| Title | Topic | Presenter |
| Agile Management: Running Projects in the Fast Lane | Effective Project Management; completing projects on time with the intended outcome. | Kirk Botula, Chief Operating Officer of Confluence |
| Achieving Teamwork in the Real World, A CEO/Coach's Perspective | Highly interactive workshop to develop a list of actual teamwork issues. | Jim Cederna |
| Anything Important Can be Measured: A Debate | The audience took sides in this interactive debate. "Learning by Dialogue" | Moderated by Brien Palmer, partner in InterLINK Management Consulting |
| Attitudes and Emotional Intelligence: The Beliefs at the Core of Your EQ | How your mindset affects your attitudes and your ability to communicate and work with others | Dr. John Trainor, counseling psychologist |
| Art of War by Sun Tzu | Discussion of the five factors and how they apply to leadership. | Douglas Rosensteel, President, BHD Technologies |
| A Quick Course in Quick Coaching | Techniques to help the people you supervisor better define and attain their goals. | Pete McQuillin, Principal, Fourth River Associates, LLC |
| The Beer Game | The (in)famous hands-on board game demonstration of inventory and distribution | CoREM Board |
| Building a Balanced Scorecard | This ties together mission, vision, strategy, finance, customer satisfaction, operations, and learning into a simple, elegant model. | Amy Wong, Managing Director of the Metric Maps Group |
| Building Business Relationships Internationally | A panel of experts discuss what it takes to be successful when doing busines with people from other cultures. | Panel: Subra Sennerakuppam, Pres. CV Engineering; Fernando Cardoza, IT management consultant; Kirk Jackson, founder/president Worldwide Hello, Inc. |
| Burnout-a Hidden Problem | Exploring the signs, stages and resolution of excess stress at work | Dr. Neil Baum, MD |
| A CEO's Perspective on Culture and Leadership | Learn how one company changed the culture of their organization successfully. | John Dickson, CEO, Redstone Highlands |
| The Changing Face of Business in the Pittsburgh Region | Learn about the changing demographics and business environment in the region. | Brenda Kurtz, Vice President, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance |
| Communication and Dialog | The concept of communication as a business strategy. | Sharon Lippincott, communications consultant |
| The Connection Between Being Organized and Being Successful | A unique perspective on how to achieve organization on both the personal and the communal level. | Barbara Schwarck |
| Cultivating a High Performance Culture at the Federal Reserve Bank | How meaningful culture change, and effective enlightened leadership occurred at a federal bank | Jill Kraua, HR Manager, Vince Kane, HR Generalist, Pittsburgh Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
| Data-Based Team Problem Solving | An enlightened approach to team productivity | Leon Khamovich of the University of Pittsburgh |
| Deming's Red Bead Experiment | The famous hands-on lesson in real-life statistical thinking | Presented by CoREM Board - Arthur Davidson, Adele Lynn, Brien Palmer, Marilyn Reeder and Dennis Snedden |
| Deming Videos | Video series on the great quality and management master W. Edwards Deming | Various |
| Design of Experiments | The formal methodology for getting the most possible information out of costly or time-consuming experiments | Walt Meyer of Bettis Laboratory |
| Developing Executive Leadership Talent for Today and Tomorrow: What is Happening in the World of Executive Development | The new battle field 'war for leadership talent' is still a war we are fighting. | Alice Pescuric, Consultant |
| Dialogue with Peter Senge | Video dialogue | Various |
| Eliminating the Stress Response and Managing Conflict: An Interactive Workshop | Work productivity and leadership skills are negatively affected by stress and the challenges of conflict management. | Dr. Justin J. Kelley |
| Emotional Intelligence | Panel Discussion | Adele B. Lynn, Lynn Learning Labs |
| Emotions, Values and Leadership: Today's Leaders Need a Different Kind of Smart | Emotional intelligence is an essential building block in the leader's ability to establish the right climate for business to succeed. | Adele B. Lynn, Lynn Learning Labs |
| Entrepreneurs’ Roundtable: Leadership Lessons from the Front Line | First-hand experience by CoREM members and friends who have started their own businesses, as related to CoREM’s leadership body of knowledge. | Bob Faletti, co-founder and president of BlueArcher, Angela Llamas-Butler, founder and president of Delta Systems Designs, Adele Lynn, founder and president of Lynn Learning Labs, Subra Sennerakuppam, founder and president of CV Engineering |
| The Equine Business Experience | An unforgettable, hands-on (or "butts-on") exercise in teamwork and leadership using horses and humans. | Amy Skolen and Susan Allen of Shared Vision Alliance |
| Ethnographic Research | Ethnographic Research is a mixture of anthropology and industrial engineering, applied to learning what your customers really need, independent of what they say they need. It is a great way to generate patents and blue ocean opportunities. | Julie Gulick, MEDRAD and Dr. Ned Uber, MEDRAD Fellow in the Corporate Innovations Department |
| Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management – As Applied to High-Performing Organizations | Many companies suffer from chronic issues which impede their performance. Shortcomings in Strategic Planning, the development of effective metrics, problem solving and project management skills all contribute to preventing breakthrough and sustainable results. | Bob Paladino, CPA , founder of Bob Paladino & Associates, LLC and Jeff Poholsky, Manager of Strategic Planning and Performanc, L.B. Foster Company |
| From Mechanistic to Social Systemic Thinking | Thought provoking film on Systems Thinking | Dr. Russell Ackoff |
| Gender Differences, Stereotypes and Workplace Communications | Exploring how stereotypes came to be so widely accepted & how changes in American culture have changed the validity of them. | Marilyn Reeder, owner, Diverse Leadership Solutions |
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Generational Divide: Understanding your co-workers, team members and other strangers |
Have you ever wondered why you can’t get your message across to that 20-something in your meeting, or why your team leader refuses to respond to your emails? Then you may have experienced the generational divide. | Marilyn Reeder, owner, Diverse Leadership Solutions |
| Groupthink: an Interactive Study of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster | Interactive video on how herd behavior can lead to disastrous results | Dr. Ned Uber of Medrad's Quality and Productivity Center |
| Hermann Dominance Indicator: Using the Organization's Whole Brain | Neurological architecture and tendencies in mental processing | Sharon Eakes and Hal Williamson of Hope Unlimited |
| High-Trust Work Teams: Emotional Intelligence at the Core | Building effective organizations through building trust and emotional intelligence | Adele Lynn; author, consultant, and authority on trust and EQ in the workplace |
| Hoshin Planning | The Japanese method of involving everyone in company decisions | Dr. Ned Uber of Medrad |
| How Labor and Management Partnered for a UNIQUE Training Best Practice for Operator Training at Westinghouse SMP | SMP first winner of the Malcolm Baldrige Total Quality Award. Discuss "Best Practices". | Westinghouse Specialty Metals Plant (SMP) Area Training Teams. |
| How To Be Awarded Government Resources for Workforce Development & Facilities Improvement | How to qualify for any number of programs made available by the largest fund agencies in the world. | Joseph M. Kubicek, CPCM |
| Human Performance Improvement Technology | Overview of Human Performance Improvement Technology | Ralph Cain, Principal Partner of Koinonia Consulting Group |
| Improve Leadership Skills with Whole Person Learning | Becoming an effective leader cannot be accomplished "in five easy steps", it involves an on-going process of developing one's personal mastery & deeper self-knowledge. | Camille Baldassar and Mervin P. Antonio |
| Increasing Your Personal Energy | How to manager more effectively the energy levels that you use in life. | Char Kinder |
| The Innovator's Opportunity and The Innovator's Dilemma | Examines the hidden perils and promises of innovation and challenge some assumptions about margin, quality and incremental improvement. | Dr. Ned Uber of Medrad |
| Intellectual Property: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | How to "own" and "protect" ideas with each revolution in communication technology. | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Director of CHIPs at Carnegie Mellon University, |
| ISO 9001: Recipe for Business Disaster or Competitive Advantage? | ISO 9001 is a growing prerequisite for corporations who want to be in the game. | Panel Discussion - Maureen Edwards, Seimens Westinghouse; Paul Heckman, ISO Consultant; Terry Beckwith, Horsehead Corporation |
| Is it a Bad Boss or a Psychopath in the Corner Office? | When leadership goes awry - a look at leadership behavior. | William L. Lynn |
| It Is About Time, For You, To Lead | Refresh and refine your personal organizing systems | Dennis Snedden, owner, Time Management Services |
| Leading, Perception and the Bottom Line: How our ingrained Perceptions Influence Behavior | Perceptions are reality. Learn how your perceptions affect your judgments and interactions with others. | Justin Lokay, Government Affairs and Annual Giving Coordinator, Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium. |
| Learning, Leading and Blogging | Blogging | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Director of CHIPs at Carnegie Mellon University |
| Lessons in Leadership in the wake of Katrina | Good management (and its absence) relative to what they observed during those trying circumstances of Katrina. | Lisa Scales , Chief Operations Officer, and Larry Hokaj, Chief Technology Officer, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. |
| Low Carbohydrate Theory of Management | Figuring out how to manage is a lot like figuring out a good diet. | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Director of CHIPs at Carnegie Mellon University, |
| Making Change Work: Practical Tools for Overcoming Human Resistance to Change | Directly address tools and methods designed to gain acceptance of change from the people affected by it. | Brien Palmer, Managing Partner, InterLINK Management Consulting and CoREM President |
