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Most of the 89,000 leadership books offered on Amazon.com focus on traditional interpersonal leadership: leadership focused the relationships between leaders and followers. Interpersonal leadership sets up an expectation that leaders must be in dialog or at least in view of their followers. This style of interaction is less likely as work stretches across locations and company boundaries as we telecommute, crowdsource, and take on joint ventures. There are alternatives and complements to interpersonal leadership. Clear and meaningful tasks, goals, and technology tools supporting the organization’s direction can substitute or support interpersonal leadership. Hiring strategies can also play a role. Our likely future needs leadership via flexible systems of people, technology, and organizational practice. The ideas in The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune With Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive provide a jumping off point for learning to lead by letting go. Lead by Letting Go is Terri Griffith’s next book project and she expects that women have an advantage. Join us to hear about how women may be better at “plugged-in” and contribute to this work in progress. PRESENTER: Terri Griffith is a Professor of Management at Santa Clara University. She is an expert on how you make combined technology and organization decisions and then work these changes into your organization. These ideas are outlined in her award-winning book, The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive. Terri is also one of the 100 honored members of the 2012 Silicon Valley Women of Influence. Prof. Griffith reaches a broad audience through her speaking, workshops, and writing. She is a regular contributor to her own blog, Technology and Organizations; and has written for the Wall Street Journal and GigaOM's WebWorkerDaily. When: Thursday, June 27, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (Timezone: America/Phoenix) Where: 3410 Hillview Ave Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) Palo Alto California 94304 Attendees: 1

When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM (Timezone: America/Phoenix) Where: La Costa, Carlsbad, CA Attendees: 1

Keynote speaker: Keynote speaker, Terri Griffith, Author of "The Plugged-In Manager", Professor, Santa Clara University, DigiOM writer and high tech blogger, will preview her forthcoming book "Engagement 2020", which addresses, ‘the needs, practices, and evolution (revolution?) of how we build our companies and do our work. We need to move from bounded, discrete jobs and organizations to engaged people and jobs in fluid organizations where new methods and products are everyone's responsibility.’ Then our iconic Silicon Valley Innovator Panel – Google, Seagate and Sandisk -- , will share insights and perspectives from recent and ongoing pioneering innovations and leadership: Joan Motinger, VP Operations Strategy Seagate Technology Joan Motsinger is an accomplished Operations and Supply Chain leader with over 25 years in engineering, global operations and supply chain experience. She has a proven track record of understanding complex operational issues, and developing and implementing sustainable improvements in operational cost, product delivery and supply chain flexibility. Over the course of her career she has developed strong relationships with key suppliers and manufacturers in the storage and electronics industries and is recognized in these industries for her business operations and technology acumen. Motsinger is currently the Vice President of Global Operations Strategy for Seagate. Before taking her current position, she served in several capacities while based at Seagate’s product design and manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Singapore. Specific responsibilities have included Product and Component Modeling and Design, Component Process Engineering, Offshore Product and Subassembly Operations, Product Line Management, and Supply Chain Development and Operations. Motsinger holds bachelor’s of science degrees in Mathematics and Mathematics/Computer Science from Loras College and is a graduate of Harvard’s Program for Senior Executives. Wally Sanabria, Director, Worldwide Procurement SanDisk Corporation Wally is responsible for Organizational Excellence and Scalability; the development and implementation of the systems, tools, processes and procedures used by the global SanDisk Procurement organization. In that capacity, he managed the configuration and implementation of the Procure-to-Pay modules of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at SanDisk and the complete revision of all procedures and training vehicles. He also developed and manages the Procurement Training, Supplier Risk Management, and Supplier Corporate Social Responsibilities programs. Before joining SanDisk in 2001, his career included senior procurement management positions at Unisys, Digital Equipment and Applied Materials, as well as senior management consultant roles at Eclipse Group and the CEPO Group. Wally is a graduate of the University of the State of New York, and has completed more than half the requirements for an MBA at Bellevue University. John Lowe, Director Logistics Google John Lowe is a logistics professional with over 20 years of logistics experience managing diverse operations. John joined Google in 2008 as their Director of Logistics Operations. His team supports a wide variety of business operations at Google ranging from transportation, warehousing and service operations. Prior to joining Google, John served as Director, Global Warehousing for Lam Research and prior to that Logistics Manager for Americas operations at Cisco Systems, in manufacturing operations. Additionally John spent 8 years on the third party logistics provider side of the equation, with MSAS/ DHL and Menlo Worldwide Logistics. John holds a BS from San Jose State and MBA from Golden Gate University. Event Time - Thursday, April 18th 2013 7:30 AM - Networking/ Registration & Coffee 8:30 AM - Breakfast – Keynote Speaker 9:00 AM - Innovation Panel, Q&A 10:00 AM - ‘4 Corners’ (with speakers) Networking 10:30 AM - Close When: Thursday, April 18, 2013 from 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM (Timezone: America/Phoenix) Where: Silicon Valley Capital Club Attendees: 2

When: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Timezone: America/Phoenix) Where: Santa Clara University Attendees: 1

Private sessions for ESADE Barcelona & Madrid When: Monday, June 3, 2013 at 8:00 AM - Friday, June 7, 2013 at 9:00 PM (Timezone: America/Phoenix) Where: Santa Clara University Attendees: 1