Leaders in many top organizations have found that the ability to learn from experience distinguishes great leaders from average leaders. It is also critical to building a pipeline of capable leaders. The most fertile of these experiences are crucibles — times of trial and failure as well success. Crucibles are transformative experiences that force aspiring leaders to examine who they are, what matters to them and what they can learn from success and failure. They teach lessons about leading and about learning.

This hands-on, interactive workshop will introduce the research and ideas based on the "Crucibles of Leadership" and its relevance and application to Asian American Professionals.

• Understand how great leaders learn from experience and why this is important
• Understand one’s ambitions, motivations, and learning style as a way to make use of experiences as learning opportunities
• Begin developing a personal learning strategy as a basis for enhancing your individual leadership

Based on the book, Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Become a Great Leader by Dr. Robert J. Thomas, executive director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance, this research-based approach to Leadership Development highlights an approach to leader development that calls upon crucible experiences.

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Sponsored by:

Accenture - APAIG
Asian Pacific American Interest Group

AT&T - APCA
Asian Pacific Islanders for
Professional and Community Advancement

 

About the presenter: Dr. Claudy Jules is a Manager in Accenture’s Organization Strategy practice and is one of the global leaders of the Leadership topic within the firm. He serves on the management team of Accenture’s leadership effectiveness offering group, and is one of the co-architects of the firm’s leadership assessment and development approaches, where some of his expertise includes organizational design, executive leadership, and senior team effectiveness. He works with senior leadership teams on issues of organization, leadership, and change and with colleagues from Accenture’s Institute for High Performance to develop practices for enhancing how leaders learn to elevate their performance.

Prior to Accenture, Dr. Jules was an advisor to CGI’s Northeast Region Organization Change practice and a Consultant at KPMG Consulting and Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Dr. Jules earned his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University, where his research and training focused on social and organizational psychology.

Dr. Jules holds several honors and awards including 2009 Accenture People Developer and Inspiring Leaders and 2001-2002 International Who’s Who of Professionals. He is on the editorial advisory board for Chief Diversity Officer Magazine and the Vice Chair, Board of Directors for NTL Institute (National Training Laboratory).

Dr. Jules is scheduled to be a guest presenter for the 2010 Global Business Leadership course at Brandeis University and has presented at workshops and programs around the world such as the 2009 Academy of Management, Professional Development Workshop on “Organizing for Leadership Effectiveness”, Accenture’s 2008 Global Virtual Seminar on “The Importance of Leadership Effectiveness in the Current Economic Climate”, 2006 National Organization Development Network Conference on “Intentional Use of Self: Reclaiming Our Capacity to Have Measureable Impact” and, 2006 International Council of Psychologists Conference in Greece on “Demography and Learning in Organizations.

Dr. Jules has several publications and papers to his credit. His most recent ones include: Jules, C. (2009), Feedback as a Unit of Work: A Data-Driven Approach to Organizational Coaching, OD Practitioner, 41(3), 8-12, and Glavas, A., Jules, C. Van Oosten, E. (2006), Use of Self in Creating a Culture of Collaboration, in S. Schuman (Ed.), Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The International Association of Facilitators Handbook, (pp.304-318), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Dr. Jules continues to study social and organizational psychology which includes: embedded group dynamics, social and cognitive influences on team learning behavior in work teams, as well as the application of clinical inquiry in organizational research and consultation. He is currently writing two papers, one on applications of action learning to organizational transformation and the other on innovation as a parallel process where research and practice converge.

Dr. Jules lives in Fairburn, GA with his wife Regina.