Presented by SMU Cox School of Business
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Designed for current and emerging leaders whose decisions and authority shape their enterprises; this dynamic new three-day program will help attendees forge a global vision and the skills to achieve it. Sessions will feature breakthrough insights on key issues from world-recognized thought leaders and expert faculty from SMU-Cox and other top-ranked business schools. Research-based content will expose attendees to the latest approaches in strategy development, financial management, leadership, risk management and communication.
Course Highlights:
- Global startegy for attendee's organization
- Emerging and developing markets
- A framework for strategy development
- Sources of capital
- Assessing investment opportunities
- New reporting regulations and requirements
- Creating and maximizing alliances
- Aligning a globally diversified workforce
- Leading with cultural authenticity
- Leading amid changing demographics
- Developing human capital the leader as a teacher, coach, mentor
- Developing high-potential talent
- Emotional intelligence
- Exercising influence outside attendee organization
- Aligning interests for mutual gain
Who Should Attend:
- Enterprise leaders in positions of substantial decision-making and responsibility
- Senior-level managers moving into such a position and seeking to improve their overall leadership effectiveness
- Leaders with significant managerial decision-making responsibility in a specific industry segment or functional area, such as exploration, production, transportation, refining, marketing, finance or human resources
Benefits:
- Learn how to recognize and leverage your strengths and identify your developmental needs.
- Participate in stimulating classroom case discussions on relevant energy industry topics
- Explore the latest approaches in strategy development, financial management, leadership, risk management and communications
- Gain an understanding of how to impact the performance of other employees and resolve performance problems – even with those you don’t lead
- Develop a common thread that ties a leader to a cohort that maximizes the leader’s impact on the organization
- Acquire techniques for assessing the performance of your subordinates, your division, or your company
- Study and develop concepts and techniques you can apply to your job immediately
Dates and Locations
Please visit our
API-U Calendar for all upcoming courses.
Format:Three days, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Cost: $5,995, includes five nights of lodging; materials; breakfasts, lunches, breaks; two group dinner. Group discounts are also available for multiple attendees from the same organization. Payment plans available.
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About the Instructor (s)
Academic Director, Warren Wilhelm, Ph.D., is the president of Global Consulting Alliance. A management consultant for more than 20 years, Wilhelm is an expert in leadership development, organization development, human resource management and large-scale organizational change. He is former head of organization and management development for Amoco Corporation and former vice president of corporate education for Allied Signal Inc. Wilhelm holds a master’s degree in business administration and a doctor of philosophy degree from Harvard University.
John Hofmeister, upon retirement from Shell Oil Company in 2008, founded and heads the notfor- profit (501(c)(3) ), nation-wide membership association, Citizens for Affordable Energy. This Washington, D.C.-registered, public policy education firm promotes sound U.S. energy security solutions for the nation, including a range of affordable energy supplies, efficiency improvements, essential infrastructure, sustainable environmental policies and public education on energy issues.
William F. Joyce is Professor of Strategy and Organization Science at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Dr. Joyce has consulted extensively with organizations in the United States, Europe, and the Far East, specializing in strategy formulation and implementation, organizational design, and cultural change. His client base is wide-ranging, and includes highly visible firms from the aerospace, high technology, telecommunications, government, and financial services sectors, among others. He has served as a principal consultant in strategy formation and organizational design projects for AT&T, General Electric, Lockheed-Martin, Allied-Signal, Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals, Upjohn, 3M, Aetna, Citibank, ING, BMW, AVAYA, Fujitsu, MetLife and various government agencies including the EPA.
Dr. Robin L. Pinkley, Ph.D., professor of management and organizations, is the creator of the gain-gain approach to profitable negotiation and founder of the M2M Center for Profitable Negotiation. Her research—which has garnered numerous fellowships, grants and awards—focuses on the sources and consequences of negotiator power, the use of strategic anchors for enhancing opponent perceptions of negotiated value, the implication of “fair” as an outcome heuristic and the strategic application of “value context theory." Before coming to SMU, Pinkley served as visiting professor of organizational behavior at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She is a frequent speaker in management development programs and a negotiation consultant for government organizations in six countries and dozens of blue-chip corporations, including Accenture, Allstate Insurance, General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, Kodak, Lockheed Martin Vought, Macy’s, Mobil, NASA, SBC Communications, Sony Ericsson, State Farm Insurance and Yahoo! Pinkley has been featured as an expert on negotiation in a range of media, including ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, “Wall Street Journal,” “New York Times,” “Chicago Tribune,” Washington Post,” “US News and World Report,” “Money,” and “Fortune.” With Greg Northcroft, Pinkley is the author of “Get Paid What You're Worth: The Expert Negotiators Guide to Salary and Compensation.” She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles on negotiation and managerial conflict resolution, which have appeared in leading psychology and conflict management journals. Pinkley holds a doctor of philosophy degree in social psychology from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Jim Smith, Ph.D., holds the Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management at Southern Methodist University. Having specialized in energy studies since receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1977, Dr. Smith has been a prolific researcher and author. His publications on OPEC, energy markets, real options, auction theory, and the oil and gas business have appeared in numerous academic and trade journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Mathematical Geology, the Oil and Gas Journal, and World Oil. His 1995 article on Russian oil won The Energy Journal's Best Paper Award, and many of Dr. Smith's publications have been reprinted in anthologies of influential research. Dr. Smith is an active member of the United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE), and was elected to the USAEE Executive Council in 2005. In 2006, he became the Association's "VP for Academic Affairs," and in 2007 received the USAEE's "Senior Fellow" award. Since 2006, Dr. Smith has served as Co-editor of The Energy Journal—the flagship publication of the International Association for Energy Economics.
For More Information
Contact one of the following:
E-mail:
jeskinner@cox.smu.edu
Phone 1: 214-768-3335
Phone 2: 214-768-7676
Toll Free: 800-768-6699 (USA)