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Generative Leadership:  The Key to Building Sustainable Organizational Cultures

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Join us April 20th...at 6pm

 

As organizations and communities face off with unprecedented turmoil, the need for generative leadership with long-term perspective is greater than ever.Economic, competitive, global, and socio-political pressures are pushing organizations to the farthest limits of their resilience, creativity, perseverance, financial resources, and hope. What distinguishes those that weather this pressure testing successfully from those that don’t? 

 

Come join consultants Josh Epperson and Ron Carucci, co-authors of the 2008 book Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life to discuss what distinguishes long-term generative organizations, organizations that choose sustainability, adaptability, and healthy growth, from degenerative organizations, those that choose slow, steady decline, status quo, and self-consumption. 

 

This highly engaging and provocative conversation will reveal the fundamental questions of optimizing human endeavor that enable generative organizations to thrive and sustain themselves, even in the most tumultuous of circumstances.  

 

We'd love to hear from you ahead of time!

 

To ensure that we can have a generative conversation when we are together, we'd love to hear your thoughts on these questions:

 

1.  When you think of the concept of "generative" leadership, what comes to mind?

 

2.  What do you believe makes it difficult for organizations to embrace genreative leadership as a crucial component to thriving?

 

3.  Do you think these tumultuous economic times will make generative leadership more or less appealing to organizations?   Why?

 

4.  When we are together, what would you find most helpful to understand further about generative leadership?

 

 

 

 

 

Ron Carucci is a seasoned consultant with more than twenty years of experience working with leaders of organizations ranging from Fortune 50 to start-up’s in pursuit of transformational change. Formerly a managing partner with the acclaimed Mercer Delta Consulting, LLC., a management consulting firm that provides services related to the management of strategic organizational change, he works in the areas of large-scale organization and culture change, enterprise organization architecture design, executive leadership and selection, building executive teams, as well as strategy formulation and implementation. Now, as part of Passages, he can work on both small targeted initiatives, or assemble a team of world class consultants to tackle major global change.

 

Ron has worked extensively in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, technology and financial services industries, and the retail food and beverage industries. He has led the work on several large-scale merger integrations and subsequent culture change initiatives, and enterprise level global organization redesigns. He has also held executive positions in several Fortune 100 organizations leading internal Human Resource consulting and change management functions.

 

Most recently, Ron has been working with CEO’s of both large enterprises as well as start-up organizations on the challenges of managing growth. He has helped organizations re-architect themselves for global scale-up, turnaround strategies, and to build appropriate talent strategies to ensure the effective selection, development, retention, and reward of key leaders of major growth businesses.

 

Ron is a faculty member at Fordham University Graduate School, serving as an associate professor of organizational behavior, and is Graduate Professor of Leadership at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, WA. He has also served as an adjunct at the Center for Creative Leadership. His clients have included Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, McDonalds, PepsiCo, ADP, EdwardJones Investments, CitiGroup, OhioHealth, Deutche Bank, Price-Waterhouse Coopers, Accenture, Corning, Inc., World Kitchen, Business for Social Responsibility, TIAA CREF, and Raytheon.

 

Ron’s latest co-authored book is titled, with colleauge Josh Epperson, Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life (2008). In 2006 he completed Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing (Jossey-Bass). He is also the co-author of, The Value Creating Consultant: How to Build and Sustain Lasting Client Relationships (AMACOM 2000) as well as the book Relationships that Enable Enterprise Change (Jossey-Bass 2002). He has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on the issues of organizational change and forming effective trusted advisor relationships.

 

Josh Epperson is a Consultant at Passages Consulting, LLC where he works with both small community-based NGOs and large multi-national corporations in a variety of industries. His work consists of large-scale organization and culture change, organization architecture, and leadership development. His clients have included: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, McDonalds, Phase 2 Consulting, Gates Corporation, Cadbury Schweppes, Golden Key, Starbucks Coffee Company, TriHealth, Everett Washington USA, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Microsoft.

 

Josh is the co-author of, Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life (2008) which addresses ways organizations and communities can further leverage the human endeavor toward greater effectiveness and social engagement. Josh helped create and facilitates a major leadership intervention, The Leadership Crucible. (www.theleadershipcrucible.com) This is a 3-day in-depth immersion where participants, by assuming the leadership roles in several fictitious organizations in a fictitious city, are able to try on new leadership behaviors in a low-risk environment and get feedback on their styles of relating and leadership performance.

 

He is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Organizational Development at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. Some of his current work and research is focused on the topic of an organization’s ability to create interdependence across departments and functions, and the role those relationships play in increasing performance and competitive advantage in the marketplace.

 

Josh holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, WA. Previously he worked as a therapist helping clients with severe mental health disorders. His work and study in the field of behavioral sciences has greatly contributed to his life and work as an OD professional.

 

 

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