You are welcome to join the Virtual Manage to Lead Immersion Program Overview Workshop for our online Zoom session on Wednesday, Thursday, September 5th, 2019 at 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern.

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You are welcome to join the IntelliVen Learning Community for our online Zoom session on Wednesday, September 25th, 2019, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern.

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Online Overview Workshop

On May 22, at 11:00 AM Eastern, 8:00 AM Pacific, the Association for Strategic Planning together with the Association of Change Management Professionals, Washington DC Chapter,  co-sponsored a 90-minute interactive, online overview workshop of the IntelliVen Manage to Lead Immersion Program: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World. 

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Approximately 30 people participated live with another 20 registered to receive the link to the session recording.

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Registrants received an advance exercise to get a sense for what it is like to participate in the full online immersion program.

During the workshop participants sampled some of the leadership tools used extensively in the immersion program including:

• WHAT-WHO-WHY: Your case and target customers.
• Change Framework: What needs to change and why.
• Initiative-to-Action: Where to assign resources.
• Leadership Support: Governance, growth, and focus.

• Get more information here.
• Apply here.

Instructors

Peter DiGiammarino founded and runs IntelliVen to help leaders, teams, and organizations practically apply behavioral theory to get clear, aligned, and on-track to reach their potential to perform and grow.

Joyce Reynolds-Sinclair, Ph.D. designs and delivers virtual and blended strategic and organization development services that help organizations address business challenges.

You are welcome to join the IntelliVen Learning Community for our online Zoom session on April 17 from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern!

Send the phrase REGISTER ILC to intelliven@intelliven.com and we’ll send you a calendar invitation to join current, past, and prospective Strategic Leadership Immersion Program Participants in a lively session including:

• Featured Guest: Reid Jackson, President and CEO of Unison (formerly Compusearch) and star character in program case material, including:

o   COO in Overrun CTO

o   CEO in What to do when a PE-Owned venture goes off track

o   Example beneficiary in Multi-rater executive performance assessment process video

Come with questions to explore Reid’s experience applying what is learned in our program.

• New Content: How to Contract and Govern direct reports for optimum results.

• Send any and all questions and discussion topics you would like to put before the group for discussion to intelliven@intelliven.com. 

About the Overview Workshop

Click the display below to see the video recording and transcript of the entire workshop:

Participants were invited to complete an advance exercise ahead of the workshop to get a sense for what it is like to participate in the full online program. Individual feedback on submissions was sent post-workshop.

Response to both the program and the workshop has been positive as leaders learn to get clear, aligned, and on track to reach their organization’s potential to perform and grow impact, opportunity, and value delivered!

Throughout the workshop, participants sampled leadership tools that are used extensively in the Immersion Program including:

• WHAT-WHO-WHY: Your case and target customers.
• Change Framework: What needs to change and why.
• Initiative-to-Action: Where to assign resources.
• Leadership Support: Governance, growth, and focus.

26 participants from six organizations have just launched the program’s winter 2019 cohort. Those interested are invited to fill-out and submit this enrollment form to get on the list for this year’s summer cohort that launches July 10.

Click the graphic below for a video walk-through of the full program. 

Instructors

Peter DiGiammarino founded and runs IntelliVen to help leaders, teams, and organizations practically apply behavioral theory to get clear, aligned, and on-track to reach their potential to perform and grow.

James Stockmal has 25+ years experience consulting to leaders and teams across industry sectors including defense, civilian government, state government, retail banking, finance, insurance, utilities, non-profits and manufacturing. President of Association for Strategic Planning.

Special Guests – ASI Government

Frederick Panzer, PhD, PMP is an Industrial-organizational (I-O) Psychologist at ASI Government with over 16 years of experience designing and implementing Organizational Development and Strategic Human Capital Solutions.

Heather Decker, Senior Consultant at ASI Government, works with Federal clients to develop strategic objectives and performance metrics, facilitate collaborative planning sessions, improve organizational communication and collaboration, identify and improve critical processes to meet mission requirements, and conduct organizational and process analysis using qualitative and quantitative analysis tools.

About the Program Overview Workshop

Over 250 people registered to attend the one-hour interactive virtual workshop for an executive overview of the IntelliVen Strategic Leadership Immersion Program: Manage to Lead using the Seven Truths. The event was sponsored by the Association for Strategic Planning and widely promoted by IntelliVen, Flevy, and KBGlobal.

