>> 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--and competitors--exist to satisfy these needs more sustainably than you?   

>> Are you learning fast enough in this fast-changing environment?

>> Are you leading from the “middle” of your organization?
 

Come to this unique workshop, and we will challenge you and your team to think more creatively and effectively about your organization’s true value within a socially fragile and resource-constrained 21st century.

In our workshops, we focus on how economic challenges, sustainability, and social concerns can drive strategies to create and deliver value to a wider variety of stakeholders.  The goal is to shift your thinking about organization issues from a narrow focus on sustainability towards a broader framework for building Integrative Sustainable Management practices.

Participants will come prepared to work with strategy issues within their own organization.  During the workshop, you will engage with others in forming, testing and re-framing your business case.  In essence, you will learn how to ask better questions. 

Attendance Information

Our next workshop will be held on September 24 and 25.

Pricing

Fee per attendee, including tuition, materials and meals:

$1,250.00 (for profit organizations)
$850.00 (non-profit organizations)

Note:  There is a 30% discount for additional members of your team.

Participating Faculty

        Ron Nahser

Managing Director for Corporantes, Inc., an outgrowth of The Nahser Agency/Advertising, Dr. Nahser is currently a Senior Wicklander Fellow at the Institute.   He is 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 U.S. and internationally on business values, vision, marketing strategy, branding and social responsibility.  Dr. Nahser is the author of Learning the Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business and Journeys to Oxford: Nine Pragmatic Inquiries into the Practice of Values in Business and Education.

Dr. Nahser earned a BA degree from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, an MA degree in Religious Studies from Loyola/Mundelein College and the Ph.D. in American Business Philosophy from DePaul University.

    Patricia Werhane

Patricia H. Werhane is the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul and Executive Director of the Institute.  She holds a joint appointment at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden School at the University of Virginia.  Professor Werhane has published numerous articles and case studies and she is the author or editor of over twenty books including Ethical Issues in Business (with T. Donaldson), Organization Ethics for Health Care and Employment and Employee Rights (with Tara J. Radin and Norman Bowie).  She is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics.  Her current research projects focus on feminism in business and poverty reduction through for-profit initiatives.

Professor Werhane graduated from Wellesley College, and received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University.

Andy is a strategic adviser to senior executives in various businesses and a frequent writer and lecturer on issues of strategy, innovation and turning vision into action. Andy was formerly 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.  

Mr. Thomas 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 presentation that outlines the workshop's content. 

2. Click here to download an agenda and here is the application for registration.

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

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