Framing the Future: Leadership Skills for a New Century

Key Features

26 minute VHS or DVD video

previews available only in VHS format at this time

In Framing the Future,Jennifer James uses her unique skills to help us understand the incredible life/work changes that are affecting all of us.

In addition to providing you tools for coping with change, Dr. James illustrates four major factors working to create these revolutionary changes:

• Technology: The pace of technological change is dizzying; learn how we're coping.
• Economics: We are truly entering a new economy driven by this technology.
• Demographics: Learn how age, ethnicity and gender are changing the demographics of the work force.
• Culture: Technology, economics and demographics are forcing us into a cultural transformation.

KEY LEARNING POINTS

• Understand the factors causing change
• Develop skills for managing successfully in this new era

USES

• Leadership Skills
• Team Building

"Jennifer James presents difficult concepts in an inspiring and exciting way. This is the kind of thinking that can give you the innovative, competitive edge."
- Ken Blanchard, co-author, The One Minute Manager

Jennifer James, Ph.D. is one of the top organizational speakers in the corporate and educational communities. Her lectures are designed to help people understand and manage the rapidly changing workplace. She is an urban cultural anthropologist and was an academic researcher and lecturer for twenty years. During the last twelve years of her academic career, she was a professor at the University of Washington Medical School. She now lectures throughout the world to corporations and organizations interested in the process of change and develop new thinking skills.

A proven media presence, James has hosted a popular daily radio program in Seattle and was selected Personality of the Year by Billboard Magazine. She has also anchored several programs and award-winning documentaries for Seattle's CBS television and radio affiliates.

James is the author of seven books. Her latest book, Thinking in the Future Tense: Leadership Skills for a New Age was recently published by Simon and Schuster. James also writes a popular syndicated column for the Seattle Sunday Times.