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‘Leadership 2.0: Time for Action’ - 12th Annual International Leadership Association Global Conference

The ILA conference is where leadership scholars, practitioners, and educators present their finest scholarship, compelling ideas, and best practices. Bringing together leadership educators and scholars, business and community leaders, leadership consultants and coaches, graduate and undergraduate students, and others with a passion for leadership to share ideas and practices. This conference builds bridges between leadership theory and practice to create unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

The conferences feature over 100 state-of-the-art leadership presentations, panel discussions, workshops, paper presentations, conversations with authors, roundtables, posters, and case studies that build bridges between leadership theory and practice to create unparalleled learning and networking opportunities. In addition, ILA’s annual global conferences feature inspiring keynote speakers and unique special events.

Submit your Proposal to present a conference session and learn more about the ILA Annual Global Conference here - http://www.ila-net.org/Conferences/index.htm.

Questions?  Contact Josh Tarr, ILA Conference Coordinator, at jtarr@ila-net.org or +1.301.405.2342.

ILA Boston 2010 Oct. 27 - 30 -  Submit your Proposal!

By Vicky Wong

Vicky Wong who originally heralds from Hong Kong, was born and raised in South East London, England, and is a second year Politics and International Relations student at the University of Reading. Having caught the travel bug in the summer of 2008 during a World Challenge expedition to China and Vietnam, she went on to find more opportunities to go abroad and eventually stumbled upon the 19th IYLC, which she now cites as a life-changing experience.

Outside her degree, Wong is also a musician (playing both violin and piano), a journalist for her university newspaper, and also enjoys learning to speak several languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Russian.

The annual International Youth Leadership Conference brings together a diverse group of young people from all over the world. United by the questions that even the leaders of today cannot answer, these fledgling leaders come together to participate in a weeklong forum in the backdrop of Prague, where they learn and challenge ideas of justice, culture, international decorum, and leadership. Including a series of workshops, presentations and simulations, the IYLC promises and guarantees its participants that they will not only leave with a new base of knowledge, but a collection of memories and friendship circles that arch across the world.

With at least 100 participants of over 30 different countries, the cultural interchange of ideas is what makes the conference markedly different to any classroom environment or school.

Simulations in the conference take the form of a UN Security Council meeting, an International Criminal Court Pre-Trial and a European Parliament session.

The UN Security Council simulation pits group members against each other in a discussion over pressing and complex international issues such as nuclear proliferation, human rights and so on. But whilst proving the difficulty of coming to an international consensus, it also demonstrates the recognition by all for international co-operation, and how sometimes, decisions need time to materialize.

The International Criminal Court Simulation demonstrates how the justice system works, how humanitarian issues are a lot more complex than what they appear at face value,  how lawyers (as leaders of justice) must have nerves of steel in order to think quickly to defend their cause, but also illustrates how even a criminal can escape unscathed from the justice system.

The run-up to the European Parliament session provides participants with a medium to vent their creative capabilities through lobbying and campaigning, but also proves that even at an international level, co-operation is still possible, and that even a leader needs a strong team to help them.

The conference encourages individuals to pursue the best that they can be through responsible, caring, pragmatic and wise leadership, and inspires participants that in order to become a leader, one must first understand themselves and other cultures, making the IYLC the ideal medium through which to do so.

The objective of the conference is to encourage individuals to challenge themselves by testing themselves in an environment alien to them; an experience which becomes both daunting and exciting. At the same time, the IYLC perfectly epitomises the “work hard play hard” ethic, as all participants, facilitators and observers display both a serious professionalism combined with sharp wit and humour when approaching the simulations, and ultimately becoming a fun educational experience.

Other events in the conference include embassy visits, a culture night, and regional talks; all of which display the importance of culture to people, of the importance of transatlantic relationships and of the confident pride and determination of nations to make a difference in the world.

What the IYLC has proven is that in order to become a strong leader, they need mental strength, a caring nature, an empathy and understanding for others regardless of culture, a passion for what is right and an unshakeable bravery.

We are starting the year 2010 with some exciting news and changes.

First of all, we have launched a brand new IYLC web-site, which we hope will enhance visitor experiences and will offer more functionality to our users. The new web-site is available, as usual, at www.czechleadership.com.

We are also launching a marketing campaign to spread the word about the anniversary 20th IYLC to take place on July 11th-16th, 2010. If you would like to help us in this effort, please email us at info@czechleadership.com, we will be happy to send you our posters and other materials.

And last, but not the least, Maryna Puzdrova will be succeeding Ismayil Khayredinov in the position of IYLC Conference Director. Feel free to contact Maryna at maryna@civicconcepts.org.

Our best wishes for the year 2010,

Civic Concepts International team

We are pleased to announce that the key-note address of the 19th IYLC will be delivered by Nqobizitha Mlilo, our esteemed alumnus, spokesperson for Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change and aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

We are happy that Mr. Mlilo will be joining us for the conference week, giving us invaluable insights into the past, present and future of Zimbabwe and the African continent!

Nqobizitha Mlilo was born in a small rural town in the Midlands Province in Zimbabwe on the 18th of July 1981. He did his pre-tertiary education at Njerere government primary school, Mvuma primary school and St Francis of Assisi High school, before enrolling at the University of Cape Town in South Africa where he did law.

It is while he was the University of Cape Town student movement that he was introduced the Civic Concepts International, attending the 2003 conference as a participant, and the 2004 conference as a facilitator.

