KSU Coles College of Business - Symposium on Executive Education

The editors of the Journal of Executive Education invite you to attend their 4th Annual Symposium on Executive Education to be held at the Executive Education Center at Kennesaw State University.

The Coles College Office of Executive Education Programs annually sponsors a Symposium at which members of both the academic and business communities share ideas addressing the dual interests of both groups. This unique format fosters the ultimate goal of business schools to meet the critical strategic needs of the businesses they intend to serve.

2012 Guest Speakers
2012 Program
Call for Papers
Directions
Register

Morning

Joyce Bone, CEO and founder of JBE
Joyce is a speaker, author, and an entrepreneur and is the host of Inside the Winners’ Circle radio show. At age 28, Joyce set a goal to be a millionaire by the time she was 30. She took a $10,000 risk (all her savings) and co-founded EarthCare, an environmental company. It grew into a $125 million dollar NASDAQ traded powerhouse and Joyce achieved her goal six months early. As a nationally recognized expert in business, Joyce has appeared on CNBC’s The Squawk Box, and in Money, Kiplinger magazines, been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, SBA national SCORE and dozens of others.

Her messages are crafted to entertain as it empowers, inspires and motivates the audience with real change actionable items to improve performance, all in a light hearted, entertaining way.

Topic: How to create lasting change and achieve desired results, quickly and efficiently

Afternoon
David Lamb, David has extensive experience in establishing and leading Learning functions… both as a corporate leader and as a learning strategy consultant. He has led or been a member of the senior leadership team of six corporate universities (Rollins/Orkin, Inc., BellSouth, Bank of Montreal/Harris Bank, Aetna, ADP and General Motors). His consulting clients include Amazon.com, Barclays, General Motors and Raytheon.

Topic: Award winning best practices - learning tools and techniques.

April 2012 Program Overview

Morning
Ingenuity, Innovation and Creativity:
How to create lasting change and achieve desired results, quickly and efficiently

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Registration
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.	Innovation and Creativity Toolkit Developed and presented by the Center for Business Innovation and Creativity, Coles College of Business Topic: Tools for productive thinking and improving ROI strategies.
11:00 – Noon	Guest Speaker: Joyce Bone, CEO and founder of JBE. Topic: How to create lasting change and achieve desired results, quickly and efficiently Joyce’s messages are crafted to entertain as it empowers, inspires and motivates the audience with real change actionable items to improve performance, all in a light hearted, entertaining way.
Noon – 1 p.m.	Lunch, Networking and Ideation Gathering Facilitator: Dr. Paul Lopez: Educator and Executive Vice President, Element Funding

Afternoon
Sustaining Growth and Competitiveness:
Award winning learning tools and technique, developing human capital

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

David Lamb, Vice President, Rollins, Inc. (Retired, April 2012)

Topic: Award winning best practices - learning tools and techniques

David has extensive experience in establishing and leading Learning functions… both as a corporate leader and as a learning strategy consultant. He has led or been a member of the senior leadership team of six corporate universities (Rollins/Orkin, Inc., BellSouth, Bank of Montreal/Harris Bank, Aetna, ADP and General Motors). His consulting clients include Amazon.com, Barclays, General Motors and Raytheon.

2:00 – 4:15 p.m.

Paper Presentation Sessions: Online and Face-to-Face

Theme: View from the Top: The Role of Human Capital Management
in Sustaining Growth and Competitiveness

Personal Inner Values – A Key to Effective Face-To-Face Business Communication

Chris Manning, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance and Real Estate
Loyola Marymount University

William Lindsey, Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Director of the Executive MBA Program
Loyola Marymount University

Mark Waldman
Adjunct Faculty, Executive MBA Program
Loyola Marymount University

Andrew Newberg, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College/ University of Pennsylvania

A Re-Interpretation of Leadership Aligns Human Capital Management and Business Objectives

William R. McNay, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Mercer University

Measuring the Integrative Impact of Managers, Entrepreneurs and Leaders in Sustaining Innovation: A Tool for Customized Executive Education Programs

Phillip Dover, Ph.D.
Chair, Marketing Division
Babson College

Deadly Diseases or Innovative Practices: How Deming Would View today’s Executive MBA Industry

Francis Petit, Ed.D.
Associate Dean for Executive MBA Programs
Fordham University

Targeted Instruction for Executive Education: Blending Instructor-Centered and Participant-Centered Approaches For Maximum Impact

Matthew Valle, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Martha and Spencer Love School of Business
Elon University

Kevin J. O’Mara, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Martha and Spencer Love School of Business
Elon University

Bethany Delk, M.B.A.
Program Developer, Executive Education
Martha and Spencer Love School of Business
Elon University

4:15 – 4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Call for Papers & Submission Guidelines

The editors of the Journal of Executive Education and the faculty of the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University invite you to join business leaders and university scholars at their 4th annual Symposium on Executive Education: to be held, at the Executive and Graduate Education Center at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

The Symposium is unique in that it is specifically designed to create a forum for both university scholars and business executives to share ideas, thus helping to assure that educational programs indeed address the most critical strategic needs of the businesses for which they are intended to create value.

The theme of the 2012 Symposium is:

We welcome all topics of interest to academics
and program administrators

All Submissions must be sent as a MS-Word document, written in English, conforming to APA citation style (5th edition), and not previously published, or under consideration for publication, by another organization at the time of submission and throughout the review process.

Accepted papers will also be considered for inclusion in the double-blind reviewed 2011 Volume of the Journal of Executive Education, which is listed in the 11th Edition of Cabell's Directory.

Please submit your papers for priority consideration by March 8, 2012, or no later than April 5, 2012, as an email attachment to:

Dr. Janice M. Barrow
Managing Editor, Journal of Executive Education
E-mail: ColesJEE@kennesaw.edu
The Journal of Executive Education (JEE) is published annually by the Office of Executive Education Programs of the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University and is a double-blind peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. It promotes dialogue, research, practice, and policy pertaining to all aspects of mid-career continuous learning. In addition to scholarly works from academic professionals, the JEE also features articles from business executives in a unique "Corporate Perspectives" section, as well as book reviews.

For additional information

Please contact:
Dr. Janice M. Barrow
Chair, Symposium on Executive Education
Phone: (770) 309-3435
Email: KSUjee@kennesaw.edu

See you there!