Keynotes
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Dave Ulrich, who says: "The HR department must give value or give notice." He has written numerous books on how the HR Department can be a strategic Partner in the company. His latest book: ”The HR Value Proposition” is about how the HR department can create value for the company. Dave Ulrichs methods are research based and he has done a lot of work about the HR Scorecard.
Dave Ulrich has for the last 3 year been named the most influentail person in HR. He emphasizes defining organizations through the capabilities they possess. His work has helped define and shape key capabilities such as change, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, service, innovation, and efficiency. The outcomes of leadership and HR are the capabilities that an organization possesses that deliver value to customers, investors, and communities.
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Mette Nørgaard, many of you remember this speaker from our 2004 Conference. This time Mette will be speaking about her upcoming book on how to lead in an information/interrruption age. Mette Norgaard is an independent consultant on strategic leadership and learning. As such, she works with executives and internal OD professionals to develop a unique leadership culture, one that can take a strategy and turn it into a new reality. In that sense, she functions much like a free-lance CLO. Furthermore, Norgaard specializes in learning processes for high-potential leaders, and has personally led such experiences for organizations like Microsoft, Campbell’s, and Finnish Broadcasting. She also serves on the faculty for Duke Corporate Training. |
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Colin Hall, Learning to Lead, Syd Afrika. For many years he was the CEO of Wooltru, a retail organization of 30,000 people. Colin Hall is a great speaker and an admired leader in Europe and Africa. Now he offers Leadership Safari training in the wild South African setting. The Leadership Safari grew out of Leadership - A Simpler Way, a personal initiative started by Colin Hall in the early 90s to address the issues of leadership in Wooltru and South Africa. Over the past eight years, almost 5000 people from Wooltru, other businesses, government, educational institutions and various community organizations shared in its development. It draws from the remarkable diversity of its past participants, evolving from their shared will to understand leadership better and practice it more effectively.
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Michael B. Johnson, has been a leader of Moving Pictures Tool Group på Pixar Animation Studios for 13 years. Some of his work are successes such as ”Ratatouille”, ”Monsters Inc” og ”Finding Nemo”. Michael B. Johnson will talk about team work as part of an innovative culture, that creates business. |
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Kim Cameron, Professor of Management and Organisations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA. Dr. Cameron's past research on organizational downsizing, organizational effectiveness, corporate quality culture and the development of leadership excellence has been published in more than 120 academic articles and 13 scholarly books, the latest of which are Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture (Jossey Bass), Positive Organizational Scholarship (Berrett-Koehler), Leading with Values (Cambridge University Press), Competing Values Leadership (Edward Elgar), Making the Impossible Possible (Berrett Koehler), and Positive Leadership (Berrett Koehler). His current research focuses on virtuousness in and of organizations--such as forgiveness, gratitude, kindness, and compassion--and their relationship to performance. He is one of the co-founders of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan and has served as Dean at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Associate Dean in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, and department chair at the University of Michigan.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of organizational behaviour, Stanford Graduate School of Business i USA. Jeffrey Pfeffer has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books including The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First, Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action, Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, and What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management, a collection of 27 essays about management topics, as well as more than 120 articles and book chapters. Pfeffer’s latest book, tentatively entitled Power: An Organizational Survival Guide will be published in early 2010 by HarperCollins. Among other things he has worked with IDEO about transfer of processes known from designdevelopment to organisational development. |
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