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Dear MSR Colleagues,

Thank you so much for all of you who joined us for our teleconference last week with Dr. Andre Delbecq. That call is recorded and can be found at http://tfsw.uark.edu/podcasts.asp.  While you are on the Tyson Center website, I hope you will check out the research and teaching resources that are there.  I have applied for a Templeton Foundation grant, and if we receive it, we will be able to vastly expand these resources for academics and practitioners around the world – all of which are available for free.

Below is an announcement for the final teleconference in our Wisdom at Work conference keynote speaker series for this year.  Please feel free to join us and to let your students know about this opportunity to interact with a business executive that has been integrating spirituality in the workplace for over 40 years.

Warmly, Judi

Faith and Spirit at Work Teleconference Series 

Hosted by Judi Neal

Please join us on Friday, October 19th for a teleconference with Dr. J.Robert Ouimet, who is one of our keynote speakers at the Wisdom at Work Conference.  Dr. Ouimet will be speaking on How Spirituality in Management Works to Reconcile the Growth of Human Well-Being with Productivity and Profits.  He is also one of our two recipients of the 2012 International Faith and Spirit at Work Leadership Awards.

Dr. J.-Robert Ouimet is chairman of the board and Chief Executive Officer of Holding O.C.B. Inc., Cordon Bleu International Ltd., and Piazza Tomasso International Inc. This group of companies, founded by his father, J.-René Ouimet, in 1933, is the most important Canadian producer and marketer of Italian pasta frozen food products. Dr. Ouimet is also president of the « To God Go ». Foundation. Dr. Ouimet holds a bachelor of commerce from the H.E.C., University of Montreal; a bachelor in political and social sciences (Magna Cum Laude), University of Fribourg, Switzerland; a master's in business administration from Columbia University, New York; and a doctorate in economic and social sciences (Magna Cum Laude), University of Fribourg.

Dr. Ouimet has visited more than 100 university campuses and businesses in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and has given more than 200 conferences to business leaders, management professors and students. His extensive travels have also allowed him to meet thinkers and community leaders who are concerned with the importance of spirituality within organizations. In 2008, Dr. Ouimet privately published his English-language biography, titled Everything Has Been Loaned to You.

Details:

Date:  October 19, 2012  

Time:

9:30-10:30 am Eastern
8:30-9:30 am Central
7:30-8:30 am. Mountain
6:30-7:30 am Pacific

For other time zones, go to World Clock

Judi Neal, Ph.D.

Director, Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

Sam M. Walton College of Business, 1 University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA

+1 479-575-3721 office, +1 479-304-8834 cell

http://tfsw.uark.edu, www.edgewalkers.org

Author of Edgewalkers: People and Organizations that Take Risks, Build Bridges and Break New Ground (Praeger 2006)

Co-author with Alan Harpham of ­The Spirit of Project Management (Gower 2012)

Editor ofThe Handbook for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace (Springer 2012).

When are we happiest? When we have a sense of spiritual relationship with mankind, then the veil of selfishness is lifted from our inner vision and we realize the oneness of our soul with the Great Soul and all humanity --Paramananda