Theme Suggestions

From Rosalia Saldivar:

"Higher Education, Belize's Conduit to (Sustainable) National Development"

From Danalyn Myvett:

"Leadership: Effectively Managing to Survive Change"

"Effective Leadership: Conquering Challenges whilst Developing Belize"
"Effective Leadership: Building Belize whilst Embracing Change"

"Effective leadership: Embracing Change and Building Belize"

"Effective Leadership: Delivering a better tomorrow"

"Effective leadership: A Step in The right Direction"

From Dorla Rosado:

"Change Leadership: Creating A Better Belize;

"Change Leadership: A Brighter Future for Belize"

"Change Leadership: Purpose, Passion and Power for a New Belize"

From Margarita Gomez:

"Education and Leadership: Bridging the gap of the 21st Century brought about by globalization and change"

Post Your Comments

Hello colleagues! We would like to hear from you as we plan our conference. Send us your suggestions/ideas. Click on "comments" below and let us know. By all means -you can respond to each other comments. Thank you.

Minerva Pinelo, Conference coordinator, 2010

"The equilibrium between maintaining organizations as identifiable entities while changing and adapting to meet future demands is highly dependent on effective leadership and has become a highly valued commodity with varying interpretations (Fairholm & Card;2009;Northouse, 2010). Developing leadership is pivotal to organizational success leading to competitive advantage. This year's conference has the potential to become a catalyst to leadership development in Belizean organizations. My expectations for this year are to facilitate a forum for discussion on strategies, relationships, organizational and environmental context, successful change management, organizational culture and ultimately organizational success as well as to foster team work and draw from the strengths of each cohort member" (M. Pinelo. personal communication, May 2, 2010)

Henry Anderson, past conference coordinator, 2008

"My area of specialization is organizational leadership. Although it's a doctoral degree in education the organizational leadership concentration is for people with business backgrounds and things like that. What it gives us besides specialized additional knowledge of strategic planning and management; it's also the ability to conduct applied research which is you look at the situation, you look a t what theory has to say about that situation, you come up with an intervention and you test the intervention so its applied. I think, for me personally that it is the area of interest. It's not only studying something bu it is also a way to fix it" (Love FM, 2008).

Sheree Smiling- Craig- past conference coordinator, 2009

"We want to share with the Belizean people what we have been doing and what we plan to do in the future. In the next year or so we should be completing the programme and at the end of that time we will be publishing some of our research or making people aware of the result of research that we will be undertaking during the next year. There are 31 Belizeans in the programme at this time and we range in age from twenty to seventy something. There is no way you would be able to complete this programme without building comradery and a lot of collaboration of effort. The programme really leads to an EDD, a doctoral degree; the difference between a doctoral degree, an EDD and a PHd is that the Edd has an applied dissertation so we have to do an applied intervention and we have topics that will affect education and business communities. What the students are doing is that we are coming up with problems that we have identified in our society and we are going to do research and apply an intervention to that problem. We will then state our results at the end" (Love FM, 2009).