Regional Leadership Forum (RLF)

SIM’s Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) is a process, not a curriculum, which enables each participant to discover what makes him/her an authentic leader. RLF is about leadership in life: work, home, community, and country. Effective leaders possess the ability to combine their personal leadership traits with qualities learned or acquired throughout their lives through mentors, life experiences, or professional development opportunities. RLF takes participants through a process that helps them identify their own inherent leadership qualities and arms them with the building blocks and knowledge necessary to rise to the top of their professions.

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RLF in the News

Network World
Leaders Can Be Made
Promising IT managers develop leadership skills with help from Steinbeck, Shakespeare and Hemingway.

ComputerWorld
Q&A: Mary Finlay
Mary Finlay, Deputy CIO at Partners HealthCare System Inc. conveys the importance of honing leadership skills and speaks to the value she received as a 2001 graduate of the SIM Regional Leadership Forum (RLF).

Barry Robinson, previous RLF graduate, has been named Chief Information Officer at Clifton Gunderson LLP, the nation's 14th largest public accounting and consulting firm.

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SIM – Chicago Chapter (One of Our Own)
Dr. Gezinus Hidding

Dr. Hidding, an associate professor at Loyola University, Chicago was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal in a jointly written article titled “The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall not be Last”. Congratulations to Dr. Hidding (a SIM Member) on this nationally published article. You can read the article at:
“The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall not be Last”

special member benefit


SIM Members get a 10% discount on Kellogg's "Driving Strategic Value from IT" Program. The Driving Strategic Value from IT program provides new insights and powerful tools to help you manage an IT portfolio more effectively for improved business results. You will learn how to coordinate your IT strategy with your overall business strategy in order to build deeper relationships with customers, collaborate more effectively with partners, and maximize business productivity.

Optimize Your IT Professionals' Contribution to the Business!

Now Offering a 25% discount to all SIM members. There’s still time to register for the session that begins May 19th. Click Here to learn more.

Lake Forest Corporate Education (LFCE), a strategic business unit of Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, announces its Business Leadership Certificate Program for IT Professionals.

This program will expand the business, leadership, and communication skills of IT professionals through a collaborative, interactive, five-day program that is relevant, practical, and IT-centric.

Features guest practitioner technology leaders presenting their practical insights and expertise.

The next program is:
February 17-19, 2009
March 17-18,2009
May 19-21, 2009
June 17-18, 2009
Register today at www.LFCE.org