Just under 100 logged-in to participate in the fast-paced session. There would have been even more if it were not for the major outage suffered by Zoom while we were getting underway!

Participants worked on this advance exercise ahead of the workshop to get a sense for what it is like to participate in the on-line program.

During the workshop participants sampled some of the leadership tools used extensively in the immersion program including:

• WHAT-WHO-WHY: Your case and target customers.
• Change Framework: What needs to change and why.
• Initiative-to-Action: Where to assign resources.
• Leadership Support: Governance, growth, and focus.

Participants were invited to fill-out and e-mail this enrollment form to enroll@intelliven.com to sign up for the program cohort that launches February 6, 2019.

The program roadmap is below. Click the graphic for a PDF of the slides used in the workshop.

Instructors

Peter DiGiammarino founded  and runs IntelliVen to help leaders, teams, and organizations practically apply behavioral theory to get clear, aligned, and on-track to reach their potential to perform and grow.

Joyce Reynolds-Sinclair, Ph.D. designs and delivers virtual and blended strategic and organization development services that help organizations address business challenges.

IntelliVen and the Association for Strategic Planning National Capital Area Chapter hosted a light breakfast reception and workshop to introduce the Strategic Leadership Immersion Program on November 15th from 8 – 9:30 AM at The George Washington University Cloyd Heck Marvin Center 800 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052 .

• Admission was FREE.
• Welcome reception and light breakfast started at 8:00.
• Overview workshop ran from 8:30-9:30.
• A drawing for a copy of Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to help you Change the World was won by Matt Gaston.

About the Reception and Workshop

The reception was a chance for the Greater Washington Area IntelliVen network to reconnect.  About 35 local executives engaged in lively discussion during an interactive exercise hhow things work in the Strategic Leadership Immersion Program.

Our first cohort of 18 participants from 7 organizations completed the program this past fall with excellent results:

 

 

Reception registrants received a video post and worked through an exercise ahead of the session . The workshop introduced several IntelliVen leadership tools, including:

• WHAT-WHO-WHY: Your case and target customers.
• Change Framework: What needs to change and why.
• Initiative-to-Action: Where to assign resources.
• Leadership Support: Governance, growth, and focus.

Several past Strategic Leadership Immersion Program participants attended, shared their perspective on the program and answered questions.

Speakers

Peter DiGiammarino founded IntelliVen to broadly share what he learn about how to practically apply behavioral theory using his Manage to Lead System to realize $1B⁺ in value created, and to increase impact, across business models and industries. IntelliVen lessons, principles, and approaches help leaders, teams, and organizations get clear, aligned, and on track to reach their potential to perform and grow.

About the Workshop

	Peter DiGiammarino founded IntelliVen to broadly share what he learned about how to practically apply behavioral theory to realize $1B+ in value created, and to increase impact. across business models and industries. IntelliVen lessons, principles, and approaches help leaders, teams, and organizations get clear, aligned, and on track to reach their potential to perform and grow.
	Joyce Reynolds-Sinclair, Ph.D. has a strong expertise in designing and delivering virtual and blended strategic and organization development services that help clients address business challenges. She has held senior positions at Genentech, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and Kaiser Permanente, and is an Association for Strategic Planning Hall of Fame inductee.
	Ian Sander is a talent and human resources partner specializing in pre-IPO, high growth technology start-ups with companies backed by prestigious VC’s like Menlo & Google Ventures. His background spans talent acquisition, retention, and development, design thinking to create iterative and data-driven people programs, and people analytics.

 

IntelliVen Principal, Peter DiGiammarino will lead an overview session on Strategic Leadership and introduce the Immersion Program for leaders at the joint meeting of the Silicon Valley Organization Development Network and the Northern California regional Association for Strategic Planning.

IntelliVen Principal, Peter DiGiammarino, along with podcast hosts Mark and Victoria walk through some of the concepts of “The Seven Truths” and Peter provides some insight on his educational and professional achievements that helped him develop the approach that he covers in his book and in the Strategic Leadership Immersion Program.

IBM Executive Forum

On October 11, 2018, IBM hosted its third Executive Lunch in support of professional networking and mentoring for up-and-coming Bay Area professionals. The forum discussion focused on under-represented populations in executive ranks, including women and minorities.

