Jim CollinsAuthor and Management EducatorJim Collins has invested over a decade of research and study of great companies and how they grow from good companies into great companies. He has authored or co-authored four books, including the classic BUILT TO LAST, a fixture on the Business Week bestseller list for more than six years, and has been translated into 30 languages. Jim’s most recent book, GOOD TO GREAT: Why Some Companies Make the Leap, and Others Don’t attained long-running positions on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week bestseller lists, and has sold 3 million hardcover copies since publication and has been translated into 35 languages including Latvian, Mongolian, and Vietnamese. Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he now conducts research and teaches executives from corporate and social sectors. Jim has served as a teacher to senior executives and CEOs at over a hundred corporations. He has also worked with social sector organizations, such as Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Girls Scouts of the USA, the Leadership Network of Churches, the American Association of K-12 School Superintendents, and the United States Marine Corps. In 2005 he published a monograph: Good to Great and the Social Sectors. Jim is an avid rock climber and has made free ascents of the West Face of El Capitan and the East Face of Washington Column in Yosemite Valley. Please click here for information on Jim's Opening Keynote |
Terry PaulsonPsychologist, Columnist, and AuthorTerry Paulson is a PhD psychologist, columnist, and celebrated author of the popular books They Shoot Managers Don’t They? and Leadership Truths: One Story at a Time. Recognized expert on the human side of change management, his programs empower leaders, professionals, and teams to make change work and explore what matters most. Terry has hosted ECI’s business television series entitled, “Quality from the Human Side”, and is honored to be a distinguished faculty member of the Institute for Management Studies. He has been inducted as a lifetime member of the CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame along with Ronald Reagan, Colin Powell and Norman Vincent Peale, an honor given to only 178 speakers worldwide since its inception in 1977. Since founding Paulson and Associates, Inc. in Agoura Hills, California, Dr Paulson continues to conduct practical and entertaining programs for companies such as IBM, 3M, Federal Reserve Bank, HBO, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, Merck, NASA, Nintendo, SBC, Sony, Starbucks, Verizon, Wal-Mart, and hundreds of hospitals, universities, and associations. Please click here for information on Terry's Thursday morning Keynote |
Coen FreePresident, Koning Willem I College, The NetherlandsCoen Free is President of Koning Willem I College ‘s-Hertogenbosch (a town in the south of the Netherlands) since 1990; Koning Willem I College is considered as one of the most innovative Community Colleges in Europe. A special project of Koning Willem I College is School for the Future, a very innovative Research & Development Center for Teaching and Learning, e-Learning and Creative Thinking. Coen Free is also President of the Dutch Consortium for Innovation, a sister organization of the American League for Innovation. He is member of the International Advisory Board of the Chair Academy, he is a founding member of the European Federation for Open and Distance Learning (EFODL) Brussels, and founding member of the Dutch De Bono Foundation. He publishes frequently in journals and books his ideas about education in the 21st century. He has given guest lectures at numerous universities in Europe and is a well respected member of the community of ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Because of his merits to the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, he was elected Citizen of the Year 1999 and was also nominated as Citizen of the Century. In April 2006 he was knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands in the Order of the House of Oranje Nassau. Please click here for information on Coen's Thursday afternoon Keynote |
John MillerAuthor & Management SpeakerJohn Miller is the founder of QBQ, Inc., an organizational development firm based in Denver, Colorado, dedicated to making personal accountability a core value for organizations and individuals. His message of QBQ! was developed facilitating over 10,000 hours of training inside corporations from all industries. A native of Ithaca, New York and a 1980 graduate of Cornell University, John began his business career with Cargill, Inc. He has been actively involved in the organizational development and speaking industry since 1986. He is the author of the best-selling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question and the new book Flipping the Switch. Through his writings, speaking, and a nationwide network of QBQ!-certified consultants, Miller has brought his message to countless organizations including Bausch & Lomb, Blockbuster, American Cancer Society, Wells Fargo, Verizon Wireless, Boeing, Pier 1 Imports, Applebee’s, and the U.S. Department of Defense. John lives in Denver with his wife, Karen, and their seven children. To learn more about John and his message of personal accountability, please visit http://www.QBQ.com Please click here for information on John's Closing Keynote |