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 LEO HOPF, founder and CEO of Teamhopf, works with senior executive teams to bring clarity and alignment to their most pressing strategic issues. As an independent consultant, he also coaches, guides, and trains his clients’ personnel at all levels to improve their decision making and strategic thinking capabilities. He teaches “Decision Making in Organizations” at Stanford University and at the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota, where he has been named a Fellow of Executive Education.
He was the Managing Director of Strategic Decisions Group’s (SDG’s) 70-person home office in Menlo Park, CA, and served on the SDG Executive Committee. SDG, a profitable and growing management consulting firm, has been dedicated for over three decades to helping companies create superior shareholder return and achieve lasting change.
In his 13 years with SDG, Hopf led corporate portfolio strategies and guided execution efforts. His work encompassed both the search for higher value alternatives and the creation of lasting organizational alignment and commitment to the selected alternatives.
Hopf’s client engagements have included strategy retreats for CEOs and their executive teams, organizational transformation sessions with company leaders and managers, and facilitation of 25 CEOs in a day-long session to agree on policy for their industry lobbying efforts. He has also led efforts to design the decision making and strategic planning processes for five of the Fortune 100 largest companies. His work has included numerous complex, multiple-owner joint ventures, in which several parties with differing beliefs and values all had to agree on a particular course of action.
Hopf has worked in a variety of business sectors: medical devices, telecommunications, upstream and downstream oil & gas, pulp and paper, chemicals, mining, engineering and construction, building products, pharmaceuticals, banking, office products distribution, high-tech materials, remote sensing, travel, and health care. He has substantial international experience and has led major consulting engagements in Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Kuwait.
Hopf is also an active angel investor and is a member of the Band of Angels in Silicon Valley. He has served on the Board of Directors and the Board of Advisors for numerous startups and has delivered the keynote address at a conference for raising funds for new ventures.
Hopf earned a Masters of Business Administration degree with highest distinction from the Amos Tuck School, and has BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He received the Walter Jacobs Prize for inspiring confidence and enthusiasm amongst his peers at Tuck.
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 WILLIAM R. WELTER is President of Adaptive Strategies, Inc. and is a Fellow of Executive Education at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. At Adaptive Strategies, Inc. he works with clients to improve their thinking about the future of their businesses and the impact of change on the people within those businesses.
Welter is a former Managing Director with Strategic Management Group and was the Director of Continuing and Professional Education for DePaul University. As an Adjunct Lecturer at Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University he developed and taught graduate level courses in Operations Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Decision Analysis. Welter also developed and taught a course for business majors focused on broadening thinking skills. He recently completed a book The Prepared Mind of A Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions and Solve Problems. Welter has an undergraduate degree in Socio-Technical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration. |
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