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1. Transform Yourself,
Transform Your World
2012 Transformational
& Award Dinner
Leadership Symposium
April 27-28, 2012
Westin Chicago | River North

2. WELCOME
to a Celebration of
Transformational Leadership
The 2012 Transformational Leadership Award Dinner and
Symposium is dedicated to facilitating the best of the
human spirit—the yearning to learn, to grow, to serve,
and to become our finest selves through leading others.
Join us for this unique and powerful opportunity as we
celebrate a kind of leadership that touches the heart with
both individual concern and universal vision, that engages
the minds of all, and that puts into action the principles
and ideals that draw out the best in all. This leadership
sees new possibilities, sets new benchmarks, and
discovers new answers to old problems.
For organizations to thrive in this challenging climate,
transformational leadership is no longer optional—it is
imperative. Through inspirational examples, such as
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, and the latest social and emotional
intelligence technologies, we have the opportunity to
transform ourselves, our organizations, and our world.
Why Attend?
> ear and honor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, one of only
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seven individuals to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize
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U.S. Congressional Gold Medal.
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other world-class leaders.
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lead more powerfully than you already do.
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focusing those you lead on an inspiring vision of what’s
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3. 2012 Transformational
Leadership Symposium
Westin Chicago | River North
320 North Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois
Program Overview
Friday Evening, April 27, 2012
Transformational Leadership Award Dinner
6:00 p.m. – Reception
7:00 p.m. – Dinner and Awards
r. Muhammad Yunus will accept the 2012 Transformational
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Leadership Award for his achievements as the pioneer of
the micro-finance movement, as a social entrepreneur and
humanitarian, and for his work in maximizing human potential
and leading individuals to their best.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
VIP Breakfast and Panel Discussion
Leadership and Social Business
7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
he symposium resumes on Saturday morning starting with an
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exclusive VIP breakfast panel on social business, followed by a
full day program featuring speakers and panelists who will lead
in-depth discussions on transformational leadership.
2012 Transformational Leadership Symposium
Igniting Transformational Leadership
with Social Emotional Intelligence
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (lunch will be served)
Presentations
• Resonant Leadership
• A World without Waste
• ISO Applied to Social and Emotional Intelligence
•Drive Transformation with Emotional Intelligence
• Taking It Into Our Organizations

4. The 2012 Transformational
Leadership Award
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and recipient of both
the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the U.S.
Congressional Gold medal for his achievements as the
pioneer and catalyst of the micro-finance movement and
as a social entrepreneur and humanitarian. As a catalyst
of the micro-lending movement, he has changed the
face of humanity and humanitarian work by creating
and implementing an endeavor to empower poor
people with financial loans giving them the means to
achieve sustainable economic activity. As a founder
of the Grameen Bank, Dr. Yunus became a powerful
agent of economic independence for Bangladesh’s
poor, ultimately providing more than eight million
impoverished individuals the chance to climb out
of poverty. Dr. Yunus’ impact extends far beyond
Bangladesh: It’s been estimated that one in every
1,000 people on the planet is being helped by similar
socially responsible businesses.

5. 2012
Transformational Leadership
Award Dinner
Friday Evening, April 27, 2012
6:00 p.m. – Reception
7:00 p.m. – Dinner and Award
The program kicks off Friday evening with the Transformational
Leadership Award Dinner at which U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of
Illinois will introduce Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Brad Anderson,
former CEO of Best Buy, will present Dr. Yunus with the 2012
Transformational Leadership Award for his achievements as the
pioneer and catalyst of the micro-finance movement and as a
social entrepreneur and humanitarian. The Award recognizes
an individual who embodies the principles and practice of
transformational leadership; namely, to inspire others to achieve
extraordinary outcomes and realize their full potential. The award
is a celebration of the human spirit and the capacity inherent in
every individual to exceed limitations.
Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Springfield, is the 47th
U.S. Senator from the State of Illinois, the state’s senior senator, and
the convener of Illinois’ bipartisan congressional delegation.
Durbin also serves as the Assistant Majority Leader, the second
highest ranking position in the Senate. Also known as the Majority
Whip, Senator Durbin has been elected to this leadership post by
his Democratic colleagues every two years since 2006. In 2004,
he was elected as Minority Whip. Durbin is only the fifth Illinois Senator in
history to serve as a Senate leader.
Elected to the U.S. Senate on November 5, 1996, and re-elected in 2002 and
2008, Durbin fills the seat left vacant by the retirement of his long-time friend
and mentor, U.S. Senator Paul Simon.
Durbin sits on the Senate Judiciary, Appropriations, Foreign Relations and Rules
Committees. He is the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee
on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights and the Appropriations
Committee’s Financial Services and General Government subcommittee.

