LINKAGE PRESENTS

THE GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT®

ASIA

JULY 17–21, 2017SINGAPORE

BETTER LEADERS. BETTER RESULTS.

Accelerated Learning • Transformative 5-Day Experience20 Years of Proven Results • First Time Ever in Asia

The Global Institute for Leadership Development® (GILD) is the foremost leadership development program designed jointly by Linkage and the late Professor Warren Bennis. The Institute is designed to accelerate the growth of leaders by stretching their ambition, potential and capacity. It is the apex of leadership development experiences, attended by the best of the best. After 20 incredible years of running GILD in Palm Desert, California, we are proud to bring the Institute to Asia for the first time in 2017.

GILD is not your typical leadership conference. It is not a business conference. It is a unique developmental experience that brings together:

• Well-grounded leadership research• World-class faculty• Dedicated one-on-one coaching with experienced and effective coaches• Learning team sessions which help participants internalize and apply learnings more

effectively• A learning environment conducive to leadership development

No leadership development effort would be complete without the ingredients that GILD provides. Join us this July and immerse yourself in this unique leadership experience.

Samuel LamGILD Asia Co-Chair

Richard LeiderGILD Asia Co-Chair

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GILD ASIA• A WORLD-CLASS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE •

• Understand the new landscape of leadership in the global marketplace

• Learn skills and competencies that global leaders need to innovate and execute successfully

• Challenge yourself to do more, go further, and lead better

The Global Institute for Leadership Development Asia develops leaders capable of creating lasting impact in their organizations by providing focused development in areas proven to distinguish exceptional leaders.

The foundation for the experience is a five-day immersion program, complete with a world-class faculty, one-on-one executive coaching, and a proven methodology of facilitated peer learning.

For many organizations, GILD is integrated into a larger leadership development process, masterfully choreographed as the peak experience for its leaders. For a customized GILD Asia leadership experience for your organization, please contact Linkage at info@linkageinc.com.

Get Assessed • Get Coached • Get Inspired • Get Connected

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Get AssessedLinkage’s 360° Leadership Assessment Instrument™ (LAI) is an assessment tool that was created based on a proven leadership competency model co-developed by Warren Bennis, the foremost authority on leadership. The LAI provides you with insights into your leadership strengths and development opportunities across six skills and five competencies proven to differentiate great leaders from average ones.

Over 100,000 leaders and managers from around the world have benefited from the personal insights gained from this assessment process. These insights provide the foundation for your coach to build a customized action plan for your personal development as a leader. It is the roadmap to advancement you will refer to over the course of the following year and beyond.

Get CoachedUpon your arrival at GILD Asia, you will meet the coach that you hand-picked from 50 world-class leadership coaches. You and your coach will review your 360° leadership assessment results and work to build a personalized development plan that will guide your development efforts in the future. You’ll benefit from a one-hour private coaching session.

“When I think of all the development opportunities that someone in my position has to pull from, I have never found a development process as powerful and impactful as GILD.”

—Scott Boston, VP Global Talent Management & HR Operations, Kimberly-Clark Corporation

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Get InspiredAlongside a network of peers and senior executives from around the world, you will access new knowledge taught by an unparalleled, highly qualified faculty of experts.

Featuring current and past CEOs, politicians, public sector leaders, world-renowned educators, ground-breaking researchers and award-winning authors, GILD Asia’s faculty is hand-picked to address the leadership competencies and skills that differentiate superior leaders from average ones. And they do more than just teach—you’ll be inspired to perform and lead at your very best.

Get ConnectedAt GILD Asia, you will meet your learning team each day to reflect on and share what you have learned and apply it to real-life challenges. Learning teams are facilitator-led peer teams of 15-20 leaders organized by leadership experience, scope of responsibility, and preferred learning styles. Your learning team will spend at least 1.5 hours each day working together during the Institute. This is an unparalleled opportunity to partner with other leaders from diverse backgrounds, who will help you think even more expansively about the power of leadership. Lastly, you will expand your network of peers and advisors, who will be there to support and guide you long after the Institute has ended.

“The energy throughout GILD was electric with an eclectic mix of motivational speakers, knowledgeable business minds, and inspirational individuals—a true balancing act between motivating the heart and mind.”

—Philip Johns, Project Managers/PMO Lead Modernization, Boeing

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Richard Boyatzis is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. He is the world’s foremost authority and researcher in emotional intelligence and has authored over 175 articles and seven books about emotional intelligence, behavior change, competencies and leadership. He is one of the major contributors to the theory on competencies and also co-authored the bestseller Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee.

