A peer learning and networking workshop for coaches, consultants and trainers, who are working with current and future leaders around the world.

The workshop will be hosted by Unique Sources, in association with Jeremy Solomons and Associates, and co-facilitated by:

Monika de Waal, who is an international organisational development (OD)consultant and specialist in Change Processes and ‘out of the box-thinking’, based in the Netherlands.

Jeremy Solomons, who is a UK-born business coach and trainer, specialising in Global Leadership and International Management. He is based in the USA.

Global business leaders are very often forced to focus on targets and results, in order to add shareholder value. Headaches occur when processes and people ‘disturb’ the flow of this concentration.

But what if they allow themselves to explore what their intuition tells them to do instead? Can they let go of results- oriented, time-restricted thinking and action to follow an uncertain path? Can they harness their and others' creativity to build a truly innovative organisation that will still achieve good results because of its people and not in spite of them?

This workshop will explore ways that external coaches, consultants and trainers can work with these leaders to help them trust their intuition, bring out their creativity and achieve more holistic success.

The event is also an opportunity to meet, share and discuss with your colleagues the concepts, tools and expertise available in this cutting-edge area of global OD.

The objectives of this workshop are to help participants:

1. Understand the challenges that global leaders will face in the future and learn the competencies that they will need to be successful, based on recent research

2. Learn how to use management drives and styles to help leaders be more effective in future, particularly in relation to gender dynamics

3. Explore tools of creativity and intuitive leadership to be able to use them in their own practice as a coach, consultant or trainer

4. Share best practices and learn from and network with their peers

This workshop is for experienced English-speaking practitioners, who have been working within the global OD field for at least five years

Saturday, March 27

08.30   Informal welcome, coffee and tea

09.00   Welcome and introductions

09.30   Global leadership: challenges and competencies

10.30   Break

10.50   Management drives and leadership styles

12.30   Lunch

14.00   Intuition and creativity tools

15.15   Break

15.30   Building the truly innovative organisation

17.00   Conclusion

18.30   Optional dinner with participants

Monika de Waal is Managing Director of Unique Sources, a consultancy based in the Netherlands and specialized in change management, conflict resolution, and organisational development. Its focus is on creating opportunities for dialogue in complex organizations undergoing change. She works both in the corporate sector as well as with local and national governments where programs have included leadership, business ethics, teambuilding, intercultural negotation and conflict management. Her style is characterized by changing paradigms and showing other dimensions in thinking. Out of the box thinking comes naturally to Monika.

Jeremy Solomons is the UK-born founder/president of Jeremy Solomons & Associates. He provides customized coaching, facilitation and training Global Leadership, Intercultural Communication and Multicultural Teambuilding to current and future leaders around the world from his base in Austin, Texas, USA. He co- wrote a chapter in a June 2000 book - Coaching for Leadership - and contributed to a new Accenture book on the Global Leader of the Future. Both works are based on a year- long study - Global Leadership: The Next Generation - that he co-researched and co-wrote for Keilty, Goldsmith. In the past, Jeremy worked as a full-time Banker, Educator and Journalist in six multinational institutions, including Reuters News Agency, and the World Bank. He has lived, studied and worked for extended periods in eight countries.

Conference room of Unique Sources, Trompetstraat 40-44. 2611 KN Delft, the Netherlands. Details will be provided on registration.

The fee per participant is Euro 390. Accommodation and optional dinner on Saturday will be at participants' own expense. For information on hotel accommodation, check out www.uniquesources.nl. Register with Monika de Waal at monika@uniquesources.nl or phone her at 31-15-2158282 by March 5.

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