Speaker

Terri Tierney Clark, Author

Terri Tierney Clark, a graduate of Smith College and Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, is the #1 best-selling author of Learn, Work, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won’t Tell You and has over 20 years of business experience in senior positions at Merrill Lynch, Summit Equity Advisors, and Summit Leadership Advisors.

She was among the first female managing directors in investment banking on Wall Street, and was elected to Merrill Lynch’s first Women’s Steering Committee.

Terri has presented to corporations and colleges on a variety of professional topics and has been published on Forbes, Newsweek, Business Insider, The Muse, Wall Street Oasis, Resume Edge and several college career websites.

In today’s world, women’s career success relies on much more than just taking advice from a mentor, knowing how to network, and being proactive. Young professional women have to learn how to analyze career decisions for themselves and figure out what to do when their decisions don’t work out. Most of Terri’s advice is equally applicable to men.

Learn, Work, Lead: Things Your Mentor Won’t Tell You is a cutting-edge career and job search guide that will teach you those skills and give you the tools to navigate successfully in a gender-biased workplace. It will show you how to plan your career now so that you will be chosen to lead in the future.

Learn, Work Lead, an Amazon bestseller, was listed by London’s Financial Times in the article “Reader’s Favourite Books of 2014”.

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R. Siisi Adu-Gyamfi, Author

R. Siisi Adu-Gyamfi, a graduate of MIT and HBS, is the author of Corporate Politics — A Community Affair: A Proverbial Guide to Success.

Siisi speaks regularly at conferences, universities and companies on the subject of global growth, value based marketing, strategies and negotiations. He has been a corporate officer at several Fortune 500 companies.

Siisi is a recognized leader with demonstrated expertise in managing and expanding existing businesses, as well as identifying and developing new business opportunities. He has successfully developed businesses in over 100 countries.

He has been a corporate officer at Textron Inc., Eaton Corporation and Cummins Inc. He has also held a series of high-profile general management, finance, marketing and strategy roles at United Technologies and Digital Equipment Corporation.

A graduate of the Kellogg School of Management Minority Director Development Program, Siisi serves on the Board of Maybert Engineering and ID-Queue LLC. Boards served include System Insights, Inc., Council on Emerging Markets, Healthcare Without Walls, MIT Corporation Development Committee and MIT Class President. He is a member of the MIT Educational Council, BAMIT, HBSAAA and the Executive Leadership Council.

Corporate Politics — A Community Affair: A Proverbial Guide to Success explores what it takes to succeed in the corporate world? Is it by chance? Is it based on your IQ? What exactly does it take to climb the infamous corporate ladder?

These questions are not easily answered because of the inherent politics in corporations. The bad news about corporate politics is that it is real and unavoidable. There are no written rules; hence, it is not widely understood. The good news is that corporate

Moderator

John Carrier

John Carrier is a Senior Lecturer in the System Dynamics Group at MIT, where he teaches Lean Operations in the Leaders for Global Operations program. His primary interest is in synchronizing new technologies with existing systems and cultures to create sustainable organizations that develop people as well as new products and services. He has extensive field experience, including chemicals, automotive, oil & gas, food and beverage, and high tech operations, particularly in high risk, high reward environments. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and Chemical Engineering Degrees from MIT and the University of Michigan.