Soundview to Host Interactive Webinar with Cynthia Montgomery

Online, October 8, 2012 (Newswire.com) - In this Soundview Live webinar, How to Be the Leader Your Business Needs, Cynthia Montgomery boldly redefines strategy and issues a call to arms for leaders to take back their rightful claim to be Strategists of their own organizations. Montgomery's goal is to convince leaders to embrace their role as Strategists, uniquely positioned to answer the most essential question facing every business: Does This Company Truly Matter? Learn more at http://www.summary.com/track/_/How-to-Be-the-Leader-Your-Business-Needs.

Cynthia A. Montgomery is the Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate past head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she's taught for over twenty years. For six years she led the strategy track in the School's highly regarded Owner, President, Manager Program (OPM), attended by top managers of mid-sized companies from around the globe. Currently, she is a core faculty member in the School's Advanced Management Program.

Prior to Harvard, Montgomery was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Michigan and at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. At Harvard, she received the Greenhill Award for her outstanding contributions to the School's core MBA strategy course. Montgomery has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies, several non-profit organizations, and a number of mutual funds managed by BlackRock, Inc.

Attendees will learn:
• Why leaders need to reclaim the position of strategist in their companies.
• What are the key questions that a strategist needs to ask and answer.
• How to develop the skills and sensibilities that being a strategist demand.