Adler, Nancy is the S. Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She received her B.A. in economics and M.B.A. and Ph.D. in management from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Adler conducts research and consults to private corporations and government organizations worldwide on global leadership and cross-cultural management. She has authored over 100 articles, produced the film, A Portable Life, and published three books.
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Aitkenhead, Marilyn is an organizational psychologist and cognitive behavior therapist with over 20 years of experience in consulting, leadership coaching, teaching, research, and clinical practice. She has designed a series of interventions aimed at understanding and tackling bullying in the workplace. This work is derived from her experience helping others explore ways in which their positive efforts can be limited by difficult personal, interpersonal, and organizational processes.
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Basu, Kunal is a Reader in Marketing at the Saïd Business School and Templeton College, Oxford University. Prior to Oxford, he was a tenured Associate Professor at McGill University and Director of the Powercorp Centre for International Management Studies in Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on the interface between strategic marketing and corporate social responsibility. Dr. Basu has published extensively in areas of branding strategy, brand loyalty, international marketing, consumer behavior and advertising.
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Beer, Michael is Cahners-Rabb Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and Chairman of TruePoint (www.truepoint.com) a research based consultancy. TruePoint works with senior teams to improve the effectiveness of their organization and leadership through a process modeled after the six steps for change.
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Bird, Frederick is a Research Professor in Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Until 2007 he was a Research Chair in Comparative Ethics and Professor in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal. He has edited and helped to write three books on the practices of international businesses in developing countries. He is the author of The Muted Conscience: Moral Silence and the Practice of Ethics in Business.
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Brown, John Seeley is the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Technology and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California. For nearly two decades he was Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and director of its Paolo Alto Research Center (PARC). His personal research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning. He has written extensively in these areas.
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Chia, Robert is Professor of Management at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is an established and well-respected academic and consultant who spent 16 years in engineering, human resources, and manufacturing management prior to entering academia. His research interests and expertise are in strategic foresight, creativity, and cross-cultural management. He has published extensively and is currently writing a book entitled: “Strategy without Design”
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Cooperrider, David is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and founder and director of the school’s Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. He has served as advisor to a variety of organizations, most projects inspired by his Appreciative Inquiry method. David has published 14 books and authored over 50 articles.
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Crawley, Rick is currently the Associate Dean of External Relations and Corporate Communications at the Lancaster University Management School in the U.K., where he is also involved in directing the Global Advanced Leadership Program (ALP) and the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM). Dr.Crawley has a PhD in Behavioural Science from Aston University.
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Creelman, David is CEO of Creelman Research and writes, researches, and speaks on the most critical issues in human capital management. His clients include think tanks, consultants, academics and organizations in Japan, the US, Canada and the EU. He also advises organizations on human capital management issues. He has sat on many thought leader panels with the Human Capital Institute including Global Talent Management, Learning Strategies, and the ROI of Talent Management.
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Dougherty, Deborah holds a Ph.D. in Management from M.I.T. She taught at Wharton and McGill before joining Rutgers Business School, the State University of New Jersey, where she is a professor in Management and Global Business. Her current research focuses on organizing for product and science-based innovation.
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Goldsmith, Marshall is consultant to over 70 CEOs of major corporations and their management teams, conducting workshops for executives, high-potential leaders, and HR professionals. Goldsmith is also the author or coauthor of 22 books on leadership and coaching, including his newest best-seller, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.
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Gosling, Jonathan is Professor and Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies, and Head of Executive Education in the School of Business and Economics, at the University of Exeter, in the UK.
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Jorgensen, Jan is Associate Professor in Strategy and Organization at McGill University. His current research interests include organizational responses to globalization and strategic collaboration among organizations across the private, state and social sectors.
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Kotler, Philip is the S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Professor Kotler has consulted for companies worldwide, including IBM, Michelin, and Bank of America, in the areas of international marketing and marketing strategy and planning. Professor Kotler is the author of Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control, the most widely used marketing book in graduate business schools. He has authored 17 books and over 100 articles.
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Lampel, Joseph is a Professor at Cass Business School, City University, in London. He has worked at the Science Council of Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Culture, and was the Assistant Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Joe is the co-author and co-editor of: The Business Culture, Strategy Bites Back, and Strategy Safari. He has published extensively in management journals and Fortune Magazine, and consulted for a wide variety of organizations. His main research work is on strategy in creative and project-based industries.
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Langley, Ann is Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Montréal, Canada. She worked for several years as both an analyst and consultant in the private and public sectors. Her early research centered on the roles of formal analysis in strategic decision-making. Her current work focuses on strategic change and various dimensions of the practice of strategy. Dr. Langley is co-founder of the Strategy as Practice Study Group at HEC Montréal and Adjunct Professor at the University of Montreal and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. She has published over 50 articles and two books.
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LeNir, Phil is Executive Director CoachingOurselves. He developed CoachingOurselves, a new approach to management development pioneered in the International Masters Program in Practicing Management. Using content derived from the IMPM he experimented with delivery formats and began facilitating management learning sessions with his managers, and later with peer groups. Phil is working to bring CoachingOurselves to organizations worldwide.
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Liedkta, Jeanne is a Professor of Strategy at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and former Chief Learning Officer at United Technologies Corporation where she was responsible for overseeing all activities associated with corporate learning and development. Her passion is around exploring how organizations can engage employees at every level in thinking creatively about the design of powerful futures.
