Smart & Healthy: Successful Organizations Balance Both

Most organizations are very good at being smart—they spend a lot of time on strategy, marketing, operations, technology, etc. However, that’s never enough. Organizations must also be good at being healthy—minimizing politics and confusion, while maximizing morale and productivity.

In this webinar, Dennis Lanham, Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Executive Center, will dive deeper into the complexity of smart vs healthy organizations and give participants a framework to think about this in their own context.

The Silicon Valley Executive Center at Santa Clara University has partnered with Patrick Lencioni—NYT bestselling author of 11 books including The Ideal Team Player, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and his most recent book, The Advantage—to become the hub for Organizational Health in Silicon Valley. Join us for this webinar where we will be sharing some of his work to help leaders understand the importance of balancing smart and healthy organizations.

Dennis Lanham is the Sr. Assistant Dean of Executive Education, and Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Executive Center at Santa Clara University. With more than 15 years of experience in business education, nonprofit and program management, Dennis has built numerous programs for businesses and working professionals across industries, in leadership development, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship, operations excellence, and many other business-critical areas. Before to moving to California, Dennis lead university-based executive education programs in the Nebraska and Georgia markets, as head of executive ed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and assistant director at Georgia State University. Prior to his career in executive education, Dennis worked in nonprofit administration as the director of member services for Phi Beta Sigma, a service-based nonprofit fraternal organization based in Washington, D.C., and spent several years in student affairs administration.