2010-09-03 | Leadership Seminar

Will Marré, Co-Founder of the Covey Leadership Center

Will Marre's in-the-trenches leadership project 21 Companies for the 21^st Century reveals what current clients are doing to create unexpected value, fuel sustainable growth, ignite innovation and keep employees happy right now.  These new leadership practices may astonish you.  You will learn the revolutionary things that leaders are doing that make companies reach a billion dollars in sales in less than 10 years.

• Date:                     Friday, September 3, 2010 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
• Location:              Larkin's On The River, 318 S. Main St., Greenville, SC

There is no charge for this event, but registration is required.   Click here to register or contact spiro@clemson.edu for more information.

About the Speaker:

Will Marré is the co-founder and former president of the Covey Leadership Center where he translated the concepts

of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People into powerful leadership courses taught to millions of executives

worldwide. Today Will is an evangelist of socially strategic enterprise that transforms Corporate Social Responsibility

into Corporate Social Opportunity.

Will has been a business leader and consultant for 25 years to world leading companies such as Disney and

Procter and Gamble. Now he is on a mission bringing his experience, vision and personal fire to the world to create

a future of sustainable abundance.

Will is passionately helping organizations improve the quality of their people's lives and accelerate economic and

social improvement throughout the world. Using cause marketing with New York Stock Exchange companies to

develop social-eco commerce, Will co-founded the Seacology Foundation that has saved nearly 200,000 acres of

fragile island eco-systems and rainforests and 2 million acres of coral reefs.

Will is currently on the advisory board of the Human Performance Institute, a new Johnson & Johnson company

dedicated to improving health and life satisfaction measures throughout the world. GE has also tapped Will to help

them communicate the "green" value of their revolutionary organic LED lights. His personal passion for sustainable

business innovation is also helping the renowned Grameen Foundation lift 100's of millions of people out of grinding

poverty through micro-credit.

In 2004 Will founded The American Dream Project to ignite leaders of the future to develop and find the ideas,

tools and relationships they need to create the next chapter in American and world history. Will recently received

an Emmy Award© for writing the learning documentary "Reclaiming Your American Dream" that continues to air

on Public Television stations around the country.

Will is dead serious with a humorous style. He connects up-to-minute research with clear insights into a river of

powerful ideas. As a leadership expert and an unrelenting advocate for a sustainable future, Will always brings his

original ideas, unconventional views and infectious passion.

Will currently serves as Consulting Director of the Corporate Responsibility Forum at the

University of California San Diego linking civic, non-profit and the business community

into a common vision of the future for the San Diego California region. Will serves on the

leadership faculty of UCSD extension, the visiting Scholar of Social Enterprise at Clemson

University and is a former Leadership Scholar in Residence of The University of San Diego.

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Pris Foster

Clemson at the Falls

55 East Camperdown Way

Greenville, SC 29601

864-370-3038 tel

864-370-1522 fax

priscif@clemson.edu

www.clemson.edu/

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