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Eighth
Annual CEO Leadership School
Top Corporate Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success
Sunday, 8:30 am — 1:00 pm • Sunday, October
12, 2008
The CEO Leadership School, which begins each NAHC Annual
Meeting, was designed to help the industry’s present
and future leaders. The goal is to put them in touch with
many of the best and brightest from other industries who
have been asked to share the secrets of success. The CEO
Leadership School, therefore, is very much a leadership
or management seminar. The Eighth
Annual CEO Leadership School is $200. You can register
for the CEO School separately or add it when filing out
an Annual Meeting registration form*.
It is human nature for all industry leaders to believe
that their issues and problems are unique and to some extent,
this is true. However, there are far more commonalities
across-the-board from industry to industry than there are
differences.
The CEO Leadership School allows those that NAHC has identified
as leaders to listen and learn, extrapolate from other
industry executives, and hopefully, find answers which
they can implement immediately when they return home.
The CEO Leadership School is NAHC’s way of building
the intellectual equity of its members. Home care and hospice
CEO’s are often too busy, mired in the paperwork
and red tape, to read as much as they would like. The CEO
Leadership School brings the experts to them, face-to-face,
and helps teach, challenge, and inspire them. Its purpose
is to, in the words of Stephen Covey, “sharpen the
saw.”
* While
the CEO Leadership School Registration Fee is $200.00
per person, NAHC offers our Certified Home Care & Hospice Executives (CHCE) a special registration fee of $100.00 per CHCE registrant.
Invited speakers will include the following, subject to
their acceptance.
 Hugh L. McColl
Former CEO, Bank of America, and Founder, The McColl Group
“With leadership,” Hugh says, “comes
the power to change.” He’s lived up to this
claim by transforming a small North Carolina bank into
Bank of America. During 18 years at the helm, he helped
the company become a technology leader, make over 50 acquisitions,
and become America’s largest bank. This stupendous
growth was rough on competitors but did not come at the
expense of Hugh’s employees or the community. Maintaining
bank associates should lead balanced lives, he instituted
progressive work-and-family programs. He also encouraged
volunteer service during work hours in the belief that
a company’s health depends on the health of its communities.
Under his leadership, Bank of America reinvested in economically
underserved communities and became the nation’s leader
in financing minority- and women-owned businesses. Diversity
remained high on Hugh’s agenda after he retired from
Bank of America to form McColl Partners and McColl Garella,
an investment banking firm that caters to women. This recent
venture is among the ways he’s continued to shape
banking. Another was the Forum for Corporate Conscience
that he convened to help CEOs lead in a socially responsible
way. “Corporate executives want to do the right thing,” Hugh
says, and he’s still showing them the way.
 Thomas M. Chappell
Founder and CEO, Tom’s of Maine
“Who says capitalism must be as it’s practiced?” Tom
asks. He doesn’t, and he’s shown it since founding
Tom’s of Maine in 1970. Under his leadership, the
Kennebunk-based company produces natural, personal care
products in a caring, creative work environment. Both ethics
and entrepreneurship account for Tom’s success, as
he explains in The Soul of a Business and Seven Intentions
of Values-Centered Leadership. After publishing his two
books, Tom founded the Saltwater Institute to help executives
create profitable, values-centered enterprises. Tom’s
commitment to values reflects an education unlike your
typical CEO. After graduating from Trinity College with
a B.A. in English, he went to Harvard Divinity School where
he completed an M.A. in Theology. A deeply spiritual man,
he’s active in the Episcopal Church, besides contributing
time to the Deans Council for Harvard Divinity School and
the Advisory Council for the Study of Values in Public
Life. He’s received numerous honors, including a
National Caring Award, for his financial contributions
to preserve the rainforest and improve life for underprivileged
groups. This takes a bite out of profits, but Tom’s
goal is to make capitalism “accountable to its community,
people, and environment.” Always aware of higher
ends, Tom knows there’s more to business than the
bottom line.
 Ann Rhoades
Founder and President, People Ink, Former Human Resources
for Southwest and JetBlue Airlines
Ann is a dynamic human resources executive and self-described “rule
breaker.” In the course of over 25 years, she’s
used her “people-centric” approach to help
organizations go from good to great. At Southwest Airlines,
she solidified the company’s reputation for a stellar
work force. At Promus Hotel Corporation, she built a culture
based on outstanding service. And she created JetBlue Airway’s
People Team in New York. Still a board member at JetBlue,
she now has a consulting firm that brings her ideas to
a broader market, especially the health care industry.
She serves on patient safety and quality task forces at
Texas Medical Institute of Technology, and she’s
co-founder of CareLeaders Corporation, which helps hospitals
boost their performance. This commitment to quality inspires
her community involvement, including service with Albuquerque
Community Foundation, Brigham & Women’s Hospital,
Safer New Mexico Now, and the University of New Mexico.
Whether focusing on health care or hospitality, she urges
HR professionals to try out new roads. “The great
promise of HR,” she says, “is that you can
have a huge impact on any organization. When you understand
that, you act differently, you make better choices. And
you are more confident in taking risks and daring to speak
the truth.”
 Peter Roy
Former President, Whole Foods Market
Peter Roy is former president of Whole Foods Market, America’s
largest retailer of natural and organic foods. He started
his career in 1975 bagging groceries at Whole Food Company
in New Orleans. By 1978, he was president of the company,
then among the largest volume stores in the fledgling natural
products industry. Two years later, Whole Food pioneered
a new retail concept by opening one of America’s
first natural food supermarkets. In 1984, Peter founded
the Natural Foods Network. As president, he helped the
new industry trade association bring together entrepreneurs
from the natural foods supermarket business. This produced
ties among Whole Foods Market, Bread and Circus, Mrs. Gooch’s,
Wellspring Grocery and Whole Food Company, all of which
merged into Whole Foods Market. From 1988 to 1993 Peter
expanded the Whole Foods concept to Northern California.
After he became president of Whole Foods in 1993, the company
was twice named among the “100 Best Companies to
Work for in America” by Fortune. Since resigning
from Whole Foods in 1998, Peter has served on the boards
of several companies that produce natural products and
co-authored The Book of Hard Choices: How to Make the Right
Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect. |
