What do great organizations do differently?

Harvard business professor and author Rosabeth Moss Kanter will share her unique leadership perspectives as a presenter in the 2013-14 Leadership Lectures series Tuesday, Jan. 14. Kanter will discuss how top organizations master change while maintaining a sense of enduring purpose beyond the purely financial. The lecture, which will include a Q&A, starts at 9 a.m. at College of Business Complex at Modesto A. Maidique Campus.

Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for more 25 years, through teaching, writing and direct consultation to major corporations and governments.

A former editor of Harvard Business Review, Kanter has been repeatedly named to lists of the “50 most powerful women in the world,” and the “50 most influential business thinkers in the world.” In 2010, she received the International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals. She has written numerous books on business management techniques, particularly change management. Her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, a manifesto for leadership of sustainable enterprises, was named one of the ten best business books of 2009 by Amazon.com.

The Leadership Lectures series, now in its third year, is presented by FIU’s Center for Leadership with generous support from Mercantil Commercebank. The series features world-class, accomplished and influential leaders with expertise ranging from business and philanthropy to public service and academic research.

Lectures are free and open to the public but require registration. To register Kanter’s presentation, click here.