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PRESS RELEASE Date: Friday, April 1, 2016 Contact: Ryan Blackburn (630) 829-6070 or Elliott Peppers at (630) 829-6079 Benedictine Doctoral Program Trains Executives to Help Business & Society Flourish Lisle, Illinois ~ The coffee retail giant Starbucks made headlines recently when it announced a plan to donate 100 percent of unused food from its stores to

Editor’s Note: Do business and academia need each other? Matt Schatteman, a senior leader with a division of publicly-traded Kaman Corp., argues they do in this essay on his experiences as a student in an executive doctoral program. For more on the scholar-practitioner experience, see this article. To be in an executive Ph.D. program is

NOTE: This post is an excerpt from our eBook, Do Differently: How CEOs of Values-Driven Companies Spend their Time. Download your free copy of the whole book by using the link. Jim Horan, CEO of Blue Plate, Chicago’s top event catering company, boiled the responsibilities of a CEO down to just two: 1) Worry about

Light, shadow, and emotional intelligence Not long ago, I traveled to Barcelona to attend the International Leadership Association’s annual conference. In my first days there, a speaker cautioned us to “be conscious of the shadow your light casts.” For me, his words were contradictory, profound, and soul-stirring. Sitting in a conference room, I pondered my

International travel has a way of humbling us as it forces us to adapt to a different pace and circumstances outside our control. Not long ago, while attending the International Leadership Association Conference in Barcelona, Spain, international travel also taught me an important lesson about four critical concepts for every leader: Listening, Humility, Followership, Gratitude.

Not Just a Trend, Focusing on Culture Helps CEOs Drive Results On the topic of workplace culture, it seems most leaders fall into one of two camps: those that think constantly about culture, and those who never give it thought. Increasingly, the “think about it constantly” camp is growing. In 2014, Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people,

Are you putting your company’s reputation at risk? Dr. Dave Smith (a 2014 graduate of the Ph.D./D.B.A. program in values-driven leadership) draws from research to show one characteristic companies with strong, positive reputations have in common: clarity. Hear more in the video below – or start with Dr. Smith’s first video in this series, which can be

The World Economic Forum released their report, The Future of Jobs, last month, and the research is fascinating. In particular, the report asked chief human resources and strategy officers from leading global organizations to identify the skill sets the workforce of 2020 will need. Compared side by side to the skills identified as needed in 2015,

Forbes Features Friends of the CVDL in New List In late January, Forbes magazine published it’s first list of the best small companies in the country. Explaining what makes these companies so great, Bo Burlingham, the Forbes contributor who organized the list and the original author of Small Giants – the book that inspired the

“Competency to do your job is your ticket to entry,” says podcast host Dr. Linda Sharkey in her opening comments, “but values are really the defining factor. … It is going to be essential going forward.” Sharkey hosted CVDL co-founder and director, Dr. Jim Ludema, on her weekly podcast The Leadership Connection. Ludema tackled the