Speaker

Richard Bents, Ph.D.

Richard Bents specializes in leadership development, personal and organizational change and transformation. He has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategic and cultural change efforts with large organizations including AT&T, ICI Films Americas, Lawson Software, Lucent Technologies, Nestle, Roche Pharma, and Siemens. Relational, concentrated efforts result in leaders mastering skills of ethical service and productivity. His approach centers on the issues of authority, responsibility, and power demonstrating how they can be exercised more fully leading to personal accountability and healthy synergistic change. The result is a client better equipped to move into the future with clearer customer focus, more practical data-bases, and better understanding of organizational theory and the values they wish to project.

Dr. Bents is recognized internationally as an expert on leadership development and evaluation research. He works with European partners in counseling business and civic leaders and training psychologists and consultants in leadership and organizational development. In addition, he directed the graduate education program at Hamline University, providing leadership and direction in teaching, curriculum planning, faculty selection, and program evaluation.

Rich is the co-author of several books on personality and learning. Other writing and research topics include training and development, adult learning styles, decision-making, and related topics.

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