Center for
International Leadership, Inc.
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"Outstanding -- much better than any other training offered by the Bank with which I am familiar. More worthwhile than even the EDP, valuable as that is. This course raises difficult questions, to which there are no right or wrong answers, forcing Bank staff to think in new, different ways about things that really matter and effect the way we work and behave daily."
World Bank
"I've obviously been in many class situations whereby I have been asked to both learn and think. There have been situations where I have learned more but never have I been faced to think more than during this session. The whole session can only be described as excellent."
BellSouth Corporation
"An old song says that love like youth is wasted on the young. As I move into my second half century, I am convinced that to a large extent the same can be said about education. So many of the works of seminal thinkers deserve to be studied for a lifetime. Unfortunately too many of us squander early opportunities to meaningfully study the values encompassed in timeless literature. On the other hand, maybe we need to live a while before we begin to understand what the writers intended."
Southern Regional Educational Board
"Very good seminar. For me, being a non-US citizen, I had the opportunity to get/share information, which goes very deep into the US culture and society. Those opportunities you do not get many times in life.
Medtronic, Inc.
[The session]..."demonstrates Volvo's commitment in instilling Values in Management employees. A strong company is run on sound ethical business principles-programs of this nature demonstrate this point.'
Volvo AB, Sweden
[The seminar]… "provoked thoughts, emotions, frustrations, doubts, challenges-in a word REALITY with all of its complexities, dynamics and diverse perspectives and perceptions. Personally it was a growth time, revealing some "shadows" denied or ignored and reminding me, humbly, of the adage, "If you think you have reached the top of the mountain, keep climbing."
European Corporate Consortium
"The session fostered critical thinking and analysis of issues that confront/or may confront us as decision makers in organizations and effectively highlighted the conflicts between ethical values and corporate interest."
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
"I think I am now better prepared to deal with conflicting positions on important issues to the corporation and me. It caused me to think about my values and some of the conflicts I have within myself. I exercise my body regularly, but never exercise my brain."
Sprint
"The seminar's greatest value lies in its impact on individual participants-compelling them to confront important social issues that may be beyond their usual personal and business concern and sensitizing them to their urgency. The moderator is a superb master of Socratic technique, with breadth, stamina, vitality and alertness that must be the envy of many half his age."
BellSouth Corporation
"The entire session served to teach me the value of being willing to self-challenge my own beliefs and understandings, and being willing to grow from moving out of mentally comfortable places. The unyielding and persistent Socratic method is so different an experience for the class… so effective. [The seminar gave me] the courage to deal with controversial issues. "
Kaiser Permanente
"The humanities approach yielded results for our managers never before realized by other development experiences…the experience reminds one of the awesome, lonely responsibility of leadership-empathy gained for leaders of the past, as well as, awareness of the universal nature of leadership dilemmas through time."
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Weyerhaeuser
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Jonathan LeClere