| Making Your Projects Succeed | Workshop on Project Risk Management | Victoria B. Haney, PMP, President, VBH Consulting, Inc. |
| Managing By Values: How to become a Fortunate 500 Company | What makes the best companies the best, from the originator of this concept. | Dr. Michael O'Connor, Internationally-recognized author and Director of the Center for Managing Values |
| Managing Polarities | Avoiding "the tyranny of the Or" | Dr. Ned Uber of Medrad's Quality and Productivity Center |
| Medrad Shares Best Practices & Lessons Learned | Learn first hand about Medrad's road to winning the Baldridge award. | Marianne Purnell, Medrad, member of Global Customer Satisfaction Team |
| Mental Models | How "How you think" affects "What you think". Based in Peter Senge's work, and others. | Brien Palmer and Doug Rosensteel, partners in InterLINK Management Consulting |
| Mission Driven Leaders — Is there really a difference? | What is the difference between driving an organization’s mission and being a mission driven leader? | Vincent Cerasuolo, President & CEO of Century Heritage |
| Money Speaks! Finance for Non-Financial Professionals | How to talk the language of business. Basic principles and terms of accounting. | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Director of CHIPs at Carnegie Mellon University, & Dr. Neil Baum, physician at Westmoreland Regional Hospital |
| Network Theory: How You and The Systems Around You Are Using It To Get Things Done | Network Theory is the science that looks at how things are interconnected. | Amy Wong, Managing Director of The MetricMaps Group |
| Organizational Evolution | How to understand and use the natural progression of organizations along a maturity spectrum | Amy Skolen, president of Shared Vision Alliance |
| Outdoor Leadership | Leadership on expeditions and how it relates to the business world. A hands-on outdoor experience. | Mike Schiller, Executive Director of Western PA Field Institute, and co-founder of Confluence Technologies |
| People Capability Maturity Model | Attracting and retaining talented people is the key to any organization's success. | Sally A. Miller, co-author of the People Capability Maturity Model Version 1 & Version 2 & Sr. Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) |
| PEOPLEMAP Workshop | Participant's will learn how their personality style affects all of their interpersonal relationships. | Susan J. Atkinson, Ph.D. |
| Practical Applications of Six Sigma | Hands-on applications of this notable methodology | Mike Gerusky, Six Sigma Black Belt |
| Problem Solving, Lean Thinking and the Toyota Production System | Toyota Production System (TPS) focuses on elimination of waste and can be implemented anywhere, even in your personal life. | Don Klesser, VP, - Continuous Improvement and Quality for PTC Alliance |
| Project Management in Mature Organizations | The world's best-practices for project management and software design | Mark Paulk of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute |
| Prose, Parable and Picture | Research shows that in fact a pictures is worth more than 1,000 words. Using the best vehicle to communicate your message. | Dr. Ned Uber of Medrad's Quality and Productivity Center |
| Punished by Rewards | Research into the linkage (or lack thereof) between extrinsic rewards and business performance | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Director of CHIPs at Carnegie Mellon University, and Brien Palmer, partner in InterLINK Management Consulting |
| Realizing Excellence in Management | Two-day seminar on Neoteric Leadership and the Learning Organization. Covered by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. | Various CoREM members |
| Ready, Set, Succeed! Overcoming Project Paralysis | How to complete long term projects in the face of daily time pressures. | Linda Schumacher |
| Requisite Organization: A Total Management System | Case study on applying a sophisticated and controversial leadership system at a large organization. | Brien Palmer, partner in InterLINK Management Consulting |
| The ROI of Enlightenment | Tied together a wider range of topics including business, science, consciousness, soul and evolution. | Joseph O'Brien, Sr. VP Human Resources, Tollgrade Communications, Inc. |
| State of the Internet - Is There Life After the Dot-Com Bust? | Consumer, commercial & technical e-business trends. How outsourcing has affected the development industry. | Robert Falletti, principal of Blue Archer |
| Selling Ideas To Management | Learn some immediately-applicable practices and principles to get management’s support for your ideas. | Brien Palmer, Managin Partner, InterLINK Management Consulting LLC |
| Selling Your Ideas | Applying models from classical sales, psychology and medicine to promoting ideas within an organization | Hal Morgans, Brien Palmer and John Trainor, Ph.D., partners in InterLINK Management Consulting |
| Six Sigma in Real Life | Workshop on Six Sigma: what it is, how it is used, and what it does. | Mark Marsico |
| Strategic Planning the Wright Way | A study of the development of manned flight, illustrating timeless strategic planning principles. | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Director of CHIPs at Carnegie Mellon University |
