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Zenger Folkman's Leadership Summit Features Founders and Top Leadership Executives
[May 06, 2015]

Zenger Folkman's Leadership Summit Features Founders and Top Leadership Executives


Zenger Folkman is pleased to announce the sixth annual Extraordinary Leadership Summit. This year, founders Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman will personally lead multiple sessions. In addition to their workshops, a Leadership Forum will be held on Wednesday featuring today's top-talent development experts-from some of the world's most successful companies. Each year, client speakers are chosen who are creating interesting, innovative applications of Zenger Folkman's strengths-based development and research methodology. This year will include top experts in leadership development from General Mills, General Motors (News - Alert), and McKesson.

"Training and development executives can learn best practices from these speakers who have found great success in their implementations of leadership development initiatives," said Jack Zenger, CEO of Zenger Folkman. "There is also plenty of time to network with peers and fellow practitioners from other organizations who share similar interests in strengthening organizations and people through improved leadership."

This year's speakers are from various global organizations and industries including:

  • Kevin Wilde, VP, Org Effectiveness & Chief Learning Officer at General Mills. Kevin Wilde is responsible for world-wide people growth at General Mills, including talent management, executive development, and The Leadership Institute. Under Kevin's leadership, General Mills has been consistently recognized by Fortune's ranking as one of the best companies in the world at leadership development, and Training magazine's "Hall of Fame" as a top company for employee development. Chief Learning Officer selected Kevin as CLO of the year in 2007.
  • Andrew Wilhelm, Director of Management and Leadership Development at McKesson. Andrew is an expert at fueling business growth by ensuring that the organization is effectively building and leveraging pipeline talent. By accelerating the growth of McKesson's highest potential managers, mid-level, and senior leaders, Andrew is successfully building a strong, deep, diverse bench of future leaders.
  • Michelle Feiberg, Director of Talent Assessment at McKesson. Michelle has led and participated in talent management initiatives to drive a high-performing workforce across the organization. Most recently, Michelle led the redesign of McKesson's talent review process, which enables leaders to gain fresh perspectives and drive actionable insights for talent movement and development.
  • Bill Huffaker, Global Director of Talent Management and Acquisition at General Motors. Bill is passionate about designing forward-thinking talent strategies that transform corporate cultures, effect system-wide change, and optimize employee engagement and performance. He has achieved stellar results in a variety of high-profile, global companies that are undergoing significant change including General Motors, Google (News - Alert), Microsoft, and Visa.



"The Leadership Summit is a unique opportunity to experience workshops being delivered by the individuals who developed them," said Tom Rhoton, VP of Marketing at Zenger Folkman. "Jack, Joe, and our other presenters are the experts and this event is an ideal opportunity for participants to learn new ways to approach leadership development from the very best."

The summit will be held July 20-24 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Register HERE to attend. Save $300 when you register by May 15, 2015.


Zenger Folkman is the authority in strengths-based leadership development. Their award-winning programs employ research-based methods that improve organizations and turn good managers into extraordinary leaders.


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