Dr Don Warrick, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change

Engineers often get a bad wrap as being committed to their profession but not to leadership.  Leadership is the number one key to building successful organizations and teams and can also be a key to gaining acceptance of ideas.  Leaders are a major influence on the culture in which people work, on how people are treated, and how things get done.   Engineers can be excellent, high impact leaders who make a difference in lives and organizations.  However, to do so they must be committed leaders as well as committed engineers and become students of how to lead and bring out the best in people, teams, and organizations.  This session will provide a practical understanding of the importance of skilled leadership,  the impact leaders can have, and the critical skills engineers need to learn to be leaders committed to making a difference.   

Biography:

Dr. Warrick is an award winning educator, consultant, and author who specializes in developing and coaching leaders, developing high performance teams and organizations, managing change, and building strong cultures.  He is a Professor of Leadership and Organization Change and President's Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and President of the Warrick Agency Training and Development Company.  Dr. Warrick has received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Organization Development Network Association for his "significant and lasting impact on the field and practice of organization development" and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management for "exceptional contributions to organization development and change education, scholarship, and practice."  He has also been recognized as one of the leading thinkers on organization change in the prestigious Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers and has received numerous other awards for his contributions.  Dr. Warrick is the author or co-author of over 90 articles, book chapters, and professional papers and nine books primarily in the areas of organization development and change and leadership.  He has been a consultant and speaker to over 200 organizations including Fortune 500 companies, international companies, and smaller organizations.  At his university, Dr. Warrick has received the Chancellor's Award, the University's highest annual award, the Outstanding Teacher Award for the University, and many awards in the College of Business including Teaching Awards, the Outstanding Faculty Award, and other awards.  He received his BBA and MBA degrees at the University of Oklahoma and DBA at the University of Southern California.   

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