Keynote Speakers

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Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
MOJO: Increasing Meaning, Happiness and Employee Engagement

Dr. Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. What Got You Here Won't Get You There, is a New York Times best seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longmanaward for Best Business Book of the Year. It has been translated into 28 languages and is a top ten best seller in seven major countries.

In November 2009 Dr. Goldsmith was recognized as one of the fifteen most influential business thinkers in the world in the bi-annual study sponsored by The (London) Times and Forbes. The American Management Association named Marshall as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. He is one of only two educators who have won the Institute of Management Studies Lifetime Achievement Award.

This year, Marshall offered a special opportunity to our NJOD ASD-2010 Attendees. Each attendee received a copy of Marshall’s new book: MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back When You Lose It! is about this moment and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it.

Kate Sweetman 
Retaining Employees in the Upturn: Restoring Trust

Kate is a leadership consultant, educator, and a co-author of The Leadership Code: 5 Rules to Lead By (with Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood, Harvard Business Press, January, 2009). While an editor at Harvard Business Review, Kate acquired and edited articles by top business executives, academics, and consultants around the globe on the topics of business creativity, organizational change and development, leadership psychology, teamwork, and social enterprise. Currently an instructor at MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, she collaborates with gifted young entrepreneurs from emerging and developing countries including India, Rwanda, Colombia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and North Africa. She is also an expert blogger on leadership for Fast Company, the widely-read US-based technology and innovation magazine.