March: OD Sound Bites – TED Talk Style! (03/09/17)

 OD SOUND BITES
(TED Talk Style Presentations)

Schedule for Thursday Evening:
–  6:30  Networking / Food / Intros 
–  7:00  Announcements / Program
–  8:45  Closing and evaluation 

Meeting Location:  

University of Dallas – SB Hall, Serafy Special Events Room *
   Campus: 1845 East Northgate Drive,    Irving, TX 75062     (972-721-5000)

Speaker BIOs:

Mike Thompson is the CEO of SVI, a talent development company. As one of the most forward thinkers in leadership, Mike has toured the world and studied leadership in some of the most primitive environments to gain deeper- level leadership insights in all types of communities and cultures around the globe. Mike is the author of three top-selling business and leadership books, The Organizational Champion: How to Develop Passionate Change Agents at Every Level; The Anywhere Leader: How to Lead and Succeed in Any Business Environment; and, most recently, Forging Grit: A Story of Leadership Perseverance.

Scott Kincaid started in the usability industry more than 20 years ago. During his career, Scott has spent more than 15 years working for Usability Sciences, a small research consulting company in Dallas. As to be expected in small companies, he has worn many hats including researcher, operations manager, sales engineer, and executive. In his time of user research consulting, Scott has worked for a wide range of companies including Salesforce, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, and Dell. In addition to his consulting experience, Scott also spent four years managing a team of 15+ researchers at Salesforce.com.

Peter Sorenson designs and changes organizations focusing on the impact of technology change on strategic choices and the design of the innovation process in organizations. In addition to working with tech companies he also works with healthcare organizations and the offshore oil and gas industry. In 2016 Pete worked on the conference design team for a conference focusing on “Integrating Technology & Organization In a Digital World”. This innovatively designed international conference focused on creating and designing knowledge work organizations rather than simply sharing knowledge. He sees these kinds of cutting edge approaches as essential to dealing with the challenges of designing the organizations of the future.

Ed Rankin, an expert executive coach, has worked with scores of senior and mid-level executives and successful entrepreneurs.  Additionally, he designs, implements and manages corporate coaching and leadership development programs.  Ed is a widely-recognized expert in organizational systems and effectiveness.  He has designed and implemented scores of organizational research programs including employee opinion and engagement surveys.  A skilled facilitator, Ed has conducted scores of focus groups and other research and learning sessions.

Dale Hintz is a Certified Management Consultant, creating high performance:  Cultures, Leaders, Individuals and Teams.  Scientific Assessments frame the investigation and then proactive “guided self-discovery” connects the dots into a new powerful vision of how we “want to” act and interact.  Clients represent all disciplines and footprints – the common thread is people.  Partial list of clients:  Toyota, ThyssenKrupp, Griffith Foods, Lynden Transport, Marq Enterprises, Schneider National, Nexteer, GM Nameplate, Global QSR Franchisor and others with a senior Leader who “wants to” engage their team in the multi-faceted change to go from ‘good to great’.

Sandhya Johnson is a leader in HR optimization, leadership development, team performance, and organization effectiveness. Her broad-based work experience of over 20 years includes all areas of human resources with an emphasis in hospitality, manufacturing and client services work environments including Le Meridien, Ingersoll Rand, Citibank, Hewitt Associates, GAF Materials Corporation and Flowserve. Today, she is the founder and Managing Director of Ingenium Global, a Dallas based consulting firm that is committed to creating talent-driven organizations. She graduated in 2016 with a PhD in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate University.

Jim Jameson is a Change Management Consultant at Noah Consulting.  His work is mainly in the areas of Business Analysis, Change Management, Collaboration, and Knowledge Management – primarily in the Oil & Gas and Aerospace industries. He believes that focusing on the people side of technology change is the key to improving ROI on transformational ‘IT solutions’.  Jim earned an MS degree in Information Systems and post-grad certificate in Knowledge Management, both from George Washington University in DC.

Moderator:      Terri A.G. Adkisson sees things that aren’t there yet, but should be. She combines a deep knowledge of business strategy, operations, organizational development, and market development to help clients become more profitable in less time. She is a Partner in the nFLXn Point Group, a consulting firm that helps companies get to the next level, and have fun doing it.  Terri holds an MBA from UT Austin and a BBA in MIS from the University of Oklahoma.  She is a graduate of Leadership Dallas and served on the Board of Directors for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) for 8 years.