6. Program 28,Saturday, 7:00 a.m.2012 a.m.
Saturday, April 2012 April 28, – 9:00
VIP Breakfast Breakfast
VIP Executive
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Leadership and Social Business
The VIP breakfast will be a dynamic event, bringing together
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus; Nobel
Prize laureate in economic sciences, Dr. Roger Myerson;
Brad Anderson, the former CEO of Best Buy; and Marc
Lane, noted author and attorney for socially responsible
businesses. This session will be a freewheeling dialogue
among these dedicated leaders on how transformational
leadership and economics can be leveraged to best serve
social transformation. The panel discussion will be hosted and
moderated by Dr. Robert Wright, co-founder of the Foundation
for Transformational Leadership.
VIP Breakfast Panelists
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, in addition to being
a Nobel Peace Prize winner and recipient of
both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and
the U.S. Congressional Gold medal for his
achievements as the pioneer and catalyst
of the micro-finance movement, is a world
renowned economist. In 1983, against the advice of banking
and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank
devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule
loans based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not
the privilege of a fortunate few. In his groundbreaking book,
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the
Future of Capitalism (the sequel to Banker to the Poor), Yunus
outlines his concept of social business—where the creative
vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious
problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the
sick, and protecting the planet.

7. Brad Anderson
Brad Anderson is the former CEO of Best Buy
and went on to serve on its board. Mr. Anderson
is the 2009 recipient of the Transformational
Leadership award and currently sits on the board
of directors for seven major corporations, including
Waste Management, Inc. He is an innovative,
creative international business leader who embraced personal and
organizational transformation to build one of the great retail success
stories of our lifetime. Dedicated to his belief in the unlimited potential
of all of Best Buy’s 180,000 employees, Anderson was part of the
leadership team that took Best Buy from three local record retail
stores in Minnesota to the fifty billion dollar global retailer of today.
Marc J. Lane
Marc J. Lane, author of Social Enterprise:
Empowering Mission-Driven Entrepreneurs,
is a nationally recognized business and tax attorney
and an expert in socially responsible and mission-
related investing. The author of 34 books on
corporate organization, management, taxation,
investment, and social enterprise, Mr. Lane spearheaded legislation
to create Illinois’ low-profit limited liability corporation model to aid
companies with limited financial prospects but significant potential
for positive social impact.
Dr. Roger Myerson
Roger Myerson is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished
Service Professor of Economics at the University
of Chicago. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of
his contributions to mechanism design theory.
Professor Myerson has made seminal contributions
to the fields of economics and political science. He is the author of
Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict (1991) and Probability Models
for Economic Decisions (2005). Professor Myerson has a PhD from
Harvard University and taught for 25 years in the Kellogg School
of Management at Northwestern University before coming to the
University of Chicago in 2001. He is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy
of Sciences.

8. Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
2012 Transformational
Leadership Symposium
Igniting Transformational Leadership
with Social Emotional Intelligence
Following the VIP breakfast and panel discussion, the
Transformational Leadership Symposium continues with an
extraordinary gathering of some of the best minds in the field of
social and emotional intelligence and transformational leadership.
The Session Leaders
Dr. Richard Boyatzis
Professor, Case Western Reserve University
and Adjunct Professor, ESADE
Resonant Leadership
Dr. Richard Boyatzis is Distinguished University Professor, as well as
Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology,
and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University and
Adjunct Professor at ESADE. He is the author of more than 150
articles and books on leadership, competencies, EI, coaching, and
change from a complexity perspective, including: The Competent
Manager; Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee,
in 28 languages; Resonant Leadership, with Annie McKee; and
Transforming Qualitative Information.

9. Jim Liautaud
Clinical Professor,
University of Illinois - Chicago
ISO Applied to Social
and Emotional Intelligence
Jim Liautaud, Clinical Professor, University of Illinois - Chicago,
researches and implements ISO processes for implementing
positive behavior change in the area of Emotional Intelligence.
His Process-directed Emotional Intelligence (PdEI) ISO behavior
processes and P^EI system are clinically proven to increase
Emotional Intelligence in all participants and have been implemented
in a wide variety of organizations, from the Chicago Public School
System to Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and Young Presidents’
Organization. Prior to his academic career, Liautaud was awarded
65 patents, founded four manufacturing companies and was the
founding investor of four start-ups including Jimmy Johns, Raffles,
National Interstate, and Blue Rhino.
David P. Steiner
Chief Executive Officer, Waste Managment, Inc.
A World without Waste
David Steiner is chief executive officer for Waste Management,
Inc. Prior to being elected CEO in March 2004, Steiner was
Waste Management’s chief financial officer. Steiner joined Waste
Management in November 2000 as vice president and deputy general
counsel and was appointed senior vice president, general counsel and
corporate secretary in July 2001. In April 2003, he was elected CFO.
He joined WM from Phelps Dunbar, a law firm in New Orleans, La.
Prior to that, he was an associate at Gibson, Dunn Crutcher in San
Jose, Calififornia. Mr. Steiner holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
from Louisiana State University and a Law degree from University of
California, Los Angeles.

10. Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
2012 Transformational
Leadership Symposium
Session Leaders, continued
Dr. Robert Wright
Co-founder of the Foundation for
Transformational Leadership
Drive Transformation with
Emotional Intelligence
Considered by many to be one of the leading thinkers in human
development, Dr. Robert Wright is an internationally recognized
visionary, educator, program developer, author, speaker,
entrepreneur, consultant, and executive coach. In the course of
coaching and training hundreds of C-level executives, Dr. Wright
developed the Wright Model of Human Growth and Development.
Called “one of the most powerful and comprehensive models of
its kind,” it forms the core curriculum at Wright and the Wright
Graduate Institute, which Dr. Wright co-founded. He is also the
author of Beyond Time Management: Business with Purpose and
People Skills.
Dr. Judith Wright
Co-founder of the Foundation for
Transformational Leadership
Drive Transformation with
Emotional Intelligence
A media favorite, sought-after speaker, respected leader, best-
selling author, world-class coach, and corporate consultant in the
area of personal transformation, leadership development, and
personal goal fulfillment, Dr. Judith Wright wrote There Must Be
More Than This, The One Decision, and The Soft Addiction Solution
to share her personal transformation and proven methodologies
with a broader audience. Dr. Wright’s ground-breaking research
into the fundamental process by which human beings learn, grow,
and develop is the core of the curriculum at Wright and the Wright
Graduate Institute, which she co-founded. Dr. Wright has appeared
on more than 500 radio programs, and 80 TV programs including
Oprah, ABC’s 20/20 and the Today show.

11. Brad Anderson
Former CEO of Best Buy
Closing Remarks
(See bio under VIP Breakfast Panelists)
2012 Transformational Leadership
Symposium and Award Dinner
Hosted by
The Foundation for
Transformational Leadership
The Foundation for Transformational Leadership, a 501(c)(3)
organization, is committed to developing and transmitting
the principles of transformational leadership with a unique
emphasis on personal transformation as the starting point for
transforming our businesses, our communities, and our world.
The Foundation supports the Transformational Leadership
Award and the Symposium, as well as supporting individuals to
become the best transformational leaders and change agents
they can be. The Wright Graduate Institute for the Realization of
Human Potential is a division of the Foundation.

12. Please join us for this
inspirational event
2012 Transformational Leadership
Symposium and Award Dinner Tickets
Full-Weekend 2012 Transformational Leadership Symposium
Friday Saturday, April 27 28
(Awards Dinner, VIP Breakfast and Saturday Program)
$1,250 per person
Friday Evening, April 27 Award Dinner
$3,000 per table (full table seats 10)
$350 per person (received on or before April 15, 2012)
$450 per person (received after April 15, 2012)
Saturday, April 28 VIP Breakfast: Social Business
$700 per person (attendance is limited)
Saturday, April 28 Symposium (lunch included)
$350 per person (received on or before April 15, 2012)
$400 per person (received after April 15, 2012)
$1,000 per person (VIP Breakfast Symposium)
Registration
Convenient online registration available, click here
Online | http://www.transformleadership.org/2012registration
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13. Location
Westin Chicago | River North
320 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: 312.744.1900
Hotel Accommodations
The Foundation for Transformational
Leadership is pleased to hold the 2012
Transformational Leadership Symposium
Award Dinner at the Westin Chicago
| River North. To book your room,
contact the Westin Chicago directly at
1 (800) 233-4100 and ask for the Wright
Foundation Group. Rooms blocked are
$199, plus tax. Dates available are Friday,
April 27 and Saturday, April 28. The
number of blocked rooms is limited, so
please book your rooms early. (Room
block at the hotel expires April 10, 2012
following which registrants may need to
seek off-property accommodations.)
Photos courtesy of the Westin | River North, Chicago
© 2010-2012 Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

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Board of Directors -
Foundation for Transformational Leadership
Tom Terry, President
Dr. Stan Smith, Treasurer
John Davidoff, Secretary
Richard Lyons, Board Member
Karen Smithbauer, Board Member
Foundation Executive Leadership
Dr. Robert Wright, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Judith Wright, Chief Learning Officer
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for the Wright Graduate Institute
Symposium Steering Committee
Jon Fieldman, Chair
John Davidoff
Randy Seffren
Munzoor Shaikh
Scott Stephen
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Foundation for Transformational Leadership
445 E. Ohio Street
Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312.645.8300
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