Intercultural Communication Institute

Designed for
Consultants and professionals responsible for global leadership development in international organizations.

Understand the emergence of global leadership and its need in international organizations
Identify the multidisciplinary roots of global leadership as a theoretical construct and empirical phenomenon
Review the current state of global leadership research and practice
Understand the current realities of global leadership development in multinational corporations
Identify the individual and organizational antecedents and outcomes of effective global leadership
Evaluate instruments used to assess global leadership competencies
Identify and compare various models of global leadership development
Explore the role of leadership in leading global teams
Understand the relationship between global leadership knowledge creation and transfer
Explore how effective leaders lead change in global organizations
Identify approaches for designing global leadership development programs in organizations

Learning Activities
The workshop will be highly interactive, and include:

Presentations of conceptual frameworks and models
Case analysis in small groups
Evaluation of common global leadership assessment tools through personal examination
Discovering appropriate research and related resources for developing global leaders
In-class teamwork to design and present an organizational strategy for developing global leaders

Faculty: Allan Bird and Mark Mendenhall

Dr. Allan Bird the is president of The Kozai Group, Inc. He is also the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and the director of the International Business Institute at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has published more than ninety scholarly articles and chapters focusing on international human resource management, with a particular emphasis on global leadership development, intercultural sensemaking, and international negotiations. Allan is the author/editor of seven books, including Global Leadership: Research, Practice, and Development. He published, with Roger Dunbar and Tom Mullen, Bridging Cultures, a CD-ROM and workbook for expatriates and their families.

Dr. Mark E. Mendenhall is the senior vice president of The Kozai Group, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in global leadership and expatriate productivity. He also holds the J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and is an internationally recognized scholar/consultant in global leadership development and the cross-cultural effectiveness of expatriate managers. Mark has published over sixty articles and chapters in academic and professional journals and books, and has authored/edited sixteen books, the most recent being Global Leadership: Research, Practice, and Development.