Event Archives

Jeff Hayzlett, The Hayzlett Group
Date: Friday, August 16, 2013
Location: San Ramon

Jeffrey Hayzlett is a global business celebrity and former Fortune 100 c-suite executive. From small business to international corporations, he has put his creativity and extraordinary entrepreneurial skills into play, launching ventures blending his leadership perspectives, insights into professional development, mass marketing prowess and affinity for social media. He is the author of the bestselling business books, The Mirror Test and Running the Gauntlet.

David Gensler, Executive Director, Gensler
Date: Friday, August 09, 2013
Location: San Francisco

David Gensler, who leads the world’s premier design firm, Gensler Architecture, Design & Planning, joined us for this regional Alliance meeting. As architects, designers, planners and consultants, Gensler partners with their clients on over 3,000 projects each year – projects as small as a wine label or as large as a new urban district in China. With more than 3,500 professionals networked across 42 locations, they combine localized expertise with global perspective.  Their work reflects an enduring commitment to sustainability and the belief that design is one of the most powerful strategic tools for securing lasting competitive advantage.

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John Bates, Founder, Executive Speaking Success
Date: Friday, August 02, 2013
Location: Santa Clara

John Bates is one of the masterminds behind the TEDx Speaker Boot Camp. He is a seasoned TEDx Talker having given Talks for TEDx and TEDActive. John has coached hundreds of TEDx Talkers.  At this Regional Alliance meeting, John will share his TEDx and TED experiences, his philosophies on speaking and performance, and offer guidance on how to become a speaker who is dynamic, engaging, entertaining and inspiring.  Click here to view some of John's videos.

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Godfrey Sullivan, Chairman & CEO, Splunk
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2013
Location: Santa Clara

Godfrey Sullivan, Chairman & CEO of Splunk, joined us for this Top Team Regional Alliance meeting.  One of the hottest tech IPOs in 2012, Splunk was founded in 2004 to build a “Google for machine data” - essentially a search engine for all the data that servers, network switches and any device such as smartphones spits out when those devices are in use.  Godfrey has a most impressive career in Silicon Valley beginning with 11 years with Apple working in sales, marketing and operations under Bill Campbell. In 1992, he joined Autodesk and then was CEO of a startup prior to joining Hyperion which was acquired by Oracle in 2007.  Godfrey is also on the board of Citrix and Informatica.

Baba Shiv, Professor, Stanford University
Date: Friday, June 07, 2013
Location: Santa Clara

Stanford Professor Baba Shiv joined us for this Regional Alliance meeting.  Baba's research expertise is in the area of neuroeconomics, with specific emphasis on the role of neural structures related to emotion and motivation in shaping decisions and experiences. His recent work examines the interplay of the brain’s "liking" and "wanting" systems and its implications for marketing, innovation, leadership and decision making.

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Don Goewey, Founder & Managing Partner, ProAttitude
Date: Friday, May 17, 2013
Location: San Ramon

Don Goewey, Founder & Managing Partner of ProAttitude joined us for this Regional Alliance meeting.  Don has had a long career in human potential and collaborated with the two great pioneers in the field, Carl Rogers, Ph.D., the father of humanistic psychology, and Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., who founded a school of psychology based on attitude. Prior to founding ProAttitude, Don spent six years in a think tank environment connecting the breakthroughs in neuroscience with the proven approaches in other fields that would facilitate a process of neuroplastic change in the workplace.

Marty Neumeier, Director of Transformation, Liquid Agency
Date: Friday, May 03, 2013
Location: Santa Clara

Marty Neumeier, Director of Transformation at Liquid Agency,  is a recognized thought leader in brand strategy, innovation and design whose insight helps transform businesses from the inside out.  He joined us for this regional Alliance meeting to discuss his latest book, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age, in which he presents the five metaskills that will accelerate your success: feeling, seeing, dreaming, making, and learning. These skills will keep you two or three steps ahead of the machines, the algorithms, and the outsourcing forces of the “robot curve”.

Juliet Erickson, Author & Communications Consultant
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Location: Santa Clara

Juliet Erickson, a 20+ year communication coach and strategist, joined us for this Regional Top Team Alliance meeting.  Juliet has worked with some of the world’s leading financial, publishing, technology, media, marketing and academic organizations, celebrities, sportsmen and women and politicians. She recently worked with the London Olympic Bid team. She has published two books – The Art of Persuasion and Nine Ways to Walk Around A Boulder.

