Speakers & Events

The CCL Speakers Bureau brings top-notch leadership experts directly to you. Combining our latest research with extensive leadership training experience, CCL speakers help prepare you and your organization for success with dynamic and practical perspectives on today's most compelling leadership issues. (more...)

Available Dates: December 11, 12, 14, 15
David Horth
Senior Designer, Programs & Services Design Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

What is the response in your company when someone outside of R&D comes up with a great idea? If your company is like many that put breakthrough ideas on the shelf, they are likely to gather dust, wither and die. Instead, how can your talent's creativity be part of the way you do business? A creative culture doesn't just happen...it depends on processes and champions at the leadership and manager level to cultivate sources of ideas and nurture idea development and execution. And like all improvement initiatives, developing an innovative culture should be able to be tied to business break-through's. Whether you're a leader, manager, or in OD, this webcast will enlighten your approach to making creativity part of your business.

Don't miss these webcast take aways:

• Leadership and management practices that impact innovation
• Competencies that develop innovation
• Find out how productivity and creativity are perceived in your organization
• Assess your organization's innovative climate
• Develop an action plan to improve the innovative culture within and across your business

Webcast is sponsored by the Human Capital Institute. Complimentary registrations are available.

The Leading Effectively Webinar series is CCL's latest innovation designed with the recognition that leaders have limited time and need the most up to date information. These 60 minute webinars are an ideal way for busy leaders to engage in an interactive online development experience from the convenience of their own desk. Topics include everything from "cleaning out the clutter" of your daily routine to helping your organization develop its next generation of leaders. View the entire list of webinars.

January 15, 2009 - Courage at Work: How to inspire courageous behavior in the workplace - Courage is the first virtue...because it makes all the other virtues possible. If that's true, than courage is the first business virtue too. Why? Because it makes so many other business concepts possible. Leadership, for example, takes bold action and decisive judgment. It takes courage. (more...)

January 27-29, 2009
Las Vegas, NV

CCL is a platinum sponsor at this year's Employers of Excellence National Conference attended by nearly 400 HR executives. This event is unique among HR conferences and provides the best opportunity to learn and network in a less trade-show-like, more intimate environment.

CCL contributions to the conference agenda include a presentation and roundtable discussion on Developing Next-Generation Leaders with an Action Learning Approach with the Center's Cindy McCauley and John Abeles of Catholic Healthcare Partners. In addition to the presentations, CCL will have an on-site conference exhibit and 20 private meetings with HR professionals during the conference as well as several key advertising opportunities. Additional information is available at their website.

January 29-30, 2009
New York City

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is collaborating with The Conference Board on the 2009 Executive Coaching Conference in New York City on January 29-30, 2009. The theme of the conference is "Coaching Solutions in Times of Economic Challenge." CCL Coaching Practice Leader Candice Frankovelgia will provide a keynote session on Executive Coaching Revisited: What We Do Know, What We Don't Know and What We Should Know. In addition, CCL will have an on-site exhibit featuring our executive coaching products, publications and services. For more information and to register, please contact The Conference Board at +1 212 339 0345 or visit www.conference-board.org. To take advantage of a discounted conference rate, please mention reference code DA1 when registering.

CCL, in partnership with three international firms from the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), will launch Developing the Company of Tomorrow — Today, a pioneering new program to advance corporate global responsibility.   (more...)

We had 24 enthusiastic senior-level human resource, training and development professionals from the OH area attend the recent Center Connection event in Cincinnati, Ohio on Thursday, October 16, 2008. Participants were especially engaged with the Visual Explorer tool and their table group discussions. (more...)

Twelve years ago CCL initiated a conversation about the intersection of spirit and leadership. Since we continually reformulate our offerings to better serve our mission - to advance the understanding and practice of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide - Spirit & Leadership Conference is currently undergoing that same renewal and as a result will not be offered in January, 2008.

A significant research and design agenda is already under way. As part of that research, we request your valuable input about the future of our offering. Please take 4 minutes to fill out a brief survey and help inform the future of this work.

We appreciate your understanding and contributions to this community of practice in the past. If you would like to further contribute to the body of research in the area of spirit and leadership please feel free to contact me at santanal@ccl.org.

We join you in looking forward to the advancement of spirit in leadership in the near future,
Center for Creative Leadership

In June 2006, CCL and CHF International co-sponsored a Capitol Hill panel discussion on the role and importance of developing local leadership in fragile states. Two panels of experts shared their perspectives and strategies for supporting local leadership as a building block toward stable societies, exploring the importance of supporting local leadership in states such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan and seeking to identify best practices. View videos from the discussion.

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