Dr. Bradford's interests are in the areas of leadership, interpersonal influence, and executive teams. In all of these, he has focused on the question, "What does it take to achieve high performance?" The results have suggested that, especially in knowledge-based organizations, excellence is most likely when leaders build strong teams where the members' role is significantly expanded so that they share responsibility for the management of the unit (including making the core decisions jointly and holding each other accountable for performance). His recent work on influence has led to exploring the conditions for a "feedback rich organization" where team members, through a structured process, give each other face-to-face feedback to improve individual and team performance.[View Profile]

Carole Robin has helped people and organizations thrive in the business, nonprofit, and public sectors since 1985. Dr. Robin’s experience as a former high-tech sales and marketing senior manager and past partner/principal of an organization consulting firm provides her students with pragmatic, solution-oriented approaches grounded in “having been there.” Her belief is that adults learn best by doing. Her courses combine a high degree of experiential-based activities with case method, theory, and research to ensure rigor, relevance, and practicality. She teaches courses on interpersonal dynamics, influence, leadership and coaching at the Graduate School of Business and at the Stanford Law School.[View Profile]