Workshop
on
LEADERSHIP IN BIOSCIENCE
February 18 - 21, 2011
Application Deadline: January 26, 2011
Selection Decisions: January 31, 2011
Arranged
by:
Carl
Cohen & Danielle Kennedy
Speakers:
Ken
Miller, Brown University
Zia
Khan, The Rockefeller Foundation
Workshop
description: This is a highly interactive 3.5 day
workshop in which you will learn and develop the skills
to lead and interact effectively with others in both one
on one and group settings. The workshop will focus on techniques,
situations and challenges that relate specifically to leading
and managing in the scientific workplace.
The
workshop will emphasize learning by doing and will involve
role playing, giving and receiving feedback and group problem
solving. Much of the learning will be peer-to peer. Participants
will be expected to discuss their own experiences and to
be interested in and helpful to others as they discuss theirs.
The
workshop will help participants identify areas where they
need guidance and growth, as well as how to capitalize on
areas of strength. Participants will have the opportunity
to share their experiences and challenges with others and
to receive feedback and guidance from others with experience
in leading scientists in a variety of settings. At the end
of the course, participants will be linked through a unique
on-line community in which they can continue learning from
one another and from the course instructors.
Key focus areas of the workshop will include:
•
Recognizing and understanding leadership in a science setting
• Using negotiation as a tool in scientific discussions
and problem solving
• Identifying and resolving conflicts in the lab
• Dealing with difficult people and situations
• Communicating your ideas and plans in a way that
engages others
• Leading effective and productive meetings
•
Becoming effective citizen scientists
Target
audience: The workshop is targeted to life scientists
making, or recently having made, the transition to a leadership
or managerial position in either academia, not-for-profit
or the private sector.
Workshop
Director: Carl M. Cohen, Ph.D. Carl is President
of Science Management Associates and provides consultation
and training in interpersonal, group and organizational
skills to scientists and science executives in both the
public and private sectors. Carl has more than 25 years
of biomedical research and management expertise, including
having been Chief Operating Officer of Biovest International
focused on cancer immunotherapy and Vice President for Research
and Development at Creative BioMolecules. Carl served as
Chief of the Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology
and Acting Chair of the Department of Biomedical Research
at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston. During that
same period he also held the positions of Professor of Medicine
and Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Tufts University
School of Medicine. Carl is co-author, with his wife Suzanne
of “Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for Scientists”
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005.
Workshop
Facilitator: Danielle Kennedy.
Dannie is a former president of the Board of Directors of
the Boston Center of the A.K. Rice Institute and has directed
numerous conferences on authority and leadership. She is
on the faculty of the Executive Coaching Program at the
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and has
served on the Case Series Editorial Board of the Family
Firm Institute. As an adjunct faculty member at Simmons
College and guest lecturer at Harvard University and Smith
College, she has taught courses on leadership, executive
coaching, organizational theory and consultation, post-merger
integration, applied research methods, and group dynamics.
Prior to joining WorkLab (formerly Nautilus Consulting Group),
Dannie worked as a senior consultant at KRW International,
an executive development boutique. Dannie holds a Ph.D.
from Simmons College and is a graduate of the Advanced Studies
in Organizational Development Program at the Boston Institute
of Psychotherapy. Her clients include Fortune 500 corporations
and institutions in electronic information, financial services,
advertising, publishing, testing and assessment services,
human resources and university administration.
Please
note that selection criteria for attendance at the workshop
requires submission of a personal
statement and one reference.
Workshop students are expected to stay for the duration
of the course. The workshop will begin in the mid-afternoon
of Friday February 18 and end by lunchtime on Monday February
21. The workshop will be held at the Laboratory’s
Banbury Conference Center located on the north shore of
Long Island.
Generously subsidized with funds provided by American
Express.
