24th Oct - 26th Oct, 2017
BUILDING RESILIENCE IN A CHANGING WORLD
presented by Inspiration Developers
GLOBAL SPEAKERS
Proud to bring inspirational speakers from across the globe into our local conversation.
Dr. Pirson is the social entrepreneurship track chair for the Oikos-Ashoka Global Case Writing Competition in Social Entrepreneurship. He is also a founding partner of the Humanistic Management Network, an organization that brings together scholars, practitioners and policymakers around the common goal of creating a 'life-conducive' economic system. In that capacity, he is the co-editor of the Humanism in Business book series, published by Palgrave-McMillan. Michael Pirson, Professor for Social Entrepreneurship and Global Sustainability, Fordham University, Fellow, Harvard University. Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality
Sandra Waddock is the Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Widely published, Dr. Waddock's research interests are in the area of macro-system change, intellectual shamanism, stewardship of the future, wisdom, corporate responsibility, management education, and multi-sector collaboration. two of her latest books, Healing the World: Today's Shamans as Difference Makers. Greenleaf, 2017. Intellectual Shamans: Management Academics Making a Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2015) on Amazon or from Cambridge.
Prof. Dr. Claus Dierksmeier was appointed Director of the Weltethos-Institut (Global Ethic Institute) in January 2012 after holding a position as Distinguished Professor of Globalization Ethics and Co-Director of the Sustainable Management and Measurement Institute (SUMMIT) at Stonehill College in North-Easton (Boston), Mass., USA.
Prof. Dierksmeier’s academic work focuses questions of political, religious and economic philosophy with a special emphasis on theories of liberty and responsibility in the age of globality. Currently, his main academic interest lies in developing the secular foundation of the Global Ethic Project via the idea of “qualitative freedom”, on which he has recently published a book (Qualitative Freiheit, 2016). He also conducts research on theories and practices of “humanistic management” and “humanistic economics”, and explores concrete questions in applied financial and business ethics (including, most recently, cryptocurrencies).
Prof. Dierksmeier is also a board member of the Humanistic Management Network (http://www.humanetwork.org) and Academic Director of The Humanistic Management Center in Berlin (http://www.humanisticmanagement.org). Reframing Economic Ethics
Jyoti Bachani, Ph.D.
Mindful use of technology for creating sustainable futures.
Dr. Jyoti Bachani is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Saint Mary's College of California. She has been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar to India, Editor-in-Chief of Emerald Emerging Markets Case Study Collection, Past-President of Western Casewriters association and board member of North American case Research Association. Her research interests are in the area of strategy making in purpose driven organizations in technology, nonprofit, and Indian contexts. She will showcase two of her case-studies on mindful use of technology for creating sustainable futures as part of her Humanistic Management research. She has authored one book, edited two, and several case-studies and academic articles.
Ernst von Kimakowitz
Co-Founder, Humanistic Management Center
Dr. Ernst von Kimakowitz is founding Director of the Humanistic Management Center, and leads Ethics First, the executive training joint venture with the Global Ethic Institute. He is a lecturer at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, the University of Tübingen, Germany and was a visiting professor at Soka University in Tokyo, Japan. Human Centered Management in Executive Education
Christian Felber – writer, university lecturer and contemporary dancer in Vienna. He is a co-founder of the „Economy for the Common Good“ and the project „Bank for the Common Good“. Several bestsellers: „Let’s save the Euro!“, „Change everything. Creating an Economy for the Common Good“ and „Money. The new rules of the game“, which was awarded the getAbstract International Book Award 2014. Christian is a regular collaborator of the Huffington Post.
Consuelo García-de-la-Torre
Professor at EGADE Business School ITESM Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Field of expertise: Sustainability; Ethics and Corporate Governance; Entrepreneurship; Social Responsibility; Consumer Behaviour; Marketing Strategy and International Marketing; Social Marketing; Global Management; Industrial Psychology; Management and Humanism; Intercultural Negotiations. Course offer: Analysis of Consumer and Client Behavior; Business Policy, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Applied Marketing Project; Field Project; General Project; Integrative Project; International Seminar of Consumer Marketing.
Carlos Largacha-Martinez, Ph.D. Humanist, Consultant, Researcher and Social Entrepreneur
Consultant & Social Entrepreneur with a holistic professional formation with more than 20 years of experience in reinventing management, humanistic management, non-linear thinking, alternative strategic planning, and inspirational leadership. Quantum sociologist with expertise also in Based on prior expertise community development, NGOs management, rural development, and building bridges between the corporate world and communities, taking advantage of governmental programs and support.
Erica Steckler, Ph.D.
Authenticity
Erica Steckler is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Robert J. Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Research Fellow at the W. Michael Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. Her work focuses on stakeholder perceptions of organizational authenticity, corporate sustainability and responsibility, positive organizational transformation, authentic governance, and issue interpretation. She adopts a humanistic management approach to understanding and optimizing strategic engagement at the intersection of organizational, leadership, stakeholder, and global sustainability contexts. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Management and Organization at Boston College.
Incredible local speakers coming together. Will be an honor and an adventure to see them together on one panel and at our tables. To discover there great work and to recognize how much we have and are shifting management cultures here in Seattle and around the world. changing the stories together.