On behalf of the 2010 Program Committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to WACUBO’s 72nd Annual Meeting in Anaheim. The theme for our 2010 meeting is “Creating Magic in Difficult Times” which focuses on overcoming the many changes and challenges that we in higher education face, both in our personal and professional lives.
To appreciate the comprehensive nature of this program, browse the brief biographies of this year's speakers.
PROGRAM SPEAKERS FOR THE 2010 ANNUAL MEETING
Jason Dorsey
Jason Ryan Dorsey, The Gen Y Guy®, understands the front lines of education. A bestselling author, Jason has worked on-site at over 700 schools across the US and as far away as Finland and India. Most important, Jason knows the difference educators make because an educator changed his life forever. Jason’s nontraditional path began when he authored his first bestselling book, Graduate to Your Perfect Job, at age 18. This book became a national bestseller, required reading in over 1,650 schools, and is estimated to have helped 100,000 members of Gen Y enter the workforce. Jason followed the success of his first book with four more including 50 Ways to Improve Schools for Under $50, My Reality Check Bounced!, and Y-Size Your Business: How Gen Y Employees Can Save You Money and Grow Your Business. A well-known generational expert, Jason has been featured on 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Today Show, and The View. His talent is teaching education leaders creative and inexpensive ways to maximize Gen Y employee performance while leveraging the strengths of all four generations in the classroom and workplace. In recognition of his achievements, Jason won the Austin Under 40 Entrepreneur of the Year Award at age 25—one of the youngest winners ever.
Brad Montgomery
Brad Montgomery never planned to be a nationally recognized professional speaker, laugh-out-loud-funny motivational speaker, publisher and author & software developer. He planned to be a lawyer. After graduating with a political science degree from Brown University Brad intended to be a magician for one year and then start the serious part of his life with the study of law. To date, he is still waiting for the serious part of his life to begin. (Don’t tell his parents: they think he’s a lawyer in Boise.) After getting his start as a corporate comedian and magician, Brad now speaks to corporations and associations who need a lift, bringing laughter & magic blended with a simple yet powerful message about creating more humor in our lives. Brad has earned his Certified Speaking Professional designation, which is the highest earned award from the National Speakers Association. (Fewer than 7% of speakers world wide have earned the CSP.) Corporate clients include Microsoft, Kraft, Proctor & Gamble, IBM, General Mills, Department of Defenses, HP and Honeywell. Many associations have also praised Brad’s work including the Alzheimer Association, the Utilities Service Alliance (a nuclear energy association), The American Payroll Association, and the California Teachers Association. Brad joined John Gray (of Mars/Venus fame) and Mark Victor Hansen (of Chicken Soup renown) to write Mission Possible. He has also co-authored, produced and published Humor Me: America’s Funniest Humorists on the Power of Laughter, as well as Humor Us: America’s Funniest Humorists on the Power of Laughter. Brad is a Motivational Speaker and an expert in humor in the workplace, urging his audiences across the country to levity and lightheartedness — especially at work to improve their bottom line results. He helps associations and corporations deal with change and improve morale. Brad reminds his clients to lighten up & take themselves less seriously (while still taking what they DO seriously.) By the looks of things, his clients agree. Folks use him to kick off conventions with a bang, close ‘em with a laugh or to lift them up somewhere in between. His programs create laughter and magic leaving his audiences with a spring in their steps, feeling good about themselves, great about the meeting, and hopeful for the future. Brad’s latest project is iLaughOutLoud, the contagious laughter iPhone app. (Available on iTunes.) It’s a laughter tool that has 101 uses to bring levity and lightheartedness to work. (It’s awesome on conference calls!) Brad lives in Centennial, Colorado with his attorney wife. (Brad assumed that the next best thing to being a lawyer was tricking one into marrying him.) Although he is proud of his many awards and national credits, he’s convinced that his best tricks so far are his three kids.
Tom Tripp
Thomas M. Tripp is co-author with Robert J. Bies of the 2009 book, Getting Even: The truth about workplace revenge -- and how to stop it. Tripp is a Professor of Management at Washington State University Vancouver, where he teaches business courses in leadership skills and in negotiation skills. A popular teacher, Tripp has won numerous teaching awards. He earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Washington. For the past 20 years, he has published dozens of scientific papers on workplace conflict, and especially on workplace revenge and forgiveness. Also, Tripp serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Negotiations and Conflict Management Research and the International Journal of Conflict Management. Finally, Tripp is the 2009 Chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management, which is the primary association of workplace conflict scholars.
Mary O'Hara-Devereaux
Mary O’Hara-Devereaux, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading futurists and business forecasters, a sought-after keynote speaker, and the author of such best-selling books as Navigating the Badlands: Thriving in the Decade of Radical Transformation. Over the last 25 years, Mary has established a global reputation as a steady-eyed forecaster and strategy partner whose legendary trend-spotting and analysis have helped thousands of senior executives around the world scan, scout, and steer their way to targets no one else can see. Mary accurately forecast the period of chaos, disruption, and unrivalled opportunity that will last another decade. Now—in her famously provocative and pragmatic dispatches from the frontlines of the future—she makes sense of the extraordinary economic and social fault lines that are re-shaping the future of business and reveals the specific implications for any organization that hopes to thrive in turbulent times. Mary’s deep cross-industry, cross-sector experience includes work for a roster of Blue Chip clients in more than 50 countries on seven continents—global corporate clients such as Apple, Oracle, P&G, CITIC-Pacific, Genentech, Royal Canadian Bank, Merck, Ericsson, and pre-eminent non-profit leaders including United Way, Kaiser Family Foundation, World Bank, Harvard Kennedy School, and Milken Global Institute. Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based think tank and strategy consulting firm Global Foresight and former Director of the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, Mary is renowned for her myth-busting insights that are at once profound, provocative, and pragmatic. Her finger-on-the-pulse forecasting and strategy engagements have fuelled top leaders to propel their companies to long-term sustainable profits. A China expert, Mary’s books China Five-Year Forecast: Creating the New Marketplace and China’s Generations: the Transformation of Daily Life are considered the “Bibles” for business leaders wanting to engage successfully in the world’s most important emerging market. Mary’s work has been featured on Bloomberg TV, Fox TV, CCTV in China, National Public Radio, AARP Radio, and other regional and local radio shows; and in the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Los Angeles Times and other magazines and journals. Mary serves on several corporate and non profit boards. Recently a professor at Peking University, she has previously served as faculty at the University of California. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan; the University of California; and Fielding Graduate University. Mary’s best-selling Navigating the Badlands, the classic GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture & Time, and her China Five-Year Forecast expand on many of the themes she introduces in her keynote presentations. Order online at www.global-foresight.net. |
