The Center for Excellence in Leadership extends the work of WLI beyond the Friday Fellowship through creative and entrepreneurial strategies. The Center promotes the practice of leading with integrity, intention and inclusion to a larger group of our state's leaders through an annual leadership conference produced in collaboration with other leadership organizations. In addition, the Center offers expertise to the business, educational and nonprofit communities on a fee basis.
The Center for Excellence educates groups on its leadership principles -- integrity, intention and inclusion -- and the core competencies necessary to develop these principles.
Our Core Competencies are: 1. Integrity 2. Reflective Practice 3. Adaptive Leadership 4. Negotiating Difference 5. Attending to Group Dynamics 6. Discerning Context & Complexity
In consultation with our clients, the Center designs and implements customize leadership programs that are minimally didactic and highly expeirential. All programs are rooted in basic theory and learning is facilitated by large and small group dialogue, storytelling, problem solving activities, art and creative expression and examining shared history.
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Davidson College East Carolina University IMAPCT Greensboro NC Arts Council Executive Directors
Leadership Conference April 8, 2010 Queens University of Charlotte Sports Complex at Marion Diehl Part 8:00am to 4:30pm
In collaboration with the The Leadership Work Group, WLI will host its second annual leadership confernce, Leading With Civility: Navigating Complex Conversations with Passion and Courage.
The purpose of the Leadership Conference 2010 is to continue to connect more than 200 diverse, proven leaders from across North Carolina to gain the skills needed to take a leadership role in their communities in resolving public disputes and creating a collaborate climate going forward
The conference facilitator will be Andy Sachs, the Public Disputes Coordinator at the Dispute Settlement Center of Orange County. Mr. Sachs assists government, business, non-profit, and community organizations to resolve conflict, discuss difficult topics and develop skills in consensus-building by providing mediation, meeting facilitation, training, and consulting.
The conference’s keynote speaker will be Susan Podziba a nationally known public policy mediator and conflict resolution specialist. Ms. Podziba has worked with the international, federal and state governments and organizations such as the Dutch Inter-Ministerial Task Forces, U.S. Department of Labor and Archdiocese of Boston.
