization’s

internal leadership capabilities—from first line

supervisors to C-suite leaders.

Consisting of 90+ of the world’s greatest thought leaders, CEOs, political, and military leaders, the complete Thought Leader Series library offers a keynote retail value of $4.5 million at a fraction of the cost.

Downloadable directly onto your learning management system, the full series is yours to tap into at your leisure and to share with your leaders 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

For complete details, please call Linkage today at 781-402-5555.

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Leadership Responsibilities

Creating the Organization

The responsibility of building and developing the structure for high performance.

Michael HammerCreator of management theory of Business Process Reengineering presents:

Managing Without Structure

Margaret WheatleyAuthor of Finding Our Way Leadership for an Uncertain Time presents:

Leading in a Networked World

Tommy FranksFormer Commander of uS central command presents:

Learning to Lead

Ann RichardsFormer governor of Texas presents:

Defining Moments for Successful Leaders

Rick Belluzzo & Jay CongerFormer CEO of Quantum and author of The Practice of Leadership present:

Developing Your Leadership Bench Strength

Ken BlanchardLeading management expert and author of The One Minute Manager presents:

Creating a World-Class Organization

Sherron Watkins & Jo-seph Badaracco, Jr.Enron whistleblower and Harvard Business School professor present:

Ethics in Leadership

Creating the Vision

The responsibility of anticipating future demands and seizing future opportunities while providing meaning, context, and motiva-tion throughout the organization.

Warren BennisThe world’s foremost authority on leadership and best selling author of On Becoming a Leader presents:

The Most Common and Often Fatal Flaws of Leadership

Mikhail GorbachevFormer head of the Soviet union presents:

Global Leadership

Benazir BhuttoFirst female prime minister of Pakistan presents:

Diversity

Michael PorterForemost expert on competitive strategy presents:

Creating a Vision for Competitive Advantage

David BreashearsWorld-class filmaker, adventurer and mountaineer presents:

Vision, Courage and Passion

Sandra TaylorFormer senior vice president of Corporate Social Responsibility with Starbucks Coffee Company presents:

The Business Case of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Driving Growth through Innovation

The responsibility of building a culture that systematically anticipates future demands and seizes future opportunities.

Rosabeth Moss KanterAuthor, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovations, Profits, Growth, and Social Good presents:

Leading a SuperCorp

Michael TreacyGrowth & Strategy Business Transformation Expert presents:

Sustaining Double-Digit Growth in Any Economy

Clayton ChristensenAuthor of The Innovator’s Dilemma presents:

Building a Successful Innovation-Driven Organization

How to Create New Growth Businesses in a Risk-Minimizing Environment

Peter SheahanLeading expert in workforce trends and generational change presents:

Future Proof: How to be up in a Down Market

Lynda GrattonFounder of the Hot Spots movement and author of Hot Spots and Glow presents:

Creating Performance Driven Innovation

Henry MintzbergAuthor of The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning presents:

Half Truths of Leadership

Phil Harkins & Dave LinigerCEO of Linkage Inc and chairman of Re/Max International present:

Everybody Wins: Proven Guidelines for Creating unprecedented Growth

Jack WelchFormer chairman and CEO of General Electric presents:

Leadership & Management

Marilyn Carlson NelsonChairman and former CEO of Carlson Companies presents:

How You Lead Matters

Producing Results

The responsibility of setting goals, monitoring progress, and driving flawless execution to achieve results in a competitive world.

Jack & Suzy WelchAuthors of Winning present:

Producing Results: Winning Through Flawless Execution

Richard BransonChairman and CEO of Virgin Brands presents:

Lessons in Leadership

Hank HaneyA world authority on the business of golf and a leader in the field of individual performance development presents:

A Roadmap to Excellence

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Building a High Performance Culture

The responsibility of creating an environment in which employees want to develop and achieve.