About 100 attendees heard area leaders share experiences of inclusion and commitment to press for progress through actions. The leadership event was hosted by Inhi Suh, IBM General Manager, Watson Customer Engagement.

Keynote Speakers & Panelists

• Molly Q. Ford, Senior Director of Global Equality Programs, Salesforce
• Emily Reichman, Partner at Newland Ventures LLC
• Peter DiGiammarino; IntelliVen CEO [see PeterD’s remarks here and below]
• Many other esteemed Bay Area Silicon Valley external leaders

The complimentary event included a catered informal networking lunch with IBM and external executive and non-executive technical saleswomen and minorities in the Bay Area.

PeterD’s Remarks

• Why are diverse and inclusive teams good for business?
  • Short answer: due consideration of diverse input efficiently leads to better results sooner.
  • Supporting logic:
    • No one, not even the best leaders, can do much alone. Good leaders are open to input.
    • Better outcomes result from more input from more sources.
    • The best leaders aggressively seek and institutionalize ways to get diverse input.

• Tell us how you have made the business case for diversity and inclusion in your organizations?
  • I helped grow a company from nothing to 10,000 people and $1⁺B over 20-years.
  • We routinely grew at 20+%/year which meant we needed to hire 1/3 of the firm every year (accounting to also replace attrition); essentially, we had to hire the whole firm every three years.
  • We unwittingly got very good at finding, hiring, and grooming people like ourselves which led to two problems:
    • We became insular in that most of us thought and acted in similar ways which manifest as “group think” where we weren’t getting push-back and new ideas from different ways of thinking.
    • There were only so many people like ourselves to find and hire. I.e., we had to pursue diverse populations in order to fuel growth.

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Join Peter DiGiammarino and David Halwig for an evening of light fare, wine tasting, networking and celebration of the Greater Washington DC IntelliVen community. Bring a business card to enter random drawing giveaways!

IntelliVen Principal Peter DiGiammarino was interviewed in August or 2017 on topics related to stages of venture evolution, what most organizations find difficult about going from the Start up to Credible stage of venture evolution, and best practices in leadership support.

IntelliVen Senior Principal, David Halwig, has been selected to join the newly formed Mason Executive and Professional Education Chief Risk Officer Advisory Council as a founding member based on his outstanding contributions in the risk sector.

The purpose of the Council is to create and deploy an educational road map to invigorate and formalize the career paths for employees to assume the challenging role of a CRO.

Initial areas of focus include:

• Identification, exploration and expansion of innovative program ideas including the development of a new ERM program designed by Mason to be immediately relevant in the private sector marketplace.

• Serve as a sounding board for the development of cost-effective training and professional development for current and aspiring CROs.

• Offer ideas and expertise with a focus of engaging a diverse generational population of committed employees as they retire from, or assume the ranks of a CRO.

IntelliVen Principal Brent Green led a session at the International Society for Organization Development and Change and The Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry Information Exchange forum on Creating Flourishing Organizations Through Trust and Collaboration. The audience of 25 participated in a lively discussion format.

The relationship between leader and followers has changed over the past 50-years and is still changing. Leaders used to command-and-control workers. In the ‘70s and ‘80s more democratic models emerged. Over the past decades we see more emphasis on a leader’s capacity to build and sustain an inclusive and high-trust relationship with a loyal, capable, and motivated followership.

Leadership is being redefined as a relationship between leader and followers, and requires a new set of competencies centered on a broader range of interpersonal and communication skills to engage an active and informed followership. At its heart is the realization that today’s leaders are expected to understand themselves and others as well as the impact of who they are, how they behave, and how they communicate with a stakeholder community.

We explored how today’s top leaders function at the highest levels by engaging those that follow them, by thinking and working differently, and by using new technology and tools.

The top team at PeopleStretch provides sales aptitude assessment, sales training, sales coaching, sales tools, sales process optimization, and part-time, in-sourced, sales management to  owners/founders/operators of lower middle-market technology and service firms in the mid-Atlantic region.

The team sought to learn how top CEOs are taught to Get Clear and Get Aligned in order to improve their own ability to effectively impact their client thinking and behaviors.

