| TIM PENNY, JOEL BARKER TO HEADLINE U LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Former U.S. congressman Tim Penny and futurist Joel Barker will headline the 2008 University of Minnesota Center for Integrative Leadership conference, “Making Communities Work: Leadership across Public, Private, Nonprofit, and Geographic Boundaries,” April 21-22 at Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 301 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis.
Presented in partnership with University of Minnesota Extension, the conference will provide community leaders, scholars, and community development professionals with an opportunity to examine how communities can come together to address some of the most pressing and complex societal problems: coping after a factory leaves town; tapping technology for economic growth; and putting a rural community on the map, for example.
The conference will also provide a platform for analyzing how theories of leadership and community development inform the concept of integrative leadership.
“Integrative leadership encourages leaders from different perspectives to come together and generate new ways of solving some of the most pressing problems in communities,” said Extension Dean Bev Durgan. “As the University’s major outreach arm, Extension is pleased to support these efforts in Minnesota communities, and help connect leaders to the U’s research base in leadership and public affairs.”
Barker (left), the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts for the corporate world, has worked with global business leaders and visionaries for nearly three decades. Author of the book Future Edge and former director of the Future Studies Department of the Science Museum of Minnesota, Barker will deliver the conference’s keynote address, “Innovation and Implications: New Responsibilities for 21st Century Leaders,” April 21 at 4 p.m.
The presentation by Penny (right), president of the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation and a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute, will take place April 22 at 10:15 a.m. Penny will speak on the topic of “Reinventing Minnesota: Crossing Traditional Boundaries to Create Change.”
The conference runs from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on April 21 and from 8 to 11 a.m. on April 22. Registration for the two-day event is $80 per person, including lunch, evening appetizers and beverages (April 21), and breakfast (April 22). Register online at www.extension.umn.edu/MakingCommunitiesWork.
The Center for Integrative Leadership is a University-wide initiative that explores how leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors can work together across traditional boundaries to solve problems and promote the common good. Its oversight is shared by the Carlson School of Management and the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. The University’s Extension Center for Community Vitality works across the state in communities to examine the social, economic, civic, and technological future.
For more information about the conference, visit www.extension.umn.edu/MakingCommunitiesWork or contact Joyce Hoelting, Extension Center for Community Vitality, at 612-625-8233.
March 27, 2008 |
