The CEO Connect program is a year-long leadership development program for C-level executives consisting of six half-day sessions and two dinner events. It is designed to help participants transform themselves, their leadership teams, organizations, and ability to manage their external environment by exposing them to different perspectives on seeing, thinking, planning, and problem-solving from other executives, experts, and researchers. The program is limited to 12 executives and takes place at the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Business and Economics.

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program description and learning model
TRANSFORM
DO SEE THINK PLAN Self, Leadership Team,
currently differently differently differently Organisation, Board &
External Environment
During CEO Connect you will carefully By seeing differently you will start to Being exposed to different ways of
examine what you DO currently as the top THINK differently about alternative solutions seeing, thinking and planning will assist
executive within your organisation. You and interventions for yourself and your you in determining how to align and
will have the opportunity to benchmark organisation. CEO Connect will guide you in TRANSFORM yourself, your leadership
yourself against fellow CEOs from other conceptualising such interventions to make team, your organisation and Board, and
organisations and industry sectors and them meaningful within your own specific how best to manage your external
share your leadership perceptions, based on environment. environment. This is the ultimate aim
your vast range of industry and organisation of the CEO Connect Program.
specific experiences. Your potential to see and think differently
will subsequently compel you to PLAN
CEO Connect will inspire you to SEE differently. Planning strategically from Who should participate?
differently by giving you the opportunity different perspectives is at the core of the CEO Connect is designed exclusively for
to reflect on your own practices and program. CEO Connect will expose you to C-suite executives who have enterprise
challenges. Combined with discussion and cutting-edge strategic planning theories wide responsibilities.
observations by other participating CEOs and practices, enabling you to hone
you will develop new insights. You will be your skills and optimise your ability to The program is limited to 12 individuals
exposed to alternative leadership ideas develop, prioritise and implement drawn from large private, public and not-
presented by subject-matter experts. your organisational plan. for-profit organisations.
program benefits program format
Connect with and learn CEO Connect is a year long program The sessions will be conducted around
from the best consisting of six half-day sessions and two the CEO Connect Learning Model and
scheduled dinner events. Each session is participants will also be able to determine
> other highly-talented CEOs 4 hours, held between 8am-12pm, followed topics to be explored. Typical topics
> leading researchers at the University by lunch. The program commences in include: Customer Centricity, Aligning
of Melbourne July 2011. and Engaging Employees, Emotional
Intelligence, Managing Macro Economic
> invited world-class subject matter Friday 22 July 2011
and Social Variables, Managing the Board,
experts Friday 23 September 2011 Environmental Sustainability, Optimising
> Australia’s strategy and executive Friday 25 November 2011 and Maximising Organisational Assets and
education expert, Program Director Risk Management.
Friday 27 January 2012
Marc Stigter
Friday 23 March 2012 The six scheduled ½ day sessions will be
Transform yourself and Friday 25 May 2012
held at the Graduate School of Business and
your organisation Economics, The University of Melbourne,
Participants from non-competing industries located at 198 Berkeley Street in Carlton,
> CEO Connect goes beyond merely meet in groups of up to 12 peers. Each Victoria.
debating CEOs’ current practices. session is chaired and facilitated by Marc
It follows progressive stages of a Stigter, CEO Connect Program Director.
carefully designed and facilitated
learning model aimed at different
ways of seeing, thinking and planning
for you to ultimately to transform “What appeals to me is that CEO Connect
yourself and your organisation goes beyond sharing experiences with peers.
Global recognition through It takes you through various learning phases,
Australia’s leading University is facilitated by an exceptional program
> Participation in the CEO Connect director, and is offered though the
Program is recognised by the University
of Melbourne’s Graduate School of University of Melbourne.”— Tony Gillies,
Business and Economics Editor-in-Chief, Australian Associated Press
Graduate School of Business and Economics

