The Office of Executive Education at Harvard Design School Launches New Leadership Seminar for Architecture, Real Estate, and Related Building Industry Executives
Harvard Design School's Office of Executive Education launches an innovative, new Leadership Seminar designed to address the need for leadership training in the architecture, real estate, and building industries.
CAMBRIDGE, MA (PRWEB) October 29, 2004
While many business schools and consulting firms offer leadership training for corporate executives, leadership seminars designed specifically for architecture, real estate, and building industry executives are not nearly as common, yet there is an important need to develop leaders for future growth in these disciplines.
To address that need, the Office of Executive Education at Harvard Design School is launching a new, four-day seminar, entitled The Challenges of Leadership, on February 8-11, 2005 in Cambridge, MA.
The intensive program tackles issues of leadership in practice and within organizations, and challenges participants to develop the vision, influence, self-discipline and motivation required of successful leaders. Participants have the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with peers from other firms while exploring important topics such as, “Leading a Creative Workforce”; “Managing Talent”; and “Effecting Leadership Succession within Your Organization”.
Seminar participants begin by completing a leadership self-assessment. By the programÂ’s conclusion they will have created a customized leadership development plan based on that self-assessment and their own priorities for success, and informed by their course learning and peer review.
“The Challenges of Leadership is a unique program not only because we’ve developed it with a specific audience in mind but also because it is being taught by instructors with real world experience, people who have been there and have actually done the very things that they are lecturing on,” says Corlette McCoy, Director of Harvard Design School’s Office of Executive Education.
“This seminar is an interactive, hands-on learning experience that empowers participants to develop their own leadership plan thus enabling them to have an immediate and powerful impact on their organizations,” adds McCoy.
Seminar instructors include:
• Edward Feiner, Chief Architect of the U. S. General Services Administration, Washington, DC
• A. Eugene Kohn, Chairman, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, New York, NY
• Thomas Curley, President and CEO, The Associated Press, New York, NY and former President and Publisher, USA TODAY
• Julie Benezet, Principal, Business Growth Consulting, Seattle, WA and former Amazon. com executive
• Michael Abrashoff, former Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and Commander of the USS Benfold
• Baird Brightman, President, WorkLife Strategies, Sudbury, MA
The Challenges of Leadership is registered with the AIA (American Institute of Architects) Continuing Education System. Participants who complete the four-day seminar will earn 32 AIA/CES units. Complete seminar and registration information can be found at www. gsd. harvard. edu/execed (http://www. gsd. harvard. edu/execed).
About the Office of Executive Education at Harvard Design School
The Office of Executive Education at Harvard Design School is the foremost provider of Executive Education programs for architects, planners, landscape architects, and real estate and building industry professionals. Executive Education offers an extensive menu of open enrollment seminars that explore timely design issues and trends; admissions programs that cover topics in real estate; and customized programs that are tailored to an organizationÂ’s or firmÂ’s specific needs. Drawing upon the unparalleled resources of Harvard University, Executive Education programs are led by renowned faculty from the Design School, the Business School, the Law School, and the Kennedy School of Government, as well as eminent practitioners and scholars from across the country and around the world. For more information, visit www. gsd. harvard. edu/execed (http://www. gsd. harvard. edu/execed).
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