Coaching in
Medicine & Leadership – don’t miss these outstanding
speakers:
David
Cooperrider, PhD, Professor of Social
Entrepreneurship, Weatherhead School of Management, is best known
for his development of the theory and practice of appreciative
inquiry (AI) as it relates to corporate strategy, change leadership,
and positive organizational scholarship. He is also a founder and
chairman of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit,
which proposes that many global issues today are a chance for
organizations to embrace social entrepreneurship and eco-innovation,
and find new sources of value.
Robert
Kegan, PhD, is a psychologist who teaches,
researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult
learning, and professional development. In addition to his faculty
appointment at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kegan is
educational chair of the Institute for Management and Leadership in
Education; co-director of a joint program with the Harvard Medical
School to bring principles of adult learning to the reform of
medical education; and as co-director of the Change Leadership
Group, a program for the training of change leadership coaches for
school and district leaders. His latest book Immunity
to Change was recently featured in the Oprah magazine
and presents a breakthrough cognitive model to outgrow the forces
which stop us from changing.
Benjamin
Zander is one of the most sought after
international speakers on the subject of leadership and creativity,
and recently was the closing keynote speaker at the World Economic
Forum. He has been profiled on CNN, 60 Minutes, the BBC, New York
Times, London Times and the Wall Street Journal, and was the 2002
recipient of the United Nations "Caring Citizen of the Humanities
Award." Ben and his partner Rosamund Zander collaborated on a
best-selling book, The
Art of Possibility. Ben has been the conductor of the
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra for thirty years, on the faculty of
the New England Conservatory since 1965, and is the Artistic
Director of the Walnut Hill School, a high school for the performing
arts.
Dr.
Ellen Langer, PhD, is a professor in the
Psychology Department at Harvard University. Her books written for
general and academic readers include Mindfulness, The Power of Mindful Learning,
On Becoming An
Artist, and her new book Counterclockwise.
Dr. Langer has described her work on the illusion of control, aging,
decision-making, and mindfulness theory in over 200 research
articles and six academic books. Her work has led to numerous
academic honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award for
Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest of
the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished
Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology award from the
American Association of Applied & Preventive Psychology, the
James McKeen Cattel Award, and the Gordon Allport Intergroup
Relations Prize.
Nick
Craig is the President of the Authentic
Leadership Institute (ALI), a leadership consulting firm committed
to helping good managers become great leaders. With an integrated
offering of leadership workshops, executive coaching and
organizational consulting, ALI is a catalyst in helping executives,
leadership teams and organizations achieve their highest levels of
authenticity, performance and potential. Nick is co-author of
"Finding Your True North" with Bill George of Harvard Business
School.
Diane
Coutu, MBA, MA, is a senior editor at Harvard
Business Review. She was an affiliate scholar and Julius Silberger
Fellow at the Boston Psychoanalytical Society and Institute and is
currently a 2008-2009 Fellow at the American Psychoanalytic
Association.
Roderick
Kramer, PhD, is the William R. Kimball
Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University. Kramer
received his BA in experimental psychology and philosophy from
California State University Los Angeles in 1977. He received his
Master’s in Experimental Psychology from California State University
in 1980. He earned his PhD in social psychology from the University
of California, Los Angeles, in 1985, with minors in cognitive
psychology and artificial intelligence. He was a visiting associate
professor at Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern
University) in 1991. He was a visiting professor at Oxford
University and London Business School in 2001. In 2002 and 2004, he
was a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University. In 2004-2005, he was a Visiting Senior
Scholar at the Hoover Institution. Kramer has been at Stanford since
1985.
Mark
Rittenberg, EdD, holds a Doctorate in
International and Multicultural Education from the University of San
Francisco, an M.A. in Education from San Francisco State University
and a B.A in Education and Social Work from the University of
California-Berkeley. For more than 20 years, Dr. Rittenberg has
helped organizations create communities of excellence and empowered
individuals to become true leaders through the power of
communication. Dr. Rittenberg believes that corporate problems can
be addressed through the Active Communicating methodology he
developed, which draws upon the actor’s discipline of engaging,
creative and effective communication
John
Ratey, MD, is an associate clinical professor
of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Ratey and Dr. Hallowell began
studying ADHD in the 1980s and co-authored Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and
Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through
Adulthood (1994), the first in a series of books that
demystify the disorder. Dr. Ratey also co-authored Shadow Syndromes (1997) with Catherine
Johnson, PhD, in which he describes the phenomenon of
milder forms of clinical disorders. He most recently authored the
bestselling books, Spark: The
Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
and A User’s Guide to
the Brain: Perception, Attention and the Four Theaters of the Brain
(2000) which translates how neuroscience affects
emotions, behavior and overall psychology.
