Leadership for Life Alumni Newsletter

Winter 2008

In This Issue

Alumni Success Stories
What's Happening at the Center - CCL News
Staying Connected - myCCL and Paying it Forward

Alumni Successes

Adrian "Zeke" Wolfberg
Navigating Complex Challenges, 2006

Intelligence agency manager energizes mandated cultural shift with insights gained through CCL program

In that first year, I was focused on identifying problems and then finding the techniques to solve the organizational problems; I focused on the negative things that needed to be fixed. After CCL, I was focused on the capabilities of our organization and how they could be improved. It was a big shift in how I viewed my role and what I was doing. (more... )

Valerie Wallen
Developing Leadership Talent: Strategies and Tools,, 2005

The chief designer of a state agency's leadership initiative finds the expertise she needs to move forward

What I was looking for at Developing Leadership Talent: Strategies and Tools was how to bring competency based approaches into my agency's very traditional, skills-based training program. I came away with a written plan for taking our initiative to the next level, and the Assessment Certification Workshop helped me better understand how to fit 360-degree assessment into our organizational culture. (more... )

What's Happening at the Center

European Business Magazine Features CCL President
Global Focus magazine, published by the European Foundation for Management Development, talks with John Ryan about CCL's future. (more...) (Adobe PDF, 198 KB)

Stepping into the Void White Paper
To better understand the leadership dimensions of crisis situations, the Center for Creative Leadership convened a forum with formal and emergent leaders who played a role in Katrina. Using an array of facilitation techniques, we overlaid this conversation between crisis leaders with the perspectives of discussants with expertise in disaster, terrorism, public health, and leadership. (more...) (Adobe PDF, 1.2 MB)

CCL Bolsters Organizational Leadership Expertise
Bill Pasmore, an international authority in organizational leadership, has joined the Center in the newly created role of Organizational Practice Leader. He will lead CCL's efforts to help clients develop the larger organizational leadership systems that increase their overall performance and enable their individual leaders to thrive. (more...)

MarketWatch Spotlights CCL Research
Dow Jones News Service's MarketWatch report highlights some recent research by Jean Leslie and Bill Gentry on office politics and offers tips for avoiding career derailment. To read the full story: Six Ways to Keep Your Career on Track

New CCL Guidebook Now Available: Building an Authentic Leadership Image

Your image can be either an asset or a liability for you as a leader. Crafting your image requires you to gain a clear picture of the image people are currently perceiving, decide what image you would like to portray, and develop the skills to close the gap. (more...)

Staying Connected

Online Leadership Community

As a member of the alumni community, one of the best ways to stay connected to the Center is through CCL's online leadership community -- myCCL -- the Center's growing community of CCL alumni and friends from around the world who want access to relevant, timely leadership resources, news and research. Our educational mission compels us to share as much of our research and experience with the world as possible. That's why we offer the host of resources available through myCCL for free. Sign up and join the more than 30,000 leaders from around the world who have already joined.

We have also added a Premium member level for leaders wanting deeper access and a greater connection to the Center for Creative Leadership and its resources. As a Premium member, you receive additional tools as well as deep discounts on many of the Center's offerings. Your fees provide the support to grow the scope, size and value of the community. Sign up for myCCL Premium for an affordable fee of $199 for an annual membership or $399 for a lifetime membership. Click here to learn more about the standard and Premium levels of the myCCL online leadership community.

Paying it Forward

Each year, the Center has a significant impact on some 20,000 leaders and 3,000 organizations. Since the beginning, the Center has built its portfolio of programs, products and services on a solid foundation of behavioral science research. Our research inquires into the nature of leadership and the initial behaviors defining it, as well as how profound changes in individuals, organizations and communities can result in a higher quality of, and greater capacity for, leadership. We fund more than 250 scholarships per year for leaders of educational institutions and nonprofit organizations to attend leadership development programs.

The size and scope of the Center's activities sometimes obscure the fact that it is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational institution that seeks support to advance its mission. CCL is a carefully managed and financially responsible educational institution, deriving 95 percent of our operating revenue from the tuition and fees we collect. Like most other nonprofit educational institutions, we rely on the support of external philanthropists to help cover the costs of our research and development and to help us expand our reach within all sectors of society. To fund our activities and sustain and expand our institutional presence, we receive and welcome support from foundations, alumni, friends and corporate sponsors. One of the most noble ways you can leave a leadership legacy and stay connected with the Center is to help make a difference in the leadership journey of others. Please consider making a contribution to the CCL Annual giving campaign; visit our secure online giving form. Together we can make an impact on the leadership journey of leaders around the globe.

For further information on planned giving opportunities, please contact Lisa Lopez, Major Gifts Officer, at +1 336 286 4057 or at lopezl@ccl.org.

Refer a Friend
One of the greatest contributions you can offer your colleagues-- and one of the highest compliments you can pay us -- is to refer your colleagues to the program you attended. Visit www.ccl.org/referrals to have program information mailed to your colleagues.

Share Your Impact
Share your Center experience. Tell your story. Help build the Center's alumni community. Send your program experience stories to alumni@ccl.org.

Alumni News

John Garrison (CCL Custom Program: Textron Team Development Program I, 2006), formerly president of E-Z-GO, will become the president of the industrial segment of Textron, Inc.

Kevin Holleran (CCL Custom Program: E-Z-GO Executive Leadership Program, 2007) will succeed Garrison as the president of E-Z-GO, the world's leading manufacturer of golf carts and utility vehicles, and one of several companies in the Textron Industrial Segment.

Dr. Leonard McIntyre (African-American Leadership Development Program, 2000) will become the interim president of S.C. State University.

Barb Schrantz (The Looking Glass Experience, 2001) will become Executive Vice President of Stores and Visual Merchandising for The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.

Jeffrey Chambers (Leadership Development Program (LDP^®), 2004) will become the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at PRA International.

Kenneth R. Web (Developing the Strategic Leader, 1998) will become the Vice President of Operatons, Reimbursement and Access Services at McKesson Speciality, a business unit of McKesson Corporation.

Crescent Moegling (Leadership Development Program (LDP^®), 2006) will become the Chief of Data Acquisition Control Branch for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Event Spotlight

CCL and the Treasury Executive Institute Hosting D.C. Area Event
If you are a government employee in charge of training for your agency, plan to join us on March 11, 2008, at the Treasury Executive Institute in Washington, DC, for a complimentary half-day learning event. Learn more

Expand Your Leadership Skills Through CCL's Offerings

Outside of programs, CCL offers its leadership community a host of resources to help you as you progress on your leadership journey. We believe that development is a key to creative leadership -- thinking and acting beyond boundaries to achieve more than imagined. Click on the following to learn more about CCL's offerings.

CCL Publications

CCL's Leading Effectively Webinar Series

CCL's Newsletter Subscriptions

CCL Open-Enrollment Programs

CCL's Research

Coaching at CCL

CCL's Customized Programs

CCL's Assessment & Development Resources

myCCL and myCCL Premium, the Center's Online Leadership Community