Leadership in International Business Program

7-12 October 2007 Paris, France

Warrington College of Business Administration, Leadership Development Institute
and Paris Research Center, University of Florida

• Application Form (PDF)
• Information Flyer (PDF)

In today’s world, leadership is what differentiates businesses that make things happen from those that watch things happen. More than ever, businesses need capable executives and managers, who can mobilize their organizations to recognize shifts in their environment, engage in adaptive learning, embrace productive risk taking, build a shared vision of success, and implement organizational change. However, the requisite talents and perspectives are rare and businesses find themselves constantly needing to guide people who can build successful enterprises in an increasingly global marketplace.

Developed and taught by faculty of the University of Florida, Leadership in International Business is designed to provide managers and executives with a unique learning experience and practice in personal development that will prepare them for competing in international markets. Through a combination of case studies, group projects, personal examination, consultation, and case-in-point analysis, participants will examine:

Managing Multi-Cultural and Multi-Country Networks

Recognize the advantages and challenges that developing an international network offers international businesses, including creating new opportunities, finding new insights into existing situations, obtaining new and indepth knowledge, as well as diversity of mental and cultural frameworks.

Understanding and Taking Advantage of Globalization

Apply the various concepts of globalization for implementing strategies to find new markets, becoming a global competitor, confronting new rivals, and creating global brands.

Creating an Adaptive Organization

Develop approaches for encouraging intelligent risk taking, facing the brutal facts, testing alternative views about the future, creating open dialogue on realities, and providing candid feedback and advice.

Leading Change and Adapting to Change

Practice identifying challenges that require organizational learning, challenging traditions and norms that hold the organization back, mobilizing teams to explore new directions and opportunities, and pacing the work of creating change.

Competing in Developing Countries

Learn strategies for serving the greater good while creating a profitable enterprise, working in an environment with weak government institutions, confronting health and poverty issues, and building networks of local allies and partners.

Leadership to Meet Global Challenges

Leadership in International Business is intended for managers and executives in business, nonprofit organizations, and government who wish to provide leadership
for organizations that are expanding internationally. Because the program is interactive and uses the participants’ own experiences in the learning process, participants should come prepared to challenge their traditional beliefs about leadership, experiment and exercise leadership in the program, and shape the classroom dynamics.

Applications

The course will be taught at the University of Florida Paris Research Center:

4 Rue de Chevreuse
75006 Paris, France

As space is limited, we advise all candidates to apply as soon as possible. Please note
the application deadline is 31 August 2007.

Program Fees

The program fee is US$6200, which includes course materials, three-star hotel accommodations, breakfasts, lunches, a reception, a one-week metro pass, and the closing dinner. The fee does not include airfare or other transportation, personal expenses, and non-group meals. (For locals not requiring hotel accommodation, the
program fee is US$4800.)

Faculty

Skip Everitt, Ed.D., is the owner of Everitt and Associates and consults in the areas of leadership development, executive team building, and group facilitation. He established his practice after 20 years as an administrator with five different universities and with Federal Express Corporation. Dr. Everitt has served as Senior Presenter for CareerTrack International, Master Facilitator for the Covey Leadership Center, and as Founding Chair of the local Florida group of TEC (The Executive Committee). He is currently a Consulting Partner with The Table Group, which is the firm founded by the popular management author Patrick Lencioni. Dr. Everitt is a senior fellow with the University of Florida Public Utility Research Center and has taught and consulted in 49 U.S. states, five European countries, six Canadian provinces, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Mark Jamison, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida, director of the college’s Public Utility Research Center (PURC), and an associate with Cambridge Leadership Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Jamison has published papers on leadership and international business topics in professional and academic journals and has taught leadership and strategy in North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. As director of PURC, he has provided executive and managerial training for more than 1,800 industry and government officials from 131 countries.

Ron Kirsch co-founded and is now the Executive Director of the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) at the University of Florida. Mr. Kirsch and his team are building a state-of-the-art leadership development system that serves leaders at every level of organizations, both public and private. Throughout his career, he has been characterized
by business leaders as a consultant who tops their list when crucial leadership situations arise. Skillfully balancing the roles of Executive Coach, Process/Team Facilitator, and
Trainer, Mr. Kirsch has consistently created versatile and highly value-added strategies to assist leaders and their organizations with overcoming the inevitable roadblocks to individual and organizational change and transition.

Contact Information

For Course Information:

Dr. Gayle Zachman
paris-research@clas.ufl.edu

For Payment Information:

Dr. Susanne Hill
shill@ufic.ufl.edu
Phone (Paris): 011 33 1 43 22 10 65

Forms

• Application Form (PDF)
• Information Flyer (PDF)

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