Program Highlights

Business leaders today are rethinking many of the basic assumptions that defined the last decade. They face greater challenges than ever and yet they have less control and job security. The market is unpredictable. Competition is coming from emerging markets, and shareholders are exerting increasing pressure. Expectations are high for leaders to create a niche, increase business agility, serve the customer and hire passionate and courageous people. Join leading executives, academics and consultants as we explore THE NEW RULES and their impact.

Meeting the Challenge of the New Rules: Traits that Tomorrow's Best Leaders Must Have
Geoffrey Colvin, FORTUNE Senior Editor at Large

FORTUNE Senior Editor-at-Large, Geoffrey Colvin, will share with us the winning traits that future leaders must have. Geoffrey is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. He is one of America's sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership and management. Having spent his career knowing and studying America's business leaders, Geoffrey's views are based not on theory, but on real world evidence.

Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Lester Crown Professor, Yale School of Management

Adversity can be the harbinger of defeat or the catalyst for greatness. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management, will examine this fine line with us. He will share with us a model of engaged, purposeful leadership that is as critical to dealing with adversity as it is to achieving success.

Moving Beyond Compliance: The Effect of the New Rules on Corporate Boards
Moderated by Julie Daum, Practice Leader, North American Board Services Practice, Spencer Stuart
Bart Friedman, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Board Director, Sanford C Bernstein Mutual Funds, Allied World Assurance Holdings
Jean Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer, Xonos.com, Inc
Roger Kenny, CEO, Boardroom Consultants
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale School of Management

A panel of corporate directors, governance experts and search consultants will examine how the balance of power and rules of engagement are changing with the greater representation and involvement of independent directors. They will discuss a more strategic approach to board recruiting and will look at the new director profile. Panelists will comment on Board involvement with CEO compensation, succession planning and the relationship between boards and institutional shareholders.

Executive Search: Will We Look the Same in 2027
Gary Burnison, COO/CFO, Korn Ferry International
Kevin Connelly, Chairman, Spencer Stuart
Jeffrey Hodge, President Hodge / Niederer / Cariani
Eileen Kamerick, CAO Heidrick and Struggles
Carl Lovas, Managing Partner, Ray & Berndtson Canada

A panel of executive search leaders will examine where we are today and what our industry might look like in 2027. Panelists will discuss pressures, key success factors, challenges and building for the future.

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