Jack Welch on Leadership and Winning

22 May 2007 Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland

KPMG

Jack Welch on Leadership and Winning

Tuesday 22 May 2007 Finlandia Hall, Congress Halls, Helsinki, Finland ,

Unique Jack Welch -seminar in Helsinki

Jack Welch, former CEO and Chairman of General Electric, is coming to Helsinki as a guest of KPMG Finland. Jack Welch is regarded as one of the worlds great business leaders and speakers. KPMGs unique Jack Welch on Leadership and Winning -seminar will take place on 22 May 2007 at the Finlandia Hall. It will also be his first live event in Finland. Jack Welch knows how to win. During his tenure the market capitalization of GE grew by USD 400 billion, making it the worlds most valuable corporation. In other words, while the profits increased KPMGs seminar: Jack Welch on Leadership and Winning will certainly be the must-attend executive event in 2007 in Finland. During the event Jack Welch will be focusing on and answering to questions such as: What does it take to win and to lead the company to year-after-year in brutal competition? What do leaders do and what are the best leaders made of? the candor lead to winning? What should companies do to manage people well? How to energize and motivate people to achieve top performance? How to succeed in change management? What should In addition to Jack Welchs sessions, participants will be offered a Nordic top executives panel discussion on the theme: Challenges and Winning in a Volatile and Increasingly Global Marketplace. This panel Top executives participating in this panel discussion are Matti Alahuhta, President & CEO, KONE Corporation, Hans Dalborg, Chairman of the Board, Nordea Bank AB and Roger Talermo, President & CEO, Amer Sports Corporation. The seminar has been designed to meet Experience Jack Welchs exclusive seminar in Helsinki Jack Welchs optimistic, honest and energetic management style has attracted thousands of people to attend his seminars and Q & A sessions. Now you can finally experience his seminar for the first time in Finland. Dont miss this unique event and opportunity. Welchs approach during the seminar day is very interactive. Jack Welch will be interviewed by the moderator of the seminar Dr. Dan Steinbock. Dr. Dan Steinbock is ICT Research Director at the India, China and America Institute (ICA) and serves as the spokesman for the Forum to Advance Mobile Experience (CMO Council), an initiative representing the needs of Members of Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officers, Vice Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, General Managers, Managing Directors, Directors, HR Executives, Business Planning and Development Directors, Senior Governmental Officers, Division/Unit Heads and other executives who are responsible for developing leadership in their organizations. 2000 leading tech companies. Participants can also direct questions to Jack Welch in writing during or before the seminar.

success? How to maintain competitiveness Successful Leadership, Key Leadership

What is the power of candor and how does will be led by the moderator Dr. Steinbock.

around tenfold, the market value increased leaders do to make strategy happen and some thirty-fold. No wonder, that Fortune deliver sustainable results? Magazine has appointed Welch to be the Manager of the Century. Welchs management innovations have made him the most influential CEO of his era At the seminar, participants will have a unique opportunity to hear Jack Welchs views and thinking on leadership and winning. During his forty-year career at GE, he led the company to continuous success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork and profits. His management ideas and leadership skills are both admired and imitated by business leaders worldwide.

I think winning is great. Not good great. Because when companies win, people thrive and grow. There are more jobs and opportunities.
Jack Welch

Jack Welch
Former Chairman and CEO of GE
Manager of the century.
Fortune
Mr. Welch was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois. He began his career with the General Electric Company in 1960 and in 1981 became the companys eighth Chairman & CEO. In his 20 years as CEO of GE, he transformed the company from a bureaucratic behemoth to a dynamic and revered powerhouse. During his tenure, GE market value grew from $13 billion to $400 billion. In the process, Welchs management innovations have made him the most influential CEO of his era. Upon his retirement from GE in 2001, Mr. Welch wrote his #1 New York Times and international best-selling autobiography, JACK: Straight From The Gut. He has also spent much of his time traveling around the world, speaking to people at every level of an organization, answering their questions on dozens of wide-ranging topics. These sessions were the inspiration for his new bestselling book, Winning. He and his wife Suzy write a weekly In 2000 he was named Manager of the Century by Fortune magazine. In 2005, he was voted Most Admired CEO of the past 20 years by Chief Executive magazine readers and the Worlds Greatest Leader Today in a Fast Company magazine survey. column for Business Week magazine and a global weekly syndicated column appearing in over 30 countries answering questions about business, company, or career challenges. In 2006, they published these columns in a book called Winning: The Answers. Mr. Welch is currently the head of Jack Welch, LLC, where he serves as an advisor to a small group of Fortune 500 business CEOs and speaks to business people and students around the world. He currently teaches a leadership course at MITs Sloan School of Management.

The #1 choice, from history or today, to join a company board.

Financial Times 2004 Survey

One of the greatest innovators of the past 75 years. An icon of American business.
Business Week

Moderator
Dan Steinbock
Dr. Dan Steinbock is ICT Research Director at the India, China and America Institute (ICA), a leading US think-tank driving synergies among the US and the emerging superpowers. He serves as the spokesman for the Forum to Advance Mobile Experience (CMO Council), Based in the United States, China and Finland, Dr. Steinbock consults for international organizations, multinationals, as an inititiave representing 2,000 leading tech companies. He has cooperated with Prof. Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School and belongs to the affiliate roster of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. well as major ICT/telecom companies and government agencies. As a senior Fullbright scholar he has had affiliations with New York University and Columbia Graduate School for Business. Dr. Steinbocks research focuses on international business, global strategy and innovation. His books (most recently, The Mobile Revolution) have been translated in half a dozen languages. His columns are published worldwide in leading business newspapers and trade journals in the United States, UK, Nordic countries, India, China and Asia-Pacific.

