Leadership Conference
Emerging Trends in the Search for Leadership
The Wharton School
Philadelphia
June 18, 2008
This one-day intensive conference is devoted to exchanging
ideas on how managers and organizations find, create, and retain
leadership talent at all levels of the firm. The competition for
managers with great leadership skills is intensifying at a time
when some companies are investing more in leadership development
while others are wondering if it is worthwhile to invest given
the rising mobility of managers from firm to firm. Of special
concern is the development of the leadership capacities that are
required by companies that are either domestic players or are
crossing national boundaries and building global enterprises.
The presenters bring the experiences of their own organizations
and their own personal experiences in leading firms and building
leaders in increasingly competitive, demanding, and uncertain
national and global markets.
The annual Wharton Leadership Conference is one of the gatherings most popular with, and most beneficial for, corporate leaders, according to a recent report by public relations firm Weber Shandwick entitled Five-Star Executive Conferences. An article by Forbes.com writer Matthew Kirdahy on the report notes that the Wharton Leadership Conference is second only to the Fortune Innovation/iMeme conference in the number of C-level speaker participants.
Wharton: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school — is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The School has more than 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 8,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of more than 81,000 graduates.
