THE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL’S
INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH
is proud to present the
14th Annual Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium

Ramping Up:  Multidimensional Approaches to Career Enhancement

Friday, October 17, 2008
8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY  10019-6078

What if the future pathways for African-American managers could yield limitless opportunities? What if the successful business paradigms of yesteryear became instantaneously null and void?   

As it was last year, and the year before, the workplace is shifting. The workplace is no longer primarily dependent upon workers with strong technical skills but on leaders who possess creativity, awareness, and cultural adeptness.  The current workplace requires leadership proficiency at every level of an organization.  To successfully navigate a variety of business situations managers have to think and act differently.  They must think and be prepared to act beyond their current position.  So what is new on the horizon for African-American managers?  What next steps can they take to ramp up on their capacity and perspectives to execute more effectively to meet the demands of unprecedented times—to be proactively prepared?

Symposium Overview
This year’s theme, Ramping Up: Multidimensional Approaches to Career Enhancement is a one-day professional development symposium designed to help ambitious mid-level African-American managers consider ways in which they can be opportunistic in terms of managing their careers.  The symposium will showcase three critical areas of development Mid-Level Managers need to examine in the current political and economic landscape.  One session will help explore the Intersection of Public Policy and Business.  This breakout session will offer points on how an acutely developed understanding of and activity in public policy decisions can create business and career opportunities.  A second breakout session will assist mid-level managers in defining and developing Organizational Agility.  This session will assist mid-level managers in developing the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) needed to actively and progressively navigate though organizational systems.  A third breakout session will aid mid-level managers to increase their Global Business Acumen.  This breakout session will offer various strategies on how mid-level managers can think differently about positioning one's self in the global arena.  New to this year’s Mid-Level Manager’s Symposium (MLMS) will be an exhibition style breakout session.  In the exhibition hall, The Executive Leadership Council has invited a myriad of Professional Associations, Authors, and Organizations to set-up booths which will provide information, networking and, resources to supplement the career development of African-American mid-level managers.

This year’s MLMS will help participants understand:

• the future is going to be quite different and mid-level managers have got to be prepared;
• the economy is changing and so is the definition of success;
• how to be more opportunistic about how one manages their career;
• how to acquire new skills;
• how to discover points where they can consider doing things differently;
• how to take a multidimensional view of one’s career and the things which can be done to enhance it.

Symposium Format:
The Mid-Level Manager’s Symposium (MLMS) provides opportunity for managers to learn and network in professionally safe settings.  The MLMS also honors the achievements of African Americans and pro-diversity companies working to make the business case for diversity and the corporate workplace more inclusive, equitable, and successful.  In the MLMS, participants interact with leading experts in business and education to help them achieve greater levels of success and recognition.  These experts offer candid and unflinching personal stories about their leadership journeys.  Participants also exchange ideas with senior executives and peer managers during breakout workshop sessions, table discussions, and the networking lunch.  Each year, this annual conference attracts more than 1,000 managers and executives from more than 200 companies.  In addition to symposium participants, in excess of 100 members from The Executive Leadership Council serve as table facilitators to MLMS participants throughout the day.

Symposium Abbreviated Agenda:

Symposium Sponsors:

The PepsiCo Foundation is the proud founder and lead sponsor of the Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium for the 14th consecutive year. We view this as the premier leadership development program for high achieving people of color. We believe that you will gain enormously from the experiences of the senior business executives, academic leaders and peers you will meet.

The Principal Financial Group has been a member of The Executive Leadership
Council since 2001 and is pleased to be a sponsor for a 3rd year of the Mid- Level Managers’ Symposium. We congratulate The Council for making this valuable program available.

The ING Foundation is honored to sponsor this year’s Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium. We support The Executive Leadership Council’s commitment to developing African American business leaders and are proud to be affiliated with this prestigious program.

Who should attend:
• All mid-level managers aspiring to the next level of leadership within their organizations.
• Those with at least five (5) years management experience in a corporate or business setting.

Symposium Fees & Deadline:

Registration:

Register online at www.elcinfo.com/mlms.html available on July 28th! 
Download the PDF

Group Registration Process:

1. You still must register all the attendees via our website at www.elcinfo.com/mlms.html
2. Once you are ready to pay, select the pay by check option which will be featured. 
3. Once you have submitted the registrations, you will need to forward the names of all those you registered along with the check to our offices c/o 14th Annual Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium.
4. Please make corporate checks for group registrations payable to: The Executive Leadership Foundation
5. Please send corporate check list of participants to the address below.
      The Executive Leadership Council
      C/o Robert Solomon
      14th Annual Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium
      1001 North Fairfax Street
      Suite 300
      Alexandria, VA  22314

*The ELC must receive the company check before 10/08/2008; otherwise at the registration desk attendees will need to present a credit card for payment before they will be able to receive their conference materials.

Symposium Hotel (Sold Out):
Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY
(212) 586-7000

Alternative Hotels:
Novotel NY Hotel
226 W 52 Street
New York, NY
(212) 315-0100

Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York, NY
(212) 398-1900

LE Parker Meridian Hotel
119 W 56 Street
New York, NY
(212) 245-5000

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