Panel speakers
Matti Alahuhta
President & CEO, KONE Corporation Matti Alahuhta has served as President of KONE Corporation since 2005. Member of the Board since 2003. Previously served as Executive Vice President of Nokia Corporation 2004, as President of Nokia Mobile Phones 19982003 and as President of Nokia Telecommunications 19931998. Current key positions of trust are Chairman of the Foundation Board of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD, Switzerland), Chairman of the Board for the Centennial Foundation of Technology Industries of Finland, and Board member of BT Group as of February 2006. Previous positions: 2000 President and CEO Nordea, 19981999 President and CEO MeritaNordbanken, 19911997 President and CEO Nordbanken Board Chairman of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board, Uppsala University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Board member of Axel Johnson AB, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and East European Economies (SITE) and the Stockholm Institute for Financial Research (SIFR). Member of the European Round Table of Financial Services (EFR). Board of Directors Experience: 20022004 TeliaSonera, Sweden, 2002 Precor, Inc. (Chairman), USA, 20012002 Sonera Corporation, Finland, 1999 Suunto Corporation (Chairman), Finland, 1995 Wilson Sporting Goods Co. (Chairman), USA, 1995 Atomic Austria GmbH (Chairman), Austria. Previous positions: 19951996 President & CEO, Atomic Companies, Austria, 19931995 General Manager/Chairman, Salomon S.A. North Europe, Sweden, 19911993 CEO/ Chairman, Taylor Made Golf Company, USA President of the Board, The Finnish Olympic Committee

Hans Dalborg
Chairman of the Board, Nordea Bank AB Board Member of Nordea Bank AB since 1998.

Roger Talermo
President & CEO, Amer Sports Corporation Roger Talermo has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Amer Sports Corporation and also as a Board member since 1996. Company employee since 1995.

Jack Welch on Leadership and Winning

22 May 2007 Finlandia Hall, The Congress Halls ,
Mannerheimintie 13 E, Helsinki
8.459.45 9.45 Registration and coffee Commencement and Opening Remarks Mauri Palvi, Chairman of the Board, KPMG Oy Ab Moderators Opening Remarks: Leadership, Winning, Innovation and Globalization Becoming a True Winner in a Highly Competitive and Global Environment Dr. Dan Steinbock, ICT Research Director, India, China and America Institute 10.10 Panel discussion led by the moderator Dan Steinbock Nordic Top Executives on Successful Leadership, Key Leadership Challenges and Winning in a Volatile and Increasingly Global Marketplace *) Matti Alahuhta, President & CEO, KONE Corporation Hans Dalborg, Chairman of the Board, Nordea Bank AB Roger Talermo, President & CEO, Amer Sports Corporation 11.3012.45 12.45 Lunch Session 1: Interactive session with Jack Welch Jack Welchs interview with the moderator 13.5014.20 14.20 Coffee break Session 2: Questions and answers session with Jack Welch Jack Welch answers to participants questions, coordinated by the moderator *) 15.20 15.3016.45 Conclusions and closing of the seminar led by the moderator Cocktails Book signing with Jack Welch Jack Welch will sign his recent book Winning to participants *) Participants can also direct questions to Jack Welch and panel speakers in writing during or before the seminar.

KPMG reserves the right to alter the program.

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Jack Welchs book Winning as a benefit for the participants

All the seminar participants will receive Jack Welchs new best-selling book Winning (April 2005, HarperBusiness). Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe. Inspired by his audiences and their hunger for straightforward guidance, Welch has written both a philosophical and pragmatic book Winning, which is destined to become the bible of business for generations to come. Welchs optimistic, no excuses, get-it-done mind-set is riveting. Packed with personal anecdotes and written in Jacks distinctive no b.s. voice, Winning offers deep insights, original thinking, and solutions to nuts-and-bolts problems that will change the way people think about work. After the seminar Jack Welch will sign his book Winning to participants.

A candid and comprehensive look at how to succeed in business for everyone from college graduates to CEOs.
Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft Corporation

No other management book will ever be needed.

Warren E. Buffett

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Jack Welch on Leadership and Winning
22 May 2007 Finlandia Hall, The Congress Halls , Mannerheimintie 13 E, Helsinki, Finland Seminar Prices
Individual price EUR 1475 + VAT 22% KPMG price For KPMG clients the price is EUR 1275 / person + VAT 22% Group prices 23 people 4 people or more EUR 1300 / person + VAT 22% EUR 1150 / person + VAT 22% Discount price for early registration A discount of EUR 150 is granted for registrations made before 12 March 2007 The participation fee . will then be EUR 1325 + VAT 22%.

Prices include participation in the seminar, seminar material, Jack Welchs book Winning, as well as lunch and refreshments during the seminar (mentioned in the seminar brochure). Discount price for early registration cannot be combined with the KPMG price or group prices. The participation fee will be invoiced in advance. For cancellations made after the last registration day 8 May 2007 50% of the participation fee will be charged. If you are unable to participate you , can donate your place to a colleague. This change should be reported to KPMG.

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