Global Strategy Institute 2007 Anniversary Conference

How well does your organization balance short-term priorities with longer-term visions? How well does your organization promote anticipatory thinking and strategic leadership?  How well is your organization positioned for the future?

Today's leaders face mounting pressures from dizzying information flows, contracting planning cycles, and greater interconnectivity in the world.  The consideration of long-range global forces has become a luxury few organizations can afford and yet cannot afford to miss. How do the people at the helm of today's leading organizations cope with these challenges?

For our 2007 anniversary conference, "Navigating the Future: the people, the plans, and the policies guiding leading organizations," we invited our audience to explore how organizations at the forefront of the dot-com, dot-gov, dot-org, and dot-edu arenas construct and implement long-term visions and strategies. Please see the attached presentations and audio for more information from the event.

Opening Remarks, 9:00-9:15

Keynote, 9:15-10:00 
Enrique Rueda-Sabater, CISCO.
Rinku Chandra, The World Bank.

Panel 1: Arriving at Strategic Visions, 10:15-11:30
These strategic thinking pioneers will unpack the processes used for identifying significant global trends and developing visions for the future.  What are the indicators that organizations use to arrive at their visions, and what insights have been gathered from these processes?

Scheduled Speakers:
Captain Sam Neill, USCG. Chief, Office of Strategic Analysis, United States Coast Guard.
Dr. Hank Gaffney.  Director, Strategy and Concepts Group, Center for Naval Analyses.
Dr. Scott Pace.  Associate Administrator for Program Analysis and Program Evaluation, NASA.

Moderator:
Dr. Peter Davies.  Director for Institutional Development, Sandia National Laboratories.

Keynote, 11:30-12:15 
Dr. Helene Gayle. President, CARE.

Panel 2: Implementing Strategic Visions, 12:45-2:00 
Moving from ideas to action, these leaders will discuss how their organizations invent the future by integrating visions on long-range trends into their short-term objectives.

Scheduled Speakers:
Captain James Foggo.  Director, Strategic Action Group, United States Navy.
Dr. Nancy LeaMond.  Group Executive Officer of Social Impact, AARP.
Shep Hill.  Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, The Boeing Company.
Moderator:
Dr. Clark Murdock.  Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS. Presentation (pdf)

Keynote, 2:15-3:00
Suzanne Nora Johnson. Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs.

Strategic Vision Award, 3:00-3:45 
Dr. Greg Allgood. Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water Program, Procter & Gamble.

Closing Remarks, 3:45-4:00