Santa Clara University

Managers Becoming Leaders

December 10, 2009
8:30a.m. - 11:30a.m.
Program fee: $145
Santa Clara University campus

Online registration for this event.

How can you exercise more leadership, greater initiative and gain more recognition throughout your organization? What is it that you can and should do today to be seen tomorrow as a more visible and vital contributor to the business?

Being a successful manager requires that you engage with the strategic management of your organization and influence the executives and leaders responsible for putting it all together. It doesn't matter whether you are in Marketing, Finance, Operations, HR, Manufacturing, or any other functional group. If you don't break out of being just a good manager of your function, you may be heading toward a dead end...especially in today's environment.

This half-day program will:

• Establish the need and opportunity for managers to become viewed as business critical, using examples of managers becoming leaders to illustrate the possibilities.
• Learn a model for managers as organizational leaders and a framework within which you can assess your own strengths and opportunities to achieve this goal.
• Learn a framework that will enable you to engage in strategic conversations with key influencers and reposition the work of your unit as a vital contributor to the company and its bottom-line business results.

Faculty:

Deborah Saks, M.A., is President 1 Source Consulting, a human capital management company that provides top management with strategic, organizational and human capital solutions. Deborah provides top management with leadership, organizational and human capital solutions. She has held senior executive roles for more than 25 years within diverse industries, including eluxury.com (owned by LVMH), Brown & Toland, Sybase, and Computerland Corporation.

Deborah's expertise is in executive and leadership development, human capital re-engineering, change management, and building business performance improvement architectures. She specializes in building leadership capabilities and high performing executive teams. She also coaches CEO's, executives, board members, and high potentials.

As a senior executive, Deborah was instrumental in building successful high growth organizations with a focus on improving leadership, organizational and talent capabilities. She built high performing organizations utilizing "best practices" and implementing growth infrastructure to achieve business goals. As a performance improvement and change leader, she was instrumental in implementing state of the art organizational productivity and talent management systems. Deborah was also the architect of one of the industry's first Web-based performance management systems.

Deborah is the co-author of "The New Standard in HR Leadership" and "An HR Leadership Perspective: Linking Global Mobility and Talentship". She has conducted research and is a frequent guest speaker on a variety of leadership and human resources topics. She is also the Co-Director for the Human Resources Leadership Center for the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. She is an adjunct faculty member and has co-developed the one of a kind Leadership Institute for current and aspiring Human Resources leaders.

Stephen McElfresh, Ph.D., SPHR is a co-founder and Managing Director of Innovative Growth Partners (IGP). He has served as CEO/President in two consulting organizations, and for fifteen years was the senior HR officer in public, private and non-profit organizations. Prior to IGP, Stephen led his own consultancy, HR Futures®, focusing on the growth and productivity of organizations, particularly where growth or profitability was limited by the existing organizational design, relationships and/or management capabilities. Before that Stephen was the President and CEO of Saratoga Institute, the international thought-leader in measuring the financial impact of human capital. He led that organization in developing unique benchmarking and measurement data to help clients in a variety of industries, in analyzing the performance of their human capital, and consulting on productivity, retention, motivation and strategy.

Stephen has operating experience within corporations in the high tech and hard core manufacturing sectors, including SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), Exponent Inc., and Neopost. As the HR leader in those organizations, he has been responsible for strategy planning and organizational performance measurement, renovating moribund business cultures, recruiting and developing effective executive teams, planning technology spin-outs, M&A due diligence, and bringing best practices to the design and development of management systems.

Stephen earned his Ph.D. in Social/Organizational Psychology at Boston College and a J.D. at Santa Clara University, and is certified by the Society for HR Management as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.

Cancellation policy and refunds:

Cancellations made more than one week prior to a program will incur a $25 processing fee. For cancellations that occur less than one week prior to a program, no refund will be given. If a participant is a no-show for a program, no refund will be given. A full refund will be given in the event the program is canceled.

Substitutions:

Participant substitutions are allowed for all programs. The substitute information must be sent by email - scuedc@scu.edu or call 408-554-4521 with the substitute information: name, job title, email address, and phone number no later than 4 p.m. the day before the program begins. If you are unable to attend and cannot send a substitute, we offer a one time credit to attend another half day program.