Join us for a presentation on Leadership:
Building a Culture of Agility: What's Next for Leaders
**This event will be held virtually via Zoom**
Program Overview:
In today's complex business environment, successful organizations are those that are quick and adaptive, have a strong organizational purpose to guide them, and know how to make faster, smarter decisions.
New Sources of Competitive Advantage
•Transient strategic advantage: Competitive advantage is important, but in a world of rapid change it is also increasingly short-lived. Where once an organization could find a source of competitive advantage, scale it, and defend it, they now must also find and ride the next value wave leveraging capabilities such as organizational speed and flexibility.
•Arenas and blurred boundaries: A combination of evolving customer needs and emerging technologies creates unique customer opportunities that don't fit neatly within existing industry boundaries.
•Inflection points: We know the pace of change is accelerating, but so too are the inflection points that are strategic turning points for companies and industries. Leaders need to monitor the environment and regularly challenge the assumptions that have shaped the industry and their organization so they are able to identify where the game-changing shifts will occur.
•Seeing around corners: Change most often begins at the edges of an industry or business, not the center. Leaders need to be efficient at managing the core business and proficient at observing signs from the edge indicating the arrival of the next change or value wave. "Seeing around corners" is now an essential capability that must be practiced in order to stay ahead of the next inflection point. About Our Speakers:
Michael Chavez
Michael Chavez is Global Managing Director for Duke Corporate Education. Previously, Michael served as CEO of Duke CE from 2016 to 2021.
Michael is passionate about “rehumanizing leadership.” By engaging people around a purpose, shared meaning and empathy, he believes leaders can create the foundation for greater sustainability in a world that is more complex and unpredictable than ever. Michael’s research currently focuses on how leaders can most effectively shape, institutionalize and lead from a shared organizational purpose.
Michael teaches, facilitates and advises in the areas of leadership and culture, organizational networks, team collaboration, strategy and execution. He brings to Duke CE more than 20 years of experience in the fields of executive management, marketing, strategy consulting and organizational learning and development. He has led projects all over the world and in a variety of industries, including technology, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, retail, financial services and media.
He began his consulting career as a strategy consultant for Kurt Salmon, working with large industrial, retail and consumer goods companies in the US, Canada, and Latin America where he led key projects on market entry and growth, operational effectiveness, joint ventures, and valuation. Michael holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from UCLA. He is both a US and UK citizen and is fluent in both Spanish and French.
He is an educator in Duke CE’s online course Building Strategic Agility, designed to help leaders be more agile and equip them with new skills, tools and instincts to navigate today’s environment and build more strategic agility into their organizations. Michael is the co-author with Sudhanshu Palsule of Rehumanizing Leadership: Putting Purpose Back into Business, your guide to building engaged, resilient and innovative organizations in the 21st century.
Lauren Scherwin
As a Client Director in North America, Lauren works with clients to address their strategic business and leadership challenges through the design and delivery of immersive learning experiences. Lauren’s purpose is to work with clients to develop leaders and learners who transform their organization and teams and cultures to create positive impact in the world. Her main focus is to assist clients with strategic business challenges related to global growth, leadership, digitalization, transformation, cultural change and execution.
Prior to joining Duke CE, Lauren spent her previous eight years in leadership, consulting, business development, sales and operations for The Walt Disney Company. She was the leader of the northeast region for Disney Institute, where she focused on working with senior level executives in the healthcare, sports, financial, automotive, higher education and retail industry to help solve complex challenges to transformation an organizations culture, employee and customer experiences.
Lauren earned her Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Iowa where she played Division 1 Field Hockey. In May of 2021, Lauren graduated from the University of Villanova with her MBA. Lauren is the co-founder and creator of the Furlough Network, an organization that provides information, support and resources for the talented, hard-working people who found themselves on temporary furlough due to the global pandemic. Lauren volunteers her time as an emerging leader and technology committee member for The POWER of Professional Women in Philadelphia.
Lauren and her husband reside in Southern New Jersey and enjoy traveling and spending time down in Ocean City, NJ with family and friends.
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