Leadership Matters

Leadership starts with YOU!  Our goal is to bring people together to understand that leadership is not reserved for people with power or title but for anyone who chooses to change the status quo.

Our 2024-2025 Program Schedule

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Oct 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Leading Responsible AI Initiatives
Jan 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM Eastern Impactful Leadership: Women Leading the Charge
Apr 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM Eastern Theme will be identified depending upon latest trend

If you have topic ideas, please reach out to the organizer, Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan (s.rajagopalan@northeastern.edu) with your thoughts.

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Results Speak

About 86% – 93% of the participants represented by graduate students, alumni, full time faculty, adjunct faculty, and others gainfully employed in the industry expressed interest to recommend “leadership matters” to others and register for future programs

Blogs

2023 Leadership Matters Webinars

The 2023 Leadership Webinars took a conversational approach of having an expert focus on current events related to great resignation and quiet quitting of talents. Accordingly, the focus was on attracting and retaining talent, diversity, equity, and inclusion as a leadership opportunity, and the role of education in leadership.

Leadership Matters – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Leadership Opportunity

Mar 16, 2023

 

Speaker: Dr. Karl Reid

Moderator: Dr. Teresa Goode and Nancy Pawlyshyn

Organizer: Dr. Les Stein, and Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan

Please review archives for video and presentation.

Leadership Matters – Attracting / Retaining Talent

Jan 26, 2023

Speaker: Dr. Alison Dougherty

Moderator: Dr. Nancy Pawlyshyn

Organizer: Dr. Teresa Goode, Dr. Les Stein, and Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan

Please review archives for video and presentation.

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Leadership Matters – Construction Expert Panel

Apr 28, 2022

Dr. Les Stein and Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan is proud to bring the next webinar on the Construction Leadership as part  of the CPS’ Graduate Leadership Program’s “Leadership Matters” series. This “Expert Panel” interview practitioners from the Construction sector on the importance of leadership at all levels. The Expert Panel includes Brianna Goodwin, Jeffrey Williams, and Mark Paronich in the construction field address the many challenges in the construction arena.
Brianna Goodwin

Brianna Goodwin is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Ver-Tex Construction.

Jeffrey Williams

Jeffrey Williams is the Senior Director of Corporate Facilities and Projects at Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

Mark Paronich

Mark Parnoich is the Chief Financial Officer of Ver-Tex Corporation.

Leadership Matters – Healthcare Expert Panel

Jan 27, 2022

Dr. Les Stein and Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan is proud to bring the next webinar on the Healthcare Leadership as part  of the CPS’ Graduate Leadership Program’s “Leadership Matters” series. This “Expert Panel” interview practitioners from the Healthcare sector on the importance of leadership at all levels. The Expert Panel includes Bill Lucia, Suga Subramaniam, and Sameer Bapat in the health care field address the many challenges facing medical experts in a post-COVID world.

Bill Lucia

Bill Lucia was the CEO of HMS, a leader in healthcare analytics, from2009 to 2021. During that time, he transformed an organization of over3200 employees into a high-performance culture, serving 500healthcare payers, 50 government agencies in over 40 states, supporting 31 out of 38 private health insurers in Australia, and growing the company’s value to $673 million.

Suga Subramaniam

Dr. Subramaniam is an expert veterinarian and immuno-oncologist applying her combined skills to lead scientific projects on all areas of drug discovery. She applies her knowledge on animals in the pre-clinical studies and designs innovative experiments to develop drugs for cancer treatment. Having contributed to many currently commercial drugs, she focuses on developing people for solving tomorrow’s health problems.

Sameer Bapat

Sameer is a results-oriented “Delivery Leader” with 20+ years ofexperience in Healthcare IT sector. Sameer led an entire 180+ memberbusiness unit in India as an expatriate managing product development,portfolio management, and services delivery. With an entrepreneurialattitude, Sameer applies his experience developing teams on delivery,program leadership, vendor & stakeholder management.

Leadership Matters – Information Technology Expert Panel

Oct 28, 2021

Dr. Les Stein and Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan successfully launched the Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies’ Graduate Leadership Program’s first “Leadership Matters” series. The initial “Expert Panel” interview with practitioners from the Information Technology sector discussed the importance of leadership at all levels.

The Expert Panel included Adam Sandman, Dudley Backhouse, and Jim Lux. Read the summary blog of highlights in our News section.

Adam Sandman

Adam Sandman has been a programmer since the age of 10. He is the Founder and CEO of Inflectra, a leader of software test management, application lifecycle management, project, program, and portfolio management, risk management, and automation platforms. He is responsible for product strategy, technology innovation, and business development.

Dudley Backhouse

Dudley Backhouse is a founding partner of SAE.SO. He has several years of experience serving as both the CIO and CTO in organizations in many countries. He has defined innovative opportunities, redefined processes, and transformed organizations towards growth and sustainability.

James Lux

Jim has led IT organizations in multi-unit retail businesses for over 20 years. Currently, Jim serves as VP of IT for Ascend Wellness Holdings, a fast-growing multistate cannabis operator. Jim teaches the graduate Leadership program at Northeastern with his practitioner outlook.