Dr. Jerry Brightman will be speaking on Project Management Leadership during the 2008 Seminar at Sea. The seminar is from 8 AM - 1PM.

Dr. Jerry Brightman Bio

CURRENT

Dr. Jerry Brightman is currently President of The Leadership Group (TLG). TLG is focused on helping leaders and their teams understand and actualize those behaviors that will make them great.

TLG, located in Canaan, New Hampshire, was created in 1996. Its clients are typically from Fortune 500 companies. The work of TLG is creating and delivering customized leader development programs in a number of leadership areas including  (1) leadership development; (2) organizational learning; (3) action learning; (4) culture change; (5) change management; (6) systems thinking; (7) dialogue and communication; (8) team learning; and (9) executive mentoring and coaching.

In addition to program design and facilitation, Brightman does one-on-one coaching and mentoring as well as a number of speeches around the world related to leader development, leadership development, team learning, change management, dialogue, systems thinking and organizational learning

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Dr. Brightman holds the following degrees:

• Doctorate in Business (DBA) degree from The George Washington University where his doctoral thesis was in the area of innovation, creativity, and planned change in organizations.

• MBA from American University ( Washington, DC)

• BA in Economics from Clark University ( Worcester, MA)

Dr. Brightman also taught part time graduate MBA classes at Boston University, Boston College, Bentley College and Cambridge College

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Professionally, Brightman was an Assistant Professor of Management at Western Michigan University for two years prior to his moving to the corporate world with Associated Metals and Minerals Corporation (ASOMA). ASOMA, a $5 billion company, was one of the first U.S. firms to partner with China, and where Brightman became Vice President for China Trade and helped conduct approximately $1 billion of trade with China. Brightman conducted business in approximately 75 countries mostly in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Following his work at ASOMA, Brightman became Executive Director of Harvard’s International Marketing Institute (IMI). IMI recruited senior executives from around the world to attend an intensive six-week executive program in leadership and marketing management. Brightman designed and facilitated IMI’s six-week Summer Program as well as custom executive education programs for IMI’s global clients.

Brightman later became a Senior Consultant for Dr. Peter Senge and his organization Innovation Associates (IA). Senge wrote the seminal text on organizational learning – The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization which has sold approximately 1 million copies around the world and which has been translated into 20 languages.  Brightman was a consultant and facilitator for the firm for five years, and regularly applies the principles of organizational learning with his global clientele.

Following his work at IA, Brightman was recruited by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) to join the firm in 1991 as a Senior Program Associate. CCL is the world’s premier leadership training institute usually ranked Number One in the Global Top Ten of Leadership Training in Business Week and The Economist. Brightman was a lead trainer for the Center’s six-day flagship program – The Leadership Development Program (LDP) - as well as the firm’s 3-day “Effecting Change” program. He also designed custom leadership development programs for CCL clients around the world. While at CCL, he was certified as a professional executive coach and still continues this work today in an adjunct capacity.

EDGE – COMBINING THEORY AND PRACTICE

What separates Brightman’s work from others is his unique blend of business and leadership theory and practice. He was a line vice president in a $5 billion global corporation (8years) and also actively involved in business consulting (6 years) and corporate training (10 years).  Brightman has also conducted seminars, created new business, and given speeches in 110 countries around the world. In the course of his work he has been honored for pioneering trade with China when he was invited to the White House and met with President Jimmy Carter and Deng Xiao Peng during the Vice Premier’s first visit to the United States. He also represented the state of Massachusetts as part of an official state delegation to Cuba where he met Fidel Castro.

TLG CLIENTS

Since starting TLG, Brightman has done work in Singapore, Italy, Russia, Colombia, Canada, the U.K., France, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and throughout the U.S. He has worked with a number of prestigious global clients including Wendy’s International, Xerox, GlaxoSmithKline, GE Medical Systems, the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Center for Creative Leadership, the Boston Consulting Group, the International Institute of Finance, Eli Lilly (Canada), OIE (Italy), Leonisa (Colombia), Sanofi-Synthelabo (France), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Gordon Institute of the Tufts school of Engineering, and the Schott Foundation.