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McGannon, Juliette RM, CFI is the Managing Director of the McGannon Institute of Proactive Health (MIPH), in Nice, France, and Director of the Business Leader’s Health Program (BLHP) at INSEAD. She received her training in California in nutrition and physiology, specializing in fitness prescription and effective stress management. Her present research project is focused on the techniques that optimally balance the left and right brains during stressful moments.
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McGannon, Michael MD, is a specialist in proactive medicine, particularly as it applies to business life. He holds a doctorate inmedicine from Georgetown University (Washington, DC, US) and a postdoctoral research fellowship in gastroenterology (digestive diseases) from Stanford University Medical Center (California, US). Dr. Michael McGannon, MD,has also written extensively about the health/ business interface for various international publications.
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Metayer, Estelle is an expert in competitive and strategic intelligence. She is a reputed public speaker at international conferences and facilitates workshops around the world. An adjunct professor for McGill University, she teaches the Advanced Leadership Program as well as the newly designed pan-Canadian certification program for Canadian board directors. Estelle was the president and founder of Competia, a leading training organization for executives and analysts in Strategic Intelligence.
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Mintzberg, Henry is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Canada and an internationally renowned speaker and author on organization and management. He has been described by Tom Peters as “perhaps the world’s premier management thinker”. Henry has published more than 150 articles and fifteen books, including Managers Not MBA’s, from which CoachingOurselves has sprung.
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Moore, Karl is an Associate Professor at McGill University and an Associate Fellow of Oxford University's Templeton College. Before becoming a business professor, Karl worked for eleven years in sales and marketing management positions with IBM, Hitachi and Bull. He has taught executive education and consulted with leading global firms including: IBM, Nokia, HP, Motorola, Wipro, Volvo, Accenture, P&O, and Kingfisher.
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Nguyen, Huy Quy is a professor of strategy at INSEAD and director of the International Masters Program for Practicing Managers (IMPM). He held various management positions with several information technology firms and has done executive development, teaching, consulting or coaching for profit and non-profit organizations worldwide. As an academic, his research on strategic change has won various international awards. Harvard Business Review featured his article “In Praise of Middle Managers” in the journal’s 2001 annual “List of Breakthrough Ideas for Today's Business Agenda”.
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Nilsson, Warren is currently teaching and pursuing a Ph.D. in organization studies at McGill University. Previously, he spent ten years working in the community economic development sector. Warren’s research involves exploring the ways that organizations become agents of meaningful social change. He is the author of The Southern Wall: The Art of Organizational Engagement at Santropol Roulant.
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Paddock, Tana is a facilitator and coach who helps organizations address social and environmental issues through dialogue and collaboration. Over the past 12 years, she has worked on a wide range of projects including sustainable design, micro-enterprise development, community economic development, food security, public education, the arts, and affordable housing.
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Patwell, Beverley is President of Patwell Consulting. She is an organizational development practitioner with over 20 years experience in developing and implementing organizational development and change management solutions for private, public sector and not-for-profit organizations. Beverley has a Masters Degree in Human Systems Intervention and accreditation as a Human Resources Practitioner (CHRA). She is an associate coach with the Niagara Institute and member of the National Training Laboratories Institute (NTL).
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Sadilova, Sasha has over 20 years of experience on managing and developing managers in the telecom industry in R&D, marketing, HR, and service areas.
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Sloan, Pamela is a Professor of Strategy and Management at HEC Montréal. Her research focuses on how managers understand and engage with their stakeholders. Pamela has been a member of the Project RESPONSE research team, a European Union funded study of corporate responsibility. One of Project RESPONSE's key concerns is the degree of alignment between corporations and their stakeholders.
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Traut, Terence is the president of Entelechy, Inc., a company that provides customized training programs in the areas of sales, management, customer service, and training. In addition to consulting, Terence has written numerous articles and guides on performance, management, and training. He has been analyzing employee performance since 1982.
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Turnbull, Sharon is Cycle Director of the International Masters in Practicing Management, and Director of the Centre for Applied Leadership Research at The Leadership Trust Foundation in Ross-on-Wye, UK. She has researched, published, taught, and consulted to organizations in the field of organizational culture and change. Sharon has also held human resource, management development and organization development roles for a number of large organizations.
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Ulrich, Dave is a professor of business at the Ross School of Management, University of Michigan. He is also founder/partner at The RBL Group (www.rbl.net). Dave has written 15 books and hundreds of articles on defining and shaping organization's talent, leadership, change, learning, and human resources capabilities. He has consulted on these issues with over half of the Fortune 500.
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Wagner Weick, Cynthia is presently Professor of Management at University of the Pacific in California. She was in strategic planning and new business development at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, and was a Research Scientist at Battelle Columbus Laboratories. She has published articles in the areas of managing technology and innovation, the economic role of independent inventors, and the use of metaphor in strategic management. She has also authored a book entitled Out of Context: A Creative Approach to Strategic Management.
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Westley, Frances holds the J.W. McConnell Chair of Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of social innovation in complex systems.
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Yip, George is Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University. He is one of the world's leading authorities on global strategy and marketing, managing global customers, and internationalization. His current research concerns management innovation, strategic transformation, international competitiveness, and global customers.
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Zimmernan, Brenda is a Professor of Strategic Management at York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto, Canada. She is the founder and Director of the Health Industry Management Program. Her primary research applies complexity science to management and leadership issues in organizations.
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