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Judy Bardwick is a distinguished author and accomplished thought leader. She has published over 75 articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics. Her most recent book, Seeking the Calm in the Storm, provides stressed-out workers and managers with prescriptions for coping with the new stresses of our highly interconnected, web-based society. Her best-selling book, Danger in the Comfort Zone (1991 and 1995), was a wake-up call to end a culture of entitlement. She has also published four books related to gender issues, including the seminal Psychology of Women. Judy is also a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.

Sara Beckman teaches new product development and manufacturing and operations management at the University of California's Haas School of Business. Since joining the Haas School faculty in 1987, she developed, institutionalized and directed the school's Management of Technology Program, initiated new courses on design, entrepreneurship in biotechnology, new product development, and work and workspace design, won four awards from MBA students for excellence in teaching and received the Berkeley campus Distinguished Teaching Award. Prior to joining the Haas School, she ran the Change Management Team at Hewlett-Packard, providing internal consulting services in organizational design and supply chain modeling. Her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is from Stanford University.

Peter Cochrane was promoted to head the Research Department at BT Laboratories (British Telecommunications) with 660 staff in 1993. In 1999 he became BT's Chief Technologist and established a new team , the Communication Consultancy Group, that was concerned with charting the long-term future of technology, society, BT and it's customers and clients. Peter was the Collier Chair for the Public Understanding of Science & Technology at the University of Bristol from 1999 to 2000, and is a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. At the end of November 2000, Peter retired from BT to join his own startup company - ConceptLabs. He is also a co-founder of eBookers.com, the largest online travel agency in Europe, and a much-sought-after speaker on technology futures.

Dr Lynda Gratton is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School where she directs the school’s executive programme, "Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations," a programme that runs in London, The United States (Columbia Business School) and India (Indian School of Business). Over the last decade she has led The Leading Edge Research Consortium (www.london.edu/lerc), a major research initiative involving companies such as Hewlett Packard and Citibank. The initial results from the research were published by Oxford University Press in 2000 in the book Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality. Professor Gratton is acknowledged as one of the foremost thinkers in the world in human resource strategy and actively consults to a number of major multi-national corporations. She is a member of the board of The American Human Resource Planning Society. She is a trained psychologist with a doctorate in individual psychology from Liverpool University.

Terri Griffith is a Professor of Management at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, where she teaches and conducts research on distributed teams. She has published widely on topics ranging from conflict in virtual teams to information sharing and hoarding. Professor Griffith received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and Theory (with a minor in Technology) from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Purdue University's Krannert School of Management, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the University of Melbourne in Australia, and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Pamela J. Hinds is an Assistant Professor with the Center on Work, Technology, & Organization in the Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University. She conducts research on the effects of technology on group dynamics and on the coordination of work. Over the last 5 years, her primary focus has been on the dynamics, structure, and effectiveness of geographically distributed teams. Professor Hinds is co-editor, with Sara Kiesler, of the book Distributed Work (MIT Press). She received her Ph.D. in Organization Science & Management from the Department of Social & Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.

Robin Pratt is the founder and President of Performance Equations, Inc. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Elon University School of Business in Greensboro, North Carolina. With Robert Nideffer, Pratt has authored several articles, books, and workbooks about The Attentional & Interpersonal Styles inventory (TAIS). He has played a major role in exporting performance management technologies from the sports world into the business arena for over 20 years. Dr. Pratt earned a Ph.D. in experimental and industrial psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in higher mental processes at the University of Minnesota.

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