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A good leader lets people speak and be heard. Dr. Ellen Weber of the MITA International Brain Center says all learning is about leading. She is working to change the way we learn in the classroom and the boardroom.

the CEO Hour, November 9th, 2012.

A good leader lets people speak and be heard. Dr. Ellen Weber of the MITA International Brain Center says all learning is about leading. She is working to change the way we learn in the classroom and the boardroom.  Did you know you can train your brain to be street smarter?  Common sense, since it connects to IQ, can be taught, mimicked, tracked and grown. Not fixed, intuitive intelligence grows with use. Dr. Weber also teaches mutual mentoring, called Mindguiding.  The veterans share their experience with the newby who then shares new technologies and practices with the veteran.  It's a give and take that keeps on benefitting both sides. brainleadersandlearners.com

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First Friday Live Series for October. Leaders of four successful culture-driven Rochester-area companies share their advice on creating a strong value-driven culture at your company

the CEO Hour, October 5th, 2012.

First Friday Live Series for October. Leaders of four successful culture-driven Rochester-area companies share their advice on creating a strong value-driven culture at your company. Taking questions from our live audience are Mike Mandina, the president of Optimax, Peter Parts of Peter Parts Electronics,  Tim Frank of Inergex and Scott Murphy of Pharos Systems.  Each company has hired a dozen people or more during this recession.

 

Scott Murphy | General Manager, Education Business | Pharos Systems  

Pharos Systems International, Inc. provides powerful and innovative print optimization software and services to educational institutions, corporations, and libraries across the globe. Pharos pioneered print control and management software in the early 1990s and continues to lead the industry today.

 

Tim Frank | CEO | Inergex

Inergex has been built upon a solid foundation carefully crafted over the last 12 years and architected by unwavering leadership and highly seasoned technical expertise complimented with business know-how. Our success is due to our people, plain and simple. We have mastered the technique on how to find, capture, and retain highly qualified people that strategically fit into our clients' culture and expectations, not just the project at hand. Our teams offer invaluable services to our clients in five distinct IT disciplines: IT Service Management/ServiceNow, Managed Services, Business Intelligence, Application Development, and Project Management. inergex.com  

 

Mike Mandina | President | Optimax

With more than 100 opticians, Optimax is America's largest prototype optics manufacturer. Optimax leverages its optics manufacturing technology for programs that benefit mankind. We have created innovative manufacturing methods and corporate culture that enable faster production of precision optics. optimax.com

 

Peter Parts | CEO | Peter Parts Electronics

Peter Parts Electronics has become one of the largest suppliers of electronic parts in North America.In 1986 Peter started Peter Parts Electronics. Many of Peter's early customers were looking for reliable manufacturers in the Far East, but didn't know where to look. And many Far Eastern manufacturers wanted to sell parts with their own brand on them. Peter thought it was a great idea -- imagine, starting a business that not only found the best manufacturers, but was forthcoming with his customers with names, data, samples, and JIT delivery of these great companies around the world. peterparts.com

 

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Dr. Lee Thayer and Chris Comeaux discussing Hospice Executive Course

the CEO Hour, August 24th 2012. 

Dr. Lee Thayer | Author & Leadership Guru | The Leader's Journey

My goal is to share that experience and "rattle cages" -- to help committed CEOs and other top executives transform themselves into leaders and their organizations into healthier, more vigorous, and more adaptive high-performance organizations. The journey won't always be comfortable, but we should be able to have some fun along the way."

Dr. Thayer will be joined by some of his Hospice Executive Course students who are mastering the course. The course is about enabling CEOs to make their organizations more competent every day, enabling them to perform their leadership role better and better, and enriching their lives at work and beyond.

