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True North: Discovering Your Authentic Leadership

2 to 3 Day Program Presented by Nick Craig and Tim Dorman with special guest Bill George

True North Leadership:  When you tap into your unique expression of leadership, and when you are leading from your “True North” then profound, transformative leadership is the result. Imagine what would happen if you totally understood and were fully operating from your genius as a leader?

Unlike other leadership programs that teach you the latest leadership model, we will help you uncover the untapped model that already lives within you.

There are many leadership models out there that are credibly published in thousands of articles and popular books. Most offer a cure-all prescription of skills, competencies, strengths or intelligences. Yet few work to uncover the buried wisdom and defining stories of the person seeking greater leadership impact. This insufficiency has led to over 2600 CEOs being fired in the U.S during the last two years. Thus, most current models of leadership development clearly do not suffice.

Become a True North Leader

True North leaders are creative, trustworthy, and focused on discovering innovative strategies to meet company goals. In this course, we offer an opportunity for participants to take responsibility for their own authentic leadership, using tools, exercises, and experiential learning.

The True North course provides practical, accessible, field-tested strategies to tap into and develop your authentic leadership. These strategies are documented in “Discover Your Authentic Leadership,” in the February 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek articles, and in the bestselling True North (Jossey-Bass: March 2007). The course is based on the Authentic Leadership MBA Program at Harvard Business School and the soon to be released True North Field Book.

Learn how some of today's most successful leaders have styles that flow naturally from their own unique life experiences.

The course is a three-day experience. It includes two follow-up experiential web seminars, as well as group work and individual reflection. In the course you will:

• Identify Your Story:  Through your own crucible stories, you will find who you are as an authentic leader (your True North).
• Live Your True North:  Find your own guiding principles, and see how to express values, principles, and ethical boundaries in a deeply powerful way on a daily basis.
• Empower Others to find Their True North:  Discover how, through accessing your authenticity as a leader, you can support those around you to do the same.

Ultimately, the True North course shows participants how to tap into their own powerful, inner resources and become expert practitioners in their own leadership development.

Course Details

Discovering the Key to Your Authentic Leadership

In this course you will deepen your capacity to lead authentically through:

• Dialoguing with other leaders on their journey as an Authentic Leader
• Examining  the concept of crucible stories
• Discovering the story behind your authentic leadership
• Making the transition from being the best to creating the best(From “I” to “We”)  -- a key element of Authentic Leaders

Live Your True North:

We have found that for each of us there is an authentic, unique, and exquisite expression of leadership; our “True North” as a leader.  In this course, we learn how to create the conditions that enable us to find the full expression of our True North through:

• Uncovering what really motivates you and which situations are perfectly designed to maximize your unique style of authentic leadership
• Identifying the core values and principles in your leadership far beyond the values listed on most company walls
• Learning a new approach to integrating your life and building a personal support team that encompasses people not just from your professional life, but family and friends as well.

Empower Others to Find Their True North:

It is one thing to talk about being an Authentic Leader; it is another to actually take action on a plan to develop ourselves and others as authentic leaders. When we see others finding their True North, it helps us to see ours. You will build an action plan for your authentic leadership development for both you and your organization through:

• Identifying your purpose as an authentic leader in the context of the business challenges that cross your desk on a daily basis.   
• Creating a leadership development plan with specific action steps to intergrate what you have learned.
• Supporting the development of other authentic leaders in your organization.

About the Presenters:

Nick Craig is the President of the Authentic Leadership Institute (ALI), a training and consulting firm specializing in True North-based programs in leadership development, coaching, and executive team alignment. Nick's collaboration with Bill George of Harvard Business School is documented in Finding Your True North. He has over 20 years of experience helping leaders create a strong culture of execution, balanced with high integrity, congruency, and authenticity. Nick provides programs and interventions for top teams and large groups, as well as individual coaching. His talent lies in his ability to integrate the work of Authentic Leadership with the achievement of sustainable business results. Nick has designed and delivered leadership programs across the globe for many Fortune 500 companies, including BP, GE, and Siemens. Currently he delivers the leadership module for GE and Wharton's Top Executive High Potential Programs.

Beyond his work with Bill George, Nick has been influenced by his work with Russell Eisenstat and Michael Beer, Director Emeritus of Harvard Business School's Organizational Change practice, helping top teams have honest dialogues that drive strategic implementation. He has also worked with MIT Sloan School to develop their Leadership Center and executive coaching program based on the Distributed Leadership Model.

Nick's work is documented in the chapter, "Beyond the Fads: How Leaders Drive Change with Results," by Ron Ashkenas from the book Managing Strategic "Cultural Change in Organizations" and in the book The GE Work-Out. His client work with Russell Eisenstat and Michael Beer is documented in the February 2004 Harvard Business Review article, "How to Have an Honest Conversation About Your Business Strategy."

Tim Dorman is Managing Director of the Authentic Leadership Institute (ALI), a leadership consulting firm committed to helping good managers become great leaders. With an integrated offering of leadership workshops, executive coaching, and organizational consulting, ALI is a catalyst in helping executives, leadership teams, and organizations achieve their highest levels of authenticity, performance, and potential. Its work is based on the research and findings of Bill George of Harvard Business School, captured in his best-seller, True North.

Tim brings an effective blend of general management experience in publicly held companies, 20 years of consulting, and nine years of corporate human resource management. He has coached senior executives and leadership teams in a wide range of industries including media, financial services, high technology, health care, transportation, manufacturing, and retail. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Korn/Ferry’s Executive Coaching Network, and before that, as Group Executive Vice President for Right Management Consultants, where he led a $40 million career management and organizational consulting business. He also served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Outplacement International and as a Director with Spencer Stuart, a leading international executive search firm.

His corporate experience includes managing corporate human resources in the banking, telecommunications, and biotechnology industries. He has managed human resources throughout Asia for Bank of America, recruited in Europe and assisted in the start-up of a telecommunications joint venture between ROLM and IBM in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Dorman received his MBA from Stanford University with concentrations in organizational behavior and marketing, and a BA from Williams College.

Mr. Dorman is a frequent speaker to professional groups on leadership development, organizational change issues and international business. He is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the Executive Coaching Advisory Board of the Conference Board.

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