SAN DIEGO, CA, February 10, 2010
/24-7PressRelease/ -- The 18th Annual Isolabella Lecture Series on Social Psychology and Leadership, an endowed annual presentation created by the late Dr. Herb Baker, will feature internationally recognized leadership expert, lecturer, university professor and author Jim Kouzes who will talk about "The Truth About Leadership" on Thursday, February 11 beginning at 5:45 pm at Green Hall on the campus of Alliant International University. The event is free and open to the public.
The event is jointly sponsored by the SYMLOG Consulting Group and the International Organizational Studies Association at Alliant's Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. Attendees are also invited to have coffee with Kouzes prior to the lecture beginning at 5:20 pm in Green Hall.
"Our school, and its founder Marshall Goldsmith, focus on leadership and Jim Kouzes is one of the school's thought leaders as well as world renowned expert on leadership," said Jim Goodrich, founding dean of Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. "Jim has conducted extensive research and published "Leadership Challenge" with his partner Barry Posner who was last year's at Isolabella Lecture Series speaker."
Kouzes is also the Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.
The Leadership Challenge is an award-winning and best-selling book with over 1.8 million copies in print. The fourth edition of The Leadership Challenge was released in August 2007 and is available in twenty languages. In 2009, The Leadership Challenge was selected as one of the 100 best business books of all time by 800-CEO-READ, an online bookseller. It was an Amazon Editor's Pick for one of the Best Business Books of 2007, as well as the winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award and the 1989 James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrators' Book Award. Their book A Leader's Legacy (2006) was selected by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the top thirty books of the year and by the Globe and Mail (Canada) as one of the top ten books of 2006. Kouzes and Posner have co-authored over thirty other publications including Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It which was chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of 1993. Other books they have authored include Encouraging the Heart (1999, 2003), The Leadership Challenge Workbook (1999, 2003), and the Encouraging the Heart Workbook (2006). Their books are extensively researched-based and over 400 doctoral dissertations and academic studies have been based on their original work.
Kouzes and Posner also developed the widely used and highly acclaimed Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), a 360-degree questionnaire assessing leadership behavior. Over 500,000 leaders and 3 million observers have completed the LPI. It is the top-selling, off-the-shelf leadership assessment instrument in the world, and has been called "the most reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today."
To pair are the recipients of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) 2009 Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, presented in recognition of their extensive body of work and the significant impact they have had on learning and performance in the workplace. Kouzes is a highly regarded leadership scholar and The Wall Street Journal has cited him as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. A popular speaker and seminar leader, his clients have included: Accenture, Applied Materials, AT&T, Boeing, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Dell Computer, Federal Express, Gap Inc., HSBC, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, 3M, Microsoft, Motorola, Oracle, Roche Palo Alto, Siemens, Thomson Corporation, Toyota, and Wells Fargo.
The Isolabella Lecture Series on Social Psychology and Leadership is being held at Green Hall on the Alliant International University San Diego campus, 10455 Pomerado Road, San Diego CA 92131. Parking is free. For more information, visit http://www.alliant.edu.
About Alliant International University
For 87 years, Alliant International University has operated as a WASC accredited private non-profit university that prepares students for professional careers in psychology, education, business and forensics. Headquartered in San Francisco and San Diego, Alliant has additional campuses in Los Angeles, Irvine, Fresno, Sacramento and Mexico City with accredited programs in Hong Kong and Tokyo. For more information, visit http://www.alliant.edu. ###
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