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Capitalizing on our Differences: Leadership Across Cultural Boundaries and Geographic Borders in a Global Society
02 Jul - 09 Jul, 2003
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Faculty:
Krzysztof Czyzewski
- President, Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland
Lynn Huntley
- President, Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia
Amani Kandil
- Executive Director, Arab Network for NGOs, Cairo
Stewart Kwoh
- President and Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Emily McKay
Ahn-Kumi Naidoo
- Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer, CIVICUS, Johannesburg and Washington, DC
Claire Nelson
- Operations Officer, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC
Freddye Webb-Petett
- Coordinator, W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Mid South Delta Initiative, Battle Creek, Michigan
Additional Session Support:
Caroline Carpenter
(Resource Specialist)
- Caroline Carpenter is a program director for food systems and rural development at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, where she has been the lead program director for an initiative ...
Marguerite Johnson
(Resource Specialist)
Frank Taylor
(Resource Specialist)
Aileen Webb
(Resource Specialist)
Abstract:
Even as international trade and technological innovation are helping to create a global society, the world seems at the same time to be more fragmented and divided. As we struggle with diversity, we are often tempted to forego inclusiveness to create more exclusive special interest groups invested with deeply held and often competing beliefs and values. How can we develop genuine and sustained mechanisms to foster greater understanding and social cohesion for people with diverse values, perspectives, needs and strengths? The specific implications for leadership are not clear as we reflect on these trends and changes. One thing, however, is certain: the kind of leadership needed today and in the future is and will be dramatically different from leadership approaches of the past. Leaders will need to see the world differently, cognizant of the rapid changes taking place and with a deeper understanding of the strengths to be found in our differences. The session will explore various strategies and methods from around the world for capitalizing on our differences and our diversity as we move toward an understanding of a “new multiculturalism” in our increasingly global society.
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