Past Speakers


2007

Deborah Ancona, Ph. D.

Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, Behavioral and Policy Sciences, MIT

"X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed"

Wednesday , June 11, 2008

Colin Angle
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, iRobot

"Managing Innovation to Create What Customers Want"

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Bruno Aziza & Joey Fitts

Microsoft Corporation
Co-authors of Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution: Microsoft Executive Leadership Series

"How to Drive Business Performance"

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Jay Conger, PhD
Professor of Leadership, Claremont McKenna College and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

"Leveraging the Spotlight of Leadership: What Every Leader Should Know"

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Raymond Levitt

Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University

"Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done"

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Don Tapscott

Chief Executive, New Paradigm

"Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything"

Tuesday, January 8,2008

Tim Brown

President and CEO, IDEO

"Strategy by Design: How Design Thinking Builds Opportunities"

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Bill Price

Former and first Global VP of Customer Service, Amazon.com, President of Driva Solutions and Co-Founder, LimeBridge

"How to Eliminate the Need for Customer Service"

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

John Wood

Founder and CEO, Room to Read

"Leaving Microsoft to Change the World "

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Professor, Organizational Behavior

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

"What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management"

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D.

President, Kinsey Consulting

"How to Manage People through Continuous Change"

Wednesday August 8, 2007

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Doug Harris

Managing Director and Leader, The Kaleidoscope Group

"Getting the Best from Others"

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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Ron Howard
Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Management Science in the Graduate School of Business
"Decision Analysis: Why Don't We Naturally Make Good Decisions?"

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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Colleen Barrett
President, Southwest Airlines
"From Humble Beginnings to Admired Enterprise: What Drives Phenomenal Success?"

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

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Tamara Erickson
President, The Concours Institute

"Avoiding the Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent"

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

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Steve Steinhilber
Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Corporate Consulting Engineering, Cisco Systems

"Strategic Alliances: How to Negotiate, Influence and Deliver Results"
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

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Carole Robin, PhD
Lecturer, Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

"Influence at Work: How to Build Effective Relationships and Allies"
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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Henry Chesbrough
Executive Director, Center for Technology Strategy and Management, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

"Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape"

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

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2006

Scott McNealy
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Chairman of Sun Federal, Inc.

 

"Executing Leadership Transitions: Strategies and Practice"

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

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Richard Roi, Ed.D.
Partner, Crawford International

Todd Pierce
Vice President Corporate IT, Genentech

"Building the Adaptive Organization"
Wednesday, November 8, 2006

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Jim Kouzes
Author & Lecturer

"A Leader's Legacy"

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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James Hollingshead, Ph. D
Senior Partner, Monitor

"Finding Untapped Growth in Existing Markets"

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

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Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

"Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity"

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Edward Lawler & Christopher Worley
Universtiy of Southern California

"Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness"
Wednesday, July 12, 2206

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Betty Baker
Executive Director, AeA's Bay Area Council
"Challenges for the High-Tech Industry "

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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James Healy

CEO, LogicVision
"Strategies for Selling "

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

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Robert I. Sutton
Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford Engineering School; and, by courtesy, Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
"HARD FACTS, DANGEROUS HALF-TRUTHS, AND TOTAL NONSENSE: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management"

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

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Patrick Cleary  
Senior Vice President National Association of Manufacturers
Author ''The Negotiation Handbook''
Former Chairman of the National Mediation Board
Senior Vice President, National Association of Manufacturers

"Skills, Techniques and Strategies for Effective Negotiations "
Wednesday, March 8, 2006  

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Raymond Miles
Professor Emeritus and former Dean Haas Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group
University of California, Berkeley

"COLLABORATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: How Communities of Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation to Create Wealth "
Wednesday, February 8, 2006

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Roberta Katz
Associate Vice President of Strategic Planning
Stanford University

"Building and Delivering Strategies in Complex Organizations"
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

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2005

CANCELLED - Joseph Grundfest
William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
"Fixing 404: A New Look at the Most Disdained Section of Sarbanes-Oxley"
Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Deborah Gruenfeld
Professor of Organizational Behavior; Morgan Stanley Director for the Center for Leadership Development and Research
"The Psychology of Power"
Wednesday, November 9, 2005

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Hayagreeva Rao
Professor of Organizational Behavior
"Building the Market Focused Culture"
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

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Jim Thompson
Executive Director, Positive Coaching Alliance
"Life Lessons from the Playing Fields:
What Youth Sports Has to Say to Adults About Leadership and Life"

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

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Scott Brady & David Bradford
Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior; Director of the Executive Program in Leadership, Stanford Graduate School of Business
and
CEO, FiberTower

"Building a Feedback Positive Organization"
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

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Jack Zenger
Cofounder and CEO
Zenger Folkman

"Can Leadership Development Programs Really Develop Leaders?"
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

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James Baron
Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, Stanford Graduate School of Business
"Building Effective and Efficient Personal Networks"
Wednesday, June 8, 2005

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Jacqueline Novogratz
CEO, Acumen Fund
"A Blueprint for Change"
Wednesday, May 11, 2005

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Margareta Barchan
Cofounder and CEO, Celemi
"Making Change Happen"
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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Regis McKenna
Chairman, McKenna Group
"The Idea of Marketing in the Total Access, Real-Time Marketplace"
Wednesday, March 9, 2005

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Tom Nagle
President, CEO and Founder, Strategic Pricing Group
"Don’t Just Set Prices: Manage Them Strategically"
Wednesday, February 9, 2005

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Judy Estrin
Founder and CEO, Packet Design, LLC Former CTO, Cisco Systems
"Nurturing Innovation in Companies Large and Small"
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

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2004

Scott Cook
Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit
"Creating Game-Changing Innovation"
Wednesday, November 10, 2004

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Jeffrey Swartz
President & CEO, Timberland Company
"Doing Well and Doing Good:
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Profit Generator"

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

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Jay Jackman & Myra Strober
Psychiatrist and Human Resources Consultant
Professor, Stanford School of Education

"Fear of Feedback"
Wednesday, September 15, 2004

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Jeff Rodek
Executive Chairman of the Board, Hyperion
"Managing for Both Bottom- and Top-Line Performance"
Wednesday, August 18, 2004

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Antonio Davila
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business
"The Incentive Sweet Spot for Product Innovation"
Wednesday, July 14, 2004

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Ram Gupta
Executive Vice President, PeopleSoft Products and Technology
"M&A - 100 days to a successful integration "
Wednesday, June 9, 2004

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William P. Barnett
Professor of Strategic Management and Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
"Red Queen Competition"
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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Nick Graham
CEO, Joe Boxer
"100 Minutes: Building a Long-term Brand in a Short Attention Span World"
Wednesday, April 14, 2004

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Don Maruska
CEO, Don Maruska & Company, Inc. Author of Amazon bestseller, featured on PBS-TV, founder and CEO of 3 Silicon Valley companies
"How Great Decisions Get Made: 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on Even the Toughest Issues"
Wednesday, March 10, 2004

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