Susan MacKenty Brady is the Executive Vice President of Global Program Strategy and Development at Linkage. She is an expert coach and facilitator, well known for her focus on advancing women leaders. Susan launched Linkage’s work in Advancing Women Leaders and Inclusive Leadership, is the author of The 30 Second Guide to Coaching Your Inner Critic, lead the research behind the 7 Leadership Hurdles Women Leaders Face in the Workforce™, and serves as co-chair of Linkage’s Women in Leadership Institute™.

Chris Cappy is Founder of Pilot Consulting and author of the bestseller Driving Leaders. He has 30 years of experience in consulting, teaching, coaching, and speaking engagements in the areas of change management and design/implementation of Work-Out processes. He also served as lead faculty at the GE Crotonville Institute.

Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chandra) is the Chairman of Tata Sons Limited. He served as the CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) until January 2017. Under his leadership, TCS was rated the world's most powerful brand in IT Services in 2015, and recognized as a Global Top Employer across 24 countries.

Carla Harris is Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She was Chair of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council in 2013. She is a gospel recording artist and a popular public speaker who gives impactful career guidance to corporate audiences based on her book Expect to Win.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Saj-nicole Joni is a globally acclaimed business strategist and confidential advisor to CEOs, their top executives, and boards. As CEO of Cambridge International Group Ltd, she advises CEOs on tough strategic choices that define performance, impact and legacy. Her thought leadership includes practical and profound implications of how computing, connectivity, and data are changing human productivity and possibility. She’s the author of bestselling Get Big Things Done (co-author Erica Dhawan), The Right Fight (co-author Damon Beyer), The Third Opinion, and more. Saj-nicole has served on the faculties of MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Wellesley College, and as a Fellow at Harvard, Center for Public Leadership.

Rakesh Khurana is Dean of Harvard College and Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He has written extensively about the CEO labor market and is regularly featured in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and CNBC, among others. He has helped numerous firms improve their executive development practices and has been recognized by the London Times as one of the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world. He is author of the award-winning book From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, and co-editor of award-winning volume The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice.

Samuel Lam is the President and Managing Partner of Linkage Asia. He is one of the leading practitioners in the field of leadership development and serves as executive coach and adviser to a number of notable CEOs and senior government officials in Asia and Europe. He is the co-author of The Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook, published by John Wiley in 2009.

Richard Leider is an Executive Coach and author. He is recognized as one of America's preeminent executive coaches. He has helped more than 100,000 leaders from over 100 organizations discover the power of their leadership purpose. Richard is the author of ten books, including three bestsellers which have sold over one million copies. They include The Power of Purpose, Repacking Your Bags, and Life Reimagined.

Dave Logan is Co-Founder and President of CultureSync. He is a consultant to three dozen Fortune 500 companies and the New York Times bestselling author of four books, including Tribal Leadership and The Three Laws of Performance. He has been on the faculty of the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California since 1991, where he co-taught the signature leadership courses with the late Professor Warren Bennis. He also served as Associate Dean of Executive Education at the school from 2001-2004.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Maestro Roger Nierenberg is creator of The Music Paradigm. He was the Music Director of the Stamford Symphony and the Jacksonville Symphony. He created The Music Paradigm when he realized how crucial issues of organizational development could be powerfully brought to life within an orchestra. It has taken Roger to the podium of over 90 orchestras, before hundreds of different organizations in 23 different countries.

N. Venkat Venkatraman is Professor of Management and Chairman, Information Systems Department at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on digitalization, digital information technology, smart products and information governance, and the author of The Digital Matrix. He was awarded the IBM Faculty Fellowship for his work on business challenges in the network era, and has also won awards from the Academy of Management.

Alan Webber is the Co-Founder of Fast Company and former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is a thought leader in leadership, economic development and government. He spent many years in public leadership in various roles, both at the state and federal levels in the United States. He ran for Governor of New Mexico in 2014 unsuccessfully and founded One New Mexico, a solutions-oriented nonprofit aimed at advancing New Mexico’s economy. He is the author of several books including Going Global, Rules of Thumb and Life Reimagined. He was the 2016 recipient of the Warren Bennis Award.

Sir Andrew Witty has been the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) since 2008, and is Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. Under his leadership, GSK was ranked #1 in Fortune’s 2016 list of companies that are changing the world. Sir Andrew is recognized for his astute ability to drive excellence in both business performance and corporate responsibility, and is regarded as the public face for the benevolent side of Big Pharma.

Yong Ying-I is the Permanent Secretary of Public Service Division, leading agencies across the Singapore Government in personnel matters. She is also the Permanent Secretary of National Research Foundation, which funds research and innovation programs nationwide, and guides the nation’s research, innovation, and enterprise strategies. Formerly, she served in several senior roles in public service including as the founding CEO of the Info-Communications Development Authority, Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Health, and Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Manpower, among others.

