Leading Well was developed to engage the community we serve through conversations with academics, business executives, executive coaches, community leaders, and leadership experts. These wide-ranging discussions cover topics from personal growth to leading others, and human development to leadership best practices, with a goal of engaging leaders at all levels. Through this series, we provide access to expertise, insight, advice, and best practices on topics related to leadership, leadership development, and leading well.
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About: Join us for a thought-provoking conversation offering a rare glimpse into how top senior leaders are balancing technology and humanity to drive performance in the next era of work. Hear from Christian Gomez, VP of Strategy at ADP, as he shares how ADP is leveraging the largest workforce dataset in the world—along with ongoing conversations with C-suite executives—to help leaders enhance, not replace, human capability.
The Presenters
As Vice President of Strategy at ADP’s Global Enterprise Solutions Division, Christian Gomez works very closely with the ADP Research Institute to translate their data-driven discoveries about the world of work into insights that can inform leaders and the organizations they serve. He has worked with some of the world’s most successful and forward-thinking leaders and organizations to help design, advance, and put in place talent programs that drive mission critical business outcomes. HR leaders look to him for support in making the connection between strategies that elevate people at work and the challenges and opportunities faced by organizations across a variety of industries.
Christian began his career in the US Military, where he served as a sergeant in the Marines. His vast experiences and roles served as a powerful foundation for corporate business. He holds a master’s degree in leadership from W. Huizenga School of Business at Nova Southeastern University. He has served as a consultant to multinationals, helping them design strategies and processes that connect their HCM operations across their global footprints and has led business functions in organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Christian has dedicated his academic and professional career to studying the intersections between leadership and business, helping organizations, teams and individual leaders turn talent into performance. As a highly regarded keynote speaker and consultant, he is a sought after source of insight and guidance in topics that have become pivotal to the success of leaders and their organizations.
Nathan J. Hiller, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor in the Department of Global Leadership and Management in the College of Business, where he holds the Ingersoll-Rand Professorship. He is passionate about connecting the science of leadership and the practice of helping leaders and organizations amplify leadership capacity.
As an academic, Dr. Hiller's focus is on investigating how senior organizational leaders and leadership teams can operate more effectively, as well as research designed to improve how we study leadership. His works have been cited over 6,000 times and his research has appeared in most of the top competitive journals in the field, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly.
Dr. Hiller is currently co-President of the Network of Leadership Scholars of the Academy of Management and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. He has held editorial board positions at the Journal of Applied Psychology and The Leadership Quarterly. He is the recipient of 10 teaching awards and has received several international research awards.
In his role at the Center for Leadership at FIU, Dr. Hiller oversees all executive leadership development programs comprising close to 8000 person-hours of programming per year. As a leadership development practitioner, he has led projects, held grants, and coached and consulted with senior executive teams and leaders from dozens of organizations including Boston Scientific, Hewlett Packard (HP), the US Secret Service, Bacardi USA, and clients across industries ranging from power generation to finance and family office work, and from cruise services to education.
Dr. Hiller has held visiting faculty appointments at Cornell, University of Washington (Seattle), University of British Columbia, and taught a graduate leadership course at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Calgary and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
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