June 25-27, 2008
Grainger World Headquarters & Lincolnshire Marriott Resort
Lake Forest, IL

This unique annual event brings together the world's brightest practitioners, to learn from each other and from an outstanding faculty of respected senior professionals and academics in our field.

The bulk of the event's programming will be based on the Page Society's recently published white paper report, entitled The Authentic Enterprise, which draws on original CEO research along with the collective experience of a cross-section of corporate communications and academic experts.

This whitepaper identifies the rapidly changing context for global business and society, examines the drivers and implications of these shifts, and proposes a set of strategic options for CEOs and other "C-suite" executives to consider in helping the enterprise successfully respond to the new realities.

Specifically, The Authentic Enterprise looks at the changes in technology, globalization and stakeholder empowerment and how those changes are creating both challenges and opportunities for corporations. Among the implications is the need not only to develop channels of communication, but also to develop networks of relationships. To do this, those who manage the communication function must not only position, but also define the corporation; not only change perceptions, but also be involved in changing realities.

Members of the Page Society and the NIRI Roundtable, and those who report to them, are invited to attend the Summit on Corporate Communications. The instructional team for the event will be built around Jon Iwata, Senior Vice President - Communications, IBM Corporation, one of the principal authors of The Authentic Enterprise and J. Roger Bolton, formerly the chief communications officer at Aetna, who commissioned this report during his tenure as President of the Page Society.

Many alumni of our Executive Forum and Leadership Forum programs, and other fast-track professionals, have said that they need ongoing, targeted learning opportunities where they also can meet their professional contemporaries from a wide range of organizations. If that's where you are in your career, then this is a program like nothing else available today.

Sponsors
Opportunities are available for your organization to show its support for research-based knowledge and learning in the field of corporate communications. Please contact Don Wright or Michelle Hinson.