 

Chris Comeaux | President/CEO | Four Seasons

 Four Seasons is a non-profit organization, deeply committed to serving the community through fulfilling its mission of affirming life and providing holistic care in harmony with the goals of individuals with serious life-limiting conditions while offering support to their families and loved ones. Four Seasons has marked over 25 years of service. Through tremendous growth and expansion over the years, they have stayed committed to their "true north." This one thing, this constant and unchanging thing, is commitment to their mission.www.fourseasonscfl.org 

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Hospice Executive Leadership Masters Class with Dr Thayer

the CEO Hour, August 24th 2012. 

Dr. Lee Thayer | Author & Leadership Guru | The Leader's Journey

My goal is to share that experience and "rattle cages" -- to help committed CEOs and other top executives transform themselves into leaders and their organizations into healthier, more vigorous, and more adaptive high-performance organizations. The journey won't always be comfortable, but we should be able to have some fun along the way."

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SALLY HELGESEN Author, Speaker & Leadership Consultant

the CEO Hour, August 17th 2012. 

SALLY HELGESEN 

Author, Speaker & Leadership Consultant

Sally Helgesen, an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant, is ranked by Leadership Gurus as number 15 in its survey of the world's most influential leadership experts and cited as one of the top 35 authorities in the field by Leadership Excellence magazine.

Sally is the author of six books, most recently The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work, which breaks new ground by exploring how women's strategic insights can strengthen their careers and benefit their organizations. Her best-selling The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, hailed as "the classic work" on women's leadership styles, was translated into 12 languages and has been continuously in print for 22 years. The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time.     http://sallyhelgesen.com/

 

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Chris Grivas is an organizational and leadership development consultant focused on increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations.

the CEO Hour, August 17th 2012. 

CHRIS GRIVAS

Organizational & Leadership Development Consultant

Chris Grivas is an organizational and leadership development consultant focused on increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations. His clients have included Ernst & Young, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and New York University, among others. He holds a Masters Degree in Creativity from the International Center for Studies in Creativity in Buffalo, NY. His book "The Innovative Team" offers new tools for creative problem-solving for teams and team leaders - or anyone who wants to kick-start innovation in their workplace or their lives.

The Innovative Team is an engaging business fable that reveals the impact our underlying work style preferences have on our teams and their results. The authors present a breakthrough thinking process for developing successful teams. They introduce a uniquely effective set of tools built on FourSight, a measure of problem-solving preferences field-tested by top consultants, which can help anyone from professionals to novices solve problems and achieve performance breakthroughs. FourSight enables teams to understand their patterns of thinking and manage themselves more deliberately toward accomplishing a goal.  http://www.linkedin.com/in/cgrivas

 

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The CEO Hour welcomes lifelong learners.

the CEO Hour, August 17th 2012. 

The CEO Hour welcomes lifelong learners.  Are you part of the club? This list comes from Scott H. Young at Lifehack at http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/15-steps-to-cultivate-lifelong-learning.html#disqus_thread 

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Gerard Zappia, M.B.A., M.S.Ed. | Dean | Nazareth College - School of Management

the CEO Hour, August 10th 2012. 

Gerard Zappia, M.B.A., M.S.Ed. | Dean | Nazareth College - School of Management 

The mission of the School of Management is to develop value-centered leaders who become engaged contributors to their professions, organizations, and communities. This is accomplished through learner-centered programs that are global, ethical, and entrepreneurial in orientation.    gzappia4@naz.edu 

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Hellen Davis and Derrick Brown of Indaba Inc

the CEO Hour, July 13th 2012. 

Hellen Davis | CEO & Co-Founder | INDABA

For more than two decades, Hellen Davis has been a corporate strategist, executive consultant, certified executive coach, and motivational speaker. Hellen Davis is one of the founders of Indaba, Inc., a management consulting, web-based learning, and training corporation. Her clients include executives and leaders from dozens of Fortune 100 corporations and leadership in the top agencies in the public sector. She is respected for her extensive knowledge of accountability and executing strategic goals, as well as influencing strategies, strategic planning, behavior  modification processes, sales and pea performance management expertise, and negotiation tactics.

