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Overview

The nonprofit Rockwood Leadership Institute, a nationally recognized provider of leadership development seminars for nonprofit leaders, is launching a new program for social entrepreneurs and socially responsible business leaders.

The first seminar will take place in California on September 8-11, 2008. Designed to provide a high-intensity learning community for senior executives of socially responsible businesses, it is also open to non-profit leaders with a social venture focus.

"Among Rockwood's 3,000 alumni and friends are a growing group of entrepreneurs who want to experience our unique approach to leadership development and expand their networks," says Rockwood's CEO Akaya Windwood. "Our mission is to encourage social change through transformative leadership development. We are looking forward to providing regular seminars for triple-bottom-line venture individuals and teams."

The Rockwood Leadership Institute workshop series has been experienced by more than 2,000 non-profit executives since launching in 1999. The growth of enterprises that mix for-profit and non-profit practices in pursuit of social goals has led the organization to refocus its programming to include this growing sector.

"Leading a business as a social enterprise poses a unique set of leadership challenges," says Danny Kennedy, CEO of Sungevity, a residential solar energy company based in Berkeley. "Rockwood is uniquely suited to improve the performance of any start-up or growing company."

The Program
The Rockwood Leadership Institute has selected and adapted the most relevant and effective methods for efficiently delivering the skills and insights necessary for leadership today. Using techniques drawn from organizational psychology and group dynamics, corporate training programs, the lives of historical figures and the contemplative disciplines, Rockwood programs are designed to deepen and widen socially responsible business leaders' understanding of themselves and their tasks, their roles in society and the contexts in which they work. They draw on the perennial wisdoms and examples of successful transformational leadership, and usually involve work on personal awareness, contemplative discipline, and other aspects of individual change and growth.

Services

• Four-day intensive residential seminar led by nationally-recognized facilitators
  
• Personal 360º leadership assessment designed to identify strengths and areas for improvement i a range of skill
  
• Hands-on training in assessment and evaluation tools for leadership development and collaboration including a take-home workbook on "The Art of Leadership"
  
• Each seminar is an intimate learning community limited to 18-30 leaders to create the best environment for skill-development and knowledge-sharing
  

• Sharpen and sustain compelling visions for your work
  
• Deal more effectively with organizational challenges
  
• Inspire and align others to work effectively toward common goals
  
• Manage relationships to increase personal and organizational effectiveness
  
• Build effective partnerships inside and outside your organization
  

Socially responsible business leaders, please contact: Micahel Sowle
[E] Mike@rockwoodleadership.org [T] +1 510 524 4000 x 109
Apply now: Business Leaders Online Application