March 15, 2006

Learn "Leadership Under Fire" at 2006 OPEN MINDS Leadership Institute:
A Behavioral Health and Social Sciences Executive Battlefield Experience

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Seventy intrepid executives will learn the lessons of "Leadership Under Fire" during the 2006 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Institute, July 25-26, 2006. Using the Battle of Gettysburg as a backdrop, executives will roam the battlefield to retrace the famous footsteps and relive the strategic decisions of General Robert E. Lee and Colonel Joshua Chamberlain that altered the course of the Civil War.

Incorporating a unique approach, this two-day institute will combine classroom discussions of current leadership trends with a view of historic leadership lessons straight from the Civil War's most famous battle. Walk the Gettysburg Battlefield from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge with guest speakers, Ambassador Lawrence Taylor and William Rosenbach, Ph.D., as historical leadership strategies, including Pickett's Charge, come to life and fuse with executive leadership challenges faced today.
Featured sessions include:

• Managing Changes - The Leader’s Challenge: A Look at What is Around the Corner & How to Prepare

• The Great Divide: Bridging the Gap Between Clinical & Financial Executives on the Issues of Organizational Accountability & Cost Management

• Improving the Effectiveness of Your Non-Profit Board: Tools for Planning Performance Measurement, & Self Assessment

• Lessons Learned in Time: The Civil War Battlefield as a Leadership Laboratory

Attendees can earn up to 12.5 continuing education hours for their attendance to this event. For more information and a complete agenda of the 2006 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Institute, call toll-free 877-350-6463 or visit www.openminds.com/educ/omi2006el.htm. Registrations received before June 1, 2006, will receive a $100 discount off the standard institute price of $795.

The American College of Addiction Treatment Administrators accepts all OPEN MINDS institutes and seminars for full credit. Attendance can also be applied towards the non-credit certificate in Health and Human Service Management from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

OPEN MINDS is a national behavioral health and social service industry market research and management-consulting firm. Founded in 1987 and based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the more than 75 associates of OPEN MINDS provide information services, executive education, market research, and management consultation services. The firm's mission is to provide behavioral health and social service payers, consumer associations, and service providers, with the management knowledge needed to improve their efficiency and effectiveness in order to better serve consumers.