Indaba Global's World Leading Online Leadership Programs: Using Patent Pending technology, Indaba Global has created extensive MBA-like online coaching and training materials on a wide range of programs so that employees and leadership have the knowledge required to enable them to work through a myriad of challenges. In addition, Indaba Global has developed a software platform that is customizable and may be private-labeled with complete flexibility offering secure access to online video training, audio, and testing. NEW: DISC Assessment + Customized eLearning = DISCflex™.  

Derrick Brown | Project Manager | Indaba

Derrick is the Project Manager of Indaba Global's eLearning Platform and Live Training Programs. Derrick's primary responsibility is to oversee the completion of the various projects that Indaba Global is working on at any given time. This requires him to make superior use of organizational skills, teamwork, communication, and feedback. In addition, He has managed Indaba Global projects for numerous Fortune 500 Companies.

Derrick is certified in all of the Executive Courses that Indaba Global offers and has been of critical importance in creating new Executive courses and updating initial courses. His certifications extend to both a Life Coach Certification and an Executive Coach Certification.  http://indaba1.com/default.aspx

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Dr. Lee Thayer, Suzi Johnson, Dr. John Morris and Grant Faubion

the CEO Hour, June 15th 2012. 

Dr. Lee Thayer | Author & Leadership Guru | The Leader's Journey

"The Leader's Journey developed out of the four decades of my experiences as coach and mentor to dozens of company presidents and CEOs from the Fortune 50 to the renowned case of Johnsonville Foods. My research and work has taken me to Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Scandanavia, to the lecture halls of most of the major universities of the world, and to the seminar rooms of hundreds of organizations in the United States and abroad.

My goal is to share that experience and "rattle cages" -- to help committed CEOs and other top executives transform themselves into leaders and their organizations into healthier, more vigorous, and more adaptive high-performance organizations. The journey won't always be comfortable, but we should be able to have some fun along the way."

Dr. Thayer will be joined by five of his Hospice Care CEOs discussing his Hospice Executive Course.  The course is about enabling CEOs to make their organizations more competent every day, enabling them to perform their leadership role better and better, and enriching their lives at work and beyond.

http://leethayer.typepad.com/leadersjourney/2009/03/destiny-is-in-the-definition-part-1.html   

 

Suzi Johnson MPH, RN | VP, Sharp Hospice Care | Sharp HealthCare

Suzi's responsibilities include strategic planning, business development, operational oversight, community outreach and philanthropy. Her extensive experience in leadership and her passion for excellence in end of life care helps to position Sharp HealthCare for greater system-wide integration of palliative and end of life care across the care continuum. Suzi has been a visionary leader in the development a home based palliative care consultation program focusing on population based management of patients with advanced stage illness such as heart failure, COPD, dementia and advanced stage cancer.  http://www.sharp.com/hospice/index.cfm

 

Dr. John Morris | VP, Clinical Outreach & Palliative Care Medical Director | Four Seasons

Dr. Morris is passionate about helping people through the stress of serious illness and guiding people through the complex medical system. As a pulmonary and critical care physician, he witnessed just how stressful serious illness can be for patients and families. He is excited to be a part of an organization and multi-disciplinary team that helps relieve the stress and guide people through the difficulties of serious illness.   http://www.fourseasonscfl.org  

 

Grant Faubion | Founder | Wise Hospice Options

Grant Faubion  received a BBA from SMU in 1982 and has since worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 29 years with the past 22 relating to hospice. In 1998 Mr. Faubion worked for VistaCare Hospice, a startup which acquired over 42 hospice locations in 14 states. While at VistaCare, Mr. Faubion helped develop and run the pharmacy services dramatically reducing costs and improving processes. In 2003 Mr. Faubion founded Wise Hospice Options, a hospice specific pharmacy benefits management company. Since 2003 Wise Hospice Options has grown steadily with projected gross sales of $15,000,000 for 2012.  http://wiseop.com/  

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