State Legistlative Leaders Foundation
Preparing the leaders of today for the challenge of tomorrow
2008 Leadership Summit
Harnessing the Power of Innovation
Chicago, IL, June 5 - 8, 2008
"The program was well planned, each segment tied in to the others. Good mix of corporate and legislative leaders and excellent presenters." - Rep. Adrienne Jones, Maryland
It may have been that way in the past, but does it have to be that way forever?
Giving leaders the tools to find better ways to do things was the focus of SLLF’s 2008 Leadership Summit: Harnessing the Power of Innovation held recently in Chicago. For three days, more than eighty legislators and corporate leaders from across the country got together and explored ways to develop new and creative solutions to the policy and political problems that face them every day.
Led by an international faculty of experts on innovation and creativity, participants explo
red the importance of innovative thinking in addressing the increasingly complex problems in a world of shrinking resources. Participants discussed how they might broaden their own thinking and solve traditional problems with nontraditional solutions. Further, they examined the critical role that legislative leaders can play in encouraging innovation in government, the private sector and the citizenry. For example, participants discussed the 100 Ideas project by which leaders in Oklahoma solicited more than 3,500 ideas from constituents and culled those ideas down to 100 that became the core of the 2007- 2008 legislative agenda.
As is appropriate for an election year, the program concluded with a boisterous discussion about how to use "innovation" as an effective political message in this year when change is on the mind of the voters. Led by pollster and author Frank Luntz (Words that Work: It’s not What you Say, But What People Hear), this session brought the concept of innovation back around to the political world in which the leaders all live, especially six months prior to an election.
Calendar
March 4 - 7, 2010
SLLF Issues Summit
Energy & Environmental Summit of the States
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA
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April 21, 2010
AC Forum
Roundtable discussion and reception in Washington, DC
June 16 - 20, 2010
National Speakers Conference
19th Annual Meeting
Annapolis, Maryland
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August 18 - 22
Transatlantic Leadership Forum
Dublin, Ireland
July 12 - 15, 2010
Emerging Political Leaders Program
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2010
SLLF Leadership Summit
Democracy 2.0:
Connecting with the 21st Century American
University of Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Program Schedule
Registration Form - Legislative Participants
Registration Form - Corporate Participants