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Conversation with Ron Heifetz regarding his Recent Research on “Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis”

Are you waiting for things to return to normal…Sorry. Leadership will require new skills tailored to an environment of urgency, high stakes and uncertainty.

“You’ll have to foster adaptation, helping people develop the ‘next practices’ that will enable (them) to thrive in a new world.”

Ronald Heifetz, et. al.
Harvard Business Review, May 2009

Please join us during lunch as internationally renowned leadership expert Ronald Heifetz leads the discussion about how these exceptionally difficult times present an enormous challenge for the field of leadership education and development and how we can meet this challenge. The stakes are high and demand that we in the field innovate, integrate, experiment and adapt to unstable conditions and unmapped terrain.

There is a $50.00 fee and pre-registration is required.

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Ronald A. Heifetz is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Known for his seminal work during the last two decades on the practice and teaching of leadership, his research focuses on how to build adaptive capacity in societies, businesses, and nonprofits. His book Leadership Without Easy Answers is currently in its 13th printing and has been translated into many languages. He coauthored the best-selling book Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading with Marty Linsky. His teaching is studied in Leadership Can Be Taught by Sharon Daloz Parks. Cofounder and Principal of Cambridge Leadership Associates, Heifetz consults extensively in the United States and abroad. He is a graduate of Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, and the Kennedy School and is a physician and cellist who studied with the Russian virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky

Contact Angie Stehr with questions at 612-625-5209, stehr002@umn.edu