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WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2008 – ISMA, the worldwide organization of Chief Security Officers, and the Georgetown University welcomed the ninth annual class of security professionals to the ISMA Leadership Program.
The program, which has produced 380 graduates since its inception in 2000, is designed as an intensive executive education and management development seminar to prepare the next generation of security directors for the strategic challenges that they will face in the decades ahead. The yearlong program consists of classroom instruction and independent study.
Professors from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business provide classroom instruction on various aspects of management and leadership, including motivation, conflict resolution, implementing change, budgets and internal controls, goals, objectives and strategic planning. The program was conceived and developed by Robert Littlejohn, ISMA Past President and Chairman of ISMA’s Professional Development Committee.
“The basic objectives of this unique executive education program are to develop, extend and improve the abilities of security managers,” said Littlejohn. “The men and women participating in the ISMA Leadership Program are the Chief Security Officers of tomorrow. In light of this post-9/11 era, this curriculum will allow them to develop skills to capitalize on the domestic and global leadership demands and challenges of the new millennium.”
ISMA’s membership of Chief Security Officers is limited to only the most-senior level executives responsible for the security of the world’s largest corporations and major security service companies. Members represent nearly half of the U.S. Fortune 100 companies and about a quarter of the Global 200.
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