Developing Leaders and Leadership Development In the Age of Perpetual Mobility
An evening with Gianpiero Petriglieri, M.D., Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD, The Business School for the World in Fontainebleau, France; Currently on faculty at Harvard Business School
Friday, May 11, 2012 7:30-9:00 PM
Cambridge Center for Adult Education Kitchen Classroom
42 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Kindly RSVP by Friday, 4/27. For more information and to RSVP, contact Mika Awanohara at: mika.awanohara@austenriggs.net
$10 for general admission and $5 for students and CSGSS members
Light refreshments will be served
Profound changes in individuals’ relationship with their employers and expectations for their work lives have generated an increasing demand for leadership development, while at the same time exposing the limitations of traditional leadership programs focused on the acquisition of conceptual knowledge and requisite skills. This evening, Dr. Petriglieri will reflect upon the endeavor to integrate a systems psychodynamics perspective within contemporary management scholarship and leadership development practice. He will articulate why and how conceptualizing leadership programs as “identity workspaces” helps to explain the demand for “more leadership” and to meet it in ways that benefit individuals, organizations, and society. Alongside the acquisition of knowledge and skills, identity workspaces facilitate the revision and consolidation of individual and collective identities. They personalize and contextualize participants’ learning, inviting them to wrestle with existential and cultural questions such as, “What does leading mean to us?” and “Who am I as a leader?” that are more frequently left unresolved within the fluid and uncertain careers of contemporary managers.
About Gianpiero Petriglieri:
Dr. Gianpiero Petriglieri’s academic interests bridge the domains of leadership, identity, adult development and experiential learning. His research explores how and where people engaged in mobile careers develop and sustain the personal foundations, supportive communities and systemic perspective that allow them to exercise leadership mindfully, effectively and responsibly. He has written about how people craft and maintain personal and professional identities in the context of contemporary careers; the influence of unconscious factors on the development and exercise of leadership; the social and psychological functions of management education in general and leadership development in particular; and the existential dilemmas of “high potential” managers. His work on the personal foundations of leadership development received the 2011 GMAC Award for the most significant contribution to graduate management education.
Over the last decade, Gianpiero has contributed to refining a unique approach to experiential leadership development. At INSEAD, he directs the “Management Acceleration Programme,” the school’s flagship executive program for emerging leaders, as well as customized leadership development programs for multinationals in a variety of industries. He also consults to a range of organizations on the design and implementation of programmes for developing effective and responsible leaders. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, where he received teaching awards in the MBA and Executive MBA, and contributed regularly to executive education programmes and to the MBA at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Gianpiero received a Medical Doctorate and a specialization in Psychiatry from the University of Catania Medical School, Italy, and a diploma in Advanced Organizational Consultation from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. He has practiced as a psychotherapist and often serves on the staff of group relations conferences in Europe and the United States. He is past President of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) and a member of the Boston Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems (CSGSS) and the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. You can find him on Twitter: @gpetriglieri
