List of contributors

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(2007), "List of contributors", Business Strategy Series, Vol. 8 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/bss.2007.33008daa.001

List of contributors

Suzanne Bates is President and CEO of Bates Communications, and author of Speak Like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results (McGraw-Hill, 2005). Suzanne is a former television news anchor who is now an executive coach, speaker and consultant. Her firm specializes in helping executives and professionals become stars in their industries. Information on workshops, seminars and executive coaching is available at www.bates-communications.com

Graham Beaver

Graham Beaver is Professor of Strategic Management, Business School, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK, and is responsible for much of the academic work on business growth and strategic management, particularly as it affects small and emerging enterprises in the economy. He was a founding Editorial Board member of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (and Reviews Editor from 1996-1999) and the Editor of the international management journal Strategic Change, now in its fifteenth year of publication. Graham is a Fellow of the Centre for SMEs at Warwick Business School and an Adjunct Professor to Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. He can be contacted at: G.Beaver@brighton.ac.uk

Suzanne M. Behr

Suzanne M. Behr is Director for Vyvx ADS Operations, a telecommunications firm. She has extensive work experience in the oil and telecommunications industries. She holds several patents. She has published articles in engineering and management journals and recently presented her work at the 2005 Strategic Management Society meetings. She has bachelor degrees in mathematics and chemistry from Oral Roberts University, a Master’s degree in engineering from University of Tulsa and an MBA from Oklahoma State University. She can be reached at Suzanne.Behr@wiltel.com

Denise Cormier

Denise Cormier coaches and consults to executives and their teams to help them become more effective and successful in their work and personal lives. Her clients include business leaders, physicians and other professionals. To learn more about her practice, visit www.cormierassociates.com. She can be reached at denise@cormierassociates.com

Adrian Davies

Adrian Davies is the Principal of Trussler Davies Associates, London, UK. He has had extensive experience as a company director, both executive and non-executive. He is currently a management consultant, specialising in strategy, marketing and corporate governance, operating both in the UK and internationally. Adrian is a former Chairman of the Strategic Planning Society and former President of the European Strategic Planning Federation. He is the author of Strategic Leadership (Woodhead Faulkner, 1991), The Strategic Role of Marketing (McGraw-Hill, 1995), A Strategic Approach to Corporate Governance (Gower, 1999) and Best Practice in Corporate Governance (Gower, 2006).

Richard J. Eberlin

Richard J. Eberlin is President and CEO of RJE Consulting and a private practitioner specializing in training development and delivery, leadership and management development, and succession planning and change management. He has also served as Adjunct Professor with California State University, San Bernardino, the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, and National University, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, statistics, education and communications. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Irvine and earned his Master’s degree and PhD from the California School of Professional Psychology/AIU. He speaks frequently at professional conferences and seminars, including the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists and the American Psychological Society. He can be reached at Rik@thewalkerbuilding.com

Bonnie Gorbaty

Bonnie Gorbaty is a Mentor and Principal with the Arch of Leadership. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the firm focuses on helping successful managers make the transition to leading. She can be reached at bgorbaty@archofleadership.com

Eliza Helweg-Larsen

Eliza Helweg-Larsen is Chief Creative Officer of Andromeda Training, Inc., located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Andromeda provides business visualization tools and simulation-based training to corporate and academic clients. For further information, visit www.income-outcome.com

Robin Helweg-Larsen

Robin Helweg-Larsen is President of Andromeda Training, Inc., located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Andromeda provides business visualization tools and simulation-based training to corporate and academic clients. For further information, visit www.income-outcome.com

Paul Joyce

Paul Joyce is Acting Dean, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK. Paul has worked in both the Insurance and Engineering industries and has been a senior manager in local government. His current research interests centre on the roles of leadership and strategic management in innovation and change. His recent books on strategic management include Strategy in the Public Sector (Wiley, 2000) and Strategic Management (Kogan Page, 2001) with Adrian Woods.

