Keynote Speakers
Jump to David Campbell - Phillip L. Francis - Michael Horowitz - Iris Mack
David Campbell
David Campbell created the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and its successor, the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, which became widely-used assessment tools for career choices. He also authored several popular books on careers and leadership. Campbell joined the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in 1973 as a visiting fellow and later served as executive vice president, becoming CCL's first Smith Richardson Senior Fellow in 1981. Campbell's books include If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You'll Probably End Up Somewhere Else and If I'm in Charge Here, Why is Everybody Laughing? More recently, he published the Campbell Development Surveys, which analyze working interests, skills, leadership potential and teamwork. Campbell earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Iowa State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he served as a professor of psychology before joining the CCL. The Society for Psychologists in Management named Campbell its 2006 Distinguished Psychologist in Management. He has also received the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Colorado. His speaking appearances have spanned North America and taken him to Asia, the Middle East, South and Central America and much of Europe.
Philip L. Francis
Philip L. Francis has been a Director of PetSmart since June 1989 and the Chief Executive Officer since March 1998. In September 1999, he was also named Chairman of the Board, and from 1998 to 2001, he was also the President of PetSmart. From 1991 to 1998, he held various positions with Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc., a subsidiary of J Sainsbury plc, including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and President. Prior to that he held several senior management positions for Roundy's, Inc., Cardinal Health, Inc., and the Jewel Companies, Inc. Mr. Francis serves on the boards of Supervalu Inc. and Cardinal Health, Inc. Effective June 17, 2009. Mr. Francis has stepped down from Chief Executive Officer and will remain with PetSmart as Chairman of the Board of Directors in an executive capacity.
Michael Horowitz
Michael Horowitz, Ph.D., has served as a higher education leader and faculty member since 1988. He became The Chicago School of Professional Psychology’s president in 2000, at a time when it was a single program, single campus institution with 215 students. Today, The Chicago School’s (TCS) enrollment exceeds 3,000 students who study at one of six on-ground locations and a thriving Online Campus. With four campuses in Southern California, a China Office, and a new campus being planned in 2010 for Washington, D.C., The Chicago School has emerged as an international institution, the largest nonprofit school of its kind in the nation, with more than 20 degree programs spanning all branches of psychology and behavioral sciences. Over the last decade, the school also has become a recognized source of innovative approaches to behavioral science training, scholarship, applications, and service to the community. New initiatives charted under his stewardship include the Forensic Center, Center for Multicultural and Diversity Studies, Center for Latino Mental Health, Center for International Studies, and Garfield Park Preparatory Academy, a K-8 public contract school that began in fall 2009 as part of Chicago’s Renaissance 2010 initiative.
In May 2009, Dr. Horowitz oversaw the founding of the nonprofit TCS Education System, which carries a mission of preparing innovative, engaged, purposeful agents of change who serve the global community. The system provides the means for achieving a vision shared by The Chicago School’s Board of Trustees and Dr. Horowitz to expand the school’s model of education to new professional disciplines such as health and education. A definitive agreement is in place for the Pasadena-based Pacific Oaks College and Children’s School to join the system in early 2010.
Dr. Horowitz's professional and scholarly interests include organizational leadership, political advocacy, graduate education, and the expansion of professional psychology education and practice. Before joining TCS, Dr. Horowitz was dean and professor at the Arizona School of Professional Psychology. He also is a past president of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Horowitz earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University and a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, graduating cum laude with a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science. He was honored at Columbia with the Cumming Prize for Outstanding Psychology Graduate.
Iris Mack
Dr. Iris Mack has been an astronaut semifinalist, one of Glamour Magazine’s “Top 10” college students, one of Glamour’s “Top 10” working women, an investment banker, an Enron Energy Trader and an MIT professor. In addition, she was the second African-American female to earn a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Harvard. Later she became a mathematics and business school professor at several academic institutions, while simultaneously running a consulting firm Associated Technologists, Inc. (ATI). Dr. Mack spent a year in Brussels, Belgium on an ATI consulting engagement while studying French. The following year she completed an Executive MBA at the London Business School – which led to her working as an investment banker at Banque BNP Paribas in London. Currently Dr. Mack is on the faculty of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – teaching and researching a book about her experiences in the derivatives markets and has recently been appointed to a National Academy of Sciences Research Advisory Board. Dr. Mack also founded Phat Math, Inc. – an edutainment firm – that launched the mathematics edutainment social network www.phatmath.com – where students (grades K-12 and College) can get FREE 24/7 online math homework help and e-collaborate with students all over the world. More information about Dr. Mack’s professional experiences, her academic credentials and media exposure may be found on www.twitter.com/DrIrisMack
