IAMC Leadership Development Seminars are designed to provide high-quality leadership training to benefit both participants and the organizations they represent. They also create a path - but not the only path - to leadership opportunities within IAMC.

Take Home Value

• High quality leadership training.
• Starting/Continuing along the path to Leadership Fellow designation.

While free of charge, this invitation-only event requires separate registration. If you are an Active Member of IAMC and are interested in receiving future invitations or have inquiries about the waiting list, please contact Hazel Pankey at hazel.pankey@iamc.org.

Featuring Moderator Lisa Speltz of Nestl‚ Waters, this Active-member-only professional education program will focus on how corporate real estate can help raise corporate productivity through the shared experiences of those present.

The Williamsburg Research Roundtable participants will select one productivity opportunity well suited to corporate real estate and determine how the department can best use it to make a high-value contribution.

Take Home Value

• Best practices on contributing to increased corporate productivity.
• Open discussion with professional peers.
• Opportunity to bring both your questions and expertise to the table.

All Active members and other end-users are invited and urged to participate. For more information or to register, please contact Joel Parker at joel.parker@iamc.org.

Highly interactive Peer-to-Peer is an IAMC trademark combining low-key professional networking with high-value education. Corporate end-users, service providers and economic developers mix, make new acquaintances and get to know each other in a format in which table groups discuss topical business issues. In addition, time is allocated for corporate end-users to meet separately and for service providers with economic developers to have their own program. The results of each table's discussions will be recorded and shared later via IAMC's Web site.

Take Home Value

• Interactive discussion on hot topics such as lease negotiation, planning real estate exit strategies, and achieving global consistency in real estate transactions.
• Cooperative problem solving between corporate end-users, service providers and economic developers.
• New viewpoints, ideas and best practices on current issues facing corporate real estate.
• Reference materials based on the discussion available in hard copy and online.

Veteran journalist, former commodities trader and author, Ted Fishman has emerged as a leading expert on the People's Republic of China and its development as a world power. In this opening session, Ted will deliver a compelling account of his assessment of interviews with workers, managers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, consumers, citizens and parents in both China and the United States.

Take Home Value

• Learn about global mega trends and their impact on corporate real estate.
• Discover which economy is having the greatest global impact.
• Explore how the energy and creativity of corporate real estate executives is making a positive difference in China and the U.S.

Jeff Thredgold is a nationally recognized economist, business consultant and author. His clients represent a variety of industries. He's frequently featured on CNBC-TV, the nation's business network, and is quoted frequently in the nation's business press including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily and Business Week. His weekly newsletter, The Tea Leaf, is a consistently accurate economic update.

Take Home Value
Benefit from expert perspectives on:

• The U.S. economy, the global economy and financial markets.
• Education, employment and retirement.
• Technology and the future.

IAMC member Roger Nesti will draw from Kennametal's global presence to present examples and case studies that showcase site selection best practices in China, India and Brazil.

Take Home Value

• Cultural differences that influence business strategies.
• How best practices in a particular global area differ from general site selection best practices.
• How to overcome business challenges during site selection negotiations.

Dean Foster is an internationally recognized cross-cultural business consultant. In addition to consulting with numerous Fortune 500 companies on intercultural business issues, he conducts cross-cultural training worldwide and speaks to audiences at major international business conferences. He is a frequent guest on CNN and CNBC and is often quoted in a variety of business publications including Newsweek Magazine, The New York Times, and USA Today. He has written numerous articles, a bestseller book entitled Bargaining Across Borders and a series of global etiquette books.

Take Home Value

• Communicate and manage work more effectively across the 12 major cultural dimensions.
• Employ 10 basic steps for communicating more effectively across cultural divides.
• Better understand major "do's and don'ts" when in cross-cultural work environments in five major global regions.

Discontinuous changes in population dynamics, technology, energy, environment and the nature of the economy all suggest that the future is not what it used to be. The opportunities have never been greater, the challenges more daunting. Major customer bases are about to shrink. China and India race to the future. We are running out of cheap oil, perhaps in time to save the environment.

Take Home Value

• Discover how technology breakthroughs are changing products and processes.
• Learn what mental models and strategies will enable you to flourish in the coming decades.

The longevity of global petroleum supplies is in question and energy costs are rising at a steady pace. Corporations that subscribe to leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED) minimize their use of energy, water, and other natural resources. Attend this session and join the discussions about To LEED or Not to LEED.

Take Home Value

• Explore the pros and cons of subscribing to LEED.
• Learn what issues are affecting your peers and competitors.

This session will provide a brief update on U.S. Federal Government legislation regarding Eminent Domain and entertain audience questions regarding how state legislation will impact local corporate site searches and economic development.

Take Home Value

• Update on US Federal Government Legislation regarding Eminent Domain.
• Explore state legislation and its impact on local corporate site searches and economic development.

Corporate real estate, economic development and service provider professionals will engage you in discussions as they "tell the whole story" about who and what influences domestic and global site selection decisions. Come prepared to ask questions, share your viewpoints and learn from your peers as they talk about several industrial and manufacturing site selection dynamics including global competition, strategic alliances, and industrial and corporate cultures.

Take Home Value

• Learn what issues are affecting your peers and competitors.
• Discover current best-practices and solutions.
• Share your opinions and expertise.

The business of leasing industrial space is one of the most important and time consuming corporate real estate tasks. Negotiating lease document language can consume a significant proportion of this time. This interactive program will evaluate three lease clauses. For each, an end-user will kick off the discussion with a 3-4 minute presentation describing its unique challenges and how his/her company deals with them. The moderator will engage the audience to propose other challenges developing from the clause and additional solutions.

Take Home Value

• Learn what lease clause challenges your peers and competitors are facing.
• Discover current best-practices and solutions.
• Share your experiences and expertise.
• Benefit from reference materials based on this session to be available at www.iamc.org after the conference.

At "Get Some Help," Rick Little, director of real estate, Weyerhaeuser Company, presents real-time corporate real estate questions, problems and concerns, raised by Active members within 30 days of the Forum, to an audience of Actives and Associates for suggestions, solutions, discussion and debate. The program format is intended to be lively, and participation from all attendees is encouraged.

Williamsburg will be "Get Some Help's" fourth offering. End-user attendees at the San Diego Professional Forum rated "Get Some Help" the conference's top program where topics discussed included: the cost segregation method of depreciating tenant improvements; conversion of industrial-use land to residential use; how end-users account for and bill their business travel expenses; and many others.

Take Home Value

• Gain quick-turnaround expert input on issues affecting you and your company.
• Learn what issues are affecting your peers and competitors.
• Share your opinions and expertise.

"Get Some Help Online" is available to you at www.iamc.org/getsomehelp.