Leadership Development News

Ann Farrell worked for 30 years in a various leadership roles at NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, FORTUNE 200 COMPANY. SHE IS the only woman to rise from entry level to the top of the house in its 150-year history of this Fortune 200 company. She has combined her years of corporate experience with coaching best practices to create trademarked programs and tools for more than 50 Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and wildly successful individuals. Her client companies include The Chicago Cubs Organization, General Electric (GE), Navistar International, Allstate Insurance Company, British Petroleum (BP), and Alcoa Corporation She is an executive, business and leadership coach who ignites high performance in people and organizations through "Revealutionary Leadership". Her passion for empowering people to fully step into their personal and professional best is at the heart of my coaching.

As co-founder of the Human Performance Institute, Dr. Jim Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of business, sport, medicine, and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and Army Special Forces. He is the author of several books on mental and physical training for peak performance, including the Power of Full Engagement (2003) and "Power of Story", which we will focus on today. Dr. Loehr's ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC's Today Show, ABC's Nightline withTed Koppel, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News and the OprahWinfrey Show. Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology. Come listen and learn about your story.

James Gottfurcht, Ph. D., is an internationally recognized money coach and keynote speaker. He is President of Psychology of Money Consultants, a Los Angeles firm, where he coaches financial service and mental health professionals and helps individuals and couples in his specialty. He is a pioneer in the field and has been practicing for over thirty years. In 1982, he developed The Psychology of Money Profile which is a standard and is used with professionals and the public to assess ten psychological money skills associated with financial success. He is also a clinical psychologist specializing in challenges with money, career, relationships, and stress. He is a popular media guest who has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, and the BBC and in Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, etc. He is on the faculty of UCLA Extension and the College of Executive Coaching. He has also written a chapter in Dr. Stephen Covey's and Dr. Ken Blanchard's book, Blueprint for Success.

Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people's awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

Dr. Noel M. Tichy Professor of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, is the director of the Global Business Partnership, which for over a decade ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European and North American companies who partnered to conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil. In 2003 he launched the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in Partnership with General Electric, Procter & Gamble and 3M, to create a national model partnership for opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles. He recently has partnered with the Boys and Girls Clubs of American to build a world class capability for leadership development, and is currently partnered with two charter schools in Texas, Uplift Education & IDEA, to develop their leadership capacity.

The word "NO" has the power to keep many leaders from realizing their goals and dreams. In fact it is often this alone that spells the difference between success and failure. But, with the right mindset anyone can turn NO from an obstacle into their greatest asset. Join our guest Andrea Waltz, co-owner of Courage Crafters, Inc. and co-author of Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There. as she shares this counter-intuitive philosophy called "go for no" and how it can help accelerate your business results. Andrea Waltz is widely recognized as a leading expert on helping people reprogram the way they think about failure, rejection, and transforming the word NO from a negative into a powerful positive. Andrea will share her insights both as an author and as the producer of a DVD which features interviews with renowned business and personal development professionals.

Dr. Sharon Melnick is a psychologist/coach dedicated to helping talented and successful people "get out of their own way". Informed by 10 years of research at Harvard Medical School and trained in cutting edge stress resilience techniques, she is a leading authority in helping business professionals move to the next level and feel secure about themselves in insecure times. Sharon is dynamic trainer and executive coach for businesspeople in varying functional roles. She has a strong track record of successful engagements at organizations such as Deutsche Bank, Deloitte Consulting, Oracle Corp, Merrill Lynch, Korn/Ferry International, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network and many others. She has taught her effectiveness techniques at the School of Management at Boston College, Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations. Her training is from Yale University, UC Berkeley, and the Institute for Management Studies.

Dr. Daniel Goleman's Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence is the author's first comprehensive collection of his key findings on leadership. This often-cited, proven-effective material will help leaders develop stellar management, performance and innovation for themselves and their teams.

Harvey Mackay is author of five New York Times bestsellers. His first two books -- Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt -- have been translated into 37 languages and distributed in 80 countries. Both books were New York Times #1 bestsellers and are also listed by the Times among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time. Harvey's latest book is Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door: Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You, arrived Feb. 22, 2010. His book We Got Fired! … And It's The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Us (2004) became his third New York Times #1 bestseller. His books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. He also is one of America's most popular and entertaining business speakers, speaking -- on average – once a week to Fortune 500-size companies and associations. Today we will hear Harvey's job search secrets no one else will tell you.

Joe Dowdy, Chief of Staff Office of the Director/NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, is an accomplished leader in his own right, setting the pace for top performers in his current role leading special projects and providing organizational advice to the center director and the Senior Management Team to improve processes and better accomplish Kennedy Space Center's assigned missions. Join Joe Dowdy to gain insight on how NASA is applying leading edge leadership development strategies to maximize existing mission success and potential future leaders both on the ground and in orbit.