IABC Heritage Region 2008 Conference

Leadership Forum - Sunday, October 12, 2008

The 2008 Leadership Forum is bound to be the best ever. There is a stellar line-up of speakers and panelists including our keynote speaker, Matthew Boyne. See the details below.

12:00pm - 1:00pm	Registration and Networking Lunch
1:00pm - 1:15pm	Welcome and Introductions
1:15pm - 1:45pm	Opening Keynote: Building Membership Mark Schumann, ABC IABC Vice-Chair
1:45pm - 2:15pm	Be Heard®: How is your chapter incorporating the new brand strategy? Joy Lovejoy, ABC Brand Champion, IABC Heritage Region Heritage Region’s Brand Champion, Joy Lovejoy, ABC, will lead an interactive discussion highlighting how chapters within the region and around the world are beginning to implement the new brand strategy. Get some new ideas, share best practices, and have an opportunity for your ideas to Be Heard®
2:15pm - 2:30pm	Break
2:30pm - 3:15pm	Leader Succession and Development Julie Freeman, ABC, APR IABC President
3:15pm - 4:15pm	Learning from Experience: Roundtable Discussions with Past and Present IABC Leaders Interact with current and past leaders to gain insight and brainstorm on topics including sponsorships, programming, awards, student chapters, and recruiting volunteers. (Topics may change based on registrant feedback).
4:15pm - 5:00pm	Closing Keynote: The Leader as a Teacher Matthew Boyne Matthew Boyne, a former naval aviator, will provide attendees with a simple method to start applying the fundamentals of this leadership approach within your organizations immediately. Teacher-Scholar Leadership has been a philosophy used by the Navy and Marine Corps since the 1920s. This philosophy focuses on a caring relationship between people with the accomplishment of the mission and the welfare of the subordinates foremost in the leaders’ minds – contrary to the perceptions shared by many of military leadership. Using this methodology of building leaders to teach, guide, coach, shape, inspire and mentor their teams, companies who have culturally embedded this approach are seeing sustained, superior performance by both individual contributors and teams.

To support and encourage participation by chapter leaders in the 2008 Leadership Forum, the Heritage Region will reimburse chapters for travel and accommodation expenses, on a sliding scale. The scale is based on each chapter’s distance from the event. Chapters make the decision on how best to use this stipend. They may support the travel expense of one member, or support the travel expenses of two or more leaders, up to an aggregate total per chapter (not per leader).

Reimbursement Schedule

Up to $250 for chapters within a 300 mile radius of Hartford, Connecticut
Up to $400 for chapters within a 301 to 500 mile radius of Hartford, Connecticut
Up to $550 for chapters exceeding a 500 mile radius of Hartford, Connecticut

There is no registration cost to attend the October 12, 2008 Leadership Forum. We encourage participants to attend the Heritage Region Conference if they plan to attend the Forum.

To register for the conference and the Leadership Forum, use the “Register Now” button at left.

To register for the Leadership Forum only please contact Alexis Piekarsky Stone at piekaras@gmail.com.

If you have any questions about the Chapter Stipend program, please contact Guy Westermeyer at: guy@westcommonline.com

The Leaders Forum is Sponsored by:

This year’s forum is being sponsored by Group V Solutions, a provider of services to ready organizations to realize their return on investment faster when executing change initiatives such as technology implementations, mergers and acquisitions, or HR transformations.