Sigal Barsade is the Joseph Bernstein Professor of Management at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania where she has been on the faculty for 9 years, and prior to that was a faculty member at Yale University for 10 years. Dr. Barsade has consulted to many large corporations across myriad industries such as Del Monte, GlaxoSmithKline, Magna PowerTrain, Merrill Lynch, the NBA, Oxford Health Plans, State Farm Insurance and Wyndham Worldwide; health care organizations; public and not for profit corporations such as Philadelphia Gas Works; as well as to small entrepreneurial organizations. The focus of her consulting practice has been on emotional intelligence, organizational culture, organizational change, teamwork and leadership.

Dr. Barsade is an award winning researcher and teacher whose academic expertise enables her to integrate cutting edge research tools and knowledge into her consulting practice. She has published in the top academic research journals in her field, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science.  She is also often interviewed by, and has her research referenced in, the general media, such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Time Magazine, US News & World Report, International Herald Tribune, Forbes, LA Times, Oprah Magazine, Fast Company, Slate, ABC and CBS News as well as numerous national and regional news outlets. Her research and areas of expertise include:

• Emotional Intelligence
• Organizational Culture
• Leadership and Top Management Teams
• Emotions in the Workplace
• Group Dynamics

Stew Friedman has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984. He became the Management Department’s first Practice Professor in recognition of his work on the application of theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. As founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated Wharton’s required MBA and undergraduate leadership courses. He also started and directs the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project; its mission is to develop leaders and enable change through action learning and applied research.

In 2001 Stew concluded a two-year assignment as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company, where he was director of the Leadership Development Center (LDC), running a 50-person, $25 MM operation. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford’s culture, in which over 2500 managers per year participated. He brought his concept of “total leadership” to Ford Motor, which created measurable change in both increased business results and enriched lives. While Stew was at Ford, the LDC received major media attention (including profiles in Fast Company, Training and Development, and CIO). Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research organization (ICEDR) identified the LDC as having achieved “global benchmark” status for leadership development programs.

Stew worked for five years in health care before earning his Ph.D. (1984) from the University of Michigan. He has published numerous books and articles on work/life integration, leadership, and the dynamics of change, including the widely cited Harvard Business Review article, “Work and life: the end of the zero-sum game” and, more recently, in the Academy of Management Executive, “The Happy Workaholic: a role model for employees.” Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (co-authored with Jeff Greenhaus, Oxford University Press, 2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field’s best. With Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass, 1998), Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life. His most recent book is the best-selling Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business Press).

Stew has consulted with a wide range of organizations and executives, including Jack Welch and Vice President Al Gore; he serves on numerous advisory boards; and he conducts workshops globally on leadership and the whole person, creating change, and strategic human resources issues. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (the New York Times cited the “rock star adoration” he inspires in his students), and was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men in having made things better for working parents.

Anthony brings more than three decades of corporate and consulting experience in the areas of executive coaching, organizational effectiveness and leadership development. His client list includes: BlackRock, Gymboree, Burlington Stores, Fitbit, VMware, Nike, Sensata Technologies, the NFL, Cirque du Soleil, IBM, EBay, PayPal, Microsoft, Pfizer, American Express, the UN, the CIA, the Department of Defense, Victoria’s Secret, Cisco, Biogen, Eli Lilly, and Logitech.

Anthony specializes in coaching CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies and the executives that report into them. In addition to coaching, he designs and facilitates executive team off-sites and leadership summits.

Anthony teaches in the Executive Education Program at the Wharton School of Business. He has extensive expertise in the field of leadership development assessments (personality, emotional intelligence, leadership impact, 360s and thinking styles) and has trained and certified over 2,000 facilitators, executive coaches and therapists in use of these technologies. He has led efforts in the design, development and delivery of customized, enterprise-wide leadership development programs. Some of the courses he developed and delivered include: Sets Strategy and Drives Results, Leveraging Unconscious Bias to Make Better Business Decisions, Brings Out the Best in People, Client and Market Insight and Builds Process and Organizational Excellence.

He spent six years working abroad in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean coaching leaders how to effectively manage in global environments. He is conversant in French.

Anthony is a licensed, clinical psychologist in the state of California and has a clinical practice in San Francisco working with individuals and couples in a therapeutic capacity.

Anthony has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering, a BA in Biochemistry, MAs in Graphic Arts and French Literature and a Ph.D. in Psychology.

In his free time, Anthony is a documentary filmmaker, enjoys traveling with his partner and hanging out with their many animals.

Kathy Pearson is a strategist, systems thinking expert, and authority in decision making. She is president and founder of Enterprise Learning Solutions, an adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and has served as an adjunct associate professor in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, both at the University of Pennsylvania. An award-winning educator, Kathy works extensively with mid- to senior-level executives, including high potentials and executive teams, teaching on a variety of topics including critical thinking, strategic agility, change management, and strategic execution. Kathy received her BS degree in theoretical mathematics from Auburn University, her MS degree in decision sciences from Georgia State University, and her PhD in industrial engineering (concentration in statistics) from Northwestern University.

G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1986. He is a senior member of the faculty and has led a number of School-wide initiatives, including the 2010 redesign of the MBA program. As a teacher, he is the Academic Director for two Wharton executive education programs: The Executive Negotiation Workshop and the Strategic Persuasion Workshop. He is also the author of three books: The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas (Portfolio/Penguin 2007) (with Mario Moussa), Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People (2nd Edition, Penguin 2006), and a work on competitive strategy and law entitled Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will (Crown Business 2004).

Professor Shell is an internationally recognized expert in negotiations, persuasion, and strategy, as well as an award-winning teacher. He has lectured to some of the world’s most influential corporate, nonprofit and political leaders at venues such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the World Negotiation Forum in New York City. Wharton students have honored Professor Shell with numerous teaching prizes, and his professional peers have recognized his scholarly contributions to the dispute resolution field by giving his work some of their top awards. BusinessWeek’s bi-annual “Guide to the Best Business Schools” has consistently listed Professor Shell as one of the Wharton School’s top professors based on polls of Wharton School graduates.

As a consultant, Professor Shell has worked for over 100 business firms and nonprofit organizations. His clients include: Google, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Citibank, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Merck & Company, Hewlett-Packard, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Christie’s, the Pew Charitable Trusts, American Association of Medical Colleges, the Teamsters, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International. He has also worked closely with the several groups within the United States Special Operations Command and the Crisis Negotiation Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

As a scholar, Professor Shell has published widely on the subjects of negotiation, dispute resolution, and strategy in leading business and legal journals. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, testified before Congress on public policy questions related to litigation and dispute resolution, and published opinion articles for such publications as Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. His books are available in over fourteen languages.