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Friends:

As you are thinking about your Academy plans we want to inform you of a unique event hosted by the Network of Leadership Scholars:

SAVE THE DATE

AUGUST 10^th & 11^th, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas

The First Academy/Industry Conference on "Leadership, Sustainability and Innovation: Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide"

You can find more information about the conference (and the Network of Leadership Scholars) on our web site (http://nls.aomonline.org/) and in the text below.

The Network of Leadership Scholars was founded in 2005 to provide an interdisciplinary forum for leadership scholars of various disciplines, perspectives and nationalities to share ideas and knowledge for the advancement of leadership research and practice. The Network currently has approximately 800 members from all over the world, and draws more broadly from multiple divisions of the Academy of Management. The international conference on Leadership, Sustainability, and Innovation will be our inaugural Academy/Industry conference, and is designed to serve as a platform for bringing together the world's leading researchers and business school professors with top business and government leaders. The objective is to create a dynamic environment for exchange of information, generation of contacts, and creation of joint industry/government/academic projects that address the pressing leadership needs of companies and governments.

We recognize sustainability and innovation as two indispensable elements of current and future business and public leadership. At the same time we observe a gap between scientific research and the needs of companies and governments in the field of leadership. Therefore, the purpose of this conference is to address the leadership, sustainability and innovation-related issues that companies and public institutions are currently facing and are likely to face in the future, and to align the research accordingly. Further, the aim of this conference is not only to discuss these issues but to find solutions and initiate necessary actions. We will attain our purpose by providing a "project incubator" using the knowledge and research of the world's best leadership and sustainability scholars. Members of academia, industry, and government will analyze in open discussion sessions specific topics, problems, and issues presented by both for-profit and non-profit institutions, and as an outcome will generate possible solutions and create projects to test and implement these solutions. We are fortunate to have commitments from leading companies such as Google, Infosys and Lockheed Martin, and are in discussion with others.  The sessions are designed around the companies/government organizations presenting their leadership and sustainability challenges, pairing them with an academic partner(s) and a trained "design thinking" facilitator, who run a discussion about how we can design effective research studies to meet the organizational and research needs. We believe this will be an interesting experience, and are excited about the possibilities for this kind of a meeting.

This meeting will be "registration fee-free" to make it as accessible as possible. Space will be limited due to the adoption of a design thinking format, and participants should be willing to share ideas, contribute to joint problem-solving, and engage in collaborative research efforts. We therefore expect all the participants to both benefit from and meaningfully contribute to the outcomes of the conference.

Details on pre-registering for the conference and the individual sessions will be posted to this list by the end of this month as well as on the NLS website, so stay tuned for more information from us.

We hope you will consider participating in this conference and help shape research and practice in Leadership, Innovation and Sustainability.

Sincerely,

--Nagaraj

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam

On behalf of NLS Organizing Committee:

Krzysztof Dembek, Monash University (kdembek@gmail.com)

Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska (mbien2@unl.edu)

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, Duquesne University (sivasubr@duq.edu)

Mary Sully de Luque, Thunderbird School of Global Management (mary.sullydeluque@thunderbird.edu)

Kim Jaussi, Binghamton University (kjaussi@binghamton.edu)

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam

Associate Professor of Leadership

Department of Management

Palumbo-Donahue Schools of Business

Duquesne University

600 Forbes Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15282

http://mba.sustainability.duq.edu/