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INSTITUTE AGENDAMONDAY, JULY 17, 2017–FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017

DAY 1FOCUSED

DRIVE

DAY 2TRUSTED

INFLUENCE

DAY 3EMOTIONAL

INTELLIGENCE

DAY 4SYSTEMS THINKING

DAY 5CONCEPTUAL

THINKING

7:30 AMExecutive Coaching

8:30 AM

Keynotes

10:30 AM Tea Break

11:00 AM

Keynotes

12:30 PM

Lunch/Executive Coaching

2:00 PM

Learning Team Meeting

3:30 PMTea Break/Executive Coaching

4:30 PM

Keynotes

6:00 PM

Executive Coaching

7:30 PM

Learning Team Dinner (Day 3)

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Who Will Join You• Emerging Leaders: Those identified as successor candidates and/or

high-potentials (less than ten years of management experience).

• Senior Leaders: Leaders with enterprise-wide responsibility and long-term impact (e.g. general managers, vice presidents, business unit leaders, staff function leaders, and C-suite executives).

• Leadership Teams: Cohorts from specific companies that are leveraging the Institute to create a once-in-a-lifetime team development experience that blends leadership development with team building.

PARTIAL GILD ALUMNI LISTAccenture

Accolade, Inc.Alberta Energy

American GreetingsAmerican Savings Bank Fsb

Apple Inc.ARC Financial Corporation

Avis Budget GroupBoys & Girls Clubs of AmericaCanadian Forest Products Ltd.

Centura HealthDenbury Resources Inc.

Estee Lauder Inc.Etihad Airways

FDAGenentech, Inc.

Google Inc.Hackensack Univ. Medical Center

Harley DavidsonHong Kong Police Force

Kimberly-Clark CorporationKuwait Petroleum Corporation

Liberty SegurosLoomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.

Mark Anthony GroupMaybank

Mayo ClinicMcDermott International, Inc.

McKesson CorporationMeridian Health

Micron TechnologiesNFI Industries, Inc.

Northern Trust CorporationParkland Industries Ltd

PCL Construction Services, Inc.Perrigo Company

Rochester Regional HealthSaint-Gobain

Seven Generations Energy Ltd.Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.

Starbucks CorporationStuart Olson Inc.

Teknor Apex CompanyTesco Corporation

The Walt Disney CompanyToyota Motor Sales USA Inc.

Vision Service PlanWayne Farms LLCWells Fargo Bank

Other(17%)

Finance(15.6%)

Sales(11%)

Operations (9%)

Human Resources

(8.7%)

ProductManagement

(8.2%)

Marketing(7.4%)

Executive Management

(6.6%)

Strategy(5.7%)

Information Services (5.6%)Compliance (3%)

General Management (2.2%)

Functional Responsibility

I lead a single team/section. (10%)

I lead a group of businesses. (8.5%)

I lead an entire organization.

(12.5%)

I lead a department.(25.75%)

I lead a division or business unit.

(24.5%) I lead several teams/sections.

(15.75%)

I am an individual contributor. (3%)

Scope of Leadership Responsibility

President/CEO (9%)

Other (8%)

Chief/Chairman(12%)

Manager/GM(15%)Director

(26%)

Vice President(30%)

Job Title Equivalent

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BE PART OF THE GILD ASIA LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCESINGAPORE • JULY 17–21, 2017

Enroll

Email: info@linkageinc.comPhone: +1.781.402.5555Web: www.linkageinc.com/gild

Policies1. Payment: Full tuition must be received in US funds. Group reservations

will be billed to the primary contact unless otherwise specified.

2. 50% of the Institute fee will be applied to any cancellation at any time. After May 22, 2017, cancellation of any and all registrations—including “no-shows”—is subject to 80% of the Institute fee. After June 12, 2017, cancellation is subject to the full Institute fee. An organization may substitute one executive for another at any time at no charge.

Hotel Accommodations*Grand Hyatt SingaporeAddress: 10 Scotts Road, Singapore 228211Contact: Ms. Genevieve TanEmail: genevieve.tan@hyatt.comPhone: +65.6416.7020

*Please note that hotel charges are not included in the Institute registration fee. Institute participants should contact the hotel directly to arrange their accommodations. A limited block of rooms will be available at a special event rate. Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please make your reservation early.

Tuition

1-4 participants: $5,995/person5-9 participants: $5,795/person10+ participants: $5,595/person

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“This is one of the most comprehensive leadership development programs I

have ever seen!”Stephen Covey

Author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• www.linkageinc.com/gild • +1.781.402.5555 • info@linkageinc.com

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