"The Third Opinion: How More Successful CEOs Are Using Trusted Outside Advisors to Better Lead and Gain a Winning Edge"
Thursday, June 9, 2005 - CEO/Inner Circle Breakfast
Attendance is limited to 25. Please RSVP as soon as possible to ensure your place.
"THE THIRD OPINION: HOW MORE SUCCESSFUL CEOs ARE USING TRUSTED OUTSIDE ADVISORS TO BETTER LEAD AND GAIN A WINNING EDGE"
Time:
8 - 9:30am sharp
Location:
The New York Palace
Tri-plex Suites, 5308 (53rd Floor in the Tower section)
455 Madison Avenue, between 50th and 51st Street, East side of the street
Generously hosted by Doerte Lau, Director of Marketing, for The New York Palace Hotel
In today's increasingly competitive global village WHEN:
* Change moves at light speed
* Globalization is the norm
* New technologies continue to disrupt and at the same time offer new opportunities
* Top talent is harder than ever to find
* Corporate ethics and responsibility are under scrutiny
* Data and physical security is a strategic issue
* Understanding complex business issues is more challenging
* Organizational learning, communication and trust are critical
...the style of the leader - his/her emotional intelligence, compassion, curiosity, courage, ability to genuinely listen and inspire is undergoing radical change. Recent research has shown that the level of isolation experienced by top management to be at an all time high. The complexity today demands new thinking, new habits of mind, a new kind of focus, new kinds of terms and a new vision.
Saj-nicole joni, author of "The Third Opinion: How Successful Leaders Use Outside Insight to Create Superior Results"; Jim Cornehlson Managing Director, Merryck & Co, New York which brings former CEOs together with working CEOs; and Colombe Nicholas, former CEO of Anne Klein, Armani and Christian Dior and a Merryck Mentor will discuss how "the third opinion" and tapping the experience of trusted outside advisors is revolutionizing the way CEOs improve their personal and corporate performance and profits. CEO's need an inner circle with an objective "Third Opinion" that can be filled by an xCEO as a trusted advisor and business mentor/thinking partner.
By Invitation of Doerte Lau, Director of Marketing, for The New York Palace Hotel
About Saj-nicole Joni
Saj-nicole Joni, Ph.D. is an internationally-known business strategist and 'third opinion' adviser to senior executives. She provides insight into high stakes issues at the intersection of strategy, action and complexity.
Executive decision-making today occurs at an unparalleled pace in a global marketplace marked by dynamic change. Dr. Joni applies her own management experience to her work as a trusted, collaborative thinking partner to the most respected global business leaders, providing objective dialog in confidence. Integrating this 'outside insight' with an executive's inner circle builds a sustained capability for powerful business thinking - and superior results.
Dr. Joni is a leading pioneer of 'third opinion' counsel. The impact of her work is that clients lead their organizations to successfully tackle risk, identify and capitalize more effectively on important revenue or market opportunities, and make better decisions around bottom-line ROI/ROE for sustained financial performance.
Her clients include C-level executives at Global 200 firms, including finance, technology, software, information, professional services, telecommunications, oil & gas, pharmaceutical and media companies. She also works with CEOs of smaller, more entrepreneurial companies.
Dr. Joni is a former Microsoft and CSC Index executive with several prestigious board memberships. She is the author of The Third Opinion How Successful Leaders Use Outside Insight to Create Superior Results (Portfolio/Penguin Putnam), and has authored articles for a variety of publications. Dr. Joni is a frequent speaker and recipient of industry accolades. She is a director of publicly held companies and member of the board of several non-profits. She has served for over ten years on the faculties of MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Wellesley College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego.
About Jim Cornehlson and Merryck & Co.
Jim has a broad base of experience in a wide variety of industries to draw on from 20 years of corporate general management and 20 years of professional services leadership.
Jim moved through Division P&L General Management roles at G.E., McGraw-Hill, and CBS before becoming President and CEO of Las Americas, a Spanish owned media company in the US, now a very hot market. In this capacity, he completed acquisitions, distribution alliances, and new product launches to build the company. As a Practice Leader in two global professional service firms, he worked with Boards on succession and helped to place 25 different CEO's. He has focused on the challenges of the CEO leadership role in a world of change, complexity, and global competition. In particular, he has worked through the issues of new leaders in new roles, often in new companies, new countries, or radically new circumstances.
Jim was a founding Board Member of the Information Industry Association for Internet and database information companies and IACPR, for talent management leaders. He is on the AMA HR Council and the Board for the New York affiliate of the Human Resources Planning Society. He was a contributor to Profiles in Coaching and was listed in The Career Makers (Harper & Row) as one of America's top recruiters.
About Colombe Nicholas
"Never start something you don't intend to complete. Always challenge yourself to do the very best with the highest degree of integrity."
Colombe M. Nicholas has distinguished herself as one of the most influential leaders in the international fashion and retail industries. Her career, which spans more than 25 years, includes posts at the helm of Anne Klein, Giorgio Armani, and Christian Dior. She is currently a consultant with Financo Global Consulting, a firm that identifies expansion opportunities and provides growth advice to businesses. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Mills Corporation, Tandy Brand Accessories, Inc. and a Trustee of the University of Dayton.
Prior to joining Financo, Ms. Nicholas was President and CEO of the Anne Klein Company. During her three-year tenure at Anne Klein, she revitalized the company by retooling and repositioning the Anne Klein brand. Prior to that, Ms. Nicholas served as President and COO of Giorgio Armani Fashion Corporation where she tripled the size of the women's division in less than three years. Before Giorgio Armani, Ms. Nicholas served as the president and CEO of Christian Dior, New York, where from 1980 to 1988, she increased sales from $125 million to $425 million. In tandem with her leadership at Christian Dior, she also headed up Christian Lacroix-USA, which is owned by LVMH, the same company that owns Christian Dior. Prior to Christian Dior, Ms. Nicholas spent ten years in the retail industry in various executive positions, working for Macy's, Bloomingdales and Bonwit Teller.
Ms. Nicholas received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dayton, where she currently serves on the Board of Trustees. In addition to her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University Of Cincinnati College Of Law, she also holds an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Bryant College.
Ms. Nicholas resides with her family in New York City. She is married to a contemporary art dealer and the mother of her two children.