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Leading and Securing Remote Teams

About the class

The impact of our “next new normal” in global business raised the bar when it comes to the importance of leading remote teams. Effectively leading remote teams is more important now than ever requiring leaders to focus on expectation, empathy, and execution in order to achieve their business goals.

Watch this webinar, led by Dr. Charla Griffy-Brown from Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School, as she discusses the emerging dynamics of this "next new normal", the best approach for leading teams in a distributed environment and how to identify and manage risk in this new environment. She addressed the importance of:

- strategies for building trust;

- tactics for engagement;

- diversity as a central element of building empathy and optimizing risk;

- enabling high performance and execution.

About the Presenter

Dr. Charla Griffy-Brown is Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management and the Associate Dean of Part-Time and Executive Programs. She works extensively in the area of digital innovation, helping organizations leverage new opportunities through analytics, risk evaluation, and emerging technology deployment to achieve their strategic objectives. She also has extensive experience working with executives in the area of information security. Recognized as a thought-leader for her published work, and her work at organizations such as Disney, CitiNational Bank, J&J, and Nintendo, she is now distinguished as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Technology in Society.

Dr. Griffy-Brown has been a featured speaker sponsored by the US State Department and has recently conducted research at companies such as Honda, Hilton Hotels and Pratt-Whitney Rocketdyne/Boeing. Her work also included working with CIOs from the U.S. Treasury Department, IRS, the US Department of Homeland Security, FDIC and NASA exploring critical success factors for these roles.

Dr. Griffy-Brown received numerous recognitions throughout the years, and has also served as an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. During 2012 she served as a Visiting Fellow at Tsinghua University in China and Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan. In 2017, she was a visiting fellow at Jyvlaskyla University in Finland.

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