We develop conscious leaders who take full responsibility for the impact of their results.
We develop leaders through our Conscious Leadership Summit. The Summit is a four-day gathering in Denver, Colorado in June. This program equips participants with conscious leadership skills, cultivates design thinking, explores cultural competence, and works to improve communication skills with people of different backgrounds.
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In the year following the summit, we offer quarterly gatherings in Denver to refresh, discuss and support one another in living out the commitments of conscious leadership. This collaborative community helps put the lessons from the Summit into action.
The Summit will take place on June 13th – 16th, 2016 at the Posner Center for International Development.
Schedule
Schedule is subject to change
June 13th
- 1:30pm – 2:00pm: Summit Overview
- 2:00pm – 5:00pm: Conscious Leadership
- 5:00pm – 7:00pm: Break
- 7:00pm – 9:00pm: Changemaker Dinner
June 14th
- 8:00am – 8:30am: Welcome
- 8:30am – 10:30am: Conscious Leadership
- 10:30am – 10:45am: Break
- 10:45am – 5:00pm: Design Thinking Workshop
June 15th
- 8:00am – 8:30am: Welcome
- 8:30am – 12:00pm: Conscious Leadership
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch
- 1:00pm – 4:30pm: Cultural Competence
- 4:30pm – 5:00 Reflection
June 16th
- 8:00am – 8:30am: Reflection on take away from yesterday
- 8:30am – 10:30am: Conscious Leadership
- 10:30am – 1:00: Cultural Competence
Content areas
Conscious leadership
Foundation for Global Scholars defines conscious leaders as authentic, purpose-driven team players committed to increasing their self-awareness. They take full responsibility for their impact and results in the context of the whole community.
Greenville Health System, the largest healthcare system in South Carolina, has adopted conscious leadership as their guiding mindset. A journey to conscious leadership is an article that shares more about GHS’ path to this new leadership model.
Many other organizations you may know of have adopted conscious leadership, such as: Asana, Whole Foods, and Athletico.
Design thinking
“Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.” (Tim Brown, president and CEO of IDEO)
The Harvard Business Review has done an excellent job exploring the different elements of design-centered thinking and how it has been applied to create business solutions in the article, “Design Thinking Comes of Age.”
In addition, the New York Times recently highlighted how IBM has adopted design-centered thinking to transform their business. To learn about how such a large company has adopted this new way of thinking read “IBM’s Design-Centered Strategy to Set Free the Squares.”
Selling points
Conscious leadership is the new norm for leadership and the best way to engage the millennial generation around leadership
Training is very personalized because there is a maximum of 50 participants at the summit
Ongoing community events to help reinforce concepts and practical application
Great workforce development tool with immediately applicable skills
Understanding what millennials desire out of a career:
Participants should be:
- Open to feedback and learning
- Willing to grow in self-awareness
- Willing to actively engage as a participant
Summit tuition
- Exclusive training program, materials and 4 meals
- $1,400 per person for the 4-day training with 3 expert facilitators, networking event, inspirational speakers and all original content
Register
We encourage you to register as soon as possible because we have limited spots. Once you have secured your spot at the Summit we will email you with follow up information.
If you have additional questions please contact Allison at agrenney@fgscholars.org.