Third Annual
Leadership Best Practices Conference

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

SHERATON CRYSTAL CITY HOTEL
Arlington, Virginia

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2008

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2007

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2006

Conference Purpose and Objective

The Leadership Best Practices Conference is designed to assist public and private sector organizations in creating a strategic competitive advantage through identifying and implementing leadership best practices. The Conference features proven techniques, tools, principles, and competencies for addressing leadership and management challenges in public and private sector organizations. Hear from world-class organizational leaders as they share proven research, competency-based approaches, and best practices for developing leaders. Learn tools, techniques, and principles to enhance your leadership skills, your decision-making competencies, and how to engage, develop, and teach employees. Learn from the experiences of Baldrige Award winners and other recognized leaders what it takes to be best-in-class and how to build the requisite competencies among your leaders. Whether you are developing leaders in an organization, developing your direct reports, or honing your own leadership skills, you won’t want to miss this exciting event!

12 Conference Themes:

1. Executive Coaching and Mentoring
Today’s world-class leadership development programs go beyond instructor-led training to incorporate executive coaching and mentoring components. In this track learn the key success factors for coaching and mentoring tomorrow’s leaders.

2. Leading and Managing Change
This track will provide leaders with tools and techniques for becoming change agents, responding to changing environments and priorities, and best practices for leading and managing people and leading organizational transformation.

3. Succession Planning
Successful leaders plan for the future. This track will showcase world-class succession planning models, practices, and tools that can be applied in both private and public sector organizations.

4. Strategic Thinking
A key competency for world-class leaders is strategic thinking. Presentations will offer tools, techniques, and best practices to leaders to help them consider internal and external influences, and create strategies for future success.

5. Leadership Development Tools
Great leaders are not born. They are developed by great organizations and mentored by other great leaders. This track will showcase the tools used by organizations that have a proven track record for developing excellent leaders.

6. Developing Leadership Competencies
This track will showcase organizations that have been chosen as best-in-class for developing competent leaders. Presentations will focus on processes and programs for developing competency in leaders and managers.

7. Managing and Motivating the Workforce
Leadership requires followers. Presentations in this track will offer proven, practical tools and techniques for motivating and managing the workforce of the 21st century.

8. 360º Leadership
Effective leadership involves leading subordinates, superiors, peers, customers, stakeholders, and other leaders. This track will focus on tools to help leaders assess and improve their 360º leadership skills.

9. Leadership Engagement Techniques
Presentations in this track will focus on how to ensure that leaders and managers at all levels of an organization are engaged in building a high-performance organization.

10. Team-Based Leadership
Leaders do not lead in a vacuum. This track will provide team-based leadership models, and identify key competencies, tools, and techniques for leading and managing teams.

11. Leadership Training Programs
This track will focus on best practices for developing leadership skills at the employee, supervisor, manager, and executive levels. Talent identification, development, and management techniques will be covered.

12. Visionary Leadership
Successful leaders create a vision of the future and help others to see it and achieve it. This track will identify the characteristics, attributes, competencies, and best practices for visionary leadership.

Who Should Attend

This Conference is recommended for individuals and organizations interested in addressing next generation leadership challenges and developing state-of-the-art leadership competencies including:

• SES-Level Executives
  
• Executive Readiness Candidates
  
• Senior and Mid-Level Managers
  
• Front-line Supervisors
  
• Human Resources and Training Directors
  
• Leadership Development Directors
  
  

Conference Sponsorship

As co-sponsor of this event, your organization will receive a defined number of complimentary conference registrations for managers and staff, listing in all conference publicity materials, a defined number of copies of the award-winning Diversity Solutions Best Practices Conference Proceedings, and networking opportunities during the complimentary continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks. See below for more details.

• Platinum $50,000 (75 complimentary registrations)
  
• Gold $25,000 (40 complimentary registrations)
  
• Silver $10,000 (15 complimentary registrations)
  
• Bronze $7,500 (10 complimentary registrations)
  

Conference Exhibition

As an exhibitor at this event, your organization will be given a platform to showcase diverse products and services to several world-class public and private organizations from diverse industry segments. You will also have the opportunity to converse with executives and managers from successful organizations that have purchasing power for diversity products and services, as well as other various networking opportunities during the complimentary continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks. See below for more details.

• Exhibitor Level I: $2,500 - 25% off conference registrations from your organization and a 10’X10’ area for your exhibit (includes two chairs, waste basket, and up to two 6 foot tables)
  
  
• Exhibitor Level II: $1,700 - 25% off conference registrations from your organization and a 6 foot table top exhibit area (includes one chair and waste basket if necessary)
  

Conference Advertisement

As an advertiser at this event, your organization will be given a platform in the Conference Proceedings to showcase diverse products and services to several world-class public and private organizations from diverse industry segments. See below for more details.

• Advertiser Level I: $1,000 - Full Page Advertisement in Conference Proceedings
  
  
• Advertiser Level II: $600 - Half Page Advertisement in Conference Proceedings
  

Conference Hotel-Sheraton Crystal City

The Sheraton Crystal City Hotel is located at 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22202, one mile away from Washington DC's Reagan National Airport.

The hotel is ideally situated in Arlington's Crystal City, across the river from the nation's capital, monuments, and the White House, and one block from the Crystal City Metro Station. Shopping, sightseeing, museums, entertainment, sports, and unlimited dining options are all nearby.

Guest rooms have been recently renovated and feature new bathrooms, climate control, Starbucks Coffee® and coffeemaker, and new furnishings, including luxurious beds with pillow-top mattresses. Executive Club Rooms are equipped with a fax/copier/printer, and dual-line data ports.

Contact the hotel directly for room reservations: Phone (703) 486-1111; Fax (703) 769-3970.
Ask for special rates for the conference until October 3, 2007.

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