Central Jersey Regional Equity Summit June 28, 6-9 p.m. St. Anthony's of Padua Church, 252 Franklin Street, Hightstown. Featuring Myron Orfield, author of NJ Metropatterns, this event is designed to bring together community leaders, clergy, business, nonprofits, and elected officials to address urban decline, affordable housing shortages, and tax disparities within a framework of effective regional planning. $15-$50 donation.

Please RSVP for food and/or meeting to Noelle Reeve @ 609-452-1717. For more information, visit www.regionequity.org, and download a free copy of the groundbreaking New Jersey Metropatterns study:

Central Jersey Business Improvement Group for Real Estate Development and Construction June 29, 8-10 a.m. NEF Conference Room, 50 Division Street, 2nd floor, Somerville, NJ 08876 Fax registration form (below) by Friday, June 25 to 908-842-0422 or email your information to big@cbe-nj.org.

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Quantum Leadership Seminar Sponsored by Raritan Valley Community College, Anderson & Rust, and the Center for Business Excellence Presented by LeadershipU.org June 7, 8, 9 Bridgewater Marriott View/download brochure and registration form here (.pdf) The Quantum Leadership Seminar takes the science of leadership to the next generational level -- the mastery of relationships to achieve shared goals and objectives. As a result of applying this new model of interpersonal dynamics, dramatic shifts in organizational morale and motivation, innovative contributions and personal productivity become more the rule than the exception. In this course you will learn how you personally affect the productivity of others, and how your own strengths and weaknesses are intricately linked to the business challenges of your organization. Greater understanding of this duality -- often a blind spot for executives -- allows you to significantly raise your Adaptive Capacity as a leader and generate inspiration and broader results for yourself and your team.

This 2-1/2 day program is open to senior executives who want to accelerate their productivity and achieve breakthroughs in their own leadership styles. It has been presented successfully around the country for the past six years, and is being offered in Central New Jersey by special arrangement. Please contact Jennylyn Alexis at 201.934.0039, or by email at JennylynAlexis@LeadershipU.Org for more information.

