Deadlines
2014 Management Society Leadership Conference
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Brian is a leading expert on international religious freedom and the socio-economic impact of restrictions on religious freedom, and an expert on international religious demography and religion-related violence. He is an associate scholar at the Religious Freedom Project of Georgetown University’s Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, and an affiliated scholar at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs. Prior to becoming the Foundation’s president in 2014, Brian directed the largest social science effort to collect and analyze global data on religion at the Pew Research Center, Washington DC’s premier “fact tank.” He also worked for two decades as an educator, researcher and development coordinator in the former Soviet Union, China, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Brian holds a doctorate in sociology from the Pennsylvania State University (see full CV). He is an author of The Price of Freedom Denied (Cambridge Univ. Press), considered the seminal work showing the dire consequences of denying religious freedom. He has written dozens of research articles and several academic books on global religion as well as being the author of the Weekly Number Blog. Brian has appeared as an expert on global religion on numerous media outlets, including CNN, BBC, Fox, CBS, C-SPAN, and regularly presents to high level audiences throughout the world including the White House, State Department, European Parliament and the UN Human Rights Council. Brian also is a TEDx speaker.
Paul Gustavson was born is small town in southwest Utah, grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and has called Northern California home for 35 years. He is an author, board member, advisor, speaker and consultant. He was a walk-on letterman under College Hall of Fame coach LaVell Edwards at BYU. In the early 70's, he began an in-depth study of high performance teams and the systemic design of high commitment work systems.
Recently he co-authored with Stewart Liff the book, A Team of Leaders: Empowering every member to take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver Results which was just voted "One of the Top 30 Business Books for 2014" by Soundview Executive Book Summaries.
In 2012, he co-authored with Alyson Von Feldt a popular book "Running into the Wind, Bronco Mendenhall, Five Strategies for Building Successful Teams" and in 2013, he co-authored with Tom Ward "The Power of Living by Design".
His professional career has been devoted to helping create great places for people to work. He believes that whatever happens at work goes home with most folks. He believes that organizations are perfectly designed to get the results that they get. His writing focuses on strategies, processes and designs to create better workplaces, homes and communities.
He has served for over 20 years as a member of the Marriott School of Management's OB/HR Advisory Board and as a past chair for 8 years. In April 1999, he received the Marriott School of Management's William G. Dyer Distinguished Alumni Award for his contribution to the field of organizational behavior, leadership and strategy. In 2004 he received the Herrmann International Big Thinker Award for his contribution to the field of whole brain thinking.
Stewart Liff was born in Queens, New York in 1951 and moved to California in 1994. A classically trained artist, he worked for the Federal government for 32 years and led several impressive transformation efforts. One of them resulted in Vice President Al Gore's first Hammer Award for reinventing government and the other led to his office receiving OPM's prestigious PILLAR (Performance Incentives Leadership Linked to Achieving Results) Award.
He has written six books, four on government, one on visual management and his most recent one, A Team of Leaders, co-authored with Paul Gustavson, was just named one of the 30 best business books of 2014 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries.
Stew’s latest book, A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver Results, co-authored with Paul Gustavson, describes how to build high performing, self-managed teams.
Past clients are amazed at how Stew can quickly access what needs to change, how to do it, and how to resolve personnel problems, such as holding employees accountable or dealing with difficult people. Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs (VA), Justice, Agriculture, Labor and Treasury, as well such diverse organizations as the World Bank, OPM, the State Government of Georgia, the Ohio Department of Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health and the Brigham Young University Football Team have all benefited from Stew’s expertise.
Stew lives with his wife Lisa in Santa Clarita, California. In his spare time you can find Stew traveling, playing tennis, sketching, and spending quality time with his family.
Greg McKeown speaks on living and leading as an Essentialist. In this pursuit Greg:
- Writes a blog for Harvard Business Review.
- Serves as a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum where he has been both moderator and panel member.
- Designed a prototype class at the d.School at Stanford called, “Designing Your Life, Essentially.”
- Is an “Influencer” for LinkedIn where one of his blogs has been read by more than a million people.
- Has taught at companies that include Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter.
- Is an active social innovator as a guest speaker (NetImpact, The Kauffman Fellows) a Board Member (Resolve/KONY2012) and a mentor (2Seeds/Tanzania).
Greg also collaborated on the research and writing of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “Multipliers.”
Prior to this he worked for Heidrick & Struggles’ Global Leadership Practice assessing senior executives. His work included being a part of a year-long project for Mark Hurd (then CEO) assessing the top 300 executives at HP.
Originally from London, England, Greg now lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and their four children. He holds an MBA from Stanford University.