Adjunct Professor of the Psychology Department, Peter DIGiammarino, discusses “How Top Leaders Reach Good Decisions by Not Making Them”

Whether you’re facilitating an OD intervention with a client team, or interacting with a family member, neighbor, colleague, or partner, conflict is a natural experience. That’s because we all come from different places, and have different perspectives and ways of thinking.

In this interactive workshop, attended by about 40, we introduced, explored, and experimented with three straightforward frameworks that are used to increase the odds of achieving an optimum result through effective negotiation. Attendees walked away with new negotiation tools to use in day-to-day work as an OD practitioner.

One lucky attendee won the drawing to receive a copy of Manage to Lead:

30 Kiva Partnership Team members attended an Introduction to Negotiations facilitated by IntelliVen CEO Peter DiGiammarino. The session introduced Thomas Kilmann’s five modes of responding to conflict situations, David Fisher’s approach to Getting Together and Getting to Yes, and the JoHari Window. Attendees worked on three cases to apply what was learned.

Key take-aways:

• Each party has a default mode that is not necessarily the mostlikely to lead to the best result.
• Be who you need to be. I.e., DECIDE which mode to adopt
  based on circumstances and preferences.
• Reveal what is unknown to the other party that may be helpful.
• Seek to find out what you do not yet know that will be helpful.
• Document your understanding, assumptions, and terms in easy to use form before going to contract.

Professor DiGiammarino will teach PSYCH 348 Organization Change at Golden Gate University School of Business in the 2016 Fall semester.

Course Description 

This course expands knowledge of organization operations, executive roles, and the centrality of strategy in organization operations, development, and change. Using readings, class exercises, fieldwork, guest speakers, analysis, work problems, and cases the course focuses on using tools, principles, and methods in strategy development and implementation to move a system toward its desired future.

Course Overview and Goals

The ORGANIZATION CHANGE course premise is that any organization is far likelier to achieve its potential to perform and grow when its leaders are clear about their organization today, where it is headed next, and when they know how it will get there. ORGANIZATION CHANGE presents a straightforward yet rigorous way to describe and assess any organization as it exists and as its leaders would like it next to be in light of external and internal threats and opportunities.  It then presents a way to lay out, launch, drive, and govern initiatives that transform the organization from its current state to its targeted next state.

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The New Leadership

The relationship between leader and followers has changed over the past 50-years and is still changing. Leaders used to command-and-control workers. In the ‘70s and ‘80s more democratic models emerged. Over the past decades we see more emphasis on a leader’s capacity to build and sustain an inclusive and high-trust relationship with a loyal, capable, and motivated followership.

Leadership is being redefined as a relationship between leader and followers, and requires a new set of competencies centered on a broader range of interpersonal and communication skills to engage an active and informed followership. At its heart is the realization that today’s leaders are expected to understand themselves and others as well as the impact of who they are, how they behave, and how they communicate with a stakeholder community.

In this session we explored how today’s top leaders function at the highest levels by engaging those that follow them, by thinking and working differently, and by using new technology and tools. Over 160 in attendance from organizations in over 30 countries around the world experimented with applying presented material to their own organizations to internalize how to improve performance and growth.

Ms. Leavitt’s Key Executive Group sought input on best practices to amass coalitions in support of internal change ideas from above, below, and sideways. This virtual work session introduced theory and practical ways to introduce and garner support for new ideas across any organization.

Each of six participants presented personal cases they are working on to explore what more could be done to drive desired change. Participants all left the session feeling more powerful and able to make progress on important pursuits.

Association for Strategic Planning Master Class attendees in San Francisco on March 16 learned that great leadership teams are not born.  Leadership teams become great by performing, observing, assessing, and feeding back insights to each other in ways that drive continuous improvement as their organization matures.

Many leadership teams are deprived of the opportunity to experience such growth and development because organizations where they work rely on broken performance appraisal and leadership development models. (more…)

Spark helps global technology companies as well as startups achieve their business objectives through communications programs and services, including Bing Travel, Electronic Arts, Visa, Verizon, The Economist, Trulia, Flickr, Mozilla.org, Nielsen, Nokia, NVIDIA, Skype and Yahoo!.

In the face of a rapidly changing communications industry Spark is implementing the next step towards forming and managing cross-functional teams to better serve client needs. This session presents:

• The theory of change and leadership’s role in deciding what to change, when.
• The essential role of leadership in driving change.
• The importance of maturing systems, processes, and organization as a firm grows in order to maintain effectiveness.
• Core Organization Evolution Tenants and implications.

