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Seminar Speakers:
The five seminar speakers have been engaged to inspire learning and working group conversations. These discussions will generate meaningful questions for the panelists during Lunch and will also set the agenda for the subsequent Regional Meetings co-hosted by REI and partner members of the Univeristies Collaborative.
- Ed Morrison
Economic Development Strategist and Univeristies Collaborative Member
Ed Morrison is the Executive Director of REI@Weatherhead, the Center for Regional Economic Issues at the Weatherhead School of Management.
For over eighteen years, Ed has been conducting strategy projects with economic developers in the U.S. He has worked on these issues from rural counties to the halls of Congress and dozens of places in between. He is a professional with muddy boots.
Here are some highlights of his economic development career:
- His work won the first Arthur D. Little Award presented by the American Economic Development Council.
- He is the architect of the strategic economic development plan for Oklahoma City, Forward Oklahoma City, and he has served as economic development consultant to the Chamber since 1994.
Forward Oklahoma City: The New Agenda was launched in 1996 following a $10 million investment by the business community for an aggressive five-year economic development action plan to reposition Oklahoma City to the world. The plan's focus was to enhance the economic development efforts of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce by creating quality jobs, increasing capital investment, retaining existing business and improving per capita income through seven initiatives. The program generated one of the highest returns on investment ever measured by the Economic Strategy Center in Atlanta, GA. (In other words, the cost per job created or retained was extremely low, one fourth the national average.
Forward Oklahoma City II builds on the momentum of this first program. The business community has invested more than $12 million to fund this new program. The initiatives of this program are more focused and targeted toward meeting specific needs and overcoming obstacles to quality growth. Forward Oklahoma City II's main goal is the attraction of higher paying jobs to the region, while retaining existing jobs and helping anchor firms expand in key clusters.
Based on his experience with workforce development programs in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Louisiana, Ed designed the seminar "Reinventing the Game: Competing in the Global Economy". LG&E Energy sponsored this seminar during 2003.
Ed is a frequent speaker on workforce development issues. Most recently, he has spoken before the Kentucky Industrial Development Council, the Indiana Economic Development Council, the Virginia Economic Development Association, and the Economic Development Council of Maine on workforce issues.
He authored the 1998 report for the Commission on the Future of the South, chaired by former Kentucky Governor, Martha Layne Collins. This report focused on the importance of "brain power" to the future of economic development. Governors in 14 Southern states appoint the Commission every six years to chart an economic development course for the South. The governors unanimously endorsed the 1998 Commission report, and then- Governor Zell Miller of Georgia called it the "best Commission report ever written."
He manages the community assessment program for the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. This initiative improves development prospects throughout rural Kentucky.
Ed travels to China frequently. Ed's extensive experience in China began in 1986, when the Hong Kong Industry Department retained him as a consultant. Since that time he has worked for the United Nations Development Program, and for private investors. He currently serves as chairman of a joint venture project in Xi'an with U.S., Chinese and Japanese investors and as consultant to the Xi'an High Technology Development Zone.
He also worked on economic development issues in Washington, first as a legislative assistant to a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and, later, as staff counsel to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
Prior to starting his economic development work, Ed worked for Telesis, an offshoot of the Boston Consulting Group. In this position, he served on consulting teams for clients such as Ford Motor Company, Volvo, and General Electric. He conducted manufacturing cost studies in the U.S., Japan, Mexico, Canada, Italy, Sweden, and France.
Ed holds a BA degree from Yale University and MBA and JD degrees from the University of Virginia.
Link: http:www.edpro.net
- Valdis Krebs
Social Network Analysis
Valdis is a management consultant and the developer of InFlow?, a software based, organization network analysis methodology that maps and measures knowledge exchange, information flow, communities of practice, networks of alliances and other networks within and between organizations. Through eye-opening graphics and revealing measures, this technique allows managers to see what was once invisible.
Clients such as IBM, TRW, Raytheon, Aventis, Cardinal Health, CapitalOne?, Centers for Disease Control [CDC], Lucent Technologies, Hiram Walker, Shell, ACENet?, CWRU-REI, Rubbermaid, Sempra Energy, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Jaakko Poyry, PricewaterhouseCoopers?, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, KPMG, University of Michigan Business School and many others use his software and services to map and measure networks, flows, and relationships in organizations, communities, and other complex human systems.
His work in organizational network analysis has been covered in major media including Discover Magazine, Business 2.0, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, Entrepreneur, First Monday, Optimize Magazine, Training, PC, ZDNet?, O'Reilly Network, Knowledge Management, Across the Board, Business Week, HR Executive, Personnel Journal, Forbes, FORTUNE, MSNBC.com, HR.com, Release 1.0, and several major newspapers around the world.
Valdis has undergraduate degrees in Mathematics & Computer Science, and a graduate degree in Organizational Behavior/Human Resources and has studied applied Artificial Intelligence. He has given invited talks on organizational networks at UCLA Anderson School, Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Weatherhead School of Management - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, University of Michigan Business School, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University and the University of Latvia.
Valdis has consulted and researched organizational networks since 1988. He works from his office in Cleveland, Ohio with a network of colleagues in the USA, Canada and Europe.
