May 7 - 9, 2008
Venue
Centre for Leadership, Building 18, Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, Sydney NSW Australia 2088

with International Thought Leaders
Shawn Callahan, Founder, Anecdote, Melbourne. Australia
Pavan Choudary, CEO, Vygon India, author and executive coach, Madras, India
Ralph Kerle, Chief Executive Officer, The Creative Leadership Forum, Sydney Australia
Professor Kirpal Singh Ph.D, Singapore Management University, Dean of Economics, Arts, and Humanities, novelist, poet, Singapore.

and Session Leaders
 Dianne Green, Ken Granneman, Dr Louise Mahler 

A 2 1/2 day leadership programme designed to explore, develop and produce new thinking and learning around the way conversations occur to produce creative outcomes..

“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” Doris Lessing
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The Forum Purpose
To explore how organisations can have more generative conversations. 

The Forum Preamble
The hard assets of all organizations tend to constitute the primary value of the organization but they are useless if not for the human asset and specifically the resourcefulness of that human asset to organize and utilize the hard assets. And one of the essential elements of this human resourcefulness is that of imagination and creativity. But these two elements remain dormant without the generative contexts to draw them out and generative contexts are established and maintained only by the right kinds of conversations. If the output of a musician is music, the output of a playwright a script, the output of a sculptor a piece of visual art, then the output of a leader is creative conversation because it is the leader’s job to organize and focus the energy of human resourcefulness. It is the job of the leader to create and maintain the conversational ‘spaces’ that trigger the imagination and apply that imagination to creative work. The majority of conversations that people have at work do not readily lend themselves to creative action…what is the case in your organization?

Conversations that Create will explore and develop how to create and maintain the necessary generative spaces and have the kinds of conversations needed to move individuals and teams into creative output. Participants will learn and practice practical ways of having conversations for possibility and opportunity, for engagement, commitment and creative action and for creating the necessary relationships for sustaining a generative space.

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What are Thought Leader Forums

Thought Leader Forums are small-scale interactive learning events that bring together business thought leaders, executives, the Creative Leadership Forum faculty, and artists in order to engage in exploration and dialogue on a current leadership topic,issue, or question.
The process of inquiry is facilitated through a specific artistic medium that has been identified to best compliment the particular topic / issue / question.

The Thought Leader Forums are also designed to assist in identifying and exploring new learning processes, content development for internal organization development initiatives,relationship / team building, as well as the formation of new networks and the publication of articles and research papers.

Some of the many benefits of the Forums include:

• A novel approach to inquiry around an organizational challenge or question
• A chance for leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of business to meet and build new relationships and networks
• The development of non-traditional approaches to defining and discovering new innovative leadership capacities
• A valuable opportunity for personal learning and professional development

The purpose of a Thought Leader Forum is to

- work with peers - business executives, academics, consultants, creative practitioners - to surface existing knowledge and understandings in organisations around this theme

- explore and experiment with methodologies and processes around the theme through presentations by experts, followed by facilitated participant dialogues

- find new ways of creating new knowledge around the use of arts based processes and creative practices generally
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Project Particpants and Conditions

The cost to participate is $880 incl GST regardless of whether you are presenting or not. All meals are included in the cost. Accommodation is excluded.

Click here for full details of the venue situated on Sydney Harbour.

The Forum is limited to 30 people. All presenters will be participants as well. This is not an academic conference, rather a peer to peer practice led information exchange with participants drawn from business, government, academia, the arts. Particular regard will be paid to the balance and mix of participants.

If you have an queries, email Ralph Kerle on rk@thecreativeleadershipforum.com or call direct on 0412 559 603 in the first instance.