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"Thought Leadership Over the past twenty years, Don and others have literally "written the books" on organizational transformation to meet the emerging context of the Knowledge Age. The Strategic Initiatives team has combined thought leadership and artful practice to shape the leading edge of thinking on leading and navigating change, crafting and executing strategy, focusing on value, and performance measurement. Our team has also defined best practice in e-learning, knowledge-sharing and developing e-knowledge repositories, and designing technology-rich facilities for Knowledge Age applications. Strategic Initiatives uses thought leadership to generate the insights that position our clients for success. Our thought leadership has been manifested in publications, presentations and speaking appearances, satellite/Web broadcasts, and other venues."

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® resulted from an intensive research project to determine the leadership competencies that are essential to getting extraordinary things done in organizations. To conduct the research, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner collected thousands of "Personal Best" stories-the experiences people recalled when asked to think of a peak leadership experience.

"5 Areas Where Leaders Must Be Consistent June 18, 2014 by Kaylene · 3 Comments 29 SHARES We know and identify people by the way they consistently act. It's the same with leadership. People come to expect certain actions, responses or reactions based on their past experience with you. Strong leadership is characterized by consistency in important key areas. So just as we expect birds to migrate south for the winter, your people expect and depend on you as their leader to be consistent in 5 key areas."

CORE IDEAS We decided on the name Learning Emergence because we are very much learning about emergence and complex systems phenomena ourselves, even as we develop our thinking on learning as an emergent, systemic phenomenon in different contexts. We must shift to a new paradigm for learning in schools, universities and the workplace which addresses the challenges of the 21st Century. Society needs learners who can cope with intellectual, ethical and emotional complexity of an unprecedented nature. Learning Emergence partners share an overarching focus on deep, systemic learning and leadership - the pro-active engagement of learners and leaders in their own authentic learning journey, in the context of relationship and community. We work at the intersection of (1) deep learning and sensemaking, (2) leadership, (3) complex systems, and (4) technology:

"The California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative will hold its first statewide informational town hall events at the Campus Technology Forum 2014. Held on April 9 of the April 8-9 CT Forum event, the town halls were created to inform community college administration and technology leadership about this important initiative."