At present,
there are 76 ALI participants, or ALI Fellows, from six African
countries participating in the initiative.
The organization focuses on education, leadership and
entrepreneurship.
"In reliving the decisions made on the Gettysburg battlefield, CEOs will
be able to explore important concepts of leadership relevant to their own
business lives," says Mary Jacobson, Executive Director of The Conference
Board's Gettysburg Experiences."
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. These strategies were used as the basis
for a career development program, which is now focusing learning and
performance initiatives on emulating the outcomes of the best and brightest in
the organization. For more information, please visit http: //www.

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This new relationship will support the continuing growth
and progress of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI)."

THE ASPEN INSTITUTE fosters enlightened leadership and open-minded
dialogue on contemporary issues.
The event will also include a strategic overview of the battle and
case -study discussion groups with leaders of some of the world's top
companies."

To register for The Conference Board's CEO Leadership Experience at
Gettysburg, please call Clayton Shedd at (212) 339-0253., Saba
(Nasdaq: SABA), a leading provider of human capital management (HCM)
solutions , today announced that it will be hosting a webinar, "The High Impact
Learning Organization - How Do You Become One?," on Aug. to 11:00 a.
During the webinar, Josh Bersin will highlight the findings of his recent
report, "The High-Impact Learning Organization: What Works(R) in the
Management , Operations, and Governance of Corporate Training," for which Saba
helped to shape the questions and to sponsor the research.

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Suzanne Nora Johnson, Chairman of the Global Markets Institute,
said , "We strongly believe that values- based leadership is essential
to efficient and equitable global markets.
The Conference Board's CEO Leadership Experience at Gettysburg links
challenges top executives are facing today with lessons learned through
planning, coordinating and implementing the greatest battle of the Civil War. These decisions are
powerfully relevant to today's business competition, where CEOs must make
similar leadership decisions sometimes in the blink of an eye, just as the
Gettysburg generals had to..

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WASHINGTON----The Aspen Institute
and the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs will work together
to provide accomplished young business, government and civic leaders
in Africa with the opportunity to engage in cross-cultural leadership
development.
ALI is a joint program of the Aspen Institute, the international
development agency TechnoServe, the Letsema Foundation of South
Africa, and three African business leaders from Ghana, Mozambique, and
Tanzania.
From April 10-April 20, 2005 in Aspen, Colorado, the South African
ALI Fellows will convene with the GS Africa Aspen Fellows for the
first of the four leadership development seminars.
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developed processes to discover business-building strategies used by the
highest-producing sales executives. programs vs.

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Featuring industry expert, Josh Bersin, founder and
principal of Bersin + Associates, the webinar will review effective strategies
for the management of learning to optimize the impact of enterprise learning.saba.

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. By establishing better governance
processes and procedures , organizations can realize the full value of their
learning investments.

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Its goal is to develop a new generation of African leaders -
primarily business men and women between the ages of 30 and 45 - with
the energy, the skills and the commitment to tackle the foremost
challenges facing their countries and their continent.

" Mr. Thomas will co-facilitate The Conference Board's CEO
Leadership Experience at Gettysburg, as well as the other Conference Board
Gettysburg Experiences: May 10-12, June 22-24, July 11-13, July 27-29, August
17-19. Visit
The Conference Board's website -- http://www. The result of a
survey of more than 300 organizations, the report identifies factors that
enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of a learning organization and
provides examples of best practices in learning governance .
"Whether learning teams are more centralized or decentralized, the key to
success is improved alignment of people, processes and services so that best
practices can be more effectively leveraged across large organizations," said
Grant Ricketts vice president of business development for Saba .

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Additionally, the Global Markets Institute established the Goldman
Sachs Africa Aspen Fellowship .

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), a career infantryman and former chief of
military history at West Point, will co-facilitate all The Conference Board's
Leadership Experiences at Gettysburg, including the May 23-25 CEO Experience . Saba enables The Aligned Enterprise(TM) by
aligning goals, developing and motivating people, and measuring results --
driving greater organizational performance.

The category covers information on theory and research oriented toward increasing our knowledge of the many different varieties of leadership .

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Thomas, a culture change and organizational effectiveness expert who has
worked as an executive development coach and consultant to Fortune 200
companies. "Learning how they dealt with critical decisions under enormous
stress, and in the actual environment that they were experiencing it, can be
tremendously helpful to top executives dealing with potentially life-changing
situations. PDT
To Register: http://www.S.com or call (+
1) 877-SABA-101 or (+1) 650-779-2791.

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Its mission is to examine how global markets create
economic opportunity, foster prosperity and ensure financial security.

The Conference Board Will Hold Special CEO-Only Leadership Experience at Gettysburg PA Site of Historic Civil War Battle

The Conference Board's Mission
The Conference Board creates and disseminates knowledge about management
and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better
serve society.

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The Aspen Institute and the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs Work Together to Develop Emerging Leaders in Africa

Twelve senior leaders at Goldman Sachs
were selected as GS Africa Aspen Fellows in a competitive, firm-wide
nomination process to join the ALI Fellows in their leadership
development activities. 18, 2005 from 10:00
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Host: Grant Ricketts, Vice President Business Development, Saba
Guest Expert: Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder of Bersin + Associates
Date: Thursday , August 18th 2005
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 a.

