Duncan THE GLEANER and its weekly tabloid the Financial Gleaner will this year be among the sponsors of the Fifth Annual Worldwide Lessons in Leadership Seminar to be hosted in Jamaica for the fourth year by Jamaica Money Market Brokers Ltd.
The Lessons in Leadership seminar has become a popular annual event in the business calendar and is scheduled to be held on November 15, with the theme, "The Brave New Workplace: Strategies To Excel in a World of Change".
Experience
JMMB's managing director, Donna Duncan, said "Participants of the seminar will experience innovative thinking on the critical challenges that shape your future every day, whatever your field of work. "She added that the seminar offered "is an investment of only one day that will have an impact for years to come." This year it will be hosted at three locations across the island: the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville, and the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay.
The seminar, a joint venture between WYNCOM Inc. and FORTUNE Magazine, is to be beamed live via satellite link to 50 other countries worldwide, in addition to Jamaica and 200 sites in the United States. The FORTUNE executive panel for this year's seminar will comprise such noted business executives as Andy Grove, founder of Intel; Jerry Yang, founder of dotcom giant, Yahoo!; Martha Stewart, businesswoman, domestic doyen and head of Living Omnimedia.
There will also be special appearances by Robert Cooper, best-selling author of "Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organisations" and Bob Nelson, Mr. Cooper's best-selling counterpart and author of "1001 Ways To Take Initiative at Work".
The teaming of respected luminaries is intended to arouse cutting-edge ideas and provide solid answers to pressing questions for participants attending the seminar.
