Welcome to the

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Welcome to the

• 2005 Kick-off

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Why Have a Leadership Club?

• Leaders are made, not born
• Learning to lead
• Insights, skills, and opportunities
• Leadership at all levels
• General management

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What Do We Do?

• Annual Leadership Conference(Jamie Trish and
  Vikas Jhingran)
• Interactive Workshops (Elisabeth Megally)
• Speaker Presentations (Carla Stern)
• Leadership Expeditions (Nathalie Butcher and
  Carletta Bruno)
• What else should the Club do?

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The MIT Sloan Leadership Conference

• Day-long, multi-format symposium
• Brings students together with industry leaders,
  academic experts and leadership development
  authorities
• Leadership theory and practice
• Keynote presentations, panel discussions, skill
  building workshops, roundtable sessions
• In our most recent Conference Changing Leaders,
  Leading Change
• Daniel Carp, CEO of Kodak
• Jim Parker, Former CEO of Southwest Airlines
• Ronald Williams, President of Aetna, Inc.
• Representatives from Sycamore Networks,
  ExxonMobile, MFS Investment Management, General
  Catalyst Partners, and many more

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Help Organize the 7th Annual Conference

• Date February 25, 2006
• First-year positions available
• Marketing Lead
• Sponsorship and Fundraising Lead
• Logistics Lead
• Speakers and Workshops Lead
• Interested in helping? Contact
• Jamie Trish jtrish_at_mit.edu
• Vikas Jhingran jhingran_at_mit.edu

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Leadership Workshops

• Upcoming Dale Carnegie Leadership Workshops on
• Negotiation skills
• Presentation skills
• Organizational design
• People management
• Stress management

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Speaker Series Fall Spring Semesters

• Ken Morse magnetic manager series
• Matt Winter from Mass Mutual With the increased
  regulatory environment in your industry, how will
  your company execute a successful strategy to
  encourage ethical behavior beyond just
  reorganizing and building better control
  measures?
• Corey Rosen National Center for Employee
  Ownership
• More focused Spring series- possibly Difficult
  decisions in business

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MIT Sloan Leadership Expeditions

• Mission
• To provide future business leaders with profound
  leadership and teamwork experiences in order to
  help them master fundamental leadership skills,
  such as self-awareness, team building, risk
  taking, strategic thinking, effective
  communication, fast decision making and having a
  bias for action.
• We believe that a good leader is formed from
  within.

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MIT Sloan Leadership Expeditions Chile Costa
Rica

• Two Expeditions for this year
• Hiking and Mountaineering in Chile
• IAP
• National Outdoors Leadership School (NOLS)
• Multi Sport trip in Costa Rica
• Spring Break
• Outward Bound

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MIT Sloan Leadership Expeditions Expectations

• Trips will be organized and led by the
  participants, facilitated by the guides.
• Each participant must take an active leadership
  role in the various aspects of the journey.
• The trips should produce a profound effect on the
  participants, each of whom will be achieving a
  difficult goal or overcoming numerous challenges.
• Participants should plan on meeting and training
  together before the trip.

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MIT Sloan Leadership ExpeditionsMore Info

• Watch for upcoming information sessions for each
  trip
• Chile early October
• Costa Rica 10/19 or 10/20
• These sessions will include discussion of dates,
  costs, and deadlines for committing to go. In
  addition, a representative of the guiding company
  will be there to share experiences and answer
  questions.

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Join Us!

• Sign up on-line through Sloanspace
• Visit the Club website web.mit.edu/slc
• Keep your eyes open for event announcements
• Talk to any of the Club officers

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