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“We believe that program director
leadership and learning
are fundamentally linked. Marc Stigter Master in Science; and a Master in Business
Administration.
As a CEO, you are the Marc offers leading-
edge insights and Marc held executive positions at Shell in
consummate life-long practices in the the Middle East (Country Chairman), Asia-
learner. CEO Connect will concept of strategy.
These insights have
Pacific (Pennzoil Integration), and UK (Shell
Downstream) and management positions
accelerate your individual been gained both as a at Lloyds TSB Bank (UK) and Metropolitan
global practitioner at
learning and help you focus executive level and as
Life (USA). He currently manages the
Critical Management Group, a boutique
on what really matters in a research academic firm specialising in strategy and employee
at doctoral level.
your organisation.” engagement.
Marc is an Associate Director at both Marc is the recipient of the 2006 Future
— Marc Stigter, the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Summit Leadership Award as presented
Program Director Business and Economics and at Melbourne by the Australian Davos Connection. He
Business School where he directed the directs and facilitates the Copland Program,
school’s flagship Advanced Management which is offered to Australia’s emerging
Program for 5 years. He recently submitted leaders through the Committee for
his PhD thesis at Lancaster University
Invest in your future Management School (UK) whose doctoral
Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).
Marc also contributes to The Committee
The annual fee for the CEO Connect management program is rated top 5 in for Melbourne’s Future Focus Group, a
Program is $16,000 plus GST. the world by The Financial Times (2008). leadership program for Melbourne’s future
He also earned a Master in Management; leaders.
program presenters include:
Professor Simon Bell Professor Cynthia Hardy Professor Ian Harper
Simon is chair and Cynthia is Professor Ian Harper is one of
professor of marketing of Management at Australia’s best known
and Director of the University of economists. He has
Executive Education Melbourne. She worked closely with
at the University of previously worked governments, banks,
Melbourne. He is a in the Faculty of corporates and leading
Fellow of the Judge Management at professional services
Business School at McGill University, firms. As a member of
Cambridge University Canada. She is the celebrated Wallis
and a Fellow of the Honorary Professor Inquiry, he was at
Royal Society of Arts. Simon has worked at Cardiff Business School in the UK, and the forefront of financial market reform in
extensively with industry as a consultant and has held visiting positions at a range of Australia.
executive educator. other institutions including the University
of Leicester; the University of Ferrara, In 2008, Ian joined Access Economics where
In Australia he has worked with Goldman Italy; L’Ecole Superieure des Sciences he is now a Director, following a 25-year
Sachs, Telstra, the Australia Securities & Economiques et Commerciales, France; academic career, including 16 years at
Investment Commission (ASIC), National Simon Fraser University, Canada; and the Melbourne Business School.
Australia Bank, Honda, Bunnings and PWC. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
In the UK, Simon has worked with Shell, in Brazil. She is a Fellow of the Academy Ian served as inaugural Chairman of the
Royal Mail, BT, Allen & Overy, Rolls Royce, of the Social Sciences in Australia and an Australian Fair Pay Commission. In 2010 Ian
Ofcom and IBM. International Visiting Fellow at the Advanced was appointed to the Australian Advisory
Institute of Management Research, UK Board of Bank of America Merrill Lynch,
Simon writes and consults on a range of and in January 2011 he was appointed to the
issues including organisational learning, Cynthia’s research interests revolve around Victorian Government’s Independent Review
internal marketing and sales force organisational change, discourse, and of State Finances. Ian is sought after as a
management, services and relationship power and politics in organisations. commentator and public speaker and has
marketing, customer satisfaction and loyalty, been described as “one of those relatively
and brand management. His research has rare academics who can communicate
focused on the retail and financial services extremely well with both the business
industries and has been published in journals community and the academic community”.
such as Harvard Business Review and Sloan
Management Review. In 2000, Ian was elected to a Fellowship of
the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
and in 2009 to a Fellowship of the Australian
Institute of Company Directors.
Graduate School of Business and Economics

4. about the university of
melbourne and graduate school
of business and economics
The University of Melbourne’s consistent, strong performance
in international rankings puts the University at the forefront
of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region and the world:
> No. 1 in Australia in the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings 2010-2011
> In the highly regarded Shanghai Jiao Tong University the
University is ranked 62nd internationally and 4th in the
Asia-Pacific region
Research makes our teaching relevant and cutting-edge, in
the recent Australian Government Excellence in Research
(ERA) results University of Melbourne was ranked at the No.
1 in Australia.
The Graduate School of Business and Economics offers the
highest quality business education and teaches across the
areas of accounting, actuarial studies finance, economics,
management and marketing. We are the leading business
and economics school in the Asia Pacific region and have
over 280 academic staff with a wealth of experience,
expertise and research capability.
further information
For more information about CEO Connect please contact:
Marc Stigter, Program Director, CEO Connect
Phone: +61 3 5988 5596
Email: gsbe-execed@unimelb.edu.au
or visit www.gsbe.unimelb.edu.au
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February 2011
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