For Immediate Release

Morningstar Consulting Group Announces Leadership and Strategic Alignment Workshops

Rochester, MI - September 17, 2003 - Morningstar Consulting Group, in cooperation with Oakland University, announced today Greatness: The Leadership Calling™ and Strategic Alignment: Driving Business Results™, two workshops designed to help executives master both the underlying principals and the practical tools needed to face the strategic, tactical, and organizational challenges of doing business in today's environment.

The workshops will be presented in cooperation with Oakland University's Center for Executive and Continuing Education, and will be facilitated by Morningstar Partners Ahmed Yehia, John Strelecky, Joe Morrow, and Vince Cavasin at Oakland's campus in Rochester, Michigan. Greatness: The Leadership Calling™ will be held on November 3 and 4, 2003; Strategic Alignment: Driving Business Results™ will be held on November 13 and 14, 2003. Complete information is available by calling 248.693.0888, emailing workshops@mscgi.net, or visiting www.mscgi.net/workshops.

"The content presented in these workshops represents the culmination of years of research and experience," said Joe Morrow, Morningstar's Managing Director. "Greatness: The Leadership Calling™ is based on the Leadership Diamond® framework, created by philosopher Peter Koestenbaum; our Partner Ahmed Yehia has been successfully using this framework to enhance leadership capabilities at Fortune 1000 companies for more than 10 years.

"Strategic Alignment: Driving Business Results™ is based on the Strategic Foundations™ framework, which is the result of Morningstar's research and our experience helping companies achieve employee alignment around common Passion, Purpose, Values, and Vision in the context of Reality," continued Morrow.

Greatness: The Leadership Calling™ is intended to help executives and managers unleash leadership potential in their organizations. Participants in this highly interactive workshop will learn powerful new techniques for dealing with ambiguity and paradox, for overcoming the "stuck points" that inhibit both individual and organizational progress, and for holding polarity-the condition that arises when one must make a decision involving two equally crucial yet opposing options.

Strategic Alignment: Driving Business Results™ is intended to help executives and managers improve their organizational strategies by considering the deep underlying principals of Passion, Purpose, Values, and Vision, in the context of environmental Reality, and by applying these principles in the creation of an organizational culture of performance and success.

Each workshop is conducted in an intimate setting, with no more than 30 participants. Participants learn to use the tools of each framework in a highly interactive way, by applying them to examples from their own business experience. Through small group work, participants learn not only from their own experiences but from those of teammates from diverse industry backgrounds. This format encourages cross-pollination of ideas, making the learning experience even more valuable.

The registration deadline for Greatness: The Leadership Calling™ is October 27, 2003; the deadline for Strategic Alignment: Driving Business Results™ is November 7, 2003.

Morningstar Consulting Group is a management consulting firm that brings together Business Strategy and Business Philosophy™ to create lasting value for its Fortune 1000 and middle-market clients. Morningstar is comprised of a group of seasoned management consultants and executives with experience at several top consulting firms and Fortune 500 companies, including McKinsey & Co., A. T. Kearney, DiamondCluster International, Hewlett Packard, and Walt Disney. Morningstar's partners are certified by PiB, Peter Koestenbaum's organization, as practitioners of the Leadership Diamond®.