Dr. Edward Rogers has helped thousands of people learn to think more conceptually and improve their personal decision-making ability. For seventeen years he was the Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, DC. As a professor he has taught a popular course at the Indian School of Business for over 10 years introducing his thinking approach to India’s emerging business leaders. He has also taught hundreds of executives around the world the way to better thinking, better learning, better decision-making and better results.
As a participant in this four-part course you will gain insight into how the human brain learns, how to learn faster, and why we make poor decisions and often fail to learn from either successes or mistakes. In this course you may double your learning capacity while you learn to make more thoughtful and informed decisions. You will learn how to get twice as much value from brainstorming events boosting innovation. You will also discover how to systematically reflect and learn from your experiences. Dr. Rogers will engage the participants in a learning journey illustrating what he has taught at NASA and used with corporate executives around the world to help leaders make better decisions.
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Benefits of attending this course:
1. Understand the human learning process so you can increase your learning capacity and make the most of your amazing brain
2. Build your ability to think conceptually and correct mental models as the essence of learning and the secret to addressing complexity
3. Learn how to conceptually map your thought processes to consistently make better and more informed decisions
4. Add more value to your organization by managing the decision process and not just the decision.
5. Make a bigger and better difference in your world by inspiring those around you to become better learners.
Who should attend:
In the first session see how it takes experience plus learning to be smart. Experience alone won’t necessarily make one smarter.
In the second session learn hands-on how to make your own concept maps freeing you to see your mental models.
In the third session learn the art of conceptual thinking as the foundation for learning how to learn.
In the final session put it all together to make better decisions, be a better leader, and achieve better results.
Dr. Rogers, as a professor taught strategy and entrepreneurship before joining NASA in 2003. For seventeen years he served as the Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland until his retirement from government service in 2020. During his tenure with the government, NASA expanded its knowledge management pro-gram across the agency based in large part upon Dr. Rogers’ successful model developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
For over ten years he has been a visiting faculty member at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India where he teaches a popular MBA course on Managing Complexity. Through various ISB Executive Education programs he has also taught numerous executives in India and the US practical ways to improve their decision-making ability in complex situa-tions. He has advised corporate and government leaders on how to shape their organizations for learning and uncover thinking patterns that can inhibit innovation and collaboration.
At NASA he built a set of knowledge management practices that strategically support the Agency’s missions including the simple yet effective Pause and Learn (PaL) process, which allows project teams to reflect on their experience and improve organizational learning. He developed an internal case study methodology and used it to create over 50 NASA-specific case studies for use in training sessions and workshops. He designed an internal leadership course at Goddard called the Road to Mission Success which helps employees across organi-zational boundaries better understand how the Agency works, promotes knowledge sharing and ultimately strengthens collaboration across technical disciplines.
Dr. Rogers received a B.S. in Agronomy from the Ohio State University, a Master’s in Inter-national Business from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. from Cornell University focusing on game theory applications to collaboration in high tech firms. In his spare time, he enjoys singing, playing the saxophone and ballroom dancing. Dr. Rogers lives near Char-lottesville, Virginia where he continues to speak and consult on how to foster organizational learning and improve executive decision-making ability and is a frequent speaker for MBA classes, business conferences and Federal Agencies in the Washington, DC area.
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