Michael Klayko, Former CEO, Brocade
Date: Friday, March 01, 2013
Location: Santa Clara

Michael Klayko has more than 30 years of experience in the storage, computer, and telecommunications industries, most recently as CEO Brocade.  He joined us for this regional Alliance meeting and shared his thoughts on Strategic Innovation.

Evan Bailyn, Founder, First Page Sage
Date: Friday, February 15, 2013
Location: San Ramon

Evan Bailyn is an internet entrepreneur and the bestselling author of Outsmarting Google and Outsmarting Social Media. He is primarily known as a search engine optimization expert, having used his ability to rank at the top of Google to build and sell five businesses, including one of the largest children's websites online.

David Lapin, Author, "Lead By Greatness"
Date: Friday, February 08, 2013
Location: San Francisco

David Lapin, CEO of Lapin Consulting International and the author of Lead by Greatness joined us for this Regional Alliance meeting.  David discussed his leadership philosophy in which leaders draw their authority from their personal stature rather than from their positional status.  Click here for a video link to David's presentation.

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Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Date: Thursday, November 08, 2012
Location: Santa Clara

Bill Reichert, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm  joined us for this Top Team Regional Alliance meeting.  Bill discussed "The Future of Innovation:  Hype, Hope, and Reality."  He talked about the nature of innovation and what it takes to create an innovative organization.  

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Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla Corporation
Date: Friday, November 02, 2012
Location: Santa Clara

Gary Kovacs returned to the Alliance to discuss his observations on major technology trends from his very unique vantage point as the CEO of Mozilla.  Mozilla’s mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet.  Mozilla is best known for creating the Firefox Web browser but they have developed many other products designed to keep the Internet open.

Soren Kaplan, Managing Principal, InnovationPoint
Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Location: San Ramon

Soren Kaplan, the author of Leapfrogging:  Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs joined us for this regional Alliance meeting to discuss "the power of surprise."  He revealed why today’s leaders need to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid:  embrace surprise — the key to breakthrough innovation.  Soren assists today’s leaders in seeking out, recognizing and responding to surprising experiences and events in order to create game-changers that leapfrog the expectations of customers, partners, employees, the market, and the competition.

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Geoffrey Moore, Chairman Emeritus, TCG Advisors
Date: Friday, August 03, 2012
Location: Santa Clara

Geoffrey Moore is a best selling author and chairman emeritus at TCG Advisors. His most recent book, published in September 2011, is Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. Geoffrey has made the understanding and exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His other books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, Living on the Fault Line, and Dealing with Darwin are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools.

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Bob Sutton, Professor, Stanford University
Date: Friday, June 01, 2012
Location: Santa Clara

Famous author and Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, returned to the Alliance to discuss the lessons he is learning in his research on scaling-up excellence with many companies (Apple is a prime example).

Brian Pretti, Managing Editor, ContraryInvestor.com
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Location: San Ramon

Brian Pretti, the Managing Editor of ContraryInvestor.com and Senior Economist for Mechanics Bank  joined us for this Regional Alliance meeting. Brian shared his insights into the "real-world" state of the economy.

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John Hamm, CEO, Accept Software
Date: Friday, May 11, 2012
Location: San Francisco

John Hamm is an advisor to leaders of all types of organizations worldwide – and has a diverse background as an operating executive, a start-up CEPO, a venture capital investor, a leadership coach and an advisory/board member to dozens of high-tech companies. His latest book, Unusually Excellent discusses the nine necessary skills required for the practice of great leadership.

Melissa Lamson, CEO, Lamson Consulting
Date: Friday, May 04, 2012
Location: Santa Clara

Melissa Lamson is a pioneer in the fields of cultural transformation and global business development.  As a cultural transformation expert, she has developed a proprietary methodology called Agility, Communication and Transformation, or ACT™.  ACT helps organizations around the globe create the common values, businesses practices, and behaviors that are hallmarks of productive and innovative company cultures.

Frank Barrett, Associate Professor, Naval Post Graduate Academy
Date: Friday, April 06, 2012
Location: Santa Clara

For this Regional Alliance meeting, we were joined by Frank Barrett who discussed "Innovation as Collaborative Accomplishment: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz Improvisation." It proved to be a very interesting discussion, and entertaining as well.

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