Keynote Speaker:

Joseph A. Raelin
Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education.
Northeastern University

“Practice First: Learning from Experience”

Joe  Raelin is  an  internationally-recognized  scholar  in  the  field of work-based  learning.   He also has been conducting a wide variety of leadership development programs for executives and professionals worldwide throughout much of his career. He holds the Asa S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University and is also Director of the Center for Work and Learning. The mission at the Center is to conduct research on methods of learning that integrate experience in the world with experience in the classroom. Formerly, he was Professor of Management at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College.  He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  His research has centered on executive and professional education and development.  He is a prolific writer having produced over 100 articles appearing in the leading management journals.  He is also a management consultant with over 30 years of experience working with a wide variety of organizational clients.   His publications include:  The Clash of Cultures: Managers  Managing  Professionals  (Harvard  Business  School Press, 1991), considered  now  to  be  a  classic in the field of managing professionals; Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003), and  the just released new edition of Work-Based Learning: Bridging  Knowledge  and  Action  in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass,2008).