After completing his law degree, he briefly practiced till he was thrown into full time national politics as the Political Liaison and spokesperson of the Regional Office of the Movement for Democratic Change in South Africa.

Mlilo is currently an assistant of Zimbabwe’s Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion, Hon Elton Mangoma MP

Mlilo is convinced that the future of Africa is incrementally bright and full of hope with the emergence of African leadership committed to democracy and respect for human rights. Young people across the world, not least Africans, have a cardinal responsibility of removing the causes of conflict and human suffering.

Alan Krautstengl is the president of the oldest private institution of higher education in the Czech Republic. In the past, Professor Krautstengl has worked as a Vice-President for Research, Development and International Affairs at the Institute of Finance and Administration, and as Senior Researcher at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Professor Krautstengl holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Kent State University, where he tackled and solved a 25-year old open problem in numerical linear algebra. He has a vast academic experience as a visiting and associate professor at Chapman University, University of Puerto Rico, Black Hills State University, Case Western Reserve University. Professor Krautstengl has closely cooperated with NASA, University Hospitals Cleveland, Ford Motor Company, Eaton Consulting Group, Honeywell, Deloitte and Touche, PwC, Appian Group, Ceska Sporitelna and others. His research interests lay in numerical analysis, linear algebra, matrix theory, application of mathematics to science, business and finance.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU) was founded on November 16, 1993 as Beijing New Oriental School. At present, the group offers a wide array of training and educational programs focusing on foreign language training. We are a large-scale comprehensive education and technology group providing education and training, written and audio-visual publications, overseas education services, vocational education, online education, and the research and development of educational software. New Oriental was the first private education company in China to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange on September 7, 2006. By December 2008, we have a network of 41 New Oriental schools rooted in 38 cities and 6 subsidiary companies based in Beijing. The student enrollments have reached approximately 7 million during fifteen-year development.

http://www.neworiental.org/

Sponsored Participant: Ms. Yue Wu, Journalism student at the University of Hong Kong

Tim (Mac) Macartney is an enigmatic and inspirational speaker who challenges some of our most fundamental preconceptions and current ways of thinking.

Mac has been working as a people and organisation development professional since 1984. He is the founder of Embercombe, a published author, a trustee with two other charities, and an associate of Leaders’ Quest www.leadersquest.org.uk Alongside his own UK company, Mac also co-founded a leadership development consultancy in Poland www.pathways.com.pl This dynamic, entrepreneurial company, develops the leaders of many large corporations such as BP, Whirlpool, Unilever, PwC, and PKN Orlen, while also engaging them with some of Poland’s most vulnerable communities and winning their support.

Over the last six years most of Mac’s work with organisations has been focused towards a variety of consulting projects with Unilever.

• Joined an in-house team exploring Unilever’s global purpose. The outcomes of this work significantly contributed to Unilever’s ‘Vitality’ mission.

• Was the lead consultant in a 3-year culture change project for Unilever Poland, which successfully realigned the company to a new set of core values and produced a sustained and impressive improvement in business performance.

• Was the lead consultant in a 3-year culture change project for Unilever Italy HPC. At the time Unilever was in the midst of the biggest shape-up of its’ history, this change programme successfully embedded a positive, high-performance culture and resulted in the company meeting or exceeding its’ business targets when most others were falling behind.

Mac’s work with organisation leaders is motivated by his belief that:

• Leadership is one of the areas where we most need to see radical and transformative change.

• We need to move towards a future in which all commercial organisations consider their primary purpose to be focused towards a just and truly sustainable world.

• All trade will eventually become ‘fair trade’.

• Corporate responsibility will become integrated and inseparable from the business mission of every commercial entity.

• We will reverse the long-standing tradition of rewarding performance even when this same performance has hurt and weakened the individuals, communities, or the natural environment.

Over a period of twenty years Mac has been mentored and coached by Native American Metis ‘Medicine’ people to learn the cultural and spiritual teachings that once informed the practice of our own British indigenous culture. The values, principles, and wisdom of this tradition inform and guide all aspects of his work.

Mac’s recent book ‘Finding Earth, Finding Soul – the invisible path to authentic leadership’ speaks to the necessity for each of us to gather our courage, step out of the shadows, and become the leaders we have been waiting for.

Mr. Khorakiwala is a graduate of Yale University’s Business Administration Program. Having held various positions at Wockhardt, in 2008 Mr. Khorakiwala has been appointed CEO of Wockhardt Foundation. He is a member of Enterpreneurs Organization, Rotary Club, Wockhardt HIV-AIDS Research Foundation and Young Business Forum. He is also a mentor for CII-YI. Mr. Khorakiwala has been awarded Outstanding National Citizen award by National Citizens Guild of India. He is married and has 2 children. His philosophy is “Service to man is service to God”.

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Sponsored Participant: Ms. Ainur Kulzhanova, International Relations student at KIMEP

Four years ago a Swedish engineering Physics student got an idea.  He did something about it in his lunch break together with his friends. The presentation made in that lunch-break has now reached over 32,000 people in 15 countries. The CEO of the Norwegian Confederation of Enterprise heard about the spectacular results of the project and hired Farid Nolen and his friend to visit 22 cities in 5 weeks. One year later the Minister of Education had a center established with the mandate to implement their educational model at 23 colleges and universities nation-wide. They have just come back from Mathivation World Tour 2009 inspiring thousands of students in Manila, Honolulu, Los Angeles and Santa Marta (Colombia).