Distinguished Trio to Keynote SIOP Fall Consortium
Three business leaders experienced in managing executive
talent will be the principal speakers at a consortium being presented by the
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Oct. 28-29 in St. Louis, Leaetta
Hough, SIOP president and general chair of the event, has announced.
The consortium will bring together leading-edge scientists
and practitioners to focus on the assessment, selection and development of
global executive talent. Many CEOs say that executive talent is their most
important asset and management of that talent is critical to the success of
their organizations, Hough said.
She said the consortium, entitled
Leadership at the Top: The Selection, Globalization and Ethics of
Executive Talent, would highlight winning business strategies and practices
in organizations throughout the country and around the world as well as the
latest scientific studies of talent management. Its a blending of the best
that practitioners and scientists have to offer, she added.
Speakers include Jeffrey A. Sonnefeld, founder and
president of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute, which focuses on CEO
leadership and corporate governance; Bill Mobley, president and managing
director of Hong Kong and Shanghai-based Mobley Group Pacific, and Mirian
Graddick-Weir, executive vice president for human resources at AT&T.
We are extremely pleased to have three presenters with a
wealth of experience and knowledge in these key areas to headline this SIOP
consortium, said Hough.
Sonnefeld, who is also associate dean of executive programs
and the Lester Crown Professor-in-the-Practice of Management for the Yale School
of Management, is a highly regarded authority on leadership practices. His
research has been published in more than 80 scholarly articles, which have
appeared in leading management journals.
He has also written five books, including The Heros
Farewell, an award-winning study of CEO succession.
Mobley, a former dean of the College of Business
Administration and president of Texas A&M University, works primarily with
executives and leadership teams based in the Asia Pacific region. His clients
include numerous major corporations with business interests in Asia.
His consulting firm is comprised of business psychologists
whose work is scientifically based.
At AT&T, Weir-Graddick is responsible for the design,
planning and administration of all human resource functions, including
recruiting and training. She has been with AT&T in a variety of human
resource assignments since 1981.
She was the Society for Psychologists in Managements
Distinguished Psychologist in Management award recipient in 2003 and was named
HR Executive of the Year by HR Executive Magazine in 2000.
One result of the consortium will be the creation of an
ongoing working coalition of practitioners and researchers to explore in depth
key areas of global executive talent management.
David P. Campbell, senior fellow at the Center for
Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs, CO, is the science chair of the
consortium and Rob Silzer, managing director of Human Resource Assessment
& Development, Inc., is serving as practice chair.
For more information about the consortium and to register,
visit the SIOP Web site at http://www.siop.org/lec/
or call the SIOP Administrative Office at 419-353-0032.
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