ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (08/15/2011)(readMedia)-- Internationally recognized management consultant, author, and leading edge thinker Jeanne C. Meister will present the first breakfast seminar of the S. Dale High Center for Family Business's 2011-12 series on Thursday, September 22.

Entitled the "The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today," Meister is the co-author of a book by the same name.

Industry experts have predicted that the battle for workplace talent is expected to become fierce in the next decade. Meister's book has been cited as a must-read for executives who expect to maximize productivity and have a strong enterprise in 2020. It received praise from Fast Company's founding editor William C. Taylor for being a pragmatic and visionary book that can equip you "with the tools to attract the best people and help them do their best work."

Her presentation will offer a practical game plan to attract and keep talented employees and in doing so, transform their organizations and achieve compelling results such as increased innovation, improved customer service, and an enhanced ability to compete in a global marketplace.

Jeanne Meister is an internationally recognized leader in creating innovations in the operation and management of an enterprise learning function. Her expertise spans the development of a best practice corporate university to the creation of innovative social networks for learning. More information about Meister is available at her website.

Meister's seminar begins at 8:15 a.m. and includes breakfast (beginning at 7:30 a.m.) It will be held in the Susquehanna Room of Myer Hall on the Elizabethtown College Campus. Family businesses who have not yet attended a sample session are welcome to attend as guests of the Center or another family business. RSVP is required by September 12 to fbc@etown.edu or call 717-361-1275.

A complete listing of all 2011-12 seminars is available here.

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Note to editors: Interviews with Jeanne C. Meister are available prior to the September 22 event.

With almost 50 member family businesses, the S. Dale High Center is one of largest resource organizations for family-owned firms in the United States. Created by a group of business people, family business owners, and representatives of Elizabethtown College, the Center helps family businesses achieve family unity and prosperity, continue their legacy of entrepreneurship, and create social and economic wealth across multiple generations. Serving South Central Pennsylvania and beyond since 1995, the Center believes that strengthening entrepreneurial families enhances the community and the economy as well. More information is available at the website: www.centerforfamilybusiness.org, by emailing FBC@etown.edu or by calling 717.361.1275.

Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College offers its 1,900 students more than 50 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its motto to "Educate for Service," Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose.

Posted Monday August 15, 2011 at 08:00 am by Elizabethtown College
Last Updated Tuesday August 16, 2011 at 08:52 am