Page 5 - Professional & Continuing Studies Calendar, Fall 2017

THE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES
ARVIND SINGHAL
Dr. Arvind Singhal is the Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at The University of Texas at El Paso. He is also appointed, since 2010, as the William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, Arkansas, and since 2015, Distinguished Professor
2, Faculty of Business Administration, Hedmark University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Singhal teaches and conducts research on the diffusion of innovations, the positive deviance approach, organizing for social change, the entertainment- education strategy, and liberating interactional structures.
Positive Deviance:
A New Paradigm of Social, Organizational, and Behavioral Change –
An Evening Talk
Description available online Length: 2 hours
Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2018
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: $85 + applicable taxes
Positive Deviance:
Operationalizing and Implementing a New Paradigm of Social, Organizational, and Behavioral Change Description available online
Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, Feb 17, 2018
Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $495 + applicable taxes
MARGARET WHEATLEY
For more than 40 years, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally in many different roles, as a speaker, teacher, consultant, advisor, and formal leader. From the
deep and varied experiences, she has developed an unshakable conviction that leaders must learn how to evoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity and need
for community. As this world tears us apart, same leadership on behalf of the human spirit is the only way forward. She is the author of 9 books, from the classic Leadership and the New Science in 1992
to her newest book Who Do We Choose to Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity (June 2017). She continues to be honored for her ground-breaking work by many professional associations, universities and organizations.
Restoring Sanity
to Leadership:
An Evening Exploration
of Who Do We Choose To Be? Description available online
Length: 2 hours
Date: Fri, Nov 3, 2017
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: $85 + applicable taxes
Who do You Choose to Be?
Facing Reality – Claiming Leadership – Restoring Sanity Description available online
Length: 2 day
Date: Sat, Nov 4, 2017 and Sun, Nov 5, 2017 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $895+ applicable taxes (Early Bird Registration until Sep 1 is $695+ applicable taxes)
Dr. Dawna Markova (right) is a former Senior Af liate of the Organizational Learning Center at MIT and a consultant member of the Society for Organizational Learning. She has established learning communities across the United States, leads workshops on maximizing individual and team talent and serves as a thinking partner to CEOs and senior executives around the world.
Angie McArthur (left) is CEO of Professional Thinking Partners and a founder of the Worldwide Women’s Web, a network formed to develop women in corporate leadership roles. As an expert in communication and intellectual diversity, she has supported individuals and Fortune 500 leadership teams to master collaborative intelligence. Working in one-on-one thinking partnerships as well as with groups, McArthur helps people tune in to their own and others’ unique abilities so they can effect signi cant change.
RECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES
Connecting in a Disconnected World Description available online Length: 2 hours
Date: Thurs, June 21, 2018
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Cost: $85 + applicable taxes
Date: Please refer to website for dates
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Dr. Dawna Markova & Angie McArthur