Inspired and Informed

Plenary conference speakers for the 2010 Executive MBA Council Conference will share their stories, expertise, and tips – all with the aim of inspiring, engaging, and informing you.

Winning Ways: Managing Energy for High Performance
Russell Hunter
National Director of the Human Performance Institute Canada

The grind of daily pressures – impossible deadlines, stressful decisions, and other constant challenges – often contribute to less-than-optimal performance levels. Yet champions, whether Olympic gold-medal winners or business leaders, rely on high performance levels to reach their aims.

High performance requires the fuel of energy. In this plenary session, Russell Hunter, national director of the Human Performance Institute Canada, will share the secrets of how high-performers manage their energy for winning results.

With more than 10 years of experience as a business leader, keynote speaker, facilitator, and performance coach, as well as a triathlete, Hunter frequently speaks on the topic of leading with energy and contributes to numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Canadian Business. Before joining the Human Performance Institute, Hunter founded and served as CEO of the consultant firm Boldeye Solutions.

The Human Performance Institute focuses on the management of energy as the key to sustained high performance. The institute’s client list includes star athletes such as golfer Michelle Wie, tennis players Jim Courier and Monica Seles, race car driver Eddie Cheever, Jr., boxer Ray Mancini, and speed skater Dan Jansen. Its corporate clients include Dell, the FBI, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Smith Barney Citigroup.

According to an institute research study on more than 75,000 working adults in a three-year period, high performance depends as much on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual resources as it does on skills, talent, and experience. Further, the results of the top 10 percent of performers exceed the results of average performers by at least 250 percent.

Learn more about harnessing the power of energy to feed sustained high performance – knowledge that can help bolster your own performance as well as help your students grow stronger in their performance levels.

EMBA Worldwide: Charting Future Courses
Delanie Hampton
Former Director Consumer and Market Knowledge
Procter & Gamble Global

As technology makes the world smaller and smaller, global business continues to stretch the boundaries of the traditional marketplace, resulting in new challenges and opportunities.

The international market is more open than ever to organizations, whether small or large. In turn, this trend has helped give rise to an increase in Executive MBA Programs in almost all corners of the world and to an even stronger emphasis on international business and innovative business models.

As the international business world adapts to the changing market, what are the implications for Executive MBA Programs? In what ways might emerging marketplace and social forces impact what happens in EMBA Program classrooms? How can EMBA Programs find new ways to prepare business leaders for those emerging forces?

As former director of consumer and market knowledge innovation at Procter & Gamble Global, Delaine Hampton understands the importance of identifying and understanding the future shifts in the global marketplace, as well as the future shocks that offer the potential to disrupt the flow of current business or pave the way for the next great business opportunity.

At Procter & Gamble Global, Hampton served as a thought leader and innovator in the field of consumer research and market understanding. She added significantly to P&G’s past and future growth by translating new theory and science into practical business application tools for product innovation and strategy development. Her long track record of successful innovation in decision support tools and models has helped P&G stay on the leading edge of consumer-centered insight and strategy development. Some of her inventions have been sold externally, with P&G using most of them either as new business practice or to help reshape the work on future brand building and innovation.

Currently Executive-In-Residence at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Hampton also has a strong presence in the external consumer research community, including service to the Marketing Sciences Institute and the Yale Center for Consumer Insight.