Registration

Pre-Conference Workshop :: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Rehearsal

Speakers Reception

Informal gathering for conference participants

Breakfast

CONTEXT

Today's global landscape requires organizations and leaders to be more agile, accessible, and adaptable than ever before. What exactly are the drivers shaping this uncharted terrain? Explore the distinctive trends remaking business and get a sense of the larger context in which your organization must operate.

Break

DESIGN

Design has emerged as one of the most powerful forces in the world. How do we design our organizations for optimal performance in a democratic age? Speakers will include the CEOs of WorldBlu List organizations who will share how they've designed their organizations on democratic design principles to achieve industry leadership, breakthrough innovation, sustainable growth, and a reputation for excellence.

Lunch

LEADERSHIP

Goodbye command-and-control; freedom-centered leadership is fast becoming the new model. What are the skills, tools, and mind-set required to lead in a democratic age? Learn how this session's WorldBlu List awardees use freedom-centered leadership to build some of the most successful, profitable, and sustainable organizations in the world.

Break

NEXT

Next-generation business leaders are considered the most entrepreneurial generation in history and are designing, building, and leading some of the most successful democratic organizations in the world. Speakers in this session are CEOs 40 and younger whose organizations appear on the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™. They will share their perspective on what it takes to be among those pioneering the next generation of business design.

OPEN SPACE DIALOGUE

Context, Design, Leadership and Next - what do ideas shared in these sessions mean for you and your organization? Using captivating questions and open space technology, participants have the opportunity to dialogue and learn from each other about the ideas that matter most to them.

Dinner

Depart for Carnegie Hall

Breakfast

STYLE

Organizational democracy is far from prescriptive. Infinitely creative in application, successful implementation comes down to having the right tools and skills to develop an organization with "style." Style speakers are CEOs of WorldBlu List organizations, who will share their secrets and best practices from inside some of the most stylish democratic organizations in the world.

Break

WORLD

Democracy in the workplace isn't just an American or Western trend. Democratically-run organizations are in operation all over the world. CEOs of democratic companies from outside the US talk about running a democratic organization in their part of the world and the social and economic impact has on their communities.

Lunch

LIFESTYLE DEMOCRACY

Democracy isn't just reshaping business, it's also changing the way we live our lives. From sports to media, music to fashion, "lifestyle democracy" is fast becoming the new normal. In this dynamic session we'll talk with the mavericks who have made the "d" word even cooler.

Break

OPEN SPACE DIALOGUE

Style, World and Lifestyle Democracy - what do ideas shared in these sessions mean for you and your organization? Using captivating questions and open space technology, participants have the opportunity to dialogue and learn from each other about the ideas that matter most to them.

Dinner

CLOSING KEYNOTE + IMPROV SHOW

In the closing session of WorldBlu Live 2008 the companies on the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2008 will be honored and further ideas and inspiration will be shared. Participants will also get to experience "entertainment democracy" through an improv theatre show.