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January 2008 - February 2009
ELIASPROJECT 2.0
ELIAS
EMERGING LEADERSINNOVATE ACROSS SECTORS
Kick-offDialogueFoundationsProgramCross-institutionalpeer shadowingand stakeholderinterviewsSensemakingDeep-Dive JourneyPrototype ReviewFinal Session
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ELIAS 2.0
The Presencing Institute, the Society for Organizational Learning, the MIT LeadershipCenter, and the MIT Center for ReflectiveCommunity Practice are launching thesecond year of the program “EmergingLeaders Innovate Across Sectors” (ELIAS).ELIAS is a global cross-sector network of high-potential leaders and their institutionsworking collectively to generate new ideas,prototypes, and ventures. The purpose of ELIAS is to contribute to the evolution of sustainable global market systems that buildhuman, social, and natural capital as well asfinancial and industrial capital.Concrete outcomes of this 12-monthleadership journey are:
Prototypes for cross-sector innovationthat address the shared challenges of creating value for the triple bottom line—the economy, society, and theenvironment—with the ultimate goal of advancing global sustainability.
A steadily growing network of leaders inthe public, private, and civic sectors thatwill enhance and accelerate the benefitsto individual members.
A growing capacity among participatingorganizations to develop sustainablesolutions across the three sectors.
Useful information and ideas for innovative solutions to individualmembers’ challenges.
An enhanced capacity among leaders torespond to the challenges of globalizationand sustainable development bypioneering practical innovations.Co-founders of ELIAS include, BASF, BP,Nissan, Oxfam Great Britain, the UN GlobalCompact, Unilever, the World Bank Institute,and the World Wildlife Fund.
Why ELIAS?
Leaders in institutions around the world faceunprecedented economic, social, ecological,and political challenges locally and globally.These challenges will only multiply in the nextdecades; leaders must confront them. Indoing so, they can create opportunities for innovation by reinventing business modelsand identities, transforming social changeprotocols, and working more collaborativelywith governments.
Community Value
will become the guidingterm as successful companies of this centurypurposefully connect to communities, NGOs,and governments to co-create moretransparent and generative economic, social,and ecological processes/relationships. Theresult will be productive, healthy and soundbusiness, social, and environmentalrelationships.
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Future sources of value will stem fromleveraging these four areas of innovation.But for that to happen, leaders andinstitutions must reach out to other stakeholders to create new patterns thatweave together business, government, andcivil society.To meet major global challenges, cross-sector engagement demands new skills,networks, and fields of practice. ELIASprovides both the stimulating context or practice field and active methodologies.
Approach:
Using a methodology called “presencing”
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toachieve profound innovations, ELIASprovides participants with a core set of practical skills:
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Immersion in cross-sector peer-shadowingexperiences and “deep-dive learning journeys” in different regions offer a freshview into another aspect of the globaleconomy and some of its core issues.
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Deep listening and dialogue tools helpparticipants operate more powerfully andeffectively as part of rapidly changingsystems of value creation.
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Deep reflection practices help participantsconvert experiential input into improvedleadership practices and to communicatewith more authentic leadership presence.
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Hands-on prototyping allows participantsto create experimental microcosms inorder to explore the future by doing.
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Participants experience innovationprocesses from concept creation to fast-cycle experimentation; teams build, test,refine, and improve prototype ideasthrough multiple iterations in variouscontexts with multiple feedback loops.
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Participants learn how
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leverage their institutional and personal networks inorder to move their systems toward moreeffective ways of operating.
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Regular interaction among participantsand institutional stakeholders helps embedinnovation within participating institutions.
How does it work?
From 2008, ELIAS will operate on four levels:
1. The Global ELIAS Platform
Emerging highest-potential leadersnominated by the CEOs of their institutions to participate in a globalinnovation program will receive intensivetraining in core presencing skills,participate in deep dives, and learn todevelop and guide prototypingexperiences. A proposed curriculum isattached.
2. An Evolving Network of Regional ELIAS Platforms
Country-level and regional programs willcontinue to be organized by ELIASparticipants. Currently, these are beingplanned for Indonesia, southern Africa,Europe, and China, with a possible fifthcountry-level program in Brazil. In each of these places, ELIAS alumni havecommitted to being core leaders andfaculty in country-level and regionalELIAS efforts. These efforts will alsocreate opportunities for high-potentialleaders from ELIAS member institutionsto join ELIAS programs at any level.
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