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Leaders of services businesses are often so busy either delivering their services or hustling to land their next client that they never get around to building a systematic way to deliver more value to current clients.

The best service business leaders create an unfair advantage by assigning engagement leaders to deliver on target, on time, and on budget to create satisfied clients and lay the groundwork for delivering more — much more — services. Leaders should develop explicit goals to extend, expand, and find new opportunities to deliver extraordinary value to their clients with the most growth potential. (more…)

This group of early stage CEOs was interested in leadership. Our workshop focused on how to decide what kind of leader to be and how to then collect followers in the quest to set direction, align resources, and motivate action!

A New Approach to Leadership Performance Development was presented by Dr. Brent Green and Peter DiGiammarino. Click the graphic at left for a PDF of their presentation.

Based on their research, publications, and experience Brent and Peter reported on their latest work together including a case study where they recently, and successfully, piloted their approach with a fast growing financial analytics organization whose customers include Freddie Mac, US Treasury, and Capital One among others.

Roman Iwachiw, CEO, attending via Google Hangout, shared that:

“We recently worked with Brent and Peter to implement both the team and individual assessments for our leadership. I’m really glad we did it. We got good information, we got it from multiple angles, and, very importantly, participants all felt good about the process. Another thing that I really liked about it, and that surprised me, was that it was simple and lightweight. It took a lot less time and resources to implement than I expected.“

Key points: to take away:

• The ideal team skill set changes as organizations mature.
• It is possible to discern a team’s skill mix and compare it with successful organizations at the same stage of maturity.
• It can be easy to assess and feed back individual executive performance and growth.

See Also:

• A seven-minute summary of a key point from the workshop.
• The full 90-minute workshop.

Contact intelliven@intelliven.com to inquire about how to use Dr. Green’s multi-rater approach to assessing leadership team skill mix and/or to get coaching on how to implement the individual assessment process.

To recognize the remarkable accomplishments of graduates of the School’s degree programs, the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Computer Science established the Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) program, under which awards are presented annually in several categories.

IntelliVen CEO, Peter DiGiammarino, received the school’s 2015 award for Outstanding Achievement in Management at the annual awards dinner on May 1, 2015 for “extraordinary management and leadership skills, demonstrated through corporate success and promulgated through teaching and mentoring.” See his opening panel remarks at this link.

Click on the graphic above to see the slides that went with PeterD’s remarks at the student panel discussion earlier in the day. About 60 students, professors, and guests attended the panel followed by a lively question and answer period.

Also earning a UMass CS 2015 OAA Award was Dr. Eric W. Brown for Outstanding Achievement in Technology Development for work on the development and management of open domain question answering technology and its application within the IBM Watson system and beyond. Dr. Eric Brown is the Director of Watson Algorithms for IBM Watson Group Innovations.

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Tips for those applying to computer science undergraduate degree programs

Leaders of a world-class talent and talent advisory services firm with offices in Silicon Valley and London invited us to share a framework for thinking about consulting and how to systematically add value to the top executives of leading technology ventures in the world.

Every leader stands to benefit from the opportunity to meet monthly in a professionally facilitated session with about a dozen others in similar roles, in similar organizations, at a similar stage of evolution, and that do not compete.

CEO’s who make the one decision to join, as long as they show up and allow themselves to be vulnerable and open to input, get six distinct benefits that are hard to achieve any other way.

Click the image for a slide presentation of lessons learned and practices that lead to improved performance and growth thanks to Peer Group affiliation.

This course expands knowledge of organization operations, executive roles, and the centrality of strategy in organization operations, development, and change. Using lectures, fieldwork, guest speakers, analysis, work problems, and cases the course focuses on using Organization Development tools, principles, and methods in strategy development and implementation to move a system toward its desired future.

IntelliVen CEO, Peter DiGiammarino , a highly successful OD-Capable CEO, led an interactive workshop for attendees to consider what it means to be a leader and what choices a leader can and should make in order to manage themselves to be maximally effective in light of their mission, resources, and personal preferences. The workshop was for graduate students, alums, professors, and friends of the University of San Francisco Masters in Organization Development program in the School of Management.

