Welcome to The Executive Development Roundtable!
Founded in 1988 as an institute at the School of Management at Boston University devoted to the study of issues in leadership and executive development, the Executive Development Roundtable (EDRT) continues to build a community of executive development professionals who are passionate about the field of leadership and developing world class leaders.
What makes a leader a leader? Can we help leaders improve their skills? Can we identify high potential leaders among our younger staff and help them grow? What traits, issues, worries, experiences and challenges do leaders share? What can a body of academic researchers and real-world practitioners from leading organizations do together to help executives and senior leaders maximize their own and their companies’ potential?
These are the driving questions of EDRT and they continue today.
EDRT operates at the unique intersection of academic research and contemporary real-world business applications. EDRT Members, who represent leading corporate, public and non-profit institutions, have the strategic advantage of learning from and contributing to the latest applied research on how successful executives drive their organizations and why executive development remains a key competitive advantage in business today.
EDRT provides members with a collegial and open environment where upper-level leadership and executive development professionals can discuss best practice solutions, obtain industry-specific benchmarking tools, and gain the overall professional development they need. EDRT meetings, facilitated by world-class speakers and thought leaders on executive development, include closed-door, roundtable discussions of leaders from a wide cross section of industries, where confidential ideas may be shared, where problem-solving is a group effort, and where the sharing of both familiar and unique organizational challenges help build a deeply rewarding network. EDRT faculty, whose work on leadership and executive development is well known and respected throughout academic and practitioner circles, provide corporate members with the tools of solid quantitative and qualitative research, readily applied. Here, long-term learning communities and rich friendships are built. Once a year, the Marion F. Gislason Award is given to a distinguished individual in the leadership development field for the excellence of his/her work in advancing the state of knowledge or act of practice.
We celebrated our 20th Anniversary, but the first 20 years are only the beginning. In addition, we are especially proud and excited to announce our alliance with the Center for Creative Leadership for our joint membership with the Creative Leadership Council. These are exciting times for EDRT! We look forward to working with you to develop the next generation of senior leaders. Thank you for your visit and interest.
Upcoming Spring 2012
We are looking forward to our Spring 2012 Meeting, which will take place Tuesday, May 22, 2012 through Wednesday, May 23, 2012 and will be held at Hotel Commonwealth on Kenmore Square in Boston, MA. More info to come soon!
Fall 2011
The Fall 2011 EDRT Meeting was held in the scenic Boeing Leadership Center in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, near where Lewis and Clark launched their 1804 Discovery Expedition. The meeting focused on how to build leadership processes and connections to drive business results. EDRT members, guests, speakers, thought leaders and panelists examined best practices, success factors and key hurdles across several industry sectors. They described the leadership challenges and the processes for aligning business and leadership development strategy. Ultimately, the learning objectives were to understand how to craft clear connections between business and leadership strategy, including which necessary steps to take to help affect transformational change, how to promote a climate of trust and receptivity, and how to adopt a positive mindset that leads to excellence. Check out the Overview & Agenda!
To learn more about EDRT, check out this article on Fostering Leadership about us from the BU School of Management’s Builders and Leaders magazine.
