Leadership Explored May 15 at Simmons College Conference
Author of "Shackleton’s Way" and Expert of Knowledge Management to Speak

BOSTON (April 19, 2002) – The complexity of leadership, including leadership of an ill-fated expedition to Antarctica and organizational leadership in "knowledge management," will be explored Wednesday, May 15 in a program sponsored by the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS). The GSLIS Alumni Day, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. and open to the public, will be at 300 The Fenway in Boston.

The Alumni Day will honor its own with two alumni speaking on leadership. Shackleton’s Way author Margot Morrell ’75 will speak on leadership qualities that apply to all professions, drawing from her book that uses Sir Ernest Shackleton’s story of perseverance as a template for managerial and team building skills in the workplace. Laurence Prusak ’82, a managing principal with IBM Global Services, is the founder and executive director of the Institute of Knowledge Management, a global consortium engaged in advancing the practice of knowledge management through action research. Prusak is the author of In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work.

For more information or to register contact the Simmons College Office of Alumnae/i Relations at 800-246-0573. The cost is $35 for alumni/guests, and $15 for GSLIS students.

Note to reporters: if you’d like to cover the event, contact Katie Fiermonti in the public relations office at 617-521-2369.

Simmons College is a nationally recognized, small, private, predominantly women’s university in the heart of Boston. It has undergraduate programs for women and graduate programs for women and men.

CONTACT

Katie Fiermonti
617-521-2369

 

 

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