Deadlines
2015 Annual Marriott School OBHR Conference
Speakers
Keynote
Jeff Dyer (Ph.D UCLA) is the Horace Beesley professor of strategy at Brigham Young University as well as professor of strategy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a professor he spent five years as a consultant and manager at Bain & Company, a top management consultancy. His book The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the 5 Skills of Disruptive Innovators is a bestseller, has already been published in more than 13 languages, and won the 2011 Innovation Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute. His most recent book The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization is also a bestseller and examines the methods that innovators use to test and validate ideas before launching them in the market.
Beyond his innovation books, Dyer is the only strategy scholar in the world to have published five times in the Harvard Business Review and five times in Strategic Management Journal, the top academic journal in the strategy field. In 2012 he was ranked the world’s #1 “most influential” management scholar among scholars who completed their Ph.D’s after 1990. This ranking, published in Academy of Management Perspectives, was based upon an equal weighting of academic citations (measuring academic influence) and non.edu Google searches (measuring business influence).
Professor Dyer’s research has been covered in articles at Forbes, The Economist, Fortune, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fast Company, Inc., Wired, Entrepreneur, and many other publications. Companies such as Adobe, AT&T, Baker-Hughes, Cisco, General Electric, General Mills, Gilead Sciences, Harley Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Life Technologies, Northrup Grumman, and Sony have asked him to give speeches or workshops on innovation and/or strategy.
Joe Folkman is co-founder and president of Zenger Folkman, a firm that utilizes evidence-driven, strength-based methods to improve organizations and the people within them. He is a respected authority on assessment and change, and an acclaimed keynote speaker at conferences and seminars the world over. His topics focus on a variety of subjects related to leadership development, feedback, and individual and organizational change.
As one of the nation’s renowned psychometricians, Joe’s extensive expertise focuses on survey research and change management. He has more than 30 years of experience, consulting with some of the world’s most prestigious and successful organizations. His unique measurement tools are designed utilizing a database comprised of more than a half million assessments on nearly 50,000 leaders. Because these tools specifically address critical business results, facilitating development and change is the main focus of measurement efforts.
Joe is a regular contributor to Forbes and the Harvard Business Review Blog Forum. His research has received placement in several top-tier media sources, including The Wall Street Journal’s National Business Employment Weekly, CNBC News, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, Chief Learning Officer, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Training and Development Magazine, and Executive Excellence.
A distinguished expert in the field of survey design and data analysis, Joe consults with organizations large and small, public and private. His clients include: AT&T , General Motors, Boeing, ConocoPhillips, CIBC, General Mills, Hunt Consolidated, Koch Industries, Marathon Oil, Nortel, Fidelity, First American, Reed-Elsevier, Safeway, Thomson Reuters, US Navy, UCSD, Wells Fargo and Weyerhaeuser.
Prior to forming Zenger Folkman, Joe was a founding partner of Novations Group, Inc., where he led the employee survey and 360-degree assessment practices. Joe holds a doctorate in social and organizational psychology, as well as a master’s degree in organizational behavior from Brigham Young University.
He is the author or co-author of seven books: How to Be Exceptional ( McGraw-Hill 2012), The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders Motivate (McGraw-Hill 2009), The Power of Feedback (Wiley 2006), The Handbook for Leaders (McGraw-Hill 2004), the best-selling Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders (McGraw-Hill, 2002), Employee Surveys that Make a Difference (Executive Excellence 1998), Making Feedback Work (Executive Excellence 1998), and Turning Feedback Into Change (Executive Excellence 1996).
Joe and his family reside at the base of the Wasatch Mountains in Orem, Utah.
Mark H. Willes is currently the Chairman and CEO of Precision Time, a Utah based watch company. Prior to this he was appointed President and CEO of Deseret Management Corporation in March 2009. In addition to these duties, in May 2010, he was appointed as President and CEO of KSL Television and Radio. He was released as President and CEO of DMC and KSL in April, 2012.
Mr. Willes retired as Chairman, President and CEO of Times Mirror in April 2000. He joined Times Mirror as CEO in June 1995. In addition, he served as publisher of the Los Angeles Times from October 1997 to June 1999. Prior to joining Times Mirror, Mr. Willes was vice chairman of General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota. A 15-year veteran of the company, he served as president and chief operating officer from 1985 to 1992 when he was named vice chairman. He was executive vice president and chief financial officer from 1980 to 1985. Mr. Willes previously served with the Federal Reserve System. He was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1977 to 1980 and first vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1971 to 1977, having joined the Federal Reserve System in 1969. He began his career as an assistant professor of finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, from 1967 to 1969.
Born on July 16, 1941, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Mr. Willes received his A.B. degree from Columbia College, New York City, and his Ph.D. from the Columbia Graduate School of Business. As an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, among other Church assignments, he has served as president of the Minneapolis, Minnesota Stake for nine years and president of the Hawaii Honolulu Mission for three years. He currently serves as a branch president at the Provo MTC.