Every organization has, or needs, a leader who sets direction, aligns resources, and motivates action. And while it is true that the power of one committed, clever person can make all the difference in the world, no one individual, even the greatest leader, does anything of much significance alone. The simple truth is that it takes a team to lead an organization.

The action motivated by this truth is for the leader to decide what kind of leader to be and then to attract, collect, and align his/her top team and collect followers. The best leader figures out that it is not all about her/him. It is about her/his organization and s/he can, and should, Manage to Lead his/her organization to achieve a stated vision. The top person’s job starts with managing his/her own self to lead.

The session was hosted by the director of the Masters in Organization Development Program in the School of Business who described the session as:  “…tremendously engaging and the case worked with the audience was very rich.  You gave students quite a bit to think about!“

Those authorized to access USF networks can see the full session here.

World Strategy Week is a worldwide, virtual event featuring the best experts and leaders in strategy, strategic planning, and strategic management to inspire, engage, and innovate.

Leaders are on the hot seat in today’s shifting business and social environment.  Leadership skills and practices that might have delivered results and strategic success in a more static environment are less likely to work now.

IntelliVen CEO, Peter DiGiammarino, participated on “The Role of Leaders in Strategy Success” panel which explored the role of a leader in achieving strategic success.  The panelists discussed leaders’ roles in both:

• Change planning, implementation, and governance 

• Cultivating the organization for success

Every leader stands to benefit from the opportunity to regularly review with outsiders what s/he seeks to do, what has been done to do it, what has happened and what has been learned so far, and what s/he plans to do next.

It is harder to set up, operate, and benefit from outside help than it may first appear. Click on the image accompanying this post for a slide presentation of lessons learned and best practices that, if followed, will lead to improved performance and growth thanks to help from Accountability Board Members and Subject Matter Experts.

For the Washington DC Renaissance Executive Forum on October 21st, 2014 the IntelliVen team, Peter DiGiammarino, Steve Messner, and David Halwig, led a discussion forum of mid-market area CEOs on how they can use Accountability Boards and Subject Matter Experts to help their organizations get on track to fulfill their potential to perform and grow.

CEO member feedback was ultra positive. One member reportedly said it was “One of the best ever“. The CEO forum leader reported: “The session received 10s across the board, both in terms of the value of the topic as well as the value of your presentation…WOW!”

Richard Franzi interviewed Peter DiGiammarino, CEO of IntelliVen, live on his Critical Mass for Business Radio Show on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 4:00 Pacific time. Peter was the show’s featured guest and spoke about leaders, CEO Peer Groups, and his book Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World.

Click the Play Button below to listen to any or all of the 50-minute show.

As a leader who has served successful companies in the role of CEO, Peter knows how to develop and lead teams of high-powered, driven professionals.  His emphasis is to create and implement plans that are true to the organization’s market, offerings, competence, and purpose.  Today, as CEO of IntelliVen, Peter and his team help middle market companies achieve their full potential to perform and grow.

On Critical Mass for Business, Peter will talk about the seven truths every leader must acknowledge and wrap into his or her life.   These truths emerged in a career that spans business, not-for-profits, government, and academia – and Peter will talk about how they can make the difference between success and failure.

About Critical Mass Radio Show

Critical Mass for Business Radio Show airs three times a week on radio station OCTalkRadio.net Richard hosts the popular internet-based business talk radio focused on topics of interest to CEOs running middle market firms across North America.  Critical Mass for Business Radio Show is available on iTunes, Stitcher.com and www.ceopeergroups.podbean.com. Learn more at www.CriticalMassforBusiness.com.

IntelliVen Principal Peter DiGiammarino led a half-day session on Innovation in Silicon Valley for 25 students as part of the 2014 Silicon Valley Study Tour sponsored by M31USA and offered by the Universita Carlo Cattaneo, Italy.

This Summer School program was initially designed for Italian university students close to graduation, but now is also open to native-Italian professionals and entrepreneurs interested in exploring the Silicon Valley business environment.

Organizations that nurture talent to reach their full potential are more likely to be industry leaders. This is particularly true for organizations that have successfully recruited a diverse workforce. In VCIC’s June, 2014 session, IntelliVen CEO, Peter DiGiammarino, presented best practices related to developing, supporting, mentoring, and coaching organization leaders.

View presentation: Manage to Lead — Seven Truths to Help You Change the World VCIC Leadership Presentation.