Bradley Staats

Change Management and Performance Speaker, Associate Professor of Operations at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina

Bradley Staats is a top change management keynote speaker, associate professor of operations at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, and author. Brad investigates the understudied role of human behavior in learning and operational improvement. He integrates work in operations management and behavioral science to understand how and under what conditions individuals, teams and organizations can perform their best.

Bradley Staats Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
USA

Bradley Staats Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
USA

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Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Never Stop Learning: Why We Don’t Learn and What We Can Do About It

What do Frodo Baggins, Luke Skywalker, and you have in common? A dark side. Our worst enemy often comes from within and must be confronted. Otherwise blind spots, weaknesses, and biases will keep us from reaching success. How do we overcome this inner enemy in business...

What do Frodo Baggins, Luke Skywalker, and you have in common? A dark side. Our worst enemy often comes from within and must be confronted. Otherwise blind spots, weaknesses, and biases will keep us from reaching success.

How do we overcome this inner enemy in business? Though we don’t have magic rings or lightsabers, we can confront our natural biases to unleash the power of learning. In this world, the best learners will win because continuous improvement makes our companies nimble, responsive, and strong in the face of lightning-fast change. But first, we have to get out of our own way.

This discussion will reveal how a few deeply ingrained human tendencies can interfere with learning and how to overcome them. You will discover:

The hard-wired traps that prevent learning
Ways to learn faster and more effectively so you can stay relevant, innovate, and thrive
How to unleash the power of learning throughout your organization (this is optional)

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Turning Data to Dollars

The rise of analytics has shifted how we make decisions. In this talk, I explore how data analytics is changing all aspects of business. I discuss how to: Ask compelling questions Create value with data Use methods and tools to support data ...

The rise of analytics has shifted how we make decisions. In this talk, I explore how data analytics is changing all aspects of business. I discuss how to:

Ask compelling questions
Create value with data
Use methods and tools to support data analytics
Develop insight
Avoid biases and paralysis

In so doing we explore how to turn data into real value for you and your organization.

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The Business of Health Care: The Challenges of the US Health Care System and What We Can Do

In the United States health care makes up 18% of GDP, the highest percentage in the developed world, but important outcomes are meaningfully lower than comparable nations. In this talk I explore why the challenges exist and what we can do about it.

About Keynote Speaker Bradley Staats

Dr. Bradley R. Staats is a professor at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. He works with individuals and organizations to learn and improve in order to stay relevant, innovate and succeed on an ongoing basis. He is the author of Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive. His teaching and research focus on how to help individuals to learn and to design organizations to learn as well as how to incorporate analytics in this process so that data can drive decision-making. In addition to teaching about these topics at UNC Kenan-Flagler, he works with companies around the world on their learning and analytics’ strategies. Brad leads UNC’s Business of Health Care Initiative, a cross-campus, interdisciplinary effort to tackle the most pressing challenges in health care.

Brad investigates the understudied role of human behavior in learning and operational improvement. He integrates work in operations management and behavioral science to understand how and under what conditions individuals, teams and organizations can perform their best. He conducts field-based research in such settings as health care and software services, consulting, call centers and retail. He also uses archival data and field experiments to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to improve both theory and practice.

Brad publishes frequently in and serves on the editorial boards of numerous leading academic journals. His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets. He has won numerous teaching and research awards, including the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award from the Production and Operations Management Society, the Poets & Quants award as one of the 40 most outstanding business-school professors under 40 in the world, and the Warren Bennis Prize for best article in Harvard Business Review on leadership.

He received his Doctorate of Business Administration in technology and operations management and Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He received his Bachelor of Science with honors in electrical engineering and his Bachelor of Arts with high honors in Plan II and Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin where he was named the Most Outstanding Male Graduate of his graduating class.

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Prior to his academic career, he worked as a venture capitalist at a leading firm in the southeastern United States. He also worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and strategic planning at Dell Corporation.

Brad lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and three sons. There he can frequently be found on baseball fields helping coach each of his kids’ teams.