Integrative Sustainable Management Workshops

If you're not asking the right questions... you can be sure that someone, somewhere is.

Where will your marketplace be in 2015?
How do you design and manage systematic change?
Are you challenging your basic assumptions?
Do you really know what they are?
What are the fundamental needs that your organizations meet?
What other ways exist to satisfy these needs?
Who are your competitors?
Who else can meet the needs of your markets – more sustainably than you?
Are you learning fast enough in this fast changing environment?
Are you leading from the “middle” of your organization?

What are YOUR questions in this volatile economic market? Come to this workshop, and we will challenge you and your team to think more creatively and effectively about your organization’s true value added and it's fit in a socially fragile and natural resource-constrained 21st century world.

In our workshops, we will focus on how economic challenges, sustainability, and social concerns can drive strategies to create and deliver value to a wider variety of stakeholders.

Our first workshop will be held in 2010 and is designed to offer executives a way to challenge, expand and shift their thinking (“think about how they are thinking”) about organization issues - from a narrow focus on sustainability towards a broader framework for building Integrative Sustainable Management practices.

Pease note: Customized programs on this topic are available up request, for more information, please contact rnahser@depaul.edu.

Challenge your thinking and change your________
(strategy, ideas, goals, career, etc.)

Workshop Agenda

1. Day ONE:

Opening: Welcome and Introductions
Session 1: Business Case- Goldman Sachs
                   (What is your strategic challenge?)
Session 2: Explore- Stakeholder Analysis
                    (GE’s Model)
Session 3: Mental Models and Moral
                     Imagination- Systems Thinking
                     and Strategy
Closing:    Homework and Informal
                    Reception

Day TWO:

Opening: Day #1 Reflection
Session 4: Larger Picture- Community
                     (Serving your customers and your
                      communal impact)
Session 5: Creative Visioning- What
                      questions do you need to now ask?
Session 6: Act- How to bring these strategies
                      and execution to your
                      organizations?
Closing:     Final Thoughts and Cocktail Party

NOTE: There are two additional future workshops planned where participants may more specifically plan and operationalize their integrative sustainable management practices. [additional cost]

Pricing

Fee per attendee
Includes tuition, materials and meals
$1,850.00 for profit organizations
$950.00 for non-profit organizations

Max Attendance: 25
Note: There is a 40% discount for teams of 2
or more who attend the Inaugural October
Workshop. (i.e. For profit-$1,110 per person;
Non-profit- $570 per person)

Faculty

Dr Ron Nahser is Managing Director for CORPORANTES, Inc., an outgrowth of The Nahser Agency/Advertising. Dr. Nahser is a Senior Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics and also Provost Emeritus of Presidio School of Management, San Francisco (offering the first accredited MBA in Sustainable Management). He lectures and consults with business and academic audiences in the US and internationally on business values, vision, marketing strategy, branding, social responsibility and integrative sustainable management.

Professor Patricia Werhane holds the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics and is the Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University. She is formerly the Professor of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow at of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden School at the University of Virginia. Professor Werhane has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of several books including The Global Corporation: Sustainable, Effective and Ethical Practices: A Case Book (with L. Hartman), Ethical Issues in Business (with T. Donaldson and Margaret Cording, seventh edition), Persons, Rights and Corporations, Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism, and Moral Imagination and Managerial Decision-Making with Oxford University Press.

Andy Thomas is a strategic advisor to senior executives in various businesses, and a lecturer and writer on issues of strategy, innovation and turning vision into action. Mr. Thomas was Director of Strategy and Innovation for W.W. Grainger, Inc. and is currently Chairman of the Youth Technology Corps, which brings computer technology and practical skills training to inner city teens. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern, a JD from the University of Louisville, and BA in Business and Philosophy from Bellarmine University.

Media

1. Click here to watch a video of the open house that took place on April 6, 2009. The presentation gave interested members of the business community both a general overview of the workshops and a sampling of the material to come.

2. Click here to download a brochure with more information.

3. Click here to download an application for the 1st workshop.

For more information, please contact Summer Brown at sbrown15@depaul.edu.