The Best Winning Decisions - April 2023

Karin Hurt

Concerning Karin Hurt
CEO, '' Let's Grow Leaders
Keynote Speaker, Author, Consultant

As a keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and MBA professor, Karin helps leaders improve business outcomes by creating deeper trust and connection with their teams. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two years of expertise in sales, advertising, customer assistance, and human sources.

A few highlights from her time at Verizon include:

* Creating a sales staff that led the country in shop sales to the small and medium business area.
* Transforming customer support outsourcing to attain parity with internal centers by building strong cultures that provide positive customer experiences.

Recently, Karin was famous on Inc's list of 100 Great Leadership Speakers For Your Next Contest, the American Management Associations 50 Leaders to See 2015, 24 on the Most Famous Shared Business Blogs, also as a Top 100 thought Experts in Trusted Business Behavior from Trust Across America.

Her award-winning site, Let us Grow hindsight, has become an extremely interactive, global community. Her book, Overcoming An Imperfect Boss can be found on Amazon.
Karin comes with a BA in Communication from Wake Forest University, an MA from Towson University in Organizational Communication, and further graduate work in the University of Maryland, where she presently teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs.

Karin lives in Baltimore. She understands the stillness of a yogi, the reflective road using a marathoner and the joy of being a mother raising emerging leaders. It's about Confident Humility.

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Stephen P. Robbins

Stephen P. Robbins (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is now professor emeritus of management at San Diego State University and the world's bestselling textbook writer in the areas of both management and organizational behavior. His novels have sold more than 6 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages. His books are now used at over 1,500 U.S. colleges and universities, as well as hundreds of schools throughout Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

In Dr. Robbins' "other life," he participates in masters' track competitions. He's set several indoor and world sprint records since turning 50 in 1993. He's won 2 dozen indoor and outside U.S. championships at 60m, 100m, 200m, and 400m, and 14 individual gold medals in World Masters Track Championships. In 2005, Dr. Robbins was elected in the USA Masters' Track & Field Hall of Fame.

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Phil Rosenzweig

Phil Rosenzweig is currently professor at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, among the world's leading institutes of engineering education. He's writer of THE HALO EFFECT (2007) clarified by The Wall Street Journal as "a trenchant view of business and company information," and recognized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb as "among the most significant management books of all time."

Phil's new novel, LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT STUFF, goes our understanding of decision making. It examines decision making in complex settings, often and where outcomes can be influenced by us have to outperform rivals. Exciting, practical, and frequently astonishing, LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT STUFF takes a look at topics including faith and overconfidence, the winner's curse, the illusion of control, and also the power of positive thinking.

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