Andrew Kakabadse

Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of International Management Development, Cranfield School of Management. He is the H. Smith Richardson Fellow at CCL, North Carolina, USA. His research covers boards, top teams and the governance of governments. He has written 26 books, 169 articles and 16 monographs. He is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and Corporate Governance: International Journal of Business in Society. He can be reached at a.p.kakabadse@cranfield.ac.uk

Nada K. Kakabadse

Nada K. Kakabadse is Professor in Management and Business Research, Northampton Business School. She is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and editor of the Corporate Governance journal. Nada has published widely in leadership, corporate governance, diversity management and ethics, including six books, three monographs and over 80 articles. She can be reached at Nada.Kakabadse@Northampton.ac.uk

Thomas Kley

Thomas Kley is Scientific Collaborator and Project Leader at IAI. He received his Diploma in Social Science at Ruhr-University Bochum. He has extensive experience in conducting empirical research projects, e.g. in the field of competence development and innovation management. His current theoretical and empirical research interests are focussed on organizational learning cultures.

Bernd Kriegesmann

Bernd Kriegesmann is Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Applied Innovation Research (IAI), Bochum, Germany and Professor of Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences at Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He is a member of different expert groups and advisory boards, and the author and editor of various special publications. He has worked with senior executives across many different industries. He can be reached at info@iai-bochum.de

Linda Lee-Davies

Linda Lee-Davies lectures at The University of Northampton and heads the commercial, part-time management suite through to and including MBA. With a keen interest in leadership and customer care, as well as a passion for promoting personal development planning, she particularly focuses on working with business clients to keep material relevant and useful to the workplace. She can be reached at linda.lee-davies@northampton.ac.uk

Paul Meehan

Paul Meehan is a Partner with Bain & Company in Tokyo and leads Bain’s Organization practice in Asia. He can be reached at Paul.Meehan@Bain.com

Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is a Partner with Bain & Company in London and leader of Bain’s global Organization practice. He can be reached at Paul.Rogers@Bain.com

Markus G. Schwering

Markus G. Schwering is Scientific Collaborator and Project Leader at IAI. He has studied at the Universities of Muenster/Germany and California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Markus holds a Master’s degree in business economy and for his PhD thesis he has analyzed competence development activities in innovative and fast-growing enterprises.

Michael Shenkman

Michael Shenkman is President and Founder of the Arch of Leadership. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the firm focuses on helping successful managers make the transition to leading. He can be reached at mshenkman@archofleadership.com

Roger C. Smith

Roger C. Smith is a Professorial Fellow in the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia, teaching in the School’s MBA program. Earlier in his career he had extensive experience in the chemical and mining industries in Australia and Canada in the areas of production management, systems analysis and training and development. Following his industrial career he spent ten years as a university lecturer specializing in organizational analysis, design and development, corporate planning and human resource management. He returned to consulting between 1983 and 1996 and worked in Australia, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mauritius. In addition to his current teaching position, he maintains an active interest in consulting to management. He can be reached at rsmith@biz.uwa.edu.au

B. Charles Tatum

B. Charles Tatum is Chair of the Department of Psychology at National University. He spent 14 years working for the Department of the Navy as a personnel research psychologist designing surveys and assessing programs and organizations. He has also consulted with many other organizations, including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and McDonnell-Douglas Corp., to help them improve productivity, work quality, employee motivation and morale. He received his PhD as a research psychologist from the University of New Mexico. During his extensive career as a researcher and academician, he has authored over 20 professional publications and 30 conference papers. He can be reached at ctatum13@cox.net

Margaret A. White

Margaret A. White is on the faculty in the Department of Management at Oklahoma State University. Her areas of research interest are management of technology and innovation, changes in systems and structures, and strategic redirection. She has published articles in numerous professional and business journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. She co-authored the book The Management of Technology and Innovation: A Strategic Approach, which was published in 2006. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and an MBA from Sam Houston State University as well as a PhD from Texas A&University. She can be reached at mgmtmaw@okstate.edu