2017 theme: “Discovering Flourishing Enterprise: The Key to Great Performance”
More businesses seeking success and an engaged workforce are evolving toward becoming flourishing enterprises—those that create economic prosperity while contributing to a healthy environment and improving human well-being. on June 14-16 hosts the to illuminate this emerging trend. , within ϳԹ‘s , has designed the forum around the theme: Discovering Flourishing Enterprise: The Key to Great Performance. Hundreds of participants, many in teams, from across the United States and internationally will exemplify businesses “doing well by doing good” when the forum occurs at ϳԹ’s Tinkham Veale University Center. “We are eagerly looking forward to welcoming business leaders, social entrepreneurs and change agents,” said , the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit and faculty executive director of the Fowler Center.
Chris Laszlo
“It’s more of a practitioner design session than it is an academic conference,” Laszlo said. “Individuals and groups on the first day can learn about and experience Appreciative Inquiry, which is a very powerful strengths-based whole system method that was developed at ϳԹ and is at the heart of many of the initiatives at the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit.”
Using Appreciative Inquiry, the Fourth Global Forum will take on some of the key issues facing business today, including:
- Retaining, engaging and inspiring the best people.
- Meeting growing consumer demand for products that have positive social impact.
- Designing environments that foster greater creativity, innovation and enduring financial value.
- Turning local and global challenges into sources of competitive advantage.
