2022 Leadership Conference

Speakers

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  PATRICK LENCIONI

  World Renowned Leadership & Engagement Expert

  Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to protecting human dignity in the world of work and personal development. For the past 25 years, he has been providing organizations with ideas, products, and services that improve teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement. Pat is the author of 12 best-selling books with over 7 million copies sold.

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  Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to protecting human dignity in the world of work and personal development. For the past 25 years, Pat and his team have been providing organizations with ideas, products, and services that improve teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement.

  Lencioni’s passion for organizations and teams is reflected in his writing, speaking, executive consulting, and most recently his three podcasts, At the Table with Patrick Lencioni, The Working Genius Podcast, and The Simple Reminder.

  Pat is the author of 12 best-selling books with over 7 million copies sold. His capstone book, The Advantage, is the preeminent and original source on organizational health. After 20 years in print, his classic book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team remains a weekly fixture on national best-seller lists.

  As one of the most sought-after speakers and consultants in the world, Pat has been able to work with and address a wide variety of organizations including Fortune 100 companies, medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, professional sports teams, schools, and churches. He has been featured in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Inc. magazine, and Chief Executive magazine.

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  RISHAD TOBACCOWALA

  Award Winning Strategy & Growth Expert

  Rishad Tobaccowala is a Senior Advisor to the Publicis Groupe where he has spent his entire 38 year career, most recently serving as the Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist of the Groupe. Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators. He is in the Ad Age Interactive Hall of Fame and has received a lifetime achievement silver medal award from the Chicago Ad Federation.

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  Rishad Tobaccowala is a Senior Advisor to the Publicis Groupe where he has spent his entire 38 year career, most recently serving as the Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist of the Groupe. Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators. He is in the Ad Age Interactive Hall of Fame and has received a lifetime achievement silver medal award from the Chicago Ad Federation

  Rishad is also the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in The Age of Data” which helps people think, feel and see differently about how to grow their companies, their teams and themselves to remain relevant in transformational times.

  Rishad is also the Chairman of The Tobaccowala Foundation which helps 10,000 people in India gain better healthcare and education.

  Rishad has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bombay and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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  JANICE STEIN

  Geopolitical & Global Economics Expert

  Whether it’s economics, geopolitics, or international security and terrorism, few people have a better understanding of global issues than Professor Janice Gross Stein.

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  Whether it’s economics, geopolitics, or international security and terrorism, few people have a better understanding of global issues than Professor Janice Gross Stein. Her dynamic presentations provide a unique perspective into what’s really happening around the world—from China to Russia to the Middle East and Europe—and what it means to her audiences. Professor Stein’s presentations not only connect the dots regarding key events, but provide a look at where things are headed, and where the potential dangers and opportunities may lie. Both realistic and hopeful, she leaves her audiences with a better understanding of current global issues, and a clear, compelling vision of the future.

  Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  Professor Stein was the Massey Lecturer in 2001, and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate, and has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton, McMaster University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.

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  SCOTT SNOOK

  Military Hero & Leader(ship) Development Expert

  Scott Snook graduated with honors from West Point earning the Royal Society of Arts Award for the most outstanding overall cadet in his class. He was commissioned in the US Army Corps of Engineers where he served in various command and staff positions for over 22 years, earning the rank of Colonel before retiring in 2002. He has led soldiers in combat. Among his military decorations are the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Master Parachutist badge.

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  Scott Snook is currently the MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

  He graduated with honors from West Point earning the Royal Society of Arts Award for the most outstanding overall cadet in his class. Following graduation, he was commissioned in the US Army Corps of Engineers where he served with distinction in various command and staff positions for over 22 years, earning the rank of Colonel before retiring in 2002. He has led soldiers in combat. Among his military decorations are the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Master Parachutist badge.

  He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar. Dr. Snook earned h is Ph.D. from Harvard University in Organizational Behavior winning the Sage-Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management for his study of the Friendly Fire Shootdown in Northern Iraq. Until July of 2002, Colonel Snook served as an Academy Professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department at the United States Military Academy. He also directed West Point’s Center for Leadership and Organizations Research as well as its joint Master’s Program in Leader Development. He is the primary author of West Point’s Cadet Leader Development System – the Academy’s philosophy on how to develop leaders of character for the Nation. Prof. Snook’s book Friendly Fire was selected by the Academy of Management to receive the 2002 Terry Award as the most influential book on managerial thinking published during the past two years. He has also co-authored Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life, that explores the role of “common sense” in leadership. He most recently co-edited The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being Available. Prof. Snook has shared his leadership insights in formal executive education programs at Harvard and with numerous corporate audiences around the world.

  Prof. Snook’s research and consulting activities have been in the areas of leadership, leader development, change management, organizational systems and failure, and culture.

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  DAVID ROSENBERG

  Economic & Financial Expert

  Prior to founding Rosenberg Research in 2020, David was chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates from 2009 to 2019. He provides economic and financial market consulting to 2,600 clients, both retail and institutional, across 40 countries.

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  David Rosenberg is the founder and president of Rosenberg Research, an economic and financial market consulting firm he established in January 2020.

  Dave provides advice to 2,600 clients, both retail and institutional, across 40 countries.

  Prior to creating his own company, David was chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates from 2009 to 2019. Prior to that, from 2000 to 2009, he was at Merrill Lynch, where for the first two years he was chief Canadian economist and strategist based out of Toronto; for the last seven he was Chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch in New York, where he was consistently ranked in top three of Wall Street economists polled by the annual Institutional Investors survey.

  David is a frequent contributor to most major financial newspapers and publications in North America and makes regular TV appearances in the financial media.

  He received both a BA and MA in economics from the University of Toronto.