15th annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference
Best Practices in Leadership
Saturday,
February 26, 2005
Claremont McKenna College
Bauer Forum
Speakers
Joanne B. Ciulla is Professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the University of Richmond, where she is one of the founding faculty of the school. Ciulla has held the UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy and academic appointments at the Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, and Oxford University. A Ph.D. in philosophy, she lectures and consults on ethics and leadership all over the world. Her books include The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work, Ethics, The Heart of Leadership and The Ethics of Leadership. She recently co-authored a textbook called Honest Work, and is currently writing a book on the ethical origins of leadership. Her talk is entitled “Leadership in a Morally Divided World.”
Jay Conger (M.B.A., University of Virginia; D.B.A., Harvard Business School) holds the Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna. Author of many articles and book chapters and eleven books, he researches executive leadership, organizational change, boards of directors, executive derailment, and leadership development. His newest book co-authored with Robert Fulmer, examines new trends in talent management with an emphasis on leadership development. It is entitled Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Organizations Use Succession Management for Competitive Advantage. Other recent books include Shared Leadership: Reframing the How’s and Why’s of Leading Others (co-authored) and Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top (co-authored). He will speak on Best Practices in Board Leadership.
David V. Day (Ph.D., University of Akron) is Professor and Director of Graduate Training for the psychology department, Pennsylvania State University, and is an Adjunct Research Scientist with the Center for Creative Leadership. Day has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management and is an Associate Editor of Leadership Quarterly. He is the lead editor on a recent book, Leader Development for Transforming Organizations. Day served on the U.S. Army Panels for Training and Leader Development, reporting to the Chief of Staff. The title of his talk is “The Role of Identity in Leadership Development: Insights from Practice & Theory.”
Ann Howard (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is Manager of Assessment Technology Integrity for Development Dimensions International. Howard is the author of more than 85 publications on assessment centers, management selection, managerial careers, and leadership. She is the senior author of Managerial Lives in Transition: Advancing Age and Changing Times, which received the George R. Terry Award of Excellence. She has edited two books: The Changing Nature of Work and Diagnosis for Organizational Change: Methods and Models and co-edited The New Workplace and The Essentials of the New Workplace. She is a past president of SIOP, the Society of Psychologists in Management, and the Leadership Research Institute (which she co-founded). Her talk is entitled “Best Practices in Leader Selection.”
Manuel London (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is Professor and Director of the Center for Human Resource Management at SUNY Stony Brook. His areas of research are employee training and development, career motivation, upward and multisource (360-degree) feedback, human resources planning and strategy, organizational change, career motivation, global executive selection, leadership development in high tech organizations. London received the Book Award from the Society for Human Resource Management for Change agents: New roles and innovation strategies for human resource professionals. His books also include Leadership development: Paths to self-insight and professional growth and 360 Degree Feedback: A Tool and Process for Continuous, Self-Directed Management Development (co-edited). His talk is entitled “Best Practices in Leadership Assessment.”
Mitch Marks (Ph.D., University of Michigan) leads JoiningForces.org in San Francisco. His areas of expertise include corporate culture, team building, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, executive coaching, senior team development, human resources management, and the strategic planning and implementation of organizational change. Marks works extensively with firms planning and implementing mergers, restructurings, strategic changes, downsizings, and other major transitions. Reports of Marks’ work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Economist, Business Week, New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is the author of five books, including Charging Back Up the Hill: Workforce Recovery after Merger and Acquisitions and Downsizings. His talk is entitled “Workplace Recovery after Major Organization Transition: Best Practices in Leading Organizational Change.”
Ian I. Mitroff (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is The Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (USC), and president of the consulting firm Comprehensive Crisis Management. He is regarded as the founder of the discipline of crisis management and was founder and director of the USC Center for Crisis Management. Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of 26 previous books, including A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America, Smart Thinking for Crazy Times, The Unbounded Mind and Managing Crises Before They Happen. The title of his talk is “Why US Businesses Are Crisis Prone”
Dr. Michael Mumford (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is currently a professor of psychology at the University of Oklahoma and Director of the Center for Applied Behavioral Studies. His current research interests focus on leadership, creativity, planning, and integrity. Mumford is the senior editor of The Leadership Quarterly. He serves on the editorial boards of the Creativity Research Journal, the Journal of Creative Behavior, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has received more than 20 million in grant and contract funding from sponsors including the National Institute of Health, the Army Research Institute, the United States Department of Labor, and the United States Department of State. His talk is entitled “Creating the conditions for success: Best practices in leading for innovation.”
Patricia M. G. O’Connor (M.B.A., Bernard M. Baruch College) is an Enterprise Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership. She works with senior managers and executives to address communication in flattened corporate structures, 360-degree feedback, systemic approaches to leader and team development, action learning, and other practices for developing organizational leadership capacity. She is currently responsible for a client collaboration involving a $10,000,000 investment in the development of the top 700 executives. Recent co-authored publications include “Leadership Development: Understanding the process,” “Organizational capacity for leadership,” and “Explicating the ‘ship’ in leadership development.” She is currently researching how a team or an organization’s developmental level of leadership practices influences its ability to address complex challenges. The title of her talk is “The Role of Identity in Leadership Development: Insights from Practice & Theory.”
Craig L. Pearce (Ph.D., University of Maryland; M.B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Pearce’s areas of expertise include leadership, teamwork and change management. His research has appeared in such journals as Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Pearce has worked as an international management consultant in the area of process re-engineering, organizational development and turnaround management. His clients have included AAI, ACNielsen, American Express, British Bakeries, GEICO Insurance, Land Rover, Mack Trucks, Panda Management Group, Pickering Foods, Rayovac, and Serono. He will talk on Best Practices in Team Leadership.
Eduardo Salas (Ph.D., Old Dominion University) is a Professor of Psychology and Principal Scientist for human factors at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include team training performance, and decision making, training effectiveness, tactical decision making under stress, performance measurement, and learning strategies for teams. Salas has co-authored eight books, over 150 journal articles and book chapters, serves on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology, Military Psychology, Interamerican Journal of Psychology, Transportation Human Factors Journal, Group Dynamics and Training Research Journal and is the incoming Editor for Human Factors. He was a senior research psychologist of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division for 15 years. He will talk on Best Practices in Team Leadership.
Mary Uhl-Bien (Ph.D., University of Cincinnati) is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Uhl-Bien has published in leading national and international journals in the areas of leadership, relational leadership theory, leader-member exchange, social exchange, and complexity leadership. She has also written on the topics of teamwork and self-management. She is on the editorial boards of the Leadership Quarterly and the Academy of Management Journal. She has trained Russian businesspeople for the American Russian Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, has been a Visiting Professor at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and has participated in a Fulbright grant to Mexico. She has consulted with Walt Disney World, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, British Petroleum, and the General Accounting Office. The title of her talk is “Best Practices in Relational Leadership: Developing and Fostering Effective Work Relationships.”
David A. Waldman (Ph.D., Colorado State University) is a Professor of Management in the School of Management at Arizona State University West. His research interests focus on leadership, 360-degree feedback, and cross-cultural management issues. His accomplishments include approximately 70 scholarly and practitioner articles and book chapters, approximately $450,000 in grant money, and current editorial board memberships, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Other areas of expertise include survey construction and validation and assessment center methodology. Waldman has consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies and governmental agencies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The title of his talk is “Demonstrating Effective Leadership at Strategic Levels.”