Breakfasts with Champions: Provocative Ideas for Generating New Energy in Organizations For a complete description of this program, click here
Recently Completed Events: These events were highly successful, and remain available as topics (in some cases updated to include discussion of recent developments) for interested corporate sponsors in north-central New Jersey. BC-0301
Judith Anderson Author of The Path to Corporate Nirvana: An Enlightened Approach to Accelerated Productivity (Silver Falls Press, March 2003) Taking the High Road to the Bottom Line Corporations everywhere are searching for ways to reach new levels of profitability while upholding core values. The Path to Corporate Nirvana details innovative skills that accelerate productivity and raise profitability. To kick-off the Breakfasts with Champions Series, Business Consultant Judith Anderson will offer her thoughts on "taking the high road to the bottom line." Judith is an engaging and thought-provoking innovator who offers a fresh approach to increasing workplace productivity. Participants take away effective new leadership and business relationship skills which they can practice immediately in their work environments. These imaginative and effective skills increase workplace creativity and enthusiasm and enable individuals and teams to set and reach aggressive goals gracefully and easily. Her lively PowerPoint presentation and ability to engender stimulating dialogue inspire and ready audience members to move to the next level of productivity. With an MS in economics and an MA in spiritual psychology, Ms. Anderson has learned that when these new skills are practiced in the workplace, productivity and peace abound.	Presented Thursday, March 4, 2004 Raritan Valley Community College. View/Download Original Invitation (.pdf) The format of this event is part presentation, part dialogue, part interaction with the audience &endash; designed to reach the deepest levels of interest in workplace effectiveness and self-understanding. Ms. Anderson has presented her work at a variety of organizations and readings, and shares the perspectives of spiritual psychology on operating in a business environment. "Work has to do with cornering and controlling conscious life. It attempts concrete goals. It loves the linear and the defined. But the soul finds its existence through a loss of control to those powers greater than human experience." --David Whyte, The Heart Aroused
"We have a personality (mental and emotional patterns) and a body, but at our essence, we are not our body, mind or emotions. Our essence is where our values lie, where our wisdom lies, where we go to for our creativity, intuition, passion and enthusiasm. Our body and personality, when harnessed effectively, can be used to accomplish much that is good, but we are not our personality. "Organizations where this is understood 'work' because when our Spirit level is present, there is caring, compassion, delight, joy, grace, ease, understanding, and acceptance and we can create abundance on all levels. Personalities and issues and challenges are present, but we have new tools to manage this 'human' dimension of who we are. When Spirit is present in the workplace we see that we are on the path of learning how to create 'work the way we always wanted it to work,' and that what is happening is 'perfect' for assisting us in learning that." -- Judith Anderson
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John Sarno President of the Employers Association of New Jersey Lessons From WorldCom: How Leadership Failures Caused the Biggest Bankruptcy in History From 1999 until 2002, WorldCom, Inc. suffered one of the largest public company accounting frauds in history. As enormous as the fraud was, it was accomplished in a relatively mundane way: more than $9 billion in false or unsupported accounting entries were made on the corporate books in order to achieve the desired results. The fraud was the result of how WorldCom's executives ran the company. Executive leadership was the source of the culture, as well as much of the pressure, that perpetuated the fraud. Top managers, aided by numerous employees, conspired to commit the fraud. What kind of leadership fostered such a culture? After 18 months of studying WorldCom and its leadership failures, John Sarno says that the seeds of WorldCom's demise can be found in many organizations.	Last Presented February 24 at the headquarters of Affinity Federal Credit Union, 73 Mountain View Boulevard, Basking Ridge, NJ Sarno's findings were presented first at an Executive Leadership breakfast meeting hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University on December 19. Over 70 business leaders and academics attended this event. This seminar is the basis for one of numerous training programs offered by the Employers Association of New Jersey. For more information, please visit www.eanj.org.
John writes: "My intent in the Breakfasts with Champions seminar is to focus on the corporate culture and the leadership that it tends to foster. The real lesson of WorldCom is to identify organizational weaknesses and leadership failures so that they can be avoided, to help empower supervisors to make the right decisions, and to foster autonomy and responsibility throughout the organization. "This is an area where the law and leadership converge. Unlike the typical ethics/compliance training, my intent is to provide a training session that will both foster happiness and productivity, and at the same reduce corporate liability."
The Center for Business Excellence, Affinity Federal Credit Union, and the Employers Association of New Jersey present LESSONS FROM WOLDCOM: HOW LEADERSHIP FAILURES CAUSED THE BIGGEST BANKRUPTCY IN HISTORY Its About the Culture From 1999 until 2002, WorldCom Inc. suffered one of the largest public company accounting frauds in history. As enormous as the fraud was, it was accomplished in a relatively mundane way: more than $9 billion in false or unsupported accounting entries were made on the corporate books in order to achieve the desired results. This fraud was the result of how WorldCom's executives ran the company. Executive leadership was the source of the culture, as well as much of the pressure, that perpetuated the fraud. Top managers, aided by numerous employees, conspired to commit the fraud. What kind of leadership fostered such a culture? After 18 months of studying WorldCom and its leadership failures, John Sarno, president of the Employers Association of New Jersey (EANJ), will be presenting his findings and recommendations at our first Breakfasts with Champions seminar at Affinity Federal Credit Union, on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at Mountain View Corporate Center, 73 Mountain View Blvd., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920. Discussion will include: The difference between leadership that instills fear and intimidation and leadership that fosters trust and integrity. How compensation and reward systems can undermine ethical behavior. How some organizations degrade the spirit of work, thus creating apathy and ethical short-cuts. How ethical leadership creates transparent organizations that restore trust. How trust can be leveraged for business success. How to leverage leadership to build high-performance organizations. Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 8 - 10 a.m. Affinity Federal Credit Union Mountain View Corporate Center, 73 Mountain View Blvd., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920.