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.
- Crisis as Opportunities for Resilience and Renewal?, Lynn Perry Wooten
- Culture at Startups: What is It and When Does It Start?, Lisa Bee + Christina York
- Humanizing the Performance Review, Matthew Neagle
- How Positive Impact Can Lead to Positive Profit, KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz
- Improving Gender Equality at Work, Dave Mayer
- Increasing Performance and Breadth of Capability, Stacey Dietsch
- Practice Makes Positive: How Organizations Can Use Experiential Learning to Develop Positive Leaders, Scott DeRue
- Positive Business Project, Grace French + Isobel Futter
- The Positive Leader, Jan Mühlfeit
- Strategy Powered by Purpose, Elizabeth Bierbower
- Turning Any Organization Positive: A Practical Tool for Your Workforce,
Robert E. Quinn - Valuing Culture in Organizations, Ellen Havdala + Gregg Latterman + Blair Miller; facilitated by Jeff Sinclair
- Weaving Your Mission into Your Company’s DNA and Culture, Joey Bergstein
- What Leaders Can Learn from the Boston Marathon Bombing Heroes, Thomas Grilk
Workshops
Michigan Ross faculty will lead workshops showcasing academic research as it applies to positive business management across a range of disciplines.
- Awaken Compassion in Your Organization, Jane Dutton + Monica Worline
- Becoming Who You Really are: Learning to Do What Organizations Cannot Do for You, Robert E. Quinn
- Build Your Positive Change Movement, Chris White + Rich Berens + Brad Haudan + Rachel Heydlauff
- Control Your Own Destiny: Leadership Development through Mindful Engagement, Susan J. Ashford
- Creating Positive Teams using Agile Development Techniques from Silicon Valley, Rashmi Menon
- Creating Synergy in Teams, Jose Uribe
- Leading Positive Change Without Authority, Jerry Davis
- Measuring the Positive: How to Create and Sustain a Positive Workplace Environment, Amy Young + Michael J. O’Brien
- Negotiate Genuinely, Shirli Kopelman
- Questions Every Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur Should Ask, Jim Price
- Unlocking the Network of Influence, Marcus Collins
- Want a Thriving Workplace Culture? Consider the Design of Your Workspace, Gretchen Spreitzer + Peter Bacevice + Hilary Hendricks