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The GS Africa Aspen
Fellows are further committed to provide mentoring and advice to the
ALI Fellows as they advance in their careers and undertake required
leadership projects. Through seminars, policy programs,
public conferences , and an array of leadership initiatives, the
Institute and its international partners promote the pursuit of common
ground and nonpartisan inquiry.

THE LETSEMA FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization with the aim
of catalyzing individual empowerment in post-apartheid South Africa. Working as a global independent membership organization in the
public interest, The Conference Board conducts conferences , makes forecasts
and assesses trends, publishes information and analysis, and brings executives
together to learn from one another. Army and U.

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TECHNOSERVE helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural
areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income,
opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities
and their countries.m.com/webinars/High_Impact_Learning /

About Saba
Saba (Nasdaq: SABA) is a leading provider of integrated Human Capital
Management (HCM) solutions.

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We are grateful that the Global Markets
Institute at Goldman Sachs , which has adopted this program as part of
its own commitment to shaping a better world, is joining us in this
critical mission.
More than 10 million current users in over 30 countries use Saba today.

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As a pioneer in learning governance, Saba recognizes that for an
organization to derive maximum benefit from its learning investments, a
governance system comprising of decision-making structures, processes,
practices and values must be in place."

Saba Learning Services: Best Practices Consulting
Saba Learning Services provides best practices consulting services that
enable organizations to leverage the impact of their learning and performance
systems. Navy .

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The Global Markets Institute has committed to supporting the
launch of a new class of 20 ALI Fellows from South Africa. "The Conference Board's CEO experience at
Gettysburg specifically offers strategies for conveying a company's mission
throughout the organization, for developing team leaders , and for other
important management practices. The Conference Board's CEO Leadership
Experience at Gettysburg will examine the major sites of the battle and the
valuable lessons that still resonate in today's business environment. This
exploration of the elements of effective leadership will include:

* Communicating intent
* Building teams and coalitions
* Dealing with ambiguity
* Executing policies and plans
* Managing in a constantly changing environment

"Walking in the footsteps of the great military commanders of the Civil
War is an enlightening experience for today's business leaders," says Richard
E.org

m. PDT. Through its Learning Governance workshops, Saba has helped large
financial services and healthcare organizations build governance teams and
realign their learning processes to be less divisionally focused, supporting
more cross-organizational requirements.m.

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Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute , stated,
"Growing our global leadership network is one of the most important
things the Aspen Institute is doing today, working with our partners
around the globe to reach an expanding number of motivated young
people and develop enlightened leaders - often the missing ingredient
in struggling societies. The Conference Board is a not-for-profit
organization and holds 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in the United States. As learning stakeholders, service
providers and content assets become more aligned across organizations, the
effectiveness and efficiency of training is vastly improved.
Customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, BMW, CEMEX,
Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC
Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia
Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter + Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard
Chartered Bank, Swedbank and the U.

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Saba Continues to Expand Best Practices Consulting for Learning Governance

Webinar: The High Impact Learning Organization - How Do You Become One?
Saba will host a webinar featuring Josh Bersin, who will share insights
from Bersin + Associates ' latest research in learning governance.
"Saba has demonstrated leadership in raising the important issue of
learning governance," said Josh Bersin, principal and founder of Bersin +
Associates .S.saba.

Saba, the Saba logo, and the marks relating to other Saba products and
services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of
Saba Software, Inc.

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LEARNING FROM GETTYSBURG'S DECISION MAKING UNDER FIRE
The strong leaders and brilliant strategies exhibited during key Civil War
battles were integral to important socio-political and business developments
during the 20th century and beyond. "We are excited to present the results of our comprehensive
research as well as to share more details and analysis of best practices
corporate training governance.

Within the category, providers are divided into two major subcategories: consulting

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Jacobson adds: "The Gettysburg experience will focus on the critical
command decisions that led to both triumph and disaster.

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We are pleased to partner
with the Aspen Institute on this program, and to have a group of
Goldman Sachs and African emerging leaders participate in this
learning process.conference -board. "This is a
next step for many companies as they seek to reduce fragmentation of the
learning function, creating more proactive and strategically aligned change
agents within their organizations .

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Participants will walk in the footsteps of the 172,000 men and two generals
that engaged in one of the most significant contests in American history. Media queries should
be directed to Frank Tortorici at (212) 339-0231."

The webinar will review the following aspects of learning governance:
* How to organize your learning organization for highest efficiency and
effectiveness
* How do you align and service distributed parts of the organization?
* How do you manage the budget process and allocate costs? What is an
optimal allocation on staff vs.

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This
support includes sponsoring four leadership development seminars for
the Fellows over the coming two years .

THE GLOBAL MARKETS INSTITUTE AT GOLDMAN SACHS provides information
to policy makers and the public about the role of the capital markets
in society. NEW YORK, The Conference Board, the leading
global business knowledge network for the world's largest corporations, will
hold its first CEO-only Leadership Experience at Gettysburg, May 23-25.

Learning Governance: The Key to An Effective Training Organization
According to the Bersin report, "more than $85 billion is spent annually
on corporate training in North America . (and) despite this large and steady
investment , training is notoriously difficult to manage and measure.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California , Saba has 20 offices
worldwide.

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