Malcolm GladwellBest-selling author of Outliers, The Tipping Point and Blink presents:

The Power of Rapid Cognition for Business Leaders

Why People are Successful

Bruce TulganRecently included in a Financial Times listing of the world’s greatest management thinkers presents:

How to Turn Age Diversity Into a Strategic Advantage for Your Organzation

Tony SchwartzAuthor of The Power of Full Engagement presents:

Building Individual & Organizational Capacity in the Age of Overload

David AllenAuthor of Getting Things Done presents:

The Keys of Execution: Successful Strategies Leaders use to Get Things Done

Keith FerrazziFounder & CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight and author of Never Eat Alone presents:

Relationships for Group Success

Quint StuderAuthor of Results that Last presents:

Transforming a Corporate Culture to Drive Sustainable Results

Tom DavenportAuthor of Competing on Analytics presents:

Maximizing Knowledge Worker Productivity: The Next Generation of Management

Randy StreetCo-author, Who: The A Method for Hiring presents:

using the “A” Method to Evaluate Talent

Marcus BuckinghamAuthor of best-seller Go Put Your Strengths to Work presents:

Leverage Your Strengths

Michael Lee Stallard and Jason PankauFounders of E-Pluribus Partners presents:

Fired up Leadership to Boost Productivity and Innovation

Carlos GutierrezFormer Secretary of the u.S. Department of Commerce presents:

Leadership from Top to Bottom

Leadership Responsibilities

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Leadership Competencies

Focused Drive

The capability of focusing on a goal and harnessing your energy in order to meet that goal – a balance between focus and drive.

Ken BlanchardLeading management expert and author of The One Minute Manager presents:

Excellence in Management and Leadership

Betsy MyersAdvisor to Barak Obama’s Presidential Campaign and Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard presents:

Authentic Leadership: How You Can Take the Lead

Warren BennisThe foremost authority on leadership and best-selling author of On Becoming a Leader presents:

The 6 Core Leadership Capabilities

Marilyn King Two-time Olympian and founder of Beyond Sports presents:

Envisioning the Gold: An Olympian’s Challenge to Business Leaders

Larry BossidyFormer chairman of Honeywell presents:

Execution

Marilyn Tam Best Selling Author and global leadership expert presents:

How to use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want

Marshall GoldsmithAuthor of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best seller MOJO: How to Get it, How to Keep it, How to Get if back If You Lose It presents:

The Positive Actions Leaders Must Take to Start Winning Again

Trusted Influence

The capability of evoking trust from others and placing trust in others to enable them to succeed—a balance between commit-ment and empowerment.

Dave UlrichProfessor, university of Michigan presents:

Creating Your Own Leadership Brand

Louis GerstnerFormer chairman and CEO of IBM presents:

Organizational Transformation

John MaxwellInternationally recognized leadership expert presents:

The Five Levels of Leadership

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Conceptual Thinking

The capability of conceiving and selecting innovative strategies and ideas for your organization—a balance between innovation and big picture thinking.

Thomas FriedmanAuthor, The World Is Flat presents:

The Status Quo Is Not an Option: The Leader’s Role in Globalization

Howard SchultzFormer chairman and CEO of Starbucks presents:

Leadership

Seth GodinCalled by BusinessWeek the ultimate entreprenuer of the information age presents:

Idea Marketing

Warren BennisThe foremost authority on leadership and best-selling author of On Becoming a Leader presents:

Leadership

C.K. PrahaladCo-Author, The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers presents:

Strategy in the New Competitive Landscape

Systems Thinking

The capability of connecting processes, events, and structures—a balance between process orientation and mental discipline.

Peter SengeAuthor of the Fifth Discipline presents:

Systemic Leadership and Change

Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Peter SengeLeading management experts present:

The Keys to Leading/Managing Change/Strategy & Systems Thinking

Emotional Intelligence

The capability of understanding and mastering your emotions (and those of others) in a way that instills confidence – a balance between perception and emotional maturity.

