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Dan Heath
Description of Presentation
Dan Heath will discuss why people resist change -- and what psychology can teach us about that resistance -- and how you can inspire them to act in a new way.
About Dan Heath
Dan is the co-author of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, which has been a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller. Dan is also a columnist for Fast Company magazine, and he has spoken and consulted on the topic of "making ideas stick" with organizations such as Microsoft, Nestle, the American Heart Association, Nissan, and Macy's.
Most recently, Dan was a Consultant to the Policy Programs of the Aspen Institute. Prior to that, he conducted research for Harvard Business School, where he co-authored 10 case studies on entrepreneurial ventures, and subsequently, he worked for the executive education division of Duke University, where he designed and taught in training programs for Fortune 500 executives.
In 1997, Dan co-founded and served as Editor in Chief of a startup publishing company called Thinkwell, which created from scratch an innovative new line of college textbooks. Thinkwell celebrates its 10th anniversary this fall.
Dan has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA in the Plan II Honors Program from the University of Texas at Austin. Two proud (sort of) moments for Dan are his stint driving a promotional car called the “Brainmobile” across the country and his victory in the 2005 New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, beating out 13,000 other entrants.
About Switch
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up? Chip and Dan Heath, the best-selling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a ground-breaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and professional lives — how to change things when change is hard.
 In Switch, bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle perhaps the single greatest issue of our lives: how hard it is to bring about genuine, lasting change, in our work lives, in our social endeavors and in ourselves. In these troubled economic times, many of us need to rethink or retool our careers. Switch shows us why our minds have such difficulty in embracing and sustaining change — and what exactly we can do to overcome what they call the "elephant" part of our brain, driven by emotion and instinct, and to reinforce and strengthen the brain's "rider" — control of that elephant by the intellect.
Throughout Switch, the Heaths show us situations in which people make sweeping change happen, from a couple who helped their teenage daughter overcome anorexia, saving her life, to an entrepreneur who turned his skeptical employees into customer-service zealots and saved his company. As they demonstrate so eloquently and ably, to change your behavior, you have to learn how to motivate the elephant, orient the rider, and clear the trail.
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Shawn Achor
Description of Presentation
Shawn Achor will offer tools to sustain a positive psychological state for your life, work and personal relationships.
About Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal as well as on NPR and CNN Radio. When not at Harvard, Achor travels around the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions, schools and nonprofit organizations. He is the CEO of Aspirant, a global positive psychology consulting firm that researches positive outliers-people who are well above average-to help consult organizations on where human potential, success and happiness intersect.
Achor graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Master's degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. In 2006, Achor served as head teaching fellow with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar of "Positive Psychology," a class that enrolled one out of every seven Harvard undergraduates. For seven years, Achor served as an officer of Harvard, living in Harvard Yard and counseling students through the stresses of their first year. He now lives in Harvard's Kirkland House as the resident psychology tutor. Achor continues to conduct original psychology research on human potential, happiness and organizational achievement.
Achor has spoken to diverse audiences-Wall Street analysts, Harvard law students, business leaders in London and Rome, elite high school students, wealth managers, doctors, and parents-in order to close the gap between the advances made in positive psychology research and our everyday lives. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, Achor clearly and humorously describes to organizations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures.
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Dr. Steven Eastaugh
Description of Presentation
Dr Eastaugh will give us a D.C. insider's view of current healthcare reform issues.
About Dr. Steven Eastaugh
Three thousand health care managers and leaders in the United States and around the world have had their careers shaped in part by Professor Eastaugh, who has taught health finance and economics for more than 36 years. The author of nine books and more than 149 journal articles, Dr. Eastaugh is a nationally acclaimed speaker, consultant and agent of change who has traveled to some 36 countries as part of his health services research. In 2008 he was Health Policy Advisor to Barack Obama.
Professor Eastaugh has won numerous awards, including the American College of Healthcare Executives Edgar Hayhow Award for “best health care article of the year.” He also won the Marriott Award for productivity enhancement in the service sector. He has been a forceful advocate for universal affordable health insurance, which he believes can be funded through dramatic reductions in health care paperwork and administrative costs. Prior to coming to GW, Dr. Eastaugh taught at Cornell University and was senior staff health economist at the National Academy of Sciences.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Biochemistry and Economics), Harvard University, 1973
Master of Science (Public Health), Harvard University, 1975
Doctor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 1978
Teaching
Health Economics, Department of Health Services Management and Leadership
Advanced Health Resources Management, Department of Health Services Management and Leadership
Health Economics and Finance, Department of Health Services Management and Leadership
Health Services Financial Applications, Department of Health Services Management and Leadership
Research
Professor Eastaugh’s main research interests include health finance and economics, capital budgeting, financial ratio analysis, profitability and liquidity, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness and technology assessment.
Community Service
Dr. Eastaugh is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and works actively with a number of professional organizations, including the American Public Health Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, and Operations Research Society of America.
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