Peer Learning Network
Peer Learning Network
As we all strategize to cope with the rapid pace of change, turbulent economic times, and perpetual leadership challenges, a truly exceptional concept in executive education is demanded. In 1990, a group known as the Peer Learning Network was created as a result of a partnership between Clayton McWhorter, then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HealthTrust, Inc., and Belmont University. The discussion centered around shared experiences of effectively learning from peers in the Nashville community, and the invaluable nature of these experiences. The discussion focused on finding a vehicle to encourage this learning among other leaders in Nashville's business community. Through HealthTrust, Mr. McWhorter responded with a grant to initiate the 'Peer Learning Network.'
The Peer Learning Network is thriving today and maintains a purpose of 'bringing together top executives of Nashville's best-run companies in a setting where they can learn from each other.' Belmont University was designated as the 'coming together' place where leaders of companies doing business in a variety of fields can share problems and solutions (best practices) with their peers, creating a new network within Nashville's business community.
Premise
The Peer Learning Network affords members a unique opportunity to focus on the vitality of out-of-the-box approaches to explore and experience the answers to these questions:
What contemporary issues do you need to explore NOW for your company to thrive during change?
What best practices could you and your company share with other PLN members? What do you do better than most other companies? And what could you learn from other executives and their companies' best practices?
Who are the world-class speakers and business leaders you want to spend time with and learn from?
Sample Programs
Featuring world class leaders, Peer Learning members have had the chance to interact with authors Steven Covey ( The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People); Peter Block ( Stewardship), Gary Hamel ( Competing for the Future); Joel Barker ( Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future), Margaret Wheatley ( Leadership and the New Science), and Harold Kushner ( When Bad Things Happen to Good People). The opportunity to delve into to the minds of some of the world's leading thinkers and leaders has been a highlight with such diverse leaders as Rick Pitino, then coach of the Boston Celtics; former vice president Al Gore; Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines, Ram Charan, internationally known business advisor and author; and a unique presentation by the Afterburners, a group of former fighter pilots who parallel flight tactics with business strategy. Dazzling customer service principles were shared by such organizational leaders in the field as Disney, Marriott, and Ritz-Carleton.
A memorable experience for the Peer Learning CEO's was the opportunity to have a conversation with Jack Welch during his tenure at General Electric.
For more information contact:
Jill Robinson
615.460.5560 phone
615.460.5593 fax
robinsonj@mail.belmont.edu email
