Connect–Collaborate–Learn–Inspire–Envision Programming at the summit will include:
SUMMIT AGENDA (as of September 24, 2015) *subject to change* Fellows-only Pre-sessions Thursday, Oct. 1 (Fellows only) 2:00 pm “Future Back” Workshop with Josh Suskewicz, Partner, Innosight. Workshop will be held at Microsoft – 11 Times Square (42nd & 8th Ave.) Innosight, the innovation strategy firm founded by Clayton Christensen, specializes in helping clients find and deliver new growth platforms. One of the key tenets of their work is that breakthrough innovation is grounded in insight into the world of tomorrow, not planning for the world of today. Josh will introduce a methodology – Future Back Strategy – for developing future-oriented strategies, and we will practice applying it to individual projects and our impact clusters. 4:15 pm Bus to Glen Cove Mansion. Glen Cove, New York 6:15 – 7:00 pm Cocktail Reception 7 – 8:00 pm Dinner 8:00 – 9:30 pm Return to the campfire. Fellows meet with their own classes to catch up. Friday, October 2 – morning (Fellows only) 6:45 am Yoga 7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast buffet 8:45 – 9:15 am Reflection – Dave Sluyter, facilitating. 9:15 – 9:45 am Building the First Movers Community: Examples to inspire action 9:45 – 10:35 am “Speed Updating” across classes. Facilitator: Laura Clise, Plum Creek. Fellow since 2012. 10:30 – 11:00 am Networking Break 11:00 – Noon Reflections on Aristotle's timeless question: What is the Good Life? Small group discussions to be facilitated by: Hailey Brewer, IDEO. Fellow since 2013. Angie Frank, Nike. Fellow since 2012. Nathan Waterhouse, OI Engine IDEO. Fellow since 2011. Noon – 1:45 pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 pm Multiple options: (choose one) 1. Peer coaching session. Using traditional crafts to create luxury alpaca products. Presenter: Magda Kot, my alpaca Ltd. Fellow since 2009. Peer coaching sessions are small (5-6 participants in each session plus the presenter.) They are designed to help individual Fellows tackle specific challenges. We’ll use the Young Presidents’ Organization structure for the sessions. Peer coaching sessions provide an opportunity for the presenter to get thoughtful advice and for the coaches to learn a particular format for effective coaching. 2. Aspen BSP’s winter 2016 West Coast meeting. Participate in a planning session to design a west coast meeting for Leaders Forum members, First Movers and invited guests. This meeting will focus on the following question: What human resource/talent development practices are most effective for supporting a company’s sustainability/social innovation strategy? 3. Leading and Innovating through Powerful Questions. Shari Cohen, First Movers Design Team, facilitating. Whether you are getting others on board for an idea they initially oppose or you want to open yourself to learning from others to improve your own thinking, open ended questions and holding another’s agenda are essential skills for an innovator. 4. Workshop: An Integrated Approach to Water Stewardship in Emerging Mega Cities. Manoj Fenelon, PepsiCo. Fellow since 2013, facilitating This workshop will look across impact clusters and consider whether there is a project that Fellows could work on collectively. Fellows will be invited to share how their work does – or could – contribute to greater stewardship of water. Many dimensions of stewardship will be considered. 3:30 – 4:00 pm Networking Break SUMMIT AGENDA (as of September 24, 2015) *subject to change* Sessions Open to All Participants Friday, October 2 – afternoon (open to all participants) 4:00 – 5:00 pm Opening session for all Fellows and guests Welcome: Nancy McGaw, Aspen BSP. First Mover Stories from 3 Continents. Three Fellows will share insights from their First Mover Projects. A Fellow from a fourth Continent will facilitate the conversation. Each Fellow will give an overview of what has been accomplished to date and highlight one critical challenge that lies ahead.
5:00 – 5:30 pm Icebreaker: #MyFirstMove Trisha King, Aspen BSP, facilitating. 5:30 – 6:45 pm Stepping up to Go Beyond Individual Company Impact
6:30 – 7:30 pm Cocktail Reception 7:30 – 9:00 pm Dinner
Saturday, October 3 (open to all participants) 6:45 am Yoga 7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast buffet 8:45 – 10:45 am Impact cluster workshops. In these workshops, participants will share insights based on their own work and look for opportunities to collaborate and develop ways to communicate thought leadership to the public. Each workshop will be facilitated by First Mover Fellows. Select one of the following: We’ll take a short break at 90 minutes in case you want to visit one of the other clusters.
*Serving as co-lead for the cluster but will not be at the Summit. 10:45 – 11:15 am Networking Break 11:15 – 12:30 pm Plenary session: Reflection (poetry!), headlines from cluster workshops and further processing of ideas generated there. 12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:30 – 4:00 pm Multiple options: (choose one) 1. Workshop with Egon Zehnder. Implications of new leadership model. How First Movers can demonstrate capacity in the 5 areas that define the new model. Moderator: Anupam Bhargava, Dolphin WaterCare. Fellow since 2010. 2. Sustaining the First Movers community. What are the opportunities to build on the collective wisdom of the Fellows? How do we capture and leverage Fellows’ knowledge – and produce revenues that will sustain the First Movers? 3. Peer coaching sessions. Sharing the knowledge and power of crystals. Presenter: Mayra Hernandez, Banorte. Fellow since 2012. Peer coaching sessions are small. (5-6 participants in each session plus the presenter) They are designed to help individual Fellows tackle specific challenges. We’ll use the Young Presidents’ Organization structure for the sessions. Peer coaching sessions provide an opportunity for the presenter to get thoughtful advice and for the coaches to learn a particular format for effective coaching. Josh Henretig, Microsoft. Fellow since 2012. Lee Ballin, Bloomberg LP. Fellow since 2013.
4:00 – 5:30 pm Open Space. We invite you to convene your own conversations or take advantage of the recreational options at Glen Cove. Feel like heading outdoors? Try a paired walk. Just invite another participant for a conversation and a walk around the grounds. 5:30 – 6:30 pm Innovation within the Food Industry: Four Fellows working across the value chain in the food industry will tell their First Mover project stories:
6:30 – 7:30 pm Cocktails 7:30 – 9:00 pm Dinner: Selected participants will share brief insights on the next horizons for the social intrapreneurship movement. After dinner: Conversation and dancing Sunday, October 4 (open to all participants)
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast buffet 8:45 – 9:30 am Reflections 9:30 – 10:30 am Back to School: Workshops with faculty experts Multiple options (select one): Drawing on the findings of her dissertation the Weatherhead of Management, Design Attitude and Social Innovation: Empirical Studies of the Return on Design (2015), and on practitioner insights from more than a decade of leading design for social innovation projects globally, Dr. Amatullo will lead a dynamic discussion that will invite us to reflect on the promise of adapting the key traits and capabilities of a “design attitude” to promote team learning, collaboration and impact in our organizations and companies. Empathy is one of the most powerful tools we have to lead change - and yet this skill is often overlooked or underdeveloped. Dr. Adkins will guide a discussion on empathy in your work, and provide strategies from neuroscience to help you build trust and collaboration, spark innovation, overcome blind spots, and harness multiple perspectives. 3. Positive Leadership: The Game with Chris White, Managing Director, The Center for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan.
10:30 – 10:45 am Break 10:45 – Noon #MyNextMove: Moving to the next stage of action and impact. Adjourn Noon – 2:00 pm (Optional – Lunch Offered) |