Newswise — The selection and behavior of CEOs and other top executives will be closely examined during an Oct. 28-29 consortium in St. Louis.
"Executive talent is perhaps an organization's most important asset and management of that talent is critical to its success," Leaetta Hough, SIOP president and general chair of the event, said.
Presented by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the consortium will bring together leading-edge scientists and practitioners to focus on winning business strategies and practices as well as the latest scientific studies of talent management.
Entitled "Leadership at the Top: The Selection, Globalization and Ethics of Executive Talent," the conference will highlight the choosing of leaders, executive success, ethics and leadership and the development and assessment of global executive talent.
Three business leaders experienced in managing executive talent will be the principal speakers: Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, founder and president of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute, which focuses on CEO leadership and corporate governance; Bill Mobley, president and managing director of Hong Kong and Shanghai-based Mobley Group Pacific, and Mirian Weir-Graddick, executive vice president for human resources at AT&T.
In addition, there will be 20 other speakers, including Allen Kraut, a management professor of Baruch College in New York City and president of Kraut Associates, who will present "A powerful and simple way to predict executive success," based on his 25-year studies of top leaders.
Other topics include the role of boards in selecting CEOs; increasing the odds of making the right CEO choice; personality traits of executives and managers; the complexity of executive success; shaping corporate culture through ethics and leadership; measuring and maximizing the impact of executive coaching and the strategic allocation of executive talent within an organization.
David P. Campbell, senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs, CO, is the science chair of the conference and Rob Silzer, managing director of Human Resource Assessment & Development, Inc., is serving as practice chair.
For more information about the conference and speakers or to register, visit the SIOP website at http://www.siop.org and click on Fall Consortium homepage or call the SIOP Administrative Office at 419-353-0032.
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is an international group of 6,300 industrial-organizational psychologists whose members study and apply scientific principles concerning people in the workplace.
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