Global Business Leadership

Guest: Kimberly Wiefling, A globally recognized author and business leadership consultant We’ll discuss: *Developing Global Leadership and Innovation *Creating a Behavior Changing Culture *Attracting and Retaining Talent *The Collaboration Factor *Seven Deadly Sins of Global Leadership Development Programs Kimberly Wiefling specializes in helping people achieve what seems impossible, but is merely difficult. She is the author of one of the top project management books in the US, “Scrappy Project Management - The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces”, growing in popularity around the world, and published in Japanese by Nikkei Business Press. She’s the executive editor of the whole series of Scrappy Guides, and recently published Scrappy Women in Business and Scrappy General Management. The founder of Wiefling Consulting, LLC, she consults to global business leaders committed to solving global problems profitably. Currently: spends about half of her time working with high-potential leaders in Japanese companies, facilitating leadership, innovation and execution excellence workshops to enable Japanese companies to solve global problems profitably. In typical Silicon Valley style, Kimberly has helped to start, run and grow a dozen small businesses. Several of the startups that she co-founded are still in business and profitable. Clients: Cisco Systems, Symantec, Intuit, HP, Agilent Technologies, Mazda, Daiichi Sankyo, Dow Corning Toray, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the University of California, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Siemens, Hitachi, Alcoa, Xerox PARC, NECsoft, NTT DoCoMo, and many more.