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Setting the Stage: LAL Overview and Participation Orientation (Thursday) |
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Getting Grounded: Down to Earth Pragmatism (Thursday-Friday) |
| SEGMENT I |
Theme
Film
Literature |
Strategy and Empowerment
“Gettysburg”
Norma Rae |
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SEGMENT II |
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Theme
Literature
Literature
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Power/Authority/Ethics/Values
MLK's "Holt Street Baptist Church Address" and "Mountain Top Address"
All the Kings Men |
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Come In From the Cold: Surviving
Setbacks and Overcoming Threats
(Thursday–Friday) |
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SEGMENT III |
Theme
Film
Literature |
Decision Making / Influence Management
“Hunt for Red October”
Queen Elizabeth I |
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SEGMENT IV |
Theme
Film
Literature |
Conflict and Crisis Management
“12 Angry men”
Malcolm X |
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New Beginnings: Inspiring Vision and
Leading Change (Thursday–Friday) |
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SEGMENT V |
Theme
Film
Literature |
Change and Followership
“Bridge Over the River Kwai”
Mahatma Gandhi |
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SEGMENT VI |
Theme
Film
Literature |
Leadership and Motivation
Gathering Storm
The Prince |
Liberal Arts Leadership Faculty
Ken Abernethy
The Herman N. Hipp Professor of Computer Science at Furman, Ken
Abernethy also directs Furman’s Rushing Center for Teaching and
Technology and the associated Institute for the Management of
Information Technology. He received a bachelor of science with honors
from UNC–Charlotte and the master’s and PhD from Duke University.
He has more than 30 years of teaching and consulting experience.
His current professional interests are focused in the areas of project
management, the management of information technology enterprises,
and the role of leadership in organizations.
Lloyd Benson
Lloyd Benson is the Walter Kenneth Mattison Associate Professor of
History at Furman, where he specializes in the history of American regions
and the Civil War era. A native of Ithaca, New York, he received his PhD
in history from the University of Virginia. He lives in Tryon, North Carolina,
with his wife Vicki.
Rex L. Meade
For more than 30 years, Rex Meade has been working or consulting with
a wide variety of organizations. His areas of expertise include leadership
development, situation appraisal and organization audit, multiple team
alignment, executive coaching, transition management, and succession
planning. His current clients include Fluor, CB&I, Alcoa, BE&K
and Lafarge.
A licensed professional counselor, he earned his master’s degree
in clinical
psychology from East Carolina University and completed the Advanced
Program in Organization Development through Columbia University and
University of Michigan. He is a graduate of both Leadership Greenville
(1978) and Leadership South Carolina (1988).
Margaret J. Oakes
Margaret Oakes is an associate professor of English and has been
teaching at Furman since 1996. She specializes in English Renaissance
literature, including such authors as George Herbert, William Shakespeare
and Margaret Cavendish. Prior to her academic career she practiced
securities regulation law in Chicago. She is a graduate of the University
of Illinois (BA and JD) and Stanford University (PhD).
Sean O'Rourke
Sean O'Rourke is an associate professor of rhetoric and oratory at Furman and
chair of the Department of Communication Studies. He received his J.D. and Ph.D.
from the University of Oregon. O'Rourke teaches courses in the History of Rhetoric,
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, British and American Public Address, Freedom
of Speech, the Ethics of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Law and Justice, and the Rhetoric
of the Mass Media. His articles and reviews have appeared in many scholarly journals
and publications. He is currently working on two books, and he has developed many
seminars over the past twenty years while consulting the United states Forest Service,
Pacific Gas and Electric, the College News Association of the Carolinas, Metropolitan
Group and C-Span.
Kenneth D. Peterson, Jr.
Ken Peterson is the John D. Hollingsworth, Jr., Professor of Economics
and
chair of the Economics Department at Furman. He received his M.A. and
Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook
and his bachelor of science in economics from Iowa State University. His
research examines the extent to which property values are affected by
environmental and neighborhood traits, the causes and consequences
of varying social capital levels within neighborhoods, and the changing
income distribution within the United States. A graduate of Leadership
Greenville Class XXI, he resides in Greenville with his wife, Chirinjev,
and
their two children.
John L. S. Simpkins
John Simpkins is assistant professor of law at the Charleston School
of Law and associate director of the Richard W. Riley Institute of
Government, Politics, and Public Leadership at Furman. He teaches
courses in international law, constitutional law, and constitutional design
in divided societies. He has observed, studied or served as a consultant
in constitution-building processes in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and
Uganda. Prior to joining the Furman faculty, Simpkins practiced law in
Washington, D.C., with the firm of Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC. He
is a
graduate of Harvard College and Duke University School of Law.
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