Abraham Lincoln As The Ideal Leader — Harold Holzer To Deliver Leadership Lesson at The 2017 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (September 24, 2017) — OPEN MINDS announced that Harold Holzer, Director of The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and the country’s leading Abraham Lincoln scholar, will deliver a featured leadership lesson at the 2017 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat. This three-day executive education event will be held on September 26-28, 2017 at the historic Gettysburg Hotel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

When Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861, he faced a set of challenges that no American president before or since has encountered, with many declaring him to be the “ideal leader.” During this session, “You Were Right & I Was Wrong: How Abraham Lincoln Owned His Mistakes, & Accepted Responsibility, As An Ideal Leader,” taking place at the Majestic Theatre in Gettysburg on Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Harold Holzer will discuss President Abraham Lincoln as a leader, his leadership characteristics, and his decision-making styles. Mr. Holzer will also teach attendees how lessons in leadership from over 150 years ago still apply today.

Harold Holzer is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and on the political culture of the American Civil War Era. He is currently the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York, a post he assumed in 2015 after 23 years as senior vice president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book, Lincoln and the Power of the Press. Mr. Holzer previously served as a Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society. In 2016-2017, he served as the Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. He was also a script consultant to the Steven Spielberg film, Lincoln, and wrote the official young reader’s companion book to the movie.

Held annually in historic Gettysburg, the 2017 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat is an immersive leadership experience focused on maximizing organizational performance through the development of the executive. This event, which projects over 250 attendees, aims to provide the leadership tools health and human services executives need to collaborate, manage change, and maximize their organizational performance. This program is designed specifically to provide key industry leaders with the strategy insights, business tools, and personal resiliency they need to tackle the unique challenges of a changing health and human service market. During this event, attendees will have the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of the Civil War’s legendary leaders to learn how their challenges, success – and even defeat – provide great leadership lessons that can, and should be, applied today.

The 2017 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat allows executive teams to determine their schedule by selecting the activities and workshops that best meet their particular needs, and find the sessions that have the most value for their organization. Program highlights include:

• Positioning For Success – General John Buford & The High Ground: The Beginning Of The Battle Of Gettysburg (Historical Case Study & Battlefield Walking Tour)
• From Strategy to Action: A Guide To Building & Implementing A Strategic Plan That Works
• Night At The Museum & Networking Reception
• The Future of Long-Term Services & Support: A New Business Model For A Medicaid Managed Care Market
• Strategic Decisionmaking In Times Of Change – Colonel Joshua Chamberlain & Little Round Top: Defending The Union Line (Historical Case Study & Battlefield Walking Tour)
• Diversifying Your Revenue Streams: How To Successfully Launch a New Service Line
• Is Your Culture Performance-Driven? How To Build An Organization Focused on Performance Management
• Breathing Through Stress and Using The Principles of Yoga to Manage People
• Leading In Times Of Uncertainty – Generals Lee & Longstreet At Pickett’s Charge: The High-Water Mark Of The Confederacy (Historical Case Study & Battlefield Walking Tour)
• Meta-Leadership In Action: Making Provider Organization Collaborations Work (Classroom Workshop)
• Planning & Budgeting For Technology: How Much Is Enough?
• Preparing Specialty Provider Organizations For Value-Based Reimbursement: An Overview of Competencies Required For Success (Classroom Workshop)
• How To Retain & Grow Employees: Turning The Millennial Generation Into The Leaders of Tomorrow

Register your team today or learn more at https://leadership.openminds.com.

About OPEN MINDS

OPEN MINDS is an award-winning information source, executive education provider, and business solutions firm specializing in the post-acute health and human service markets. For thirty years, we’ve been pioneers for change – helping organizations implement the transformational business practices they need to succeed in an evolving market with new policies and regulations.

OPEN MINDS is powered by a national team of experienced executives and subject matter experts with specific expertise in the post-acute health care market. Our mission is to improve the quality of care for individuals with complex support needs by improving the effectiveness of those serving them – provider organizations, payer and insurance organizations, government agencies, pharmaceutical organizations, and technology firms. Learn more at www.openminds.com.

For additional questions and inquiries, please contact Sarah Threnhauser, Executive Vice President, OPEN MINDS at 717-334-1329 or openminds@openminds.com.