AUTHOR AND SPEAKER:
Selling to Business: Key Principles and Concepts for Successfully Selling to Businesses.
Authenticity in Chinese Leadership: Comparing Western Notions with Chinese Responses.
Adolescent Leadership Development: Building a Case for an Authenticity Framework.
Developing Authentic Leaders.
Cultivating Workplace Success through Leadership.
Making the Team.
Dr. Gordon E. Whitehead
Founder and CEO
Dr. Gordon E. Whitehead has 30 years of experience in enterprise technology operations, business development, software development, and top organizational leadership in high-growth and high-pressure conditions.
Titles include: VP business development, VP IT operations, Head of software solutions development, senior manager IT infrastructure, Captain-USMC (Desert Storm Veteran), high school varsity football, basketball, and baseball coach – championship teams.
Experiences include: Designing and producing enterprise class software, opening new markets and attracting top customers, technology operations and information systems leadership, leadership and organizational design, strategic thinking processes. Specialty: Solving tough problems and creating sustainable turn-around. Over 30 years of leadership and technology experience, which include great organizations such as Nike and the United States Marines.
Founder of CaptusR SpeedRater mobile services.
Received Doctor of Management from George Fox University. Received Bachelor of Arts from Oregon State University in International Business and Finance. Serves as an Adjunct Business Professor at Utah Valley University.
CAREER PEDIGREE
Captus5
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
CorVel
Vice President, Information Technology Operations
Whitehead and Associates
Chief Executive Officer
Sequent Computer Systems
Director of IT, Sales and Marketing
Nike
Director of IT, Americas
United States Marine Corps
Promoted through the ranks from Private to Sergeant;
and from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain; MECEP.
CLIENT HISTORY
Nike, Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute, LP., BC Hydro, Westech Information Systems, LSI Logic, State of Oregon, Nordstrom, Utah Valley University Woodbury School of Management, Centre for Education and Information of British Columbia, Center for Advancement and Leadership - Utah Valley University, CityU of Seattle, Globe University, Marylhurst University, FB&B consulting Group, ProSight, Argosy, Alkana and Company, The Window Broker, and CGI.
Authenticity Principle # 1
Hope - The Basis of Trust
