Collaboration & Innovation 2008

Purdue University

September 14-17, 2008

Conference Overview

* Early registration is at a reduced fee.

Please call the hotel directly for registration and mention the conference. There are a block of rooms reserved for the conference. The two phone numbers from the hotel website: (800) 320-6291 or (765) 494-8913.

If teaming, leadership, and innovation are part of your strategy for competing in the market, this conference will provide a valuable learning opportunity. Three tracks create a rich array of learning opportunities: Teams & Collaboration, Leadership & Ethics, Creativity & Innovation.

• Learn from the champions in a variety of companies, including:

The Boeing Company
Sprint Nextel Corporation
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Royal Dutch Shell
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
American Electric Power

Keynote Presentations - Monday morning begins with Lorinda Baldwin on "Empowerment & High Performance Teams at Parker Hannifin." Tuesday's morning keynote is Deborah Dunagan on "Innovation at IBM."

Featured Author Workshops - The variety of sessions includes keynote addresses, panels, team presentations, and workshops, including those by featured authors, such as:

• Dennis Reina, author of Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships in Your Organization - "Build sustainable trust to engage employees, improve performance and navigate change."
• Glenn Parker, author of a number of books, including - "How to be a team player: Tools and techniques for increasing your effectivenss as a team leader and team member."
• Thiagi & Glenn Parker - "Games and activities for team building."
• Janet Means & Michael Spivey, authors of Facilitating the Project Lifecycle and The Project Meeting Facilitator - "Making the most of your project meetings through facilitated collaboration."
• Craig Runde, author of Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader and Building Conflict Competent Teams - "Building conflict competent teams."
• Terry Price, author of Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership.

Panel Presentations

There is a long list of presentations (90 minute sessions). Here are some samples.

Workshops - These three hours sessions provide lots of opportunity to practice the ideas being shared:


The Center for Collaborative Organizations and its annual fall conference are moving from the University of North Texas to Purdue University. As a first step in that transition, we are scheduling the next fall conference for September. We are broadening the theme to add creativity and innovation, ethics and leadership, and teams and collaboration to address more of the critical and interdependant facets of organizational effectiveness. We seek featured and keynote speakers on these topics and invite you to share your best practices, tools, methods, and stories as presenters or in discussion and exercises as audience members. We welcome your proposals and suggestions. The goal is to create a great learning and networking opportunity.