Schaefer presenting at St. Catherine University’s 17th Annual Leadership Challenge Conference

St. Catherine University’s

17th Annual Leadership Challenge

January 30, 2014

8AM-4PM 

A Business Conference for Women

"Recognizing Possibilities: Taking Action"

Honored to be selected as an instructor for St. Catherine University's 17th Annual Leadership Challenge Conference "Recognizing Possibilities: Taking Action”, teaching "The Theory That Explains Everything: Organizational Leadership Implications of Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi).” 

Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi) is a unique transformational change formula and process that presents a common language and code to describe the relationship between the development of human nature and the rise of societies, governance, values and organizational systems. SDi elaborates the work of Dr. Clare W. Graves that Maclean's magazine called "The Theory that Explains Everything.” I’ll be presenting the basics of this theory that provides power and precision to the design of human systems and 21st Century Leadership, and learn how to apply some of its lessons to advance as an individual, coworker, and leader.

Some areas covered:

• Different organizations — companies and governments — occupy different positions on the spiral and need to develop managerial/governance strategies that match their people, their visions of the future, and the jobs they perform today.
• Managers should develop a consistent and systemic approach to all the issues within the organizational loop - recruitment, selection, placement, training, internal management, and external marketing - so they all align, integrate, and synergize.
• Organizations should be constructed from both “the top down” and “the bottom up” to link the functions, intelligences, and decision structures that the more complex new problems ahead will demand.
• Successful organizations are in danger of failing if they continue to manage people in the ways that made them successful in the first place.

Conference details:
Thursday, January 30, 2014
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
Rauenhorst Ballroom
Please click here for more details and to register