Symposium 2011: Speakers

Daniel H. Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work. His latest is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a more effective path to high performance. Drive reached every national bestseller list in its first month of publication and is now in its sixth month on the New York Times list.

His articles on business and technology appear in many publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He also writes a monthly business column for the U.K. newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph. Dan has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. He lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace.

Ron Goldblatt is a 1975 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. Ron began his career in higher education and then practiced law as a litigator for seven years. His twenty-five year career in independent schools has included time as a classroom teacher, Business Manager, Development Director, and the Head of two schools – a small boarding school for girls and a large, coed PK-12 day school in Annapolis. Ron served on the board of AIMS and was its president for two years. Ron speaks to Boards and Heads about strategic issues, trustee good practice, diversity, and other school-related topics. He is the author of Parents and Independent Schools and Diversity at Independent Schools, and he has appeared on the Today Show.

Michael Horn is the co-founder and Executive Director, Education of Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank devoted to applying the theory of disruptive innovation to develop solutions to problems in the social sector. A graduate of Harvard Business School, he contributed research for Barbara Kellerman’s 2004 release, Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters, and Charles Ellis’ book, Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox (2006). Michael has been the featured speaker at numerous education conferences, including the National Evaluation Systems’ conference and the Grantmakers for Education Conference. He graduated from Yale University with distinction in History.