Curiosity

Wonder Woman in Business, Susan Schwartz

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Susan Schwartz

Susan Schwartz has led a variety of corporate and government teams through organizational change and technology transformation. Her change toolbox combines Emotional Intelligence, Lego Serious Play, and knowledge sharing methods. She equips subject experts transitioning into leadership roles to hone their communications and relationship building skills enabling them to become world class managers. Susan is the author of Creating a Greater Whole: A Project Manager’s Guide to Becoming a Leader and co-author of Turning Ideas Into Impact: Insights From Silicon Valley Consultants.

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Creating a Greater Whole

Creating a Greater Whole unlocks the not-so-secret secrets of what aspiring managers need to become strong leaders. This information-rich, easy to understand guide offers readers an immediate clear path to honing their leadership skills using the rigor and discipline of project management principles. Topics include stakeholder management, collaborative communication, multi-criteria decision making, and conflict management. Reflective exercises in each chapter raise key questions for readers to craft their own development path. The process invites emerging leaders to draw from their past experiences, recognize their intrinsic capabilities, and identify specific skills to cultivate.


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Turing Ideas Ito Impact

Silicon Valley is recognized globally as a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship. It's the birthplace of world-famous companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook and home to a few legends such as NASA at the Ames Research Center. Our 16 authors have created 16 high-impact chapters that can give you and your business the Silicon Valley advantage.

Why is Silicon Valley such an entrepreneurial place? A major contributor to the phenomenon is our diversity--half of us don't speak English at home. But our diversity goes far beyond ethnicity. A wide variety of perspectives, thinking styles, and work approaches also contributes to the magic of Silicon Valley, creating breakthroughs that have disrupted business models (Airbnb and Lyft) and even shifted our perception of the future of meat (the "Impossible Burger").


Susan Schwartz

Blog Posts:

People: The Essential Component for Digital Transformation Success 

Wanted:  Engineers with Both Technical and Soft Skills    

Contact Susan:

Susan G. Schwartz, PMP

The River Birch Group

sgs@riverbirchgroup.com

703-395-1219 

Author, Creating A Greater Whole:

A Project Manager’s Guide to Becoming a Leader

Co-Author, Turning Ideas into Impact, Insights from 16 Silicon Valley Consultants





Wonder Woman in Business, Karen Walker

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Karen Walker

Karen Walker is an executive coach and consultant who advises CEOs and senior leaders on thriving in hyper-growth. She has worked with clients including Aetna, AWS, Pfizer, JPMorganChase, and BMC Software, as well as many Inc. 5000 startups. 

Karen is also a board advisor, keynote speaker, and the author of No Dumbing Down: A Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth. As employee 104 and a global VP at Compaq, Karen helped lead the then-fastest growing company in American history, growing it from $0 to $15 billion in revenue.

Karen has been published in Harvard Business Review’s Ascend, and quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Karen has a B.S. degree in engineering from Texas A&M University and graduated from the ODHRM program at Columbia University. She has served in an advisory capacity to startups, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and on the executive board of The Alley Theatre. 

She resides in Jupiter, FL, although (until recently!), she was most often be found aloft in seat 2C.

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No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth is a book for a company's senior-most leaders looking to make improvements when aligning the organization's internal and external strategies for fast, profitable, and sustainable growth.

This book combines the author's impactful and formative experience with leadership and strategy best practices, helping the reader master the counterintuitive art of actually delivering on the promise made to customers. Readers will learn how and why to put these strategies to work-taking direct aim at pitfalls that can trip up even the most stellar companies.

Karen Walker

Connect with Karen:

Email: karen@karenwalker.us

All social media:  karenwalkerus

Website: www.karenwalker.us



Wonder Woman in Business, Dr. Diane Hamilton

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

Dr. Diane Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of Tonerra, and Co-Founder of DIMA Innovations, which are consulting and media-based businesses. She is a nationally syndicated radio host, keynote speaker, and the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business. She has authored multiple books which are required in universities around the world, including Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® assessment, which is the first and only assessment that determines the factors that inhibit curiosity. Her groundbreaking work in the area of curiosity helps organizations improve innovation, engagement, and productivity. Thinkers50 Radar chose her as one of the top minds in management and leadership. Her work has been endorsed by some of the most respected names in leadership, including Steve Forbes, Keith Krach, Ken Fisher, Dave Ulrich, and Verne Harnish.  She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker who has shared the stage with top speakers including Marshall Goldsmith, Martha Stewart, Daymond John, Travis Bradberry, and Jeffrey Hayzlett. She has been featured on Forbes, INC, Investors Business Daily, First for Women, Investopedia, SHRM, International Institute for Learning, International Coach Federation, HR Virtual Summit, Flerish YOU app (in association with Reid Hoffman), Cross Knowledge (Wiley), Training Industry, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox.  

Helpful Links

https://drdianehamilton.com/news-and-media/

https://drdianehamilton.com/curiosity-code-system/

Social Media @drdianehamilton

Questions

1.     I understand you have a background in behavioral issues in business.  What led to your interest in studying psychology-based issues in the workplace?

2.     You created the first and only assessment that determines the factors that impact curiosity. What made you curious about studying curiosity?

3.     Why do we lose curiosity and how do we get it back?

4.     Why is curiosity important to engagement, innovation, and productivity?

5.     You serve on multiple boards.  How have you incorporated your work with curiosity and behaviors into how you help with your work with boards? 

6.     You teach, speak, and run your organization to help train people to be curious.  You also have a nationally syndicated radio show.  How did you get involved in that?

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

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CRACKING THE CURIOSITY CODE

The Key to Unlocking Human Potential

Contact Diane

Diane Hamilton, Ph.D.

Nationally Syndicated Radio Show Host, Speaker, and

Author of Cracking The Curiosity Code and the Curiosity Code Index (CCI)

Thinkers50 Radar

602-616-7867

https://drdianehamilton.com

https://curiositycode.com

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Social Media: @drdianehamilton