| Succeeding in the "Creativity Economy:" Creating an Innovative Culture | Is it possible for a company to return to its entrpreneurial roots and build a focused organization of creative individual? | Doug Keeports, Resource Partner, InterLINK Management Consulting, LLC |
| Succession Planning in Difficult Times | The overall strategy of attracting, developing and retaining talent, particularly in leadership positions. | Alfred C. Schnur, Jr., Ph.D., President, PCI Human Resource Consulting, Inc. |
| Systems Thinking and Paying for College | How you can afford to send your children through college | Ned Uber |
| Systems Thinking, or How Do We Get Ourselves into These Messes? | Moving past a focus on events or people | Doug Rosensteel |
| Systems Thinking, Social Security and... | Learn on 2 tracks: Social Security and the holistic tools of the Systems Thinking discipline. | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Douglas Rosensteel, Dr. Ned Uber |
| Target Business Development | Systematic development of the optimal customer base, using principles from Deming and Drucker | Joe Kubicek |
| The Theory of Constraints | Material from the best seller, The Goal, by Eli Goldratt and Jeff Cox | Dr. Neil Baum |
| Three Keys to Leadership | Today's leaders must see the future, share their visions with their teams, and engage them in the process of making dreams come true. | Joanne G. Sujansky, Ph.D., CSP, founder of KEYGroup |
| Transferring Skills - Nonprofit to For Profit | Bridging the great divide between civic leadership & business leadership | Terry Beggy, Associate Executive Director of Duquesne University's Nonprofit Leadership Institute |
| Unfulfilled Promises: How Lack of Quality Management Undercuts E-Business | Experience with quality management-or lack thereof-in technology enterprises | Cas Welch, professor at Robert Morris University |
| Using Advisors and Consultants: A Business Owner's Perspective | A personal and front-line report on value and pitfalls of using outside advisors. | Anitta Brattina, founder and owner of Direct Response Marketing |
| Using Systems Thinking to Plan for College Costs | Most of us with children look forward to a good college education for them, but dread the costs. This session will directly address effective approaches to planning and paying for that education. | Dr. Ned Uber |
| The Connection Between Being Organized and Being Successful | A unique perspective on how to achieve organization on both the personal and the communal level. | Barbara Schwarck |
| The Visionary Ken Wilbur | An introduction to "America's most influential philosopher" | Joe O'Brien, Executive VP of Tollgrade Communications, Inc. |
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How to move together toward greatness by partnering with your team | Joanne G. Sujansky, Ph.D., C.S.P. |
| Values Based Leadership at Hefren-Tillotson | Inside story of leadership practices and philosophies at well-respected, long-term local company. | Kim Tillotson-Felming, President, Hefren Tillotson, Inc. |
| Web 2.0 and Beyond: How New Internet Technologies and Trends are Shaping our World | How is the internet affecting our lives and our businesses at an ever-increasing pace and in an ever-increasing number of ways. | Robert Faletti, Principal, Blue Archer |
| What to do when YOU are the Bottleneck | Growing pains - first hand experience. | Jack Roseman |
| What happened to ethics in business leadership? | A participative work shop on the vital role of ethics in business enterprises. | Dr. Thomas J. Murrin, University Distinguished Service Professor, A. J. Palumbo School of Business Administration, Duquesne University |
| What happens AFTER the Game: A Film on Group Think, Peer Influence, Accountability - and Garbage! | A group discussion about groups, group thinking, peer influence, accountability, and civility. | Laura M. Magone, self-employed filmmaker |
| Where the Chads Lie: A Management Systems Analysis of the Florida Presidential Election | The attendees applied the Neoteric model to audit the election process | Brien Palmer, CoREM President |
| Whole Brain Thinking | Teamwork and leadership enhanced by the Herman Brain Dominance Instrument | Sharon Eakes and Hal Williamson of Hope Unlimited LLC. |
| Winning Leadership: The Secrets of Outstanding Personal Performance | Effective leadership requires more than good intentions, it demands clear, meaningful actions. | Joe Marzano, InterLINK Management Consulting |
| World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century | Computer and telecommunications technology and its access by millions of individuals in emerging economies has flattened the economic playing field. | Jim Creiman |
| Work Process Improvement: A Very Fragmented Approach to Improving Productivity | Interactive dinner workshops on what really works: the Neoteric approach | Multiple CoREM members |
| Working Smarter: How Attention Management is Changing the White Collar Workplace | Innovative approach to managing the organizational asset needed to make sense of information: human attention. | Andy Norman, founder of Knosis |
| The Wright Brothers: Lessons for Engineers and Entrepreneurs | The Wright Brothers did not accidentally achieve the first powered flight - they had a gift for strategic planning. | Dr. Arthur Davidson, Executive Director of CHIPs at Carnegie Mellon University |