Internationally recognized organizational consultant Jean Lipman-Blumen will headline an intensive four-day course for human relations professionals July 21-25 at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development.
The institute, “Changing Organizations: The Challenge to Lead and Learn,” is hosted by Vanderbilt University’s Peabody Professional Institutes. Applications are now being accepted.
During the four-day institute, participants will partner with a business organization to evaluate and help resolve a problem at the organization. Expert organization development and effectiveness practitioners, including Peabody College faculty, will provide facilitation and feedback.
Human resource professionals in human resource management, workplace learning and performance or organizational development who maintain mid- to executive-level management and leadership positions are encouraged to attend.
Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. She is also co-founding director of the university’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership and director of the Achieving Styles Institute, a Pasadena, Calif.-based leadership and management consulting group. She has consulted to various federal departments and agencies as well as many private organizations and foreign governments. She is a widely published author on leadership and organizational changes.
Peabody faculty Dayle Savage and Linda Isaacs are the institute’s chairs.
Participation fees total $2,500 and include all program and instructional materials, most meals and refreshments, housing in a Vanderbilt living-learning lodge and social events. Applications will be accepted until all spots are filled. Applications and more information are available online: http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x3381.xml.
Peabody Professional Institutes are intensive learning experiences taught by Vanderbilt faculty and external experts for professional educators, administrators, directors, executives and managers from across the nation and around the world. More information on the eight 2008 institutes is available at: http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ppi.xml.
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