Keynote: New Models of Strategic Leadership

The challenge of executive leadership is changing. To be sure, the caliber of an executive matters, both in conceiving and executing strategy. But the effectiveness of a leader depends, more than is commonly recognized, on the relationship of that individual to the rest of the organization. As editor-in-chief of strategy+business, and as the author of two books on leadership and organizational heretics, I'll give an overview of the history of effective leader-organization relationships over the past 25 years, and the changes now taking place on several dimensions: how executives have been chosen, how they conceive their jobs, and what they are going to be expected to do differently in the future as the strategic priorities of large and small corporations shift.

About the Speaker

Art Kleiner is the Editor-in-Chief of Strategy+Business. He is a writer, lecturer, and consultant with a background in business management, interactive media, corporate environmentalism, scenario planning, organizational planning, and organizational learning. His column on Culture & Change appeared in Strategy+Business from 2000 to 2005. His most recent book, Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success (Doubleday/Currency, 2003), was singled out for praise by The Financial Times and Fast Company, and excerpted by the Harvard Business Review. As editorial director of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series (developed with Peter Senge), he has been a coauthor of three bestsellers published by Doubleday: The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (1994), The Dance of Change (1999), and Schools That Learn (2000). He is also the author of a critically acclaimed management history: The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and the Forerunners of Corporate Change (Doubleday, 1996).

Since 1987, Mr. Kleiner has been on the faculty of New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches courses on scenario planning and writing for new media.

He has also delivered courses for a variety of organizations, including Global Business Network, the Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership, HR.Com, Linkage, the Society for Organizational Learning, and the Center for Organizational Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he cocreated (with George Roth) a pioneering form of organizational storytelling, the "Learning History." For several years, he was the head of research for an innovative consulting firm, Dialogos, in Cambridge, MA. He lives with his family outside New York City.

Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success By Art Kleiner Doubleday/Currency, 2003 Buy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble

The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations By Art Kleiner, Peter M. Senge Currency, 1999 Buy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble

The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and the Forerunners of Corporate Change By Art Kleiner Doubleday, 1988 Buy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble

Other books by Art Kleiner at Amazon.