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The
2008 APS Coordinator's Seminar:
Speakers
APS is excited to
announce the special guest
speakers for the 2008
Coordinators Training Seminar.
These experts in the fields of
productivity will challenge and
inform our coordinators on the
most important and cutting edge
topics for Productivity
professionals.
Our Guest
Speakers will include:
Dr. Victor
Vroom of Yale University,
Mr. Patrick Maes
of CPI, and
Robert
Paterson of IMPAC University.
For more
information on each of these
distinguished guest speakers, we
have included the bio's below
Dr.
Victor Vroom
Yale
University
Victor H. Vroom,
the John G. Searle Professor of
Organization and Management, is
an international expert on
leadership and decision making.
He came to Yale in 1972 as
Chairman of the Department of
Administrative Sciences and
Associate Director of the
Institution for Social and
Policy Studies. When the School
of Management was founded in
1976, Professor Vroom was named
to its original board of
permanent officers.
A native of
Canada, Professor Vroom received
his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in
psychology from McGill
University in 1953 and 1955.
After receiving his Ph.D. in
psychology from the University
of Michigan in 1958, he was
named Study Director at the
university's Institute for
Social Research. He served as
Assistant Professor of
Psychology at the University of
Pennsylvania and later as
Professor of Psychology and
Industrial Administration at
Carnegie-Mellon's Graduate
School of Administration. He
continued in that role until his
move to Yale.
Professor Vroom's
research has focused on issues
of motivation and of leadership
in organizations. He is the
author of nine books and over
eighty articles. His 1964 book,
Work and Motivation, is
regarded as a landmark in that
field and continues to be widely
cited by scholars. In 1971 he
collaborated with Professor
Edward Deci in writing
Motivation in Management,
which sold over 100,000 copies
and was totally revised in
1992.
In 1973 he began
his famous work on leadership
with the publication of
Leadership and Decision Making,
written with Phillip Yetton.
The ideas in that book have
stimulated more than a hundred
research studies by scholars and
may be found in virtually every
textbook on management and
leadership published in the last
two decades. His latest book on
leadership, The New
Leadership: Managing
Participation in Organizations,
was coauthored with Professor
Arthur G. Jago and published by
Prentice Hall in 1988. It has
since been translated into
German, Spanish and Korean.
Professor Vroom
has received awards for his
research by the American
Psychological Association, the
McKinsey Foundation, and the
Ford Foundation, and is one of a
select number of behavioral
scientists whose autobiographies
are contained in Management
Laureates. His work was
also profiled in Life and Works
of Management Thinkers, a book
dealing with the fourteen
foremost contributors to
management theory during the
twentieth century, and in Great
Minds in Management, published
in 2005 by Oxford University
Press.
In 1998 the
Society of Industrial and
Organizational Psychology
honored him with its
Distinguished Scientific
Contribution Award .and in 2004
he received the Distinguished
Scholarly Contribution Award
from the Academy of Management.
In addition, he has served as a
consultant to many government
agencies and to over 100 major
corporations in the United
States and abroad. He has been
elected to Fellowships in the
American Psychological
Association, the American
Psychological Society, the
Society for the Psychological
Study of Social Issues, and the
Academy of Management.
Professor Vroom has also been
elected President of the Society
of Industrial and Organizational
Psychology.
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Mr.
Patrick Maes
Commercial Performance
Improvement
Patrick Maes
studied commercial and financial
science and specialized
inmarketing and organizational
development.
He started his
career in banking and moved into
advertising where he worked in
thecreative department and soon
got involved in new
business-development.
In 1992 he
developed an integrated concept
for commercial performance
improvementthat is applied in
commercial excellence programs
and for integrating
commercialapproaches and
organizations after mergers and
acquisitions.
The CPI
Commercial Performance Model is
an integrated approach to
strategy, corporate culture,
organizational structure, sales
and marketing.
Using the
CPI-Model, Patrick was involved
in major change programs at
European bank and insurance
companies, fast-moving consumer
goods corporations and companies
in textile and industrial goods
manufacturing.
Through his
company CPI Consulting Patrick
is still active as a change and
commercial performance
improvement consultant.
In 2006 Patrick
engaged with two long time
friends and business-partners
into the creation of
DMV-Ventures, a consulting
organisation that creates
entrepreneurial value in
exchange for equity.
Patrick is
consultant to the board of a
number of family owned companies
and helps them to
internationalize and
professionalize their business.
He spends a huge
portion of his time conducting
due diligences for investors and
venture capitalists to judge on
the current and future potential
of companies and projects.
In all his
projects he specifically and
deliberately works with an
approach that allows
transferring knowledge and
conceptual insights to the
management and to ensure full
buy-in of organizations in newly
developed concepts and programs.
Patrick is also
the founder of CPS. CPS. is a
European program collecting data
on commercial performance with
European companies. CPS. has the
aim of benchmarking commercial
practices and information
between countries and industries
in the EU.
Patrick is
married and has two sons (12 and
18 years old). He is an old-time
car enthusiast with a specific
fondness for 356 Porches and is
addicted to his daily 5 km run
in the morning before starting
the day. Patrick works all over
the world with focus on Europe
and the United States. He is
fluent in English and French.
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Dr.
Robert Peterson
IMPAC
University
Education:
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Ph.D. in
Organizational Development-
Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale
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MBA and BS in
Management- Emporia (Kansas)
State University
Relevant
Experiences:
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Currently,
Director of the Center for
Organizational Excellence at
IMPAC University, Punta
Gorda, Florida. Provide
training and consulting
services for improving
organizational performance,
improving quality of
products and services, and
improving throughput,
productivity and
profitability. Also provide
training in six sigma and
lean methodologies.
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20+ years on
faculty at Kent State
University (Ohio) teaching
graduate and undergraduate
courses in College of
Business and School of
Technology.
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10+ years on
faculty at other
universities in Ohio,
Illinois and Kansas.
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9 years as
contract employee for
Reliance Electric- managed
the information systems for
industrial motor marketing
department.
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12 years as
full-time employee and
contract employee with
Chrysler Corporation.
Worked at plants in Ohio and
Illinois in improving
throughput and quality and
reducing costs.
Authored book on
Problem Solving: A Structured
Approach to Process Improvements.
Six Sigma Master
Black Belt
Have produced two
CD training programs- problem
solving and supervisory mgt
series
Avid boater-
holder of 50 ton master
captain?s license
Scuba diver- hold
dive master and assistant
instructor certifications
Avid golfer
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