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Dear Fellow CEO,
These are unprecedented times to lead a business, but you don’t have to do it alone.
Join peer CEOs facing similar challenges and compare notes on how they see the future—and how they are preparing their organizations to thrive. Please join us December 1 at the 2009 CEO2CEO Leadership Summit.
Innovative CEOs will share their challenges, solutions, and contingencies. Learn where successful CEOs are finding growth and cost savings, as well as preparing for looming new health legislation, environmental regulations, tax reform, and other shifts.
While the pundits and academics will argue about the pace and breadth of an economic recovery, we know that as CEO it falls on you to act today to ensure the effectiveness of your organization--whenever and whatever the environment. That means survival today…and looking ahead for future competitive advantage.
The 2009 CEO2CEO Summit will facilitate CEO peer-networking to help you and your organization prepare for any eventuality. Learn best practices from other CEOs and understand what’s working for them (and not working) in a confidential, intimate setting. Our venue will be the private Board and meeting rooms of the incomparable New York Stock Exchange.
Invest in your development with peer-networking unavailable elsewhere. Please help shape the discussion as we:
- Rethink how to manage costs
- Identify growth opportunities
- Upgrade human capital and corporate culture
- Build adaptive enterprises
- Discuss the new role of government in business
- Understand how leading companies are changing their R&D and innovation strategies
- Recognize dramatic shifts in marketing and sales techniques
- Overcome new challenges in customer perceptions and behavior
- Anticipate changes to global supply chains
- Exploit the new finance realities
Our set agenda will cover a lot of ground, but will also leave time for you to get your thorniest problems discussed. We’ve also scheduled time for ample peer networking.
AGENDA
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8:30 AM |
WELCOME
- Duncan Niederauer, NYSE Euronext |
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8:45 AM |
OPENING KEYNOTE
What’s Next for Capital Markets |
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9:30 AM |
PANEL DISCUSSION
Is Your Organization Ready for Recovery?
Questions a CEO Needs to Get Right About His Organization Before Launching a Recovery Strategy
When the economic recovery comes—in whatever form or force— companies will need an aligned and motivated workforce together with the right leadership teams in place to take advantage of the opportunity. During the last 18 months companies have had to endure an intense economic downtown followed by operational cost-cutting and eviscerating layoffs. In addition, markets have been shell-shocked by the public’s mood of what’s-in-it-for-me cynicism. This comes after CEOs generally have been excoriated by politicians about their pay. Merely having survived the downtown doesn’t mean one is automatically poised to capitalize on a recovery. Some are more ready than others and the unprepared may find themselves rudely surprised when adversaries steal a march.
- Robert Nardelli, Cerberus Operations & Advisory Company, LLC
- Jerre Stead, Chairman and CEO, IHS
- Sohaib Abbasi, Chairman and CEO, Informatica |
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11:00 AM |
BREAK |
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11:15 AM |
CONCURRENT ROUNDTABLES
How the Globalization Game Is Changing: Assessing Growth and Risk
In the next 10 years China could represent up to 25 percent of world trade. But the days of export driven growth are drawing to a close. The controversy over tire imports from China is but a tip of the iceberg in the changing landscape of global markets. Free trade is yielding to managed trade and managed market access, whatever it may be called officially. This means the growth and risk dynamics for companies operating in world markets is in flux. No longer needing capital, China, for example, seeks to move up the value chain and advance its own champions, such as Huawei Technologies—beneficiary of a $10 billion government loan. Does this mean that China is pulling the welcome mat away in terms of acquisitions? India, on the other hand, is trying develop its infrastructure in order to improve its manufacturing base. But even here the dynamics are changing. Both markets will be tougher to operate in if one is not already a committed player. Still 75 percent of world trade will lie outside of these areas. What will be the new rules for successful competitors in world markets as the dynamics of trade and market access shift in the coming years?
- Gene Huang, Chief Economist, FedEx
- Anil Gupta, Professor of Management, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
- Haiyan Wang, Managing Director, China-India Institute
- Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Advisory Council, Citigroup, NA
CEO in the Middle; the Board Above and the Executive Team Below
How can CEOs divide their focus without losing sight of strategic goals?
The old days of “Hero CEOs” are over. Organizations are now too complex to be led by any one person. The new model of success revolves around leaders who effectively manage their key teams. CEOs, in particular, are in a unique position, sandwiched between the demands of an independent board of directors and the needs of their executive team. While both require time and attention, each group has its own unique purposes, goals and culture. In this roundtable, we’ll explore ensemble leadership, with its divide and conquer problem solving approach, and hold a lively discussion on how CEOs vary their leadership style to be the most effective for each team in their three dimensional sphere of influence.
