Developing the Leadership Capabilities to Execute Your Strategic Plan

Liz Wiseman
President
Mindshare Learning Systems

John Hall
Senior Vice President
Oracle Corporation

Most organizations think about strategy development and leadership development as separate processes. This means that the learning environment for leadership is separated from the real work of the business. When an organization merges its strategic planning with its leadership development into one seamless process, leaders are developed while working on high stakes strategic issues. Through carefully constructed forums at Oracle Corporation, leadership teams were given a strategic work project under the direction of a senior executive. The teams started by learning together and then immediately applied that learning to the strategic work challenge at hand. This approach, called Fusion Learning, works because people learn best by doing, and they also "do" best by learning. Fusion Learning builds strong leadership and ownership for a strategy and generates the momentum to sustain an initiative long enough to deliver tangible results.

In a hands-on session, we will explore how Oracle Corporation used Fusion Learning to rapidly develop a new go-to-market strategy for their $300 million education business and how they engaged and developed their leadership team in the process. You will hear from John Hall, Senior Vice President, Oracle Corporation and Liz Wiseman, former Vice President, Oracle Corporation and President, Mindshare Learning Systems. In addition to sharing the Oracle case study, they will give you practice tools for re-energizing your approach to strategic planning and leadership development

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