Universidad del Pacífico
Ila
Exploring Leadership in Latin America
August 10-12, 2016
Universidad del Pacífico, Lima Perú

About the conference

Latin America is a continent with a history of weak democracies, coups, dictatorships, wars between neighboring countries, guerrillas, internal social conflicts, and of informal business and market development. The influence of private and military sectors on political decisions, as well as the enormous extension of poverty, have, furthermore, led to difficult geographic, social, and cultural integration.

Although these dynamics have changed in the past 30 years, the residue of this heritage remains as a subtle subtext weighing in on the transformation process of Latin American societies. Influential institutions in Latin America such as family, school, and the media also play a crucial role, impacting behavior and practice. Keeping in mind the Latin American process, this conference asks: How does transformation come about? What type of transformation is Latin America actually experiencing?

Transformational processes take place within the interaction of different levels and dimensions of social reality. For each process there is an underlying logic, a way or a mechanism that either facilitates or hinders transformation. In Latin America, many times the expectation, for example, is that a new leader, a new government, or a new law can, almost radically, change national reality. The lived experience, however, is that this transformation does not happen or it falls short of the original expectation. Invariably, the old logic survives disguised in some other form. The same disconnect also occurs within both the private sector and social organizations. For example, a declared policy of corporate social responsibility will be contradicted by the real practices of business activity.

What factors, then, limit systemic transformational process and how can these limitations be overcome? If entrenched interests are powerful enough to prevent change, what role is there for leadership? In what way does the system determine whether individuals reveal themselves as leaders? How might alternative leaders emerge? What resistances emerge to prevent, hinder, or slow down transformation? What else is there besides individuals in transformation processes? How do the subjective world of people, the culture, the collective unconscious, and the social relations work?

This conference will explore these questions, asking participants to consider the new and critical dynamism the world is experiencing and how this course is being expressed, particularly within a Latin American context. Taking place August 10-12, 2016, Exploring Leadership in Latin America is an opportunity to share experiences, conclusions, analyses, practices, situations, cases, processes, research, or reflections that can have an impact on Latin America organizations, businesses, and societies, contributing to their transformation.

Keynote speakers
Cynthia Cherry
Cynthia Cherrey

Is President and CEO of the International Leadership Association (ILA), a global network of leadership scholars, educators, and practitioners. Previously, Cynthia served as Vice President and Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She publishes in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and higher education including co-authoring Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of our Work, co-editing ILA’s Building Leadership Bridges book series. Her most recent publication is Women and Leadership around the World (co-editor). She is a Fellow at the World Business Academy and a recipient of a J.W. Fulbright Scholarship.

Cynthia’s interests and research explore new ways to live, work, and lead in a knowledge driven, interdependent, global society. She consults and speaks to for-profit and non-profit organizations around the world on leadership and organizational change. As president of a multi-sector professional association, she is an expert at working in the intersections and crossing the borders and boundaries organizations encounter.

About the International Leadership Association
With more than 2,700 members in over 70 countries, the International Leadership Association is the only global network that brings together leadership scholars and researchers, educators and students, coaches and consultants, public leaders and executives. Why does ILA bring people together? Because when we share our unique perspectives, experiences, and knowledge we come up with better, more integrated leadership thinking, practices, and solutions that can positively impact our complex global environment. The world needs better leadership and ILA’s mission of promoting a deeper understanding of leadership knowledge and practice for the greater good aims to make a difference.

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Cynthia Cherry
María Emilia Correa

Agent of change and committed entrepreneur, who firmly believes that organizations and markets can be powerful forces in the construction of better societies. She stands out for her capacity to turn ideas into concrete actions and to build bridges between “unlikely partners”. She has an active global presence, and has managed with persistence and a profound coherence with her personal values to place new ideas in the public agenda and in companies, both locally and globally. She is skillful in building enthusiastic and diverse communities and teams, by facilitating critical connections and by creating the conditions that assure that people and groups achieve their best results.

Cynthia Cherry
Juana Bordas

Juana Bordas is President of Mestiza Leadership International (MLI) -- a company that focuses on leadership, diversity, and organizational change.

Juana emigrated to the U.S. from Nicaragua on a banana boat. The youngest daughter in a family of eight, she was the first to go to college. Her early years would instill in her a desire to give back, to make a contribution, and to assist other Latinos/as find their place in society.

Juana was a founder and executive director of Denver’s Mi Casa Women’s Center. Today, Mi Casa is recognized as a national model for women’s empowerment and is the largest Hispanic serving organization in Colorado. She was founding President of the National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI), the only program in America that prepares Latinas for national leadership. In 2001 she founded the Circle of Latina Leadership to prepare the next generation of leaders. To date, 175 young women have completed the program. For her extensive work with Latinas, she was commended by Latina Style Magazine for creating “a Nation of Latina Leaders.”

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