2/12/08 Joseph Fuller & Steve Kerr

Crucial Threats and Opportunities in Business Today
Perspectives from two of America's most plugged in thought leaders

What's keeping corporate executives up at night? What risks are the world's top consultants advising their clients to worry about? What opportunities are just waiting for a bold leader to claim them?

No one is better positioned to answer those questions than Joe Fuller and Steve Kerr. Fuller is CEO of the Monitor Group, with offices in any major city you can name, including New York, Beijing, Moscow, Paris, Johannesburg, Sao Paolo, Singapore, and Dubai. A week doesn't go by when he isn't sitting down with a powerful CEO or a whole bunch of them, from anywhere in the world, to discuss current and strategic threats and opportunities.

Kerr recently left his posts as managing director and chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs, which CNN has called "the most influential business in America." He first gained national prominence as he worked alongside Jack Welch at General Electric, as vice president of corporate leadership development and chief learning officer, to devise and implement many of the practices that made GE a model that other organizations sought to emulate.

In this up-to-the-minute session, Fuller and Kerr will each describe, from the perspective they know best, the key issues in the business climate, the ways those issues are being confronted, and what they mean for business strategy going forward. For Fuller, that means the market, competitive, economic, and regulatory issues that define the business environment; Kerr's focus will be leadership, intellectual capital, and individual and organizational learning.

They will make their presentations individually and also leave time for dialog between themselves and with the Masters Forum attendees.

From this session, you will learn:

• The issues that are at the top of business leaders' agendas today.
• The crucial market, competitive, economic, and regulatory issues that are defining the business climate.
• How corporate structures are being affected by regulatory and strategic imperatives.
• How leadership and human resources practices are evolving.
• What strategies for organizational and individual learning are paying off and what the next wave will look like.

Joe Fuller is co-founder and CEO of Monitor Group, where he oversees consulting services in 27 offices worldwide. Monitor's associates have published more than 80 Harvard Business Review articles. Fuller has deep experience in two of the world's most dynamic sectors, life sciences and telecommunications, and recently he has worked closely with Professor Michael Jensen on the interaction of the capital markets and companies' decision-making processes, with a particular focus on corporate governance.

Steve Kerr held his leadership positions at Goldman Sachs from 2001 until 2007, and at GE from 1994 to 2001. He taught at the University of Michigan and was dean of the faculty at the USC Business School from 1985-1989. He is the author of five books and co-authored The Boundaryless Organization.

To Learn More:

Read about Joe Fuller at: www.monitortalent.com/talent/Joe-Fuller-Profile.html

Read about Monitor, the company he co-founded and heads, at www.monitor.com