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Listen Live at 10.00am
GMT - Tom Bowman & Dr. Cleve Stevens "Psychology of leadership
leadership, organizational transformation and Climate Change Communication Strategies" Radio Streaming Broadcast: September 3, 2010.
"Psychology of leadership leadership, organizational transformation and Climate Change Communication Strategies"
Tom Bowman is one of the premier interpreters of global change,
climate and energy science, and green business strategies. He is a social entrepreneur, adviser, communication strategist,
and science interpreter. As President of Bowman Design Group, he led award-winning climate exhibition designs for the Marian
Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences and Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Dr. Cleve Stevens is an established
authority on the psychology of leadership and the technology of leadership and organizational transformation and has been
formally engaged in the field of leadership development for more than 20 years. He has served as an adviser and leadership
development consultant to top business leaders and Fortune 500 companies in North America, Europe and Asia. These two experts
bring a combination of leadership and communication experience to the forefront of our world's demand for better knowledge.
Presented by David Gibbons this hour long program raises ideas and methodologies from two highly respected individuals in
their fields with a profound set of resulting synergistic values and solutions.
Tom Bowman - Bowman Design Group & Bowman Global Change
Tom Bowman is one of the premier interpreters of global change, climate and energy science, and
green business strategies. He is a social entrepreneur, advisor, communication strategist, and science interpreter. As President
of Bowman Design Group, he led award-winning climate exhibition designs for the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National
Academy of Sciences and Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and the Ocean on the Edge exhibition at the Aquarium of the Pacific. As
a consultant with Bowman Global Change, he contributed to the federal Climate Literacy education guide and organized a groundbreaking
meeting to assess public attitudes about global warming and authored its influential summary report. Bowman founded the Climate
Solutions Project to develop public intervention strategies with a blue-ribbon team of experts in climate science, social
science, economics, ethics and social marketing. He writes a monthly column on green business strategies and received an inaugral
Small Business of the Year award from the California Air Resources Board in 2009 for generating an annual cost savings while
slashing his firm's greenhouse gas emission by 65% in just two years.
“Scientists can't make policy; they can only provide sound science as an input to
wise policy.”
–Dr. Richard Somerville, San Diego Union Tribune. February 14th, 2007 Scientists
want everyone—policymakers, business leaders, news editors, entertainers, and the public—to make wise choices
about climate change. Bowman helps them by explaining real science in clear, simple, and engaging ways. There is
no escaping the fact that people simplify; it’s human nature. His approach is to help people simplify more effectively.
By illuminating the most important ideas and engineering key insights, he helps non-scientists understand and employ
scientific results to make better decisions. Bowman has set new standards for effective communication through work
with scientists from the National Academy of Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Aquarium of the Pacific, NOAA,
and the electric utility industry. Through these collaborations, he have delivered authentic results, without bias, in
ways that everyone can understand and use.
Bowman offers a unique kind of resource. His company is well versed in climate science, public attitudes
and marketing communications, and experienced with the creative process. For many years, they have told cultural and scientific
stories to business decision-makers and public audiences through video programs and interactive media. They know the science,
the politics, and where people stand on the issues. And they know how to work with creative teams.
Demonstrating
cost-effective solutions to the climate crisis is also vital, and Bowman has tested the business case. The results speak for
themselves: 65% lower carbon emissions in just two years, a payback of just 15 months, with an ongoing annual cost savings.
Any company can replicate these results through a simple step-by-step program.
"We can inform.
We can also inspire. Together, we can get the message right." — Bowman Global Change
“Storytelling and creative license doesn’t always mix with hard science. Working with
Bowman provides the synthesis of creative thought and knowledge that engages an audience…making science understandable
and fun to work with!”
John Lawrence
President
Image Work Communications
An established authority on the psychology of leadership and the technology of leadership and organizational
transformation, Cleve Stevens, Ph.D. has been formally engaged in the field of leadership development for more than 20 years.
He has served as an advisor and leadership development consultant to top business leaders and Fortune 500 companies in North
America, Europe and Asia.Dr. Stevens has taught leadership and business leadership at the graduate and undergraduate level
at the University of Southern California, Beijing University and North Eastern University (China).
Dr. Stevens’ commitment to have a lasting and meaningful impact on the lives of individuals has
led to the founding of Owl Sight Intentions, Incorporated (OSI, Inc.), a business leadership consulting firm. Owl Sight Intentions
is focused on creating awakened, genuinely empowered leaders. OSI leaders are not afraid to connect their leadership in the
corporate domain with the impact they have on the lives of their employees at work, at home and beyond.OSI, Inc. serves as
a resource and "homebase" for leaders who have the courage to imagine a better, more compelling and impactful business
paradigm – leaders who have the strength of
character to fully embrace their causality and their capacity to consciously generate change at the highest and deepest level.
Owl Sight Intention's commitment is to creating authentic and powerful, perhaps even enlightened leaders.
This emphasis on encouraging powerful
leadership – leadership that settles for nothing less than extraordinary results – is the hallmark of Dr. Stevens’
leadership and executive development practice. Dr. Stevens holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California
at Irvine, a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Social Ethics and Leadership Development
from the University of Southern California. His first book is due out in 2010.
Owl Sight Intentions (OSI) is a leadership and organizational development firm that grounds its practice in the fundamental
principles of human and organizational effectiveness. Our objectives are as simple as they are comprehensive. We seek to bring
a heightened degree of rationality, awareness and intentionality to the leadership of our corporate clients for two reasons:
1) so that the leadership creates a results-driven organizational culture that is gratifying to the employees, satisfying
to the customers and compelling to the leaders themselves; and 2) so that out of this culture, productivity is dramatically
improved and bottom-line results significantly moved in the desired direction. OSI’s unequivocal commitment
is to create truly wise, genuinely inspired leaders in the corporate world, leaders that know what they are up to as leaders
and what it means to “get it done.” We are a results-based company, premised on the non-negotiable assertion
that great leaders always operate from the understanding that they – not the economy, not the competition, not any other
external circumstance – are the cause of their success or their failure. Such an assumption is the source of their power
and the basis for OSI’s success as a leadership development firm.
Leadership Team Workshops
The majority of leadership and management groups
in business organizations that refer to themselves as “teams,” in actuality, are not teams in the truest sense
of the word. Rather, they are often groups of executives that function reasonably well when they are called upon to work together.
Yet, simply getting-along with, or liking (or not disliking) one’s fellow members of an executive group does not constitute
a team and does not render the expansive results that a true team can produce. OSI's Leadership Team Workshops are designed
to build truly authentic powerful teams. There are too
few truly powerful leadership teams in the business world today, particularly when one considers the large number of existing
business organizations. The reason for this is simple: team work is hard work. It is some of the hardest work in which leaders
engage. One of the more significant contributions that OSI makes in leadership and organizational development is in rigorously
guiding executive “teams” through the process of becoming authentic and truly powerful leadership teams. By virtue
of two and three day workshops, conducted on a quarterly or twice-quarterly basis, OSI challenges the organization’s
leaders to operate on a more aware and powerful level of personal and professional effectiveness. OSI’s team-development processes are carried
out in a manner that evokes and demands high levels of honesty, commitment, courage and vision, both for the individual leader
and for the team as a whole. The result is authentic teams of authentic leaders, teams of people dedicated to leading change
rather than being led by it.
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