Custom Solutions

The Center for Values-Driven leadership works with companies on an individualized basis to create high-impact learning and development experiences that are tailored to the needs of each client. We address individual leader development needs while simultaneously building systemic values-driven leadership capacity for the organization as a whole. The primary goal of every custom interaction is to partner with and engage our clients in a dynamic process of designing, developing and implementing sustainable solutions for increasing individual and organizational effectiveness.

Some examples of customized client activities include:

Values-Driven Leadership Development

• Identification of desired leadership behaviors
• Development of leadership competency models
• Customized leadership training & curriculum development
• Feedback and coaching on leadership effectiveness
• 360° feedback process design & implementation
• Individual development planning
• Team process improvement: communication, role clarification, decision making, goal setting, building trust, meeting effectiveness, team evaluation, conflict resolution & action planning

Designing & Implementing Strategic Change

• Use of change management methodologies to plan, implement, and sustain change of business strategy and initiatives
• Strategic planning activities & processes
  • Vision
  • Mission
  • Guiding principles/Key values
  • Goals
  • Objectives
  • Success Measures
• Business process management – process improvement & redesign

Please contact Jim “Gus” Gustafson, Director of Executive Education at (630) 829-2177 or via email at jgustafson@ben.edu for more information.

About CVDL

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership offers research, education and outreach opportunities to help business leaders forge new paths to profitability. It is a gathering place where top executives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders come together to innovate at the forefront of values-driven business practice.

Upcoming CVDL Events

• New Paths to Profitability: Achieving Superior Performance through Values-Driven Leadership
  - September 16-16, 2010

Exemplars

• A look at green Proctor & Gamble products as described by P&G VP of Sustainability, Len Saurs. This video was broadcast on Discovery Channel and hosted by Tristan Rogers. Watch it here:
• Peter Darbee, CEO & Chairman of Pacific Gas & Electric, talks about climate change policy, renewable energy and the company's decision to withdraw from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Watch it here.
• Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, speaks at the Economic Club of Washington DC on May 12, 2009 about the five key characteristics required by today’s CEO in order to successfully lead in the future. Choose more speakers and scroll through speakers: Watch it here.