PHILADELPHIA, May 3, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), Adecco's flagship human capital solutions brand, announced today plans to join forces in providing sustainable leadership development opportunities for their clients located across the world. This unique partnership will allow both Wharton and LHH to leverage each others world-class leadership and expertise, thus enabling Wharton to expand its current coaching and consulting service offering for its executive education clients as well as providing LHH with the opportunity to bring its clients together with academic thought leaders to address emerging human capital issues.
The global collaboration will allow Wharton Executive Education and LHH to accomplish several goals:
* Deliver high-impact leadership development opportunities to a wider pool of leading organizations around the world. * Reinforce learning experiences with personal coaching and consulting engagements. * Learn from global business leaders -- firsthand -- what they need to sustain their leadership development efforts.
"Wharton is very excited about launching this partnership with Lee Hecht Harrison," said Peter Degnan, executive director of the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at Wharton. "Our current Wharton Learning Continuum model, which offers a unique, multi-month approach to executive education, works to reinforce what is taught in the classroom to achieve real world, on the job impact. Partnering with Lee Hecht Harrison in providing individual coaching opportunities for executives, as well as consulting services to their companies, is one of the most significant ways we can further enhance the everyday, on the job impact of our classroom experience for executive clients."
Wharton and LHH have worked together in the past to design several stand-alone programs for clients, but this is the first formalized partnership of its kind for both organizations. "This partnership works because we share similar perspectives on leadership development," said Ekkehard Kuppel, president of Lee Hecht Harrison. "Both LHH and Wharton are recognized as global leaders -- LHH in consulting and Wharton in business education; and we are known to design exceptional customized solutions for clients based on their specific leadership development needs -- this partnership will further both of our capabilities in these areas and allow our clients to better sustain the momentum of strategic leadership development."
As a part of the partnership, Wharton plans to begin providing coaching to participants in their custom and open-enrollment programs on a wider basis in the coming months. In addition, Lee Hecht Harrison has developed several surveys and assessment tools, based on global benchmarking data, that Wharton will be able to use when designing programs with clients.
About the Wharton School
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania -- founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school -- is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The school has more than 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 8,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of more than 81,000 graduates.
Each year, Wharton works with more than 8,000 business leaders on its campus in Philadelphia, at Wharton West in San Francisco, and at sites around the world. The Wharton Learning Continuum is Wharton Executive Education's model for delivering Impact Through Education(tm) -- supporting companies and individuals in a 9- to 12-month learning process that is designed collaboratively with clients, delivered by Wharton faculty, and monitored to produce specific outcomes.
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About Lee Hecht Harrison
Established in 1974, Lee Hecht Harrison is a global leader in creating and delivering customized and fully integrated talent management solutions. Lee Hecht Harrison focuses on talent development and has deep expertise in the areas of Career Management, Leadership Consulting and Workforce Solutions. With over 240 offices worldwide, Lee Hecht Harrison is dedicated to partnering with organizations and individuals, enabling them to maximize their performance and achieve success. (lhh.com)
Lee Hecht Harrison is the flagship brand of the Adecco Career Services division of Adecco S.A., the world's largest HR solutions company with over 6000 offices in more than 70 countries and territories around the world. (adecco.com)