Gettysburg Leadership Experience...The Gettysburg Leadership Experience is not a study of military strategy, but an excellent opportunity to stimulate new thinking and a new understanding

T he Gettysburg Leadership Experience is not a study of military strategy, but an excellent opportunity to stimulate new thinking and a new understanding of leadership, teamwork and communication.Through on-the-ground study of the leadership challenges facing commanders in this pivotal battle of the American Civil War, participants

gaining new insights and new ideas on:

• conditions, incomplete information and high pressure

• The intricacies of decision-making and communication in large

• of misinterpretation, and get everyone pulling in the same direction

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• Why character, a central element of leadership, is the key to building trust on teams

Walking this ground teaches things one cannot learn in a conference room because the experience, like leadership, is emotional as well as intellectual. Our facilitators use stories of key leadership moments to bring critical lessons to life in vivid detail. These lessons, in turn, render valuable insights into how successful leaders operate today.

Sample Agenda*DAY ONE

6:00 - 7:00 PM Welcome reception and strategic overview. Ed Ruggero will present the historical background to the battle of Gettysburg - discussion sets the stage

7:00 PM Dinner in a private dining room: Discuss current leadership challenges

DAY TWO7:30 AM Full breakfast on the mansion veranda.

9:00 - 10:00 AM Day 1 (July 1, 1863) - The Improvised Battle Leadership Moments: • Conveying Leader’s Intent • Taking Charge • Relying on Subordinates to Assess and Make Critical Decisions • • • Strategy vs. Execution

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Day 2 (July 2, 1863) - The Orchestrated Battle Leadership Moments: • Communicating Effectively • Role of the Individual in Shaping Events • • Strategy vs. Execution

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch in historic Gettysburg

1:00 - 3:30 PM Day 3 (July 3, 1863) - Act of Desperation or Coordinated Attack? Leadership Moments: • Communicating Intent • Activity Doesn’t Equate to Progress • Leadership by Example • Taking Responsibility • Strategy vs. Execution

3:30 PM The Aftermath •

4:00 - 4:30 PM Visit Gettysburg Museum

6:00 - 7:00 PM Reception in mansion parlor

7:00 PM Dinner in private dining room

DAY THREE7:30 AM Full breakfast on the mansion veranda

8:30 - 10:30 AM Leadership Workshop to discuss the application of principles

how to develop a Personal Leadership Philosophy

*Agenda is customized to meet client needs

Facilitator & HistorianEd Ruggero is the author of eleven books and an international speaker on leadership. A graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, Ed served

The First Men In: US Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day. Ed also leads a Normandy Leadership Experience at the site of the Allied invasion of France in 1944; and a Lexington and Concord Leadership Experience that visits the begin-nings of the American Revolution outside Boston.

What Participants Are Saying:

a superb opportunity for us to come together and do some deep thinking about who we are and where we want to take our company. You made the leadership lessons of Gettysburg come alive for us in fascinating ways, and helped us see immediately how this knowledge can help us become

better equipped to lead and to inspire. I’m looking forward to our next engagement.”

Pete Marchetto, CEO, Bovis Lend Lease

“ Reading about great leaders like Colonel Joshua Chamberlain is instructive. But standing in the wind on Little Round Top and listening to Ed weave the story of Chamberlain’s creativity and courage was riveting and intense. My senior leadership team has brought that intensity back to the

Thank you so much for delivering an excellent program that is paying off for our business.”

Roger Crandall, CEO MassMutual

For More Information:

Academy Leadership(610) 783-0630

[email protected]

www.academyleadership.com • www.edruggero.com