WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008
Location :: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue (Entrance at 13th Street)
6:00 - 9:00pm | DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF BRANDING
Exhibit and reception hosted by Parsons The New School for Design
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
Location :: Lange Hall at 55 W. 13th Street
7:00 - 8:15am | Registration + Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00am | WELCOME + OPENING REMARKS
TRACI FENTON, Founder + CEO, WorldBlu
TRAVIS THOMAS, WorldBlu LIVE 2008 Host
9:00 - 10:30am | MAIN EVENT :: 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.
MARSHALL INGWERSON, Managing Editor, The Christian Science Monitor
SRIKUMAR RAO, Author, Are You Ready to Succeed
INGRID VANDERVELDT, Host, CNBC, “American Made”
MARK DOWDS, CEO, Brainpark
10:30 - 11:00am | Conversation Break
11:00 - 12:30pm | MAIN EVENT :: 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.
SCOTT POBINER, Professor, Parsons The New School For Design
BILL SHANNON, Chief Wisdom Officer, DaVita, Inc.
RODNEY NORTH, Vice Chair and Answer Man, Equal Exchange
BRIAN SCUDAMORE, CEO, I-800-GOT-JUNK?
12:30 - 1:30pm | Lunch
1:30 - 3:00pm | MAIN EVENT :: 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.
ALEXANDER KJERULF, Chief Happiness Officer + Author
MIKE FERRETTI, CEO, Great Harvest Bread Company
BERNARD MOHR, Co-Founder + Partner, Innovation Partners Intl.
PHILIP ROSEDALE, Founder + Chairman, Linden Lab
3:00 - 3:30pm | Conversation Break
3:30 - 4:45pm | MAIN EVENT :: 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.
BRETT JACKSON, CEO, Generation Think Tank
GABRIELA ALBESCU, President, AIESEC International
JENNIFER CORRIERO, Co-Founder and Executive Director, TakingITGlobal
DALLAS KASHUBA, CEO, DreamHost
4:45 - 5:00pm | CLOSING REMARKS
5:30 - 7:30pm | DINNER + EXPLORE NEW YORK CITY
8:00pm | MAIN EVENT :: ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE, CARNEGIE HALL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008
Location :: Jazz Performance Hall, Room 531 also at 55 W. 13th Street
7:30 - 8:45am | Registration + Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00am | WELCOME
9:00 - 10:30am | MAIN EVENT :: 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.
CALI RESSLER & JODY THOMPSON, Co-Authors, Why Work Sucks & How to Fix It
GRAHAM PARKER, Executive Director, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DAVE BALTER, CEO, BzzAgent
TIM WESTERGREN, Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora
10:30 - 11:00am | Conversation Break
11:00 - 12:30pm MAIN EVENT :: TRANSITIONS
Not all companies are built democratically from the ground up. Some of the most successful democratic workplaces had to transition from the traditional model to the democratic model. These companies show us how they made the switch - and how it benefited morale and the bottom-line in the process.
KORY KOLLIGAN, COO, Continuuum
BILL MORALES, CEO, Tracer Corporation
GEORGE WOOD, Founder, The Forum for Education and Democracy
12:30 - 1:45pm | Lunch
1:45 - 3:15pm MAIN EVENT :: 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 democratically-run organizations and other thought-leaders share insights into running a democratic organization in their part of the world and the social and economic impact it can have on communities as well.
TIM SANDERS, Author, Saving the World at Work
MICHAEL REINING, CEO, MindValley
JOHN ENGLE, Co-Director and Co-Founder, Beyond Borders
CHRIS MANN, CEO, Guayaki
3:15 - 3:45pm | Conversation Break
3:45 - 5:00pm | CLOSING REMARKS
BILL TAYLOR, Founding Editor, Fast Company magazine, Author, Mavericks at Work
9:00pm WORLDBLU LIVE AFTER PARTY
Nublu :: 62 Ave C (Between 4th Street and 5th Street)
