Featured Main Stage Sessions
Several inspiring sessions will frame the opportunity for leaders to build positive businesses, catalyzing action coming off the conference. Leaders will share their stories, and their strategies for inspiring people, companies and communities to create positive business today.
- Bridging the Issues that Divide Us, Achyuta Adhvaryu + Andy Hoffman + Ted London; facilitated by Wally Hopp
- Creating a Stronger Culture Through Diversity and Inclusion, Danielle Mastrangel Brown
- The Global Impact of Positive Business, Scott DeRue
- Achieving Extraordinary Positive Business Results with Mental Models, Melissa Kirmayer Eamer
- What’s the Big Idea?, Brian Flanagan + Jonathan Grice
- The Revitalization of Detroit—A Story of Commitment, Creativity, and Partnership, Maurice Cox + Susan Mosey + Jerry Norcia + Keith Owens; Facilitated by Jerry Davis
- The Power of Positive Partnerships, Dr. Mehmood Khan
- Positive Business Project, Rachel Heydlauff + Rachael Moreton
- The Power of Work’s Higher Purpose in Driving Employee Engagement and Business Results, Bruce Pfau + Robert E. Quinn
- Building Positive Business in a Rapidly Changing World, Walter Robb; facilitated by Chris White
- The Power of Corporate Citizenship to Create Positive Business, Mary Snapp
Workshops
Michigan Ross faculty will lead workshops showcasing academic research as it applies to positive business management across a range of disciplines.
- Control Your Own Destiny: Leadership Development through Mindful Engagement, Susan J. Ashford
- Creating a “Giver” Culture: Tools for Action, Wayne Baker
- Positive Leadership and Positive Performance, Kim Cameron
- Positive Organizational Change from the Bottom-Up, Kim Cameron + Jennifer Evans
- Awakening Compassion at Work, Jane Dutton + Monica Worline
- Industrial to Digital: The Employee Experience, Mary Hinesly + Amy Young
- Leading With Emotions, Shirli Kopelman
- Learning from Oceania, William S. Lovejoy
- Positively Motivating Yourself and Others, Dave Mayer
- The New Rules of Entrepreneurship, Jim Price
- Creating a Positive Organizational Culture, Robert E. Quinn + Jeffrey Bednar
- Leading Positive Business through Co-Creation of Developmental Impact, Venkat Ramaswamy
- Improve Consumer Welfare and Business Performance through Choice Architecture, Scott Rick
- How Positive Leaders Sustain Their Energy For High Performance, Gretchen Spreitzer
- Everyday Courage: Creating Positive Change Without Authority in Organizations, Chris White
