Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence to Present Significant Events

Cheryl Bachelder Lee Hamilton

INDIANAPOLIS – The Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence at Indiana University will hold two significant events and co-sponsor a third during a five-day span in April, focusing on leadership, leadership ethics, and “creating a workplace where women thrive.”

The events are the Hazelett Women in Leadership Forum, the Tobias Lecture, and the Center’s Multi-Sector Forum on leadership ethics.

The Hazelett Women In Leadership Forum is co-sponsored by the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), IUPUI Office for Women, and the Indiana University Foundation. The forum will feature remarks by Cheryl Bachelder, former President and Chief Concept Officer of the KFC Corp. Her topic is “Creating a Workplace Where Women Thrive.”

The Hazelett Women in Leadership Forum, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, 2006 in the Wynne Courtroom at the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis.

Bachelder has been working for the past two years with food service industry leaders to advance the business case for promoting women executives to senior management roles. In partnership with Women’s Foodservice Forum and the Gallup Organization, Bachelder has developed groundbreaking learning on how to create a workplace where women thrive.

The Hazelett Forum is made possible by a generous gift from Ambassador Randall L. Tobias who wanted to honor Suzanne Hazelett’s outstanding work for the Tobias Family Foundation, the community of Indianapolis, the state, and for women in these communities. Among other things, she was instrumental in the creation of the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence.

By establishing the Hazelett Forum within the Tobias Center, it is the hope of Ambassador Tobias that the forum will present at least one program each year highlighting leadership initiatives in the modern workplace which focus on the issues of gender, family, and work/life balance.

Former Congressman Lee Hamilton, vice chair of the 9-11 Commission and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, will participate in the second event two days later.

Hamilton will deliver the Tobias Lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, as the keynote speaker at the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence’s Multi-Sector Forum. The subject of his address is “The Attributes of Leadership.”

The Tobias Lecture will be delivered in the Ballroom at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel, 850 W. Michigan Street, Indianapolis. It is free and open to the public.

The Tobias Lecture kicks off the Multi-Sector Forum, which brings together people from business, health, non-profit, education, and government sectors to explore leadership ethics. The Multi-Sector Forum continues through noon Saturday. Individuals may attend the Multi-Sector Forum for a $195 fee and register by calling 317-278-2800.

Speakers at the Multi-Sector Forum, which continue through noon on Saturday, April 15, include:

• Joanne Ciulla, Professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics, one of the founding members of the Jepson School of Leadership at the University of Richmond. She is the past UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy.
• Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD., Associate Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts and Philanthropy; vice Chairman, Radiology; Director, Pediatric Radiology at the IU School of Medicine.
• Sheila Kennedy, Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Kennedy was the executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union from 1992 to 1998.
• John Mahon, John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy and Acting Provost at the University of Maine. He is one of the nation’s preeminent scholars of business strategy and policy.
• Ron Riggio, Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College and author of a dozen books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters on leadership, industrial/organizational psychology, and social psychology.
• Wiley Souba, MD, ScD, MBA, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Penn State College of Medicine/Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Surgeon-in-Chief at the Medical Center and Director of the Penn State Hershey Center for Leadership Development.
• Linda Trevino, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cook Fellow in Business Ethics, and Director of the Shoemaker Program in Business Ethics in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State. Trevino is an Ethics Resource Center Fellow, a leading author and researcher on business ethics.
• Gerardo Lopez, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
• Lois Wise, Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. Her research and teaching interest center on the broad area of employment policies and practices, with a special focus on the public sector.
• Education Panel: Betty Poindexter, Co-Director of the Indiana University School of Education’s urban Principal Master’s Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
• Phyllis Amick, Co-Director of the Indiana University School of Education’s Urban Principal Master’s Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI); contract faculty for IUPUI.
• Brad Balch, Acting Associate Dean, College of Education, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Indiana State University.
• Jim McInerney, Professor in the College of Education at Purdue University, teaching Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations.