Dr. Ted Sun – Chief Dream Maker                                                      In Profile…

A chief dream maker is a master at developing people and organizations. While NBC called Dr. Sun a world-renowned motivational speaker, he does much more than motivation. He transforms people's thought processes. In 2009 alone, leaders from 33 different countries felt the impact of Dr. Sun's work. These experiences reshaped significant aspects of their life, as they knew it. Due to his tremendous impact, Dr. Sun is a respected author, a renowned consultant and a highly sought after educator and researcher around the world. His work/expertise has been featured and/or recognized by ABC, NBC, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc Magazine, Harvard Management Update, Columbus CEO, Diversity Inc, HR.com, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Business First and many more. Major media have valued the expertise of Dr. Sun such as: ABC commenting on the President Debate of 2004, on NBC for the 2005 New Year's show, 2007 New Year’s Resolution, 2008 Presidential Debates, 2009 Economic Crisis and 2010 Spring Cleaning your Emotions. Furthermore, his latest research received the attention of a world audience from an invitation by the International Academy of Management and Business. Dr. Sun presented his studies and expertise on a new Change Leadership model at the International Annual  Global Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. In addition to his professional work and research, Praeger published Dr. Sun's second book titled Inside the Chinese Business Mind: A Tactical Guide for Managers in early 2010, due to the success of the first publication - Survival Tactics. Currently, Dr. Sun has appointments at 8 different universities that stretch across the world from Southern New Hampshire University in the east to Argosy University in the west. It also stretches across the world from the Far East (CBIT in Beijing, China) to the south Atlantic (University of Virgin Islands). Recently, Dr. Sun’s work has led him to being appointed as a key leader for the School of Business with the SMC University (Swiss Management) to develop the most innovative business programs for the world. Professionally, he guides/consults leaders on thriving in the tough economic times, reducing workplace stress, conducting organizational analysis, developing human capital, managing change, and building organizational learning systems. Dr. Sun designs and facilitates leadership development programs with many organizations such as Leadership Worthington along with many graduate courses at international universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. As you get to know Dr. Sun, you’ll personally experience the passion that he has for helping people live their dreams.

Key strengths from the latest research and professional experiences in working with global business leaders.

• Shifting Human Resource Management practices towards Human Capital Development systems in organizations

• Conducting organizational capability analysis that incorporates multiple intelligences at the individual, group/team and organizational levels

• Developing validated instruments to balance intangible and intrinsic drivers for performance that accurately predict tangible performance indicators

• Transforming traditional management practices into leadership thought such as change management to change leadership (see recent published paper for details)

• Helping organizations visualize and master systemic thought through process design at multiple levels of human dynamics

• Enabling organizations to move from blaming people towards enhancing processes

• Integrating key software systems such as Remedy and Fronter as organizational knowledge management systems

Vision:

Dr. Sun enjoys his life greatly due to the fact that he is living his dream of helping people. With each new piece of knowledge he gains from his research and teaching, he finds that most of it has tremendous power in creating learning organizations where people are happy with the improvements in their life. As he continues to live the reality of living a life of endless possibilities, his success is defined in the number of hearts he can touch in helping others reach their goals.

The personal vision of Dr. Sun and his organizations as of June, 2007:

Being a Global Change Leader enabling systemic shifts in thought around the world and leading humanity toward evolution from Within (June, 2009).