Link: http://www.orgnet.com
- Laszlo Kozmon
Collaborative Process
Laszlo Kozmon is a practitioner of the art of business performance improvement. Having advised the senior managements of large and small companies on business strategy, operations improvement, and information technology, Laz also served in temporary executive management roles. His industry experience includes diverse capital equipment and commercial sectors, telecommunications, electronics, software, consumer goods, foods, hospitality, and financial services. Clients included companies such as GE, Textron, EDS, General Mills, Dover, NCR, Hilton, and the World Bank.
In working with clients over 20 plus years, Laz has always focused on helping client management shape a vision and tap into available resources to create and grow economic value. He has developed several proprietary models for analyzing the impact of activities and operational performance indicators on a company’s ability to create customer and shareholder value. He has also developed considerable expertise exploiting emerging information technologies to create competitive advantage and new business opportunities. He is a pioneer in the use of knowledge-based engineering solutions to improve dramatically supply chain and operating performance in the manufacturing and distribution of complex products.
Laz is a managing consultant at Novomont Partners, a firm that designs, guides, and supports critical business initiatives that create and improve performance. Having introduced into client organizations new collaborative business practices and techniques for managing partnerships and alliance networks, Novomont continues to innovate and apply leading practices in large-scale knowledge management and collaboration.
In addition to his work at Novomont Partners, Laz is leading a software startup effort in the financial services industry. Having defined the market need and product, Laz’s role is to recruit a highly experienced management team, and to establish a high performance company culture.
Laz has also served in director roles at an investment partnership and a venture-funded telecommunications company.
An experienced investor with a passion for the mountains, he is equally at home in front of a computer screen or on a climbing trip. Fluent in Hungarian with a working knowledge of German, Laz has worked in Hungary and Germany, and lived in Switzerland. Well traveled in Europe, he enjoys experiencing new cultures.
Attaining the rank of Eagle Scout, Mr. Kozmon continues to contribute as a Boy Scout leader, having learned the value of developing people and good leadership skills at an early age.
He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from CWRU and an MBA from the University of Dayton.
- June Holley
Entrepreneurial Network Development
June Holley is President and founder of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet), a community economic development organization in southeastern Ohio committed to building a healthy and sustainable regional economy based on economic justice, self-determination, and respect for diversity. With the ACEnet staff, she has pioneered the implementation of many innovative economic development strategies including business networks, sectoral incubators, a youth entrepreneurship initiative, and technology-based workforce development programs.
In 1991, she was selected by Governor Voinovich to be inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame. An avid researcher on complexity and organizations, she has co-authored over 30 papers and two books on various aspects of economic and community networking. She was recently awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Kentucky, where she will work on a Tracking That Makes A Difference™ system that will enable organizations to increase their scale and impact.
She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Ohio Magazine, Entrepreneur, In Business and many other publications. http://www.acenetworks.org
- Jack Ricchiuto
Organizational Development, Collaborative Technologies
Jack is an independent corporate coach, author, and principal with Smart Meeting Design. For over 25 years, he has been serving organizations across 20 + industries, from Fortune 500 to start-ups. The focus of his work is helping teams and leaders improve their performance through better use of their strengths and resources. His client list includes Ford, MCI, American Greetings, Parker Hannifin, Phillips/Nuclear Division, Viacom, American Institute Of Banking, Doty & Miller Architects, and University Hospitals.
Author of Collaborative Creativity, Accidental Conversations, and Project Zen, Jack's fourth book, Appreciative Leadership is described below. Jack has written for national publications including Projects@Work and local publications like Smart Business News and Cool Cleveland. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Jack also is a writer conference seminar presenter and speaker.
The core of Jack's corporate coaching work is coaching executives and project teams in performance improvement. His work with Smart Meeting Design is coaching organizations and teams in the use of collaboration technologies. An early technology adopter, Jack helps client organizations with intelligent and agile use of new tools to support sustainable growth.
With an undergraduate degree from John Carroll University and master's degree from Goddard College, Vermont, Jack continues to teach Executive MBA classes as well as design and deliver seminars in personal, team, and leadership development across industries.
November 15th Featured Publication: Appreciative Leadership: Building Sustainable Organizations is an invitation to reinvent leadership from a deficiency model to an appreciative one. It's a wake-up call for leaders committed to creating organizations that inspire passions and engage strengths.
Based on a manifesto of 60 imperatives, author Jack Ricchiuto suggests how organizations can transform their communities of work into sustainable cultures of authentic appreciation. Addressing topics from a waterfront of leadership issues, Jack suggests that organizations become sustainable to the degree that they focus more on what's working than what's not. It's a revolutionary focus based on the principle that our greatest opportunities for improvement and success are our passions and strengths rather than our deficiencies and fears.
According to the Gallup Organization, about 20% of 1.7 million employees surveyed globally feel that their organizations make good use of their strengths in their work. Given this, how might organizations perform if they could grow the number of people whose work aligns with their strengths?
The appreciative approach represents a radical shift from a perspective of scarcity to abundance. It is a powerful lens revealing a fresh perspective on the kind of leadership we need in a complex, dynamic, and connected world.
Jack is a corporate coach, facilitator, speaker, and author of Collaborative Creativity(Oakhill Press 1996), Accidental Conversations (DesigningLife Books 2002), and Project Zen (DesigningLife Books 2003). For more about Jack visit http://www.DesigningLife.com/ or http://www.AppreciativeLeadership.org
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