2006 News Release Abstracts
Nancy Aossey wins the 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award
November 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) has honored Nancy Aossey, President and CEO of International Medical Corps, with its 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award. An international non-governmental organization that focuses on relief and development programs, IMC was a start-up with just three employees when Aossey was hired to run it in 1986. (more...)
September 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - Ingar Skaug, president and group chief executive officer of the global shipping firm Wilh. Wilhelmsen, became chairman this month of the Center for Creative Leadership's Board of Governors. Skaug joined the Center's board in 1991 and had previously served as its vice chairman. (more...)
New Book on the Future of Leadership Features Chapter by CCL President John Alexander
September 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - A chapter authored by John Alexander, president of the Center for Creative Leadership, appears in The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era. In "The Challenge of Complexity," Alexander draws on recent CCL research to explore leadership responses to complex challenges, which are increasingly common in a rapidly changing world and range from natural disasters to organizational turmoil. (more...)
CCL President John Alexander Announces Retirement
June 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - John Alexander, president of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) since 1997, has announced that he will retire effective March 31, 2007. (more...)
April 2006 - Chicago, IL - Pearson Performance Solutions (Pearson PS), a leading provider of strategic workforce solutions and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), a global leader in the understanding, practice and development of leadership are pleased to announce their joint presentation at the 2006 Capability Development & Skill Pool Management for Oil & Gas Conference. (more...)
March 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - The pace of change in today's business world can be daunting - from major market shifts to changes in corporate leadership. To help managers and executives lead more effectively in this shifting landscape, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) introduces a new guidebook that explores the practical skills needed to survive and thrive in the face of change. (more...)
March 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - Think you need to move from job to job in order to broaden your experience and develop new leadership skills? A new book from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) demonstrates that there are many other ways for leaders to grow. (more...)
CCL Senior Fellow Wins Prestigious Industry Award
March 2006 - Colorado Springs, C.O. - David Campbell, the Center's Smith Richardson Senior Fellow, was named the Society for Psychologists in Management's Distinguished Psychologist in Management for 2006. He received the award in early March at SPIM's annual conference in San Francisco. (more...)
CCL, Wake Forest Partnership Produces New Book on University Leadership
February 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - Officials at America's colleges and universities face major challenges every day as leaders of complex institutions - and yet resources that might help them lead more effectively are surprisingly scarce. They now have a valuable new tool to assist them - University Presidents as Moral Leaders, a book of essays that collects the experiences and leadership wisdom of more than 30 top university leaders. (more...)
New CCL Program Helps Leaders Navigate Complex Challenges
February 2006 - Greensboro, N.C. - More and more, leaders are faced with entirely unexpected leadership challenges. In addition to large scale examples such as Hurricane Katrina, issues ranging from corporate mergers to international competition to major shifts in the market can often strike simultaneously, requiring a leader to react quickly to situations without precedent or experience. Some situations may have no clear-cut solutions, and linear thinking based solely on the "hard" skills of business is not sufficient. (more...)
Blended Learning Enhances CCL-Europe's Flagship Open-Enrollment Program
February 2006 - Brussels - The Center for Creative Leadership-Europe announces that Friday5s®, an innovative online component, will become part of CCL's flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)® this spring in Europe. Coupled with online assessments before and after classroom sessions, this addition reflects CCL's pioneering work in Blended Learning solutions. (more...)
