Tenth International Symposium on Business and Spirituality
March 23, 2007
This event will inspire you, challenge you, and help you to build your business based on your values.
Please join us if you want to:
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Make a positive impact on the local and global community, and actively contribute to the greater good.
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Create corporate cultures that engage all stakeholders in open-hearted dialogue embracing the diversity of ideas, beliefs, faiths, and backgrounds.
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Foster integrity and honesty by modeling congruent and principled leadership.
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Rejoice in the beauty of the moment, revel in life, celebrate growth and learning, reflect on discoveries, rise to challenges, and appreciate fun and humor.
The symposium seeks to join with others in living these ideals, and welcomes support and partnership with individuals and organizations who share these values.
Creating Business Values to Make the World Better
In 1998, the First International Symposium on Business and Spirituality was held and attracted over 300 people from all parts of the US and five other nations. This year will mark the tenth time those of us interested in integrating our spiritual lives into the world of business have gotten together for this symposium.
In past symposia, participants have heard successful and leading-edge business leaders share how they have worked to integrate their deepest values in their work.
As the first winner of the Aaron Fuerestein Spirituality and Business Award, Jeffrey Swartz , said, "Our core values and the financial objectives of our business are inextricably linked and cannot be separated."
Our world has benefited greatly from the important dialogue that past symposia has facilitated and these conversations have played a role in moving the world of business toward seeing the need to integrate values into the life of business.
Our Tenth Symposium will again feature several successful business leaders who will share the knowledge they've gained and the lessons they've learned as they've taken their deepest values to work and succeeded in changing our world through their business.
Tom and Kate Chappell founded and led the personal health care company, Tom's of Maine, for over thirty years and are the winners of the Aaron Feuerstein Spirituality and Business Award. These two highly-respected entrepreneurs will jump-start the symposium by sharing the lessons they've learned through leading a business based on spiritual values, and talking about why they decided to sell their company to a large corporation.
Well-known author and creative thought-leader, Frances Moore Lappe', will close the symposium with a challenging presentation about how the world of business plays a pivotal role in building a just society and saving our planet's precious eco-system.
Keynote speakers:
Tom and Kate Chappell, founders of Tom’s of Maine
Our featured speakers include:
Aaron Feuerstein, owner and CEO of Maldin Mills;
Frances Moore Lappé, noted author and activist;
David Korten, author and engaged citizen
J. Robert Ouimet,chairman and CEO of Holding O.C.B. Inc. and Ouimet-Tomasso Inc.
Linda Ferguson, president and owner of New Paradigms Alliance, Inc.
Price: $95 by March 1, $125 after March 1
SBN Members: $75 by March 1, $105 after March 1
Current Babson/Olin students, staff, and faculty..FREE.
Babson/Olin current students, staff, & faculty - FREE registration. Please send an email to our registrar at the address below, and provide your name and contact information. Write RSVP Symposium in the subject line.
kkwired@msn.com
Questions? call Karen Kelley at 617-661-1449
We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium!
Sponsored and hosted by:
Babson College
Grand Circle Corporation
Cosponsored by:
Andover Newton Theological School, Newton, MA
Hebrew College, Brookline, MA
The Longfellow Clubs, Wayland, MA
Sustainable Business Network, Boston, MA Boston College Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
