Business Breakfast: Developing Transformational Leadership Techniques

Speaker Details:

Maureen Metcalf
Maureen Metcalf, the President of Metcalf & Associates, Inc., bringing 24 years of business experience to support her clients' leadership development and organizational transformations.  She is recognized as a thought leader in the area of Leadership Development focusing on “Level 5 Leaders” as transformational leaders, their development and their implementation of successful and sustainable transformations. 
Maureen brings a combination of intellectual rigor and discipline along with an ability to translate theory into practice to all of her client engagements.  She designs and teaches MBA classes in Leadership and Organizational Transformation at Capital University.  She was a finalist for the Tech Columbus Award - Women of the Year in Technology 2007. She has also published several papers and articles on Level 5 Leadership and Organizational Transformation. Linked in:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmetcalf
 

Carl Fernyak
Carl Fernyak is the CEO of MT Business Technology.  He has over 18 years of technology industry experience.  Started and successfully scaled 6 companies prior to acquiring MT Business Technologies in 2006.  Carl brings significant experience with organizational transformation acquisitions and integrating 4 additional companies into the current MT businesses within the past 3 years.  He is a strategic thinker who has demonstrated significant business acumen in running and transforming technology related companies.  Linked in:  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carl-fernyak/14/70/b88

Rattan D’Souza
Rattan D’Souza is  Worthington Industries' Director of Strategic Planning. In his 7 years at Worthington Industries, Rattan has been in both business and IT roles. In his current capacity at Dietrich Metal Framing, a Worthington Industries company, Rattan is responsible for developing appropriate business strategy and processes that ensure long-term success of the business unit. Rattan’s prior responsibilities at Worthington Industries included positions in the Corporate Strategy department as Manager of Strategic Planning and in Corporate IT as an Enterprise Architect and Interim Chief Architect.

Prior to joining Worthington, Rattan was at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young as a Sr. Consultant, Praxair Technology Inc. as an Enterprise Software developer and SUNY Buffalo as a Technology Analyst. He has 12 years of experience in IT. Linked in http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=463240&authToken=Smky&authType=name

Ben Blanquera
Ben Blanquera is the Director of Applications Delivery at Progressive Medical Inc. and is also a cofounder of TechLife Columbus. Prior to Progressive Medical Ben was the Director of the Columbus Technology Council. He is a unabashed advocate for the Columbus Technology Community and writes a blog about the Columbus Technology Community www.columbustech.blogspot.com.
 
Born in the Philippines and raised in New Jersey, Ben earned a bachelor’s degree  in mechanical engineering from Rutgers University and a Masters in Organizational development from Bowling Green State University. He is also PMP and six sigma certified.
 
Ben’s leadership roles span across both privately and publicly held firms. Ben has served as engineering manager for Manville Corporation, technical services manager for Soltech, business engineering manager for Owens Corning, and Director at Integrex (a business incubator). He has held adjunct faculty position at Franklin University – MBA program and Keller Graduate School, teaching in the area of leadership and project management.  In addition to his work responsibilities Ben has served on the boards of Clintonville - Beechwold community resource center, Women for Economic and Leadership Development, and has started several small businesses. He currently serves on the Executive Advisory Council for GroundWork Group and, sits with his wife Sandy, on the COSI Advisory Board.
 
Ben resides in Dublin with his wife Sandy and four children Elizabeth, Emily, Allison, and Madison. In his free time Ben is an avid soccer player/coach, bicyclist, marathoner, and duathlon competitor.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/benblanquera