DESCRIPTION:
Today’s approaches to executive development fall seriously short and signify a need for rethinking and change. Specifically, we must change our emphasis from individual-leader development to collective leadership capability.” (Soske and Conger, 2010)
Leadership development initiatives and associated costs have been increasing over the last 20 years. With all of this growth it is appropriate and important to ask questions of how we are doing in this area. Trina Soske, Partner at Oliver Wyman, will lead us through an argument for change and she will describe for us what one area of the change might look like. She will summarize key aspects of the current paradigm, introduce a new frame, and will describe one company’s efforts, IBM, to move in the direction of the new frame.
The program will be delivered through a combination of Trina’s presentation of the paradigm shift and case study interwoven with table discussions on core, provocative and evocative questions she has designed to stimulate dialogue around this area of critical importance to us as LD OD practice leaders. Her hope is to “provoke a fresh evaluation of the goals and methods of leadership education for executives . . . and to reframe how we think about the what, why and how of developing executives to become effective leaders.” (Soske, Conger, 2010)
PROGRAM LEADER:
Trina L. Soske
Senior Partner and Global Practice Leader
Oliver Wyman Leadership Development
Trina Soske is a Partner with Oliver Wyman Leadership Development. She has over 25 years of strategy-consulting and leadership development experience with companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500. Her broad industry background includes healthcare, medical instruments, technology, financial services, entertainment, consumer products, education, and nonprofit.
Her particular areas of domain expertise include corporate and business-unit strategy; market research, strategy, and positioning; organizational change; and leadership development.
Prior to Oliver Wyman, Trina was a Partner at Monitor, where she led the executive development practice globally. Previously, she was President of Linkage, Inc. a global leadership and organizational development firm. Before that, she was President and CEO of Interaction Associates, which she led through a successful turnaround. Prior to this, Trina was a founder of two boutique strategy consulting firms, one being a spin-off from Boston Consulting Group.
Trina has also been very active in education reform efforts over the last ten years, involving policy, assessment, curriculum design, teacher professional development, and high-performance management of school districts. Trina grew up in the state of Washington, where she was a competitive barrel racer. She was Phi Beta Kappa and earned an undergraduate honors degree in Political Science from Whitman College, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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