Bill GeorgeFormer chairman and CEO of Medtronic presents:

Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value

Dan Goleman Best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence presents:

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership—Bottom Line Results

Richard BoyatzisAuthor, Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion presents:

Leading in a New World

Leadership Competencies

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Leadership Skills

Strategic Thinking

The skill of using powerful frameworks and approaches for diagnosing and anticipating competitive threats, and taking action on the strategic concerns of your organization.

Gary HamelHarvard professor and leading expert presents:

Strategy on Innovation and Strategy

Madeleine Albright Former uS Secretary of

State presents:

Global Leadership

C.K. PrahaladCo-Author, The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers presents:

Making Strategy Work-The Future of Value Creation

Rudy GiulianiFormer mayor of NYC presents:

Leading in Difficult Times

Coaching and Mentoring

The skill of mastering a comfortable coaching style and using it strategically to improve performance.

Noel TichyCo-Author of Judgment and one of BusinessWeek’s Top 10 Management Gurus presents:

Leader As Teacher

Marshall Goldsmith Author of Wall Street Journal best-seller, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There presents:

Coaching for Leadership

Coaching & Feedback

Pat MitchellPresident and Chief Executive Officer of PBS presents:

Leader As Mentor

Gail EvansAward-winning speaker and former Executive Vice President of CNN presents:

The Power of Working Women Working Together

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Leadership Skills

Leading Change

The skill of understanding and using the most effective tools and processes to drive needed change.

Margot Morrell and Warren BennisBest-selling authors present:

Shackleton: A Leadership Journey

Spencer Johnson

Best-selling Author of Who Moved My Cheese? presents:

Managing Change

Tom PetersAuthor of all-time best-seller In Search of Excellence presents:

Creating the 21st Century Organization

Change & Leadership

Leadership and Change

Dan HeathCo-author of Business Week and New York Times bestseller Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die presents:

How to Change when Change is Hard

Phil HarkinsAuthor of Powerful Conversations presents:

Communicating With Impact

Nick WashienkoLeading expert on Executive Communication and former director of the Professional Development Program of Boston university presents:

Effective Leadership Communication

Tim SandersAuthor of best-selling Saving the World at Work presents:

Leadership and Likability

Communication and Negotiation

The skill of communicating and relating to a broad range of people internally and externally and using that ability to arrive at and reach understandings and agreements.

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Problem Solving

The skill of employing analytical abilities, pragmatism, and other tools to resolve complex problems in a variety of contexts.

Noel TichyCo-Author of Judgment and one of BusinessWeek’s Top 10 Management Gurus presents:

How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

Michael UseemAuthor of The Go Point—When It’s Time to Decide presents:

Reaching the Go Point

Leading Teams

The skill of inspiring and driving a team to go beyond the expected.

Doris Kearns GoodwinPulitzer Prize-Winning author and world renowned historian presents:

Team of Rivals

Patrick Lencioni Author of BusinessWeek best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team presents:

Building and Leading a High Performance Team

Kimball & Mareen FisherAuthors of The Distance Manager and co-founders of The Fisher Group present:

Leading High Performance Virtual Teams

Mike KrzyzewskiHead Coach of the Duke Blue Devils presents:

Coaching to Win: Developing People and Teams Who Excel

Geoff BellmanAuthor of Extraordinary Groups presents:

How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results

Sheena IyengarAuthor of The Art of Choosing presents:

The Art of Choosing

Michael RobertoA preeminent authority on neutralizing hidden threats to organizations and author of Know What You Don’t Know presents:

How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before they Happen

Group participation options• Satellite—We broadcast our programs live on both C and Ku band. A test time is provided

one week before the broadcast as well as 30 minutes before the broadcast begins.

• Large screen webcast—A special high resolution web stream that expands clearly on a large boardroom or auditorium screen. This medium combines the convenience of a web-cast with the clarity of a videoconferencing feed.

