Leadership Development: Focus. Believe. Invest.
Session description: Many times organizations are unable to effectively have their initiatives cross departments. Lockheed Martin has successfully executed cross departmental initiatives by focusing on, believing in, and investing in their leadership development.
In this session, participants will hear how a Fortune 500 company integrated a comprehensive LD and OD system across multiple platforms of the organization and aligned it with the company goals and culture.
Key session takeaways will include:
- how to put together a successful action learning project that focuses on assessment
- what does impactful measurement look like
- how to take an action learning project and turn it into a practical action plan
Presenters: Marilyn Figlar is the Vice President of Leadership and OD for Lockheed Martin Corporation. She oversees all learning, talent, and LD strategies and programs.
Cheryl Monachino is the Director of Platform Systems Engineering at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration. She is responsible for the system engineering function in support of the A-10 Prime Programs, the Distribution Technologies Programs, Special Operations Programs, Unmanned Vehicle (UAV) Programs, and Naval Helicopter Programs.
Increasing Leadership Capacity at Fortune Brands with Emotional Intelligence
Session description: Understanding the emotional intelligence of your organization can benefit your company in many ways. This session will highlight best practices and lessons learned from a multi-year LD initiative at Fortune Brands (a Fortune 500 company that owns marquis brands such as Titleist, Moen, and Jim Beam).
When Fortune Brands sought to double the revenue of a key division in five short years, they called on OD to develop a LD strategy that could take their current talent to the next level.
In this session, you will learn:
- how Fortune used the development of leaders’ emotional intelligence skills as the vehicle for realizing the company’s core competency model
- best practices for increasing emotional intelligence skills through self- and 360-degree assessment, face-to-face training, e-learning, and executive coaching
- a method for measuring the ROI of your LD efforts via metrics that unequivocally demonstrate the value of your work
Presenters: Tom Sherrier, M.Ed. is the organizational development leader for the Therma-Tru division of Fortune Brands. He has had experience developing people and growing businesses over his 34-year career. While leading the OD and LD efforts at Therma-Tru, he partnered with TalentSmart to create an EQ based competency development program for all company leaders.
Dr. Travis Bradberry is an award-winning author and President and cofounder of TalentSmart®, a think tank and consultancy that serves more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies and is the world’s leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training.
Return on Leadership Development (ROLD)
Session description: Measuring leadership development provides organizations with advantages that can outweigh the standard benefits received from measuring the impact of LD, such as pipeline/bench strength analysis. This session will outline the organizational benefits to measuring leadership development, and why Kirkpatrick’s four levels, Phillips ROI, and Birkenhof’s impact mapping are still so important to the future of LD and what to do with your findings once you’ve conducted a LD assessment.
In this session, you will explore:
- practical tools and questions to take back to your organization that will help you start measuring
- key learnings and insights from leading companies that have measured their return on LD
- how LD can become a profit generating unit by fully taking advantage of the conclusions from the process
Presenter: Rich Rosier is Senior Vice President and Principal Consultant at Linkage. He is responsible for leading Linkage’s LD practice area and strategic partner acquisitions.
The New GM
Session description: The General Motors story did not end in 2009 after declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it had just begun. General Motors is still a legacy brand, however the need for re-invention has been essential and critical to the ongoing success of the company. In this thought-provoking session, participants will hear about an organizational strategy that is focused on moving forward and learning about the initial levers of change that have been deployed. The journey is far from over.
In this session, you will learn:
- how to balance legacy with reinvention to design a new future
- how to leverage high performance leaders at all levels of the organization to advocate change
- key success factors when a company is starting over
Presenters: Chris Oster is the Global Director of Change Management and OD for General Motors, where she is responsible for providing leadership to internal consultants.
Deborah Werner is the Lead Change Management Consultant for General Motors. She is an OD expert who has coached a number of high level leaders.