WEBINAR:
Winning Strategies for High-stakes Teamwork and Performance
Do you know how your work team would perform in a high-stakes, win-or-lose situation? The sort of situation where success or failure is determined by combining impeccable strategy, expertise, and planning with the highest level of teamwork, communication, and individual in-the-moment performance.
Join our webinar for a panel discussion where UT Austin faculty will be joined by a veteran F1 Team Manager to explore strategies, perspectives on failure and innovation, and what auto-racing teaches us about success in business. Topics of discussion will include:
- Skills needed to navigate high-stakes or win-lose situations.
- Core competencies that differentiate those who are successful.
- How failure can be framed as a positive.
Wed, May 1, 2024 | 10-11 a.m. CT
Online - Zoom
The panel discussion will be moderated by Kathryn Hardison, Managing Editor for the Austin Business Journal. Kathryn Hardison runs the newsroom and manages daily content. She was previously ABJ's assistant managing editor, and before that, covered economic development for ABJ and reported breaking news for The Wall Street Journal.
Meet The Panelists
Don Ruse
Don Ruse is a seasoned executive with an extensive track record of helping C-level executives and global organizations develop and implement strategies that enable scale and drive profitable growth. Don has served as a trusted adviser to over 57 organizations, partnering with them to successfully address new growth opportunities, cost and profitability pressures, and large-scale business transformation challenges. He has deep expertise in strategy, organization design, business process improvement, organization governance, and culture transformation. He has served clients across a broad range of industries with considerable experience working with leaders of innovation-based organizations in technology, materials science, and life sciences. Don’s global experience is extensive, having spent considerable time working in Asia, EMEA, and North America.
Don currently is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the McCombs School of Business where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational behavior and leading people and organizations. Don's newest endeavor is Faculty Director for the new Winning! Leadership Accelerator Program where he brings on-track learnings and how to apply them to achieve success in business every day.
Becca North
Becca North, Ph.D. is a researcher and author in the field of psychology, and her research is in the area of happiness and well-being—human flourishing, more broadly. A big question in her research is: How can negative experiences foster positive psychological change? She wrote a book that integrates science and stories to investigate the relationship between failure and success and challenge the prevailing view of failure. The book, Your Hidden Superpowers: How the Whole Truth of Failure Can Change Our Lives, illuminates how the way we view failure affects how we live, lead, decide, innovate, connect, and dare.
Her interdisciplinary background, including expertise in psychology, public policy, and history, informs her approach to research and teaching. Becca teaches at UT Austin in the Human Dimensions of Organizations program, where she teaches a professional training course called Creativity, Failure, and Innovation, and at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she teaches a course called Psychology of Leadership. In addition to teaching at UT Austin, Becca teaches at Huston-Tillotson University, an HBCU in Austin, and is pursuing an innovative, multi-disciplinary research project that aims to contribute to the healing of our divided nation by starting in Texas.
Steve Courter
Steve Courter is an award-winning faculty member in the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business and a former top corporate executive with experience worldwide.
Following graduation from Penn State, Steve Courter served in the US Army, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After stints at KPMG and IBM, he became Vice-President and General Manager of Sprint/Global One in Brussels, Belgium in 1987, where he worked until 1998. He became CEO of Enertel Communications in Rotterdam, The Netherland, and later served as CEO and Chairman of Neon Communication in Boston. In 2006, he became CEO of Broadwing Communications in Austin and led the organization until its purchase in 2007 by Level 3 Communications. Courter also served as a Director at Globix, Inc., and is presently Chairman and Director of Mobi Corp, Director of Cadiz Inc., and Director of Upland Software, Inc.
Dave O'Neill
Dave is a highly respected and experienced F1 Team Manager and Sporting Director with a demonstrated history of working in the motorsport industry. Dave set up and managed The U.S. Haas F1 Racing team and the Marussia F1 Racing Team. Dave is the Managing Partner and Team Principal for Esses Racing, Serious XM F1Technical Expert and an international operational and logistics consultant serving F1 and other racing entities. Dave is also a Driver Scout for Go Motorsport.
Dave’s life is all about racing. He started out over 30 years ago as a race mechanic and has worked as a Chief Mechanic and Team Manager across multiple racing classes including F1, F3, GT1, Indy Car, and LeMans.
