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CHIME08 • Fall CIO Forum
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Speaker Bios
Robert B. Reich
Robert B. Reich, one of the nation's leading thinkers about work and the economy, is Professor
of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. Previously, he was University
Professor at Brandeis University, and Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis's
Heller Graduate School.
Before joining UC-Berkeley and Brandeis, Reich served as the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor
during President Bill Clinton's first term and directed Clinton’s economic transition team at
the start of the administration. Under Reich's leadership, the Labor Department moved forward
on several path-breaking initiatives to build the skills of American workers, cracked down on
unsafe worksites and on fraudulent purveyors of pensions and health insurance, and began a
national initiative to abolish sweatshops. As secretary he also oversaw the enactment of the
Retirement Protection Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the first increase in the
minimum wage since 1989.
Before heading the Labor Department, Reich was a member of the faculty of Harvard University's John
F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Ford
Administration where he represented the United States before the Supreme Court, and he headed the
policy planning staff of the Federal Trade Commission in the Carter Administration.
Professor Reich is the author of 11 books including The Work of Nations, which has been translated
into 22 languages, the best-seller Locked in the Cabinet, published by Alfred Knopf, and The Future
of Success, which in 2002 was ranked by BusinessWeek magazine as the #2 best-selling business book.
His recent book Reason describes what America can do to achieve both high growth and widespread prosperity.
His latest book is entitled Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
(September 2007). He has written more than 200 articles on the global economy, the changing nature of work
and the centrality of human capital. He is a consultant to many governments and corporations.
Reich’s commentaries are heard weekly on public radio by nearly five million people, and his columns
appear regularly in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and other major national newspapers.
He is co-founder of and contributing editor for The American Prospect magazine, and is a regular
economic commentator on CNBC.
In late 2003 professor Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclev Havel prize, in Prague, for his original
contributions to world thinking and culture.
In 2004, he was named one of America’s three most influential opinion leaders on business and the
economy, based on a study by Accenture.
He is also, we should add, an accomplished playwright. In summer of 2005, his new play,
Public Exposure, broke box office records at its world premiere on Cape Cod.
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Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, Inc., a specialized management-consulting firm
focused on organizational health. He has been described by The One-Minute Manager's Ken Blanchard as "fast
defining the next generation of leadership thinkers."
Pat‘s passion for organizations and teams is reflected in his writing, speaking, and consulting. Lencioni is the
author of six best-selling books with over 2.5 million copies sold. After several years in print, his book The
Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be a fixture on national best-seller lists. His latest work, The Three
Signs of a Miserable Job (2007), became an instant best-seller in theWall Street Journal, New York Times and
BusinessWeek.
Pat's work has been featured in numerous publications such as Fast Company, INC Magazine, USA Today, Entrepreneur,
Drucker Foundation's Leader to Leader and Harvard Business Review.
As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with thousands of senior executives in organizations ranging from
Fortune 500s and high-tech start-ups to universities and nonprofits. Clients who have engaged his services include
Southwest Airlines, Sam's Club, Microsoft, New York Life, Cox Communications, Allstate, Visa, FedEx and the U.S.
Military Academy, West Point, to name a few.
Prior to founding The Table Group, Pat worked at Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, where he was vice
president of organizational development. He also served on the National Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish
Foundation of America from 2000-2003.
Pat lives in the Bay Area with his wife Laura and four boys.
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Aneesh Paul Chopra
Aneesh Chopra is currently Virginia’s Fourth Secretary of Technology serving Governor
Tim Kaine. In this capacity, he leads the Commonwealth’s strategy to effectively
leverage technology in government reform, promotes Virginia’s innovation agenda,
and fosters technology-related economic development with a special emphasis on
entrepreneurship.
For the Governor, Secretary Chopra chairs the Solutions Committee of the IT Investment Board,
the Effectiveness and Efficiency Committee of the Council on Virginia’s Future, and the
Healthcare IT Council in partnership with Health Secretary Marilyn Tavenner.
Secretary Chopra was awarded the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s
(HIMSS) 2007 State Leadership Advocacy Award. HIMSS is a leading healthcare membership
organization focused on providing leadership for the use of healthcare IT and management
systems. He was also recently named to Government Technology magazine’s Top 25 in their
Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue. This issue of Government Technology recognizes the
25 individuals they believe help set the standard for using technology to improve government.
Prior to joining Governor Kaine’s cabinet, Aneesh served as Managing Director with the Advisory
Board Company, a publicly-traded health care think tank serving nearly 2,500 hospitals and health
systems. He led the firm’s Financial Leadership Council and the Working Council for Health Plan
Executives, as well as assisted the launch of the firm’s first business intelligence software
solution, Compass.
Aneesh graduated with a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School
of Government in 1997. He graduated with a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.
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Brent C. James, MD
Brent C. James, MD, is Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research
and Vice President of Medical Research and Continuing Medical Education at Intermountain Health Care.
For more than 20 years, Dr. James has championed the standardization of clinical care through
data collection and analysis on a wide variety of treatment protocols and complex care processes.
In the tradition of medical pioneers Florence Nightingale and Abraham Flexner, James has devoted
himself to using quality improvement tools to better understand the cause and effect relationship
between various practice and environmental factors. Today, nearly 100 years after his mentors’
groundbreaking discoveries, Dr. James firmly believes that the practice of medicine and delivery
of health care stands at another critical crossroads.
If the health care field is to successfully bridge the quality chasm defined by the Institute of
Medicine, a new and innovative approach to the practice of health care is mandatory. Dr. Brent James
feels strongly that the time has come to shift from the “craft-based” practice to evidence-directed
teams focused on patient care.
In addition to his duties at Intermountain Health Care, Dr. James is adjunct professor at the University
of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He also holds a Visiting
Lectureship in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
In addition, Brent James is a member of a number of national taskforces and committees that examine
health care quality and cost control, including AHRQ and his most recent appointment by the Federal
Comptroller to an advisory group on making American health care more accessible and affordable.
In 2005, Dr. James received an award from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
recognizing his vision and energy in making the U.S. health care system better.
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