Tuesday, June 2

8:30am – 5:00pm

Sustainable Value Toolkit - Executive Workshop

Learn how to create sustainable value in your company directly from the experts that led some of the largest sustainability transformations in Fortune 500 companies. An intensive workshop including everything from strategic approaches to concrete tools and methods. Presented by Chris Laszlo (Managing Partner, Sustainable Value Partners), Jon Whalen (Principal, Blu Skye Sustainability Consultants), Kyle Tanger (CEO, Clear Carbon Consulting) and David Cooperrider (Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Chair of the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, Weatherhead School of Management)

6:00pm – 10:00pm

Welcome Reception for all Forum participants

Welcome addresses by Mayor Frank Jackson (Mayor of Cleveland) and Barbara Snyder (President, Case Western Reserve University)

Keynote by Gunter Pauli (Founder and Director, Zero Emissions Research Intiative).

The Ethic Mark ® Award will be conferred by Rinaldo Brutoco (Founder and President, World Business Academy), Tim O’Connor (CEO, Next Horizon Group & Board Member, World Business Academy) and Ron Nahser (Managing Director, Corporantes Inc.)

Wednesday, June 3

8:00am – 8:30am

Morning Welcome by  David Cooperrider

8:30am – 9:15 am

Opening Inquiry: Dialogues in pairs. Appreciative Inquiry session led by David Cooperrider & Ron Fry

Keynote: Bill McDonough (Founding Principal, William McDonough + Partners; co-Author of Cradle to Cradle)

10:45 am - 11:45 am

Roundtable Dialogues: Appreciative Inquiry session led by David Cooperrider & Ron Fry

11:45am – 12:30pm

Managing as Designing - Richard Boland (Case Western Reserve University

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Keynote: Bruce Mau (President and Creative Director, Bruce Mau Design)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Interactive Workshops and Paper Sessions

Corporate-focused workshops that include Ford, Cisco, Herman Miller, IBM and Patagonia.
Cutting-edge research from top management schools—Kellogg, Rotterdam, Drucker, Rotman, Ross, Haas, Oxford’s Said, Copenhagen, Carroll and Weatherhead.

See the descriptions of the different sessions here and see the full list of workshop and paper presenters here

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Corporate Keynotes and Discussion

How are leading companies driving innovation and sustainability through design thinking?
Featuring Ray Anderson (CEO, Interface Inc.), Toby Cosgrove, (CEO, Cleveland Clinic), Craig Wynett (General Manager, Future Growth Initiatives, P & G)

Moderated by Rinaldo Brutoco (President, World Business Academy)

6:00pm – 9:30pm

Reality in Translation: Reinventing our Legacy

An Arts & Leadership event designed by Nancy Adler (Professor of International Management, McGill University and Visual Artist)

Thursday, June 4

8:00am – 8:30am

Morning Welcome by  David Cooperrider

8:30am – 10:00am

Design as a catalyst for massive positive change

With Peter Coughlan (Partner and Head of Transformation practice, IDEO), Ken Gergen (Mustin Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College), Jennifer Magnolfi (Senior Designer of Architecture and Building Technology Systems, Herman Miller) and Jason Pearson (CEO, GreenBlue).

Moderated by Richard Buchanan (Professor of Design, Case Western Reserve University, former Dean of the Design School at Carnegie Mellon)

10:30am – 12:00pm

Roundtable Dialogues: Appreciative Inquiry session led by David Cooperrider & Ron Fry

12:00pm – 12:30pm

Systems Thinking

Video messages by Russ Ackoff  (Professor Emeritus, Wharton) and Peter Senge (Senior Lecturer, MIT and author Presence)

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Design and Management Education
Roger Martin (Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Interactive Workshops and Paper Sessions

Corporate-focused workshops that include Ford, Cisco, Herman Miller, IBM and Patagonia.

Cutting-edge research from top management schools—Kellogg, Rotterdam, Drucker, Rotman, Ross, Haas, Oxford’s Said, Copenhagen, Carroll and Weatherhead.

See the descriptions of the different sessions here and see the full list of workshop and paper presenters here

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Deans Panel

How are leading business schools incorporating design thinking and sustainability? Featuring Ira Jackson (Dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management), Maryam Alavi (Senior Vice Dean of Goizueta Business School at Emory), Mohan Reddy (Dean, Weatherhead School of Management).

Moderated by Manuel Escudero (Head, PRME Secretariat, Special Adviser, UN Global Compact)

6:00pm – 9:30pm

Evening Reception: Keynote by Janine Benyus (Co-founder, Biomimicry Guild)

Friday, June 5

8:00am – 8:30am

Morning Welcome by David Cooperrider

8:30am – 12:00pm

Interactive Design: Led by Peter Coughlan, David Cooperrider & Ron Fry

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Global Forum Consortium CEO panel

The CEOs of the Global Forum Consortium:

Chuck Fowler (CEO, Fairmount Minerals), Rodrigo Loures (President, Nutrimental S.A.; Vice-President, CNI) and Thomas Beech, (President and CEO, Fetzer Institute)