How does a company equip its leaders around the world with a common framework for solving complex problems? Steelcase CEO Jim Hackett will discuss how the global company with more than 13,000 employees worldwide has used performance-based learning to drive a critical-thinking framework throughout the organization and the importance of turning a design-thinking mindset into measurable skills. Hackett will also share how Steelcase, a leader in developing insights about how space impacts work performance, has researched the impact of space on learning environments — and put some of its findings to work in its own work sites. James P. Hackett, President and Chief Executive Officer, Steelcase Inc.

1. Jim Hackett: Three Perspectives on Learning
13 APRIL 2010

2. “Teaching is the highest
form of understanding”
ARISTOTLE

3. “Every truth has four
corners: as a teacher
I give you one corner,
it is up to you to find
the other three.”
CONFUCIOUS

4. “I don’t think much
of a man who is not
wiser today than he
was yesterday.”
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN

5. “Jim, it would be great
if you would go to
Florida and speak to
this symposium.”
GEORGE
WOLFE

6. CEO as student CEO as teacher CEO as leader

16. “A man who reads too
much and uses his own
brain too little falls into
lazy habits of thinking.”
EINSTEIN

17. helping create great experiences – wherever work happens

19. MARK
WEISER

24. Jim Hackett: Three Perspectives on Learning
13 APRIL 2010