• Webcast—Enables a widely dispersed audience to view the broadcasts by bringing the content to the desktop. This medium allows participants to view the broadcast either live or for a period of time following the live session. Please call for pricing. Fees listed below include webcast at one desktop or viewing station only.

• DVD—The best choice for organizations not requiring live programming, This option enables facilitators to determine how to best position the broadcasts within their unique organization. This option affords maximum flexibility in that you can view the broadcast during times most convenient for you and your teams within the defined viewing period.

• LMS— An excellent choice for those companies who already own an LMS. Combine the convenience and value of the DVD option with the flexibility of webcasting. Receive an LMS compliant file to host for your entire organization for the length of your licensing term. We will work with your IT team for a quick and seamless upload of the broadcast and support materials.

Pricing information

Participant materials, facilitator guides, sample marketing materials, and technical support assistance are included with all live and on-demand packages.

Payment, Cancellation, and Restrictions: All registrations must include payment or a copy of a purchase order. Cancellations made anytime up to four weeks prior to the broadcast will be refunded. Cancellations made within three weeks of the broadcast are subject to the full registration fee. Taping rights are not allowed for The Linkage Thought Leader Series.

Additional services• Facilitation—Linkage helps your organization connect distance learning to corporate ini-

tiatives and development goals. Opt to have a Linkage facilitator work with your organiza-tion to enhance the learning experience and impact of the session(s).

• Leadership Tools—Linkage provides your organization with management tools which can be used in connection with the broadcast(s). These tools help managers to drive their own learning, develop their people, work with their teams, and impact organizational change.

*Please call Linkage at 781-402-5555 regarding pricing for broadcasting simultaneously at multiple desktop or viewing stations.

Linkage is a global organizational development company that specializes in leadership development. We provide clients around the globe with integrated solutions that include strategic consulting services, customized leadership development and training experiences, tailored assessment services, and benchmark research. Linkage’s mission is to connect high performing leaders and organizations to the

futures they want to create. With a relentless commitment to learning, Linkage offers conferences, learning summits, open-enrollment workshops, and distance learning programs on leading-edge topics in leadership, management, human resources, and organizational development. More than 200,000 leaders and managers have attended Linkage programs since 1988.

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Partial client listAllmerica Financial

American Home Products

Amgen

AT&T

Bausch & Lomb

Berlex Labs

The Boeing Company

The Campbell Soup Company

Cisco

Computer Sciences Corporation

Constellation Energy

Dell

Discover

Disney university

Dow Corning

Florida Power & Light

Gap, Inc.

Genentech

General Mills

Genworth Financial

Harley Davidson

Hewlett-Packard

Ingersoll Rand

Intel

JC Penney

JP Morgan Chase

Key Span Energy

Kohl’s

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Los Alamo’s Natural Laboratories

Lubrizol Corporation

Mastercard

Medtronic

Microsoft

McDonald’s Corporation

Monsanto

NASA

New York Life

Nokia

Northwestern Mutual

Panama Canal Authority

Pemco Financial

Pfizer, Inc.

Procter & Gamble

Rockwell Automation

Solvay Pharmaceuticals

Sprint

Toyota Motor Sales

TSMC

uS Census Bureau

university of California

uS Army

uS EPA

uS FDA

uS Navy

uSDA

uS Steel

university of Notre Dame

VA Learning university

World Bank

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2011 Series Packages

All fees include live webcasts and/or satellites at one viewing station*. There is no limit to the number of viewers per viewing station. After the live events, the broadcasts are made available to you on DVD or direct upload onto your LMS for the remainder of your licensing term.

Full 2011 series ................................$3,000

2011 spring or fall series .................$2,000

Past Broadcast Packages

Available on DVD or for download directly onto your LMS, all of Linkage’s 90+ recorded leadership broadcasts are yours to share on-demand with your leaders 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Full library of 90+ programs ........ $30,000

8-pack on-demand ............................$3,000

4-pack on-demand ............................$2,000