2015 Featured Sessions
Several inspiring sessions will frame the opportunity for leaders to build positive businesses, catalyzing action coming off the conference.
- The Future of Positive Business, Alison Davis-Blake
- Changing Your Company from the Inside Out, Jerry Davis + Kevin Thompson + Chris White
- Positive Lean: Inspiring Efficiency from Within, Wally Hopp
- The 3Cs of Positive Cause Marketing: Company, Cause, and Customer, Aradhna Krishna
- Technology Innovation and Positive Organization, M.S. Krishnan
- Positive Investor Relations, Gregory Miller
- Positive Business Project, Anna Moloney + Allison Swimmer
- Purpose and Positive Business, Robert E. Quinn
2015 Positive Leader Briefings
Leaders will share their stories, and their strategies for inspiring people, companies and communities to create positive business today.
- The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist, Christine Bader
- Transforming a Company from Within, Christie Wong Barrett
- Feeding Your Passion with Purpose, Jill Ford
- The Mindful Multinational, Golbie Kamarei
- Passion + Purpose = Performance?, Jenn Lim
- Hello, Goodbye: Endings as Positive Opportunities, Chris Marcell Murchison
- Creating Joy in Your Workplace, Rich Sheridan
2015 Ross Faculty Workshops
Michigan Ross faculty will lead workshops showcasing academic research as it applies to positive business management across a range of disciplines.
- Responsible Global Supply Chain Management, Ravi Anupindi
- Control Your Own Destiny: Leadership Development through Mindful Engagement, Sue Ashford
- Inspiring Employees Through Radically Transparent Finance, Wayne Baker
- Building Stronger Brands by Creating Brand Love, Rajeev Batra
- Leading Positive Change, Kim Cameron
- Boost Strength and Resilience by Cultivating Positive Identities, Jane Dutton
- Negotiate Genuinely, Shirli Kopelman
- Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid, Ted London
- Positive Lean in Health Care, William Lovejoy
- Positive Management and Employment Law, Dana M. Muir
- Positive Business through the Co-Creation Paradigm: Implications for Practice, Venkat Ramaswamy
- Improve Consumer Welfare and Business Performance through Choice Architecture, Scott Rick
- Using the Positive Leadership Game to Kickstart Your Own Positive Organization, Gretchen Spreitzer
- Entrepreneurs as Value Creators, Stewart Thornhill and Jim Price
2015 Positive Business in Practice Workshops
Local and visiting leaders will showcase positive practices and effective implementation in organizations.
- Positive Practices Panel, Anna Moloney + Allison Swimmer
- Menlo Innovations Factory Tour, Menlonian
- Ross Art Collection Tour: The Work Environment as a Creative Space
