GRLI appoints Mark Drewell as CEO
The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Drewell as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from 1st January 2010. Mark brings a broad range of business, academic and NGO leadership skills to this new post which has been created by the Board with the express purpose of increasing the scale and accelerating the impact of the GRLI’s work.
The GRLI’s Secretary-General and founder, Anders Aspling will step down from an operational leadership role but continue to serve the GRLI on a part time basis.
Commenting on the appointment, Pierre Tapie, Chairman of the GRLI Board and President of ESSEC Business School said “The work of the GRLI as a community of action is focused on creating a new generation of globally responsible business leaders. Our new CEO has the skills, knowledge, experience, networks and energy required to rapidly expand the reach and impact of our work.”
The GRLI is a Brussels headquartered global coalition of 62 companies and business schools/learning organisations focused on developing a next generation of globally responsible business leaders. It was founded in 2004 upon the initiative of EFMD (the European Foundation for Management Development) and the United Nations Global Compact. Its scope of activities includes thought leadership, advocacy, best practices benchmarking, and educational innovations.
For further information please contact Martine Torfs at the GRLI Management Centre, martine.torfs@grli.org or the Anders Aspling, Secretary-General of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, anders@aspling.net.
Bio of Mark Drewell
Call for submissions for the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2010
The European Foundation for Management Development is a leading international network of business schools, companies and consultancies at the forefront or raising the standards of management education & development globally. The EFMD Excellence in Practice Award recognises and promotes outstanding partnerships between companies and learning and development providers (business schools, executive development centres, consultancies).
Case studies of best practice and collaboration in leadership, professional, talent and organisation development are submitted for review to an international judging panel. The best short-listed cases chosen by the panel are then invited to present their partnerships at the EFMD Annual Conference (6-8 June, 2010– Frankfurt, Germany), when several sessions are devoted to the Excellence in Practice Award. Following the presentations the jury panel makes a final decision and the winners will be announced on the 7th June during the EFMD Awards Ceremony. The winning case will be featured extensively across the EFMD network and all of the short-listed partnerships will have their case studies published by Emerald Group Publishing.
The 2009 award was won by Allyson Stewart-Allen, London Business School & Michael Christ, Lufthansa School of Business for the case: Partnership in Planning, Development, Design, Delivery and Evaluation of the General Management Programme. On winning the award Allyson Stewart-Allen, Programme Director, Centre for Management Development, London Business School said "It is so satisfying to be recognised for our partnership. Every aspect of our work with Lufthansa has been about mutual trust, communication, being pushed to always do that little bit more for the participants and the programme's design. Clearly this hard work has delivered great results, and I'm personally very proud that the EFMD acknowledges our achievements given the formidable competition we had in winning this award."
Selection Criteria
All cases will be presented to an international jury. Selection criteria will take into account: operational excellence, programme management and business impact.
Submission Process
Expression of interest to: Florence Grégoire: florence.gregoire@efmd.org
Deadline for submission of full cases:
1 February 2010
Case presentations:
7/8 June 2010
For submission guidelines visit: www.efmd.org/eip
Further information
Florence Grégoire
Email: florence.gregoire@efmd.org
Tel: +32.2.629.08.10
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