The document summarizes the "Inside Leadership" program, which features interviews with successful leaders who have overcome challenges. The program aims to introduce young people to realistic role models and promote middle class values. Guest leaders discuss their life stories and answer students' questions. Interviews are recorded and distributed online to inspire others.

1. “INSIDE LEADERSHIP: A National Media Program Honoring Self Made
Leaders.”
Executive Summary:
‘Inside Leadership’ is a national media program introducing young people to realistic
role models for success.
Corporate sponsors include Boston Scientific, Idea Point Software, and Suffolk
University.
To listen to previous shows, link to:
http://www.suffolk.edu/business/43163.html
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A vibrant economy requires a strong middle class. Middle class values revolve around
personal dedication to self-improvement through hard work and deferment of immediate
gratification. American middle class values also include the willingness to collaborate
with others to achieve common goals.
Are young people of America finding appropriate role models with traditional sources
such as parents, sports figures, politicians, and movie stars?
If the traditional sources of role models are found wanting, where can young people find
the role models they need?
“Inside Leadership” is a national media program that contributes to a strong U.S. middle
class by using the power of social media to introduce children and young adults to role
models they have never met but might wish to admire.
We call such role models Self Made Leaders.
At the end of every program, we want at least one person to think, “That leader grew up
in circumstances more difficult than the situation I am facing today. That leader isn’t
smarter than me. And they are successful today. I can do this!”

2. HISTORY OF ‘INSIDE LEADERSHIP’
‘Inside Leadership’ is a program arm of the Center for Innovation & Change Leadership
(CICL).
The Center for Innovation & Change Leadership (CICL) is a global nonprofit housed in
Boston’s Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston. Its mission is to
promote collaboration and innovation as critical tools of social change.
CICL programs include the Global Leadership in Innovation & Collaboration Prize, given
to companies that inspire others. The 2010 winner is Xerox Corporation.
Other CICL programs include research about innovation and collaboration plus a unique
educational certificate/degree program between Suffolk University and Synectics.
For more information about CICL at Suffolk University:
http://www.suffolk.edu/business/8149.html
The live ‘Inside Leadership’ audience consists of 60 Suffolk University freshmen. Many
of these freshmen are first in their families to go to college and come from around the
world.
INSIDE LEADERSHIP PROCESS
Each month we produce one 45 minute program on mp3 and distribute the mp3s
through social media, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin.com. Our audience also
distributes the programs to their friends around the world. MP3s are also housed at the
CICL site on Suffolk.edu.
‘Inside Leadership’ host Dr. Laurence Stybel conducts a 20 minute in-depth interview
with each guest about his/her life. The next twenty minutes focuses on questions
students ask the Leader. It is the live Student/Leader interactions that are the most
stimulating.

3. Our aspiration at Inside Leadership is to develop a global data based housed at
Suffolk.edu and available to all. Young people will be able to search the database for
specific role models that fit their unique life circumstances. For example, “I am a black
unwed mother living in an urban environment. I want to hear the story of someone
similar to me who has ‘made it.’”
Programs are taped at the Modern Theater in the heart of the Boston Theater District. It
is near the Taj Hotel (Formerly Ritz Carleton Hotel) on the corner of Avery and
Washington Streets.
VALUE PROPOSITION FOR GUESTS
Guests of Inside Leadership might see the benefit of our mp files and (later) video to
attract investors, inspire customers, and attract talent. We see distribution of mp3 files
as an excellent addition to a standard employee orientation program.
Guests may bring video production capabilities and photographers if they wish.
We encourage guests to nominate their customers or employees as Self Made Leaders.
Beyond the one hour appearance, some company leaders might want to have their
brand associated with the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership and the
concept of Self Made Leader. We are an appropriate alliance for any company whose
future depends on a vibrant middle class or where the company wishes to make a
statement about the importance of innovation/collaboration for its success.
Previous guests include:
President of one of the nation’s leading health care HMOs and a national figure
in electronic medical records. He began his career as a Chicago high school
graduate who found a job as an orderly in a community hospital.
President of a college whose father was a poor farmer in Puerto Rico. The family
immigrated to New York City. There was a strong drug culture in the
neighborhood and his brother was arrested for pushing drugs. The President
would hide books he took from the library in order to avoid being beaten up by
peers who might catch him reading.
President of a global professional services firm and a national expert on
corporate governance. She is author of several articles on leadership that have
been published in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW. Her mother died at age 13
and her father became depressed. She had to take care of her father. Her
father later refused to provide financial support for her to attend college on the
grounds that women should be teachers, nurses, or mothers.

4. ‘INSIDE LEADERSHIP’ PRODUCER/HOST
Larry Stybel is President of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company and
Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston. Founded
in 1979, the firm's mission is helping client companies achieve "Smooth Leadership Change:"
Retained Search+ limited to Board, CEO, and CFO roles; coaching of high potential leaders, and
Executive Outplacement. There are 250 Arbora professionals in 31 countries. Clients include
21% of the one hundred companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers in
the United States."
Other clients include three of the Big Four CPA firms, 75% of Boston’s largest 20 law firms, and
most of the country’s leading life science companies.
Larry writes a blog on leadership and career management for HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
and is frequently published in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW and MIT SLOAN
MANAGEMENT REVIEW. He is a contributor to HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ON
MANAGING YOUR CAREER IN TURBULENT TIMES (Boston: Harvard Business Press,
2010) and J. G. McLellan (ed.) PRACTICAL CASE STUDIES FOR COMPANY
DIRECTORS. (Charleston, SC: Directors Dilemma, 2010). Articles by or about him have
appeared in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ABC NEWS, BUSINESS WEEK, CNN,
CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW, DIRECTORSHIP, FORBES, FORTUNE, and THE
NEW YORK TIMES.
He received his doctorate in organization behavior from Harvard University and is a licensed
psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Prior to Stybel Peabody, he was an
executive compensation consultant for Hay Associates Management Consultants. Larry serves
on the Boards of a venture backed company in the SaaS sector, a professional services firm that
does turnarounds for private equity firms’ portfolio companies, and the Center for Innovation &
Change Leadership.
Larry is on the Advisory Board for Solbridge International School of Business at Woosong
University in South Korea. This summer he will deliver an address to students and faculty at
Woosong University. Larry has given keynote addresses on leadership in the People's Republic
of China and Australia. In the United States, he is a featured speaker on leadership with groups
that include the National Association of Corporate Directors, Financial Executives International,
Tax Executives International, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and the Massachusetts
Psychological Association.
For more information about Larry go to:
www.linkedin.com/in/lstybel

5. CONTACT INFORMATION:
Larry Stybel
Executive in Residence
Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University
Tel. 617 594 7627
lstybel@suffolk.edu