- Paul Winum, RHR International
- Bob Bloom, U.S. Chairman/CEO (ret.) Publicis Worldwide |
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12:30 PM |
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE
What’s Next and Why it Matters
- Mark Penn, CEO, Burson-Marsteller and author of Microtrends: The Small Forces Changing the World |
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1:30 PM |
CONCURRENT ROUNDTABLES
Leveraging Leadership to Improve Innovation: What CEOs Can Do
More than half the respondents in a recent McKinsey survey said that innovation is more important now than before the economic downturn. Those with the highest hopes for the future are focusing on it. Often, however, the missing element in institutionalizing an effective innovation strategy is the way in which it is led. Building innovation into the DNA of an organization involves disciplines that require different ways of thinking about people and processes. This roundtable discussion centers on how different market leaders lead their organizations in delivering game-changing innovation for their customers and what CEOs can do to ensure that the right capabilities are in place to do this consistently. Central to the discussion are ways to rethink innovation discipline in order to balance the need for near-term return on investment with longer term growth.
- Dr. Peter Temes, Founder and President, Innovation Leadership Institute
- William Nuti, Chairman & CEO, NCR
- William V. Hickey, Chairman and CEO, Sealed Air
Energy, Growth and Prosperity
Prosperity hinges on affordable energy. In chasing carbon to get industrialized economies off their dependence on oil we run into an inconvenient truth: Oil will be with us for some time even though electricity producers have almost ditched oil completely. Coal, gas and nuclear are the only practical substitutes for base load energy and will remain so for some time to come. The developing world has embraced nuclear almost as much as coal. By 2020 a new reactor will be starting up mostly outside the U.S. every six days. Where we place our energy bets and how we choose to limit carbon will have far reaching effects on our ability to grow and prosper.
- James Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy
- Gene Huang, Chief Economist, FedEx |
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2:45 PM |
BREAK |
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3:10 PM |
PANEL DISCUSSION
The Impact of Health Reform on Business
- Ralph de la Torre, President and CEO Caritas Christi Health Care
- Kent Thiry, CEO, DaVita
- Thomas L. Harrison, Chairman and CEO, Diversified Agency Services, Omnicom Group |
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4:45 PM |
GUEST SPEAKER
Growth Challenges in a More Regulated World
- Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs (invited) |
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5:30 PM |
COCKTAIL RECEPTION |
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| What: |
11th Annual CEO2CEO Leadership Summit |
| When: |
December 1, 2009 |
| Where: |
New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad St., New York NY |
| Who: |
You and Your CEO peers |
| Registration fee: |
$1,500 |
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Register today for the CEO2CEO Leadership Summit and benefit from the world’s best CEOs.
Successful leaders like Jim Skinner are always looking at least one step ahead for opportunities, even in today’s tough environment. Make sure you’re with us to prepare for your future at the 2009 CEO2CEO Leadership Summit.
We guarantee your satisfaction with a 100% return on your attendance fee if you’re not completely satisfied. We’re so confident that you’ll be able to implement at least one great idea that will make this a smart investment, that we’ll return your entire registration fee if you feel otherwise. There will be no quibbles and no hassles.
Please note that participation is limited to qualified executives at the CEO or equivalent levels (i.e. Chairman, President, General, Managing Partner, etc.)
I look forward to seeing you in New York on December 1.
Sincerely,
Marshall Cooper
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Attendees' Comments:
"We all struggle with some of the same issues: building the bench for the future, setting the right kind of strategies, making sure we’re executing flawlessly. Hearing from [my colleagues], I want to take some of their great ideas and implement them.”
—Maj. Gen. Keith Thurgood, Commanding General & CEO, Army & Air Force Exchange
"I thought it was very timely, very appropriate and a lot of good interchange about what CEOs can do to help address the challenges in today’s environment.”
—Bill Hickey, CEO & Chairman, Sealed Air Corp.
"The discussion was good and the dinner at the NYSE was fantastic. I loved the setting and you assembled a great group.”
—John Edwardson, Chairman & CEO, CDW
“I really enjoyed the event. Thank you for your great hospitality. The venue was incredible and the roundtables were valuable.”
—Larry Johnston, President, Chairman, CEO, Albertsons
“The conversation was robust and the company excellent. I learned much, as is always the case at your executive forums. I applaud your commitment to coverage of leadership issues; there is no other publication with quite this focus.”
—Steve Halverson, President & CEO, The Haskell Co.
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