Professor and Program Director, Human Resources and Organizational Development Program, University of Louisville; Co-Founder, OrgVitals; Owner, LEAD Research, LLC

Dr. Brad Shuck is an internationally recognised business thought leader, entrepreneur, and academic in the areas of employee engagement, leadership development, and organisational culture. He is the author of Employee Engagement: A Research Overview (Routledge, 2020) and has published or presented more than 350 scholarly articles, book chapters, and invited presentations. Shuck holds five US Copyrights for his research-driven, intellectual property on employee engagement and culture management. His work has been featured in US-based international media outlets including Forbes, The Washington Post, and TIME, as well as international outlets such as Business World Online, India’s Economic Times, and the Hindu Times. He has given Keynote addresses on four of the seven continents including  China, Spain, India, Panama, the United Kingdom and across the United States for some of the world’s largest and most admired companies. Shuck is a tenured Full Professor and Co-Founder of  OrgVitals, a purpose-built culture management software company. He is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels and holds advanced degrees in Counseling, Student Affairs, Human Resource Development, and Adult Education.

Professor of Marketing and C.T. Bauer Chair in Marketing, University of Houston

In addition to Mike’s roles at the University of Houston, he is also the Research Director of the Sales Excellence Institute. Mike’s research has primarily focused on improving the performance of salespeople and sales organisations. He has published over 40 articles in leading journals and was recently recognised by the American Marketing Association as one of the ten most productive research scholars in the field of marketing. His research has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Business Investors Daily, Fox News, INC Magazine and many other news outlets.

General Mills/Paul S. Gerot Chair, Professor of Marketing, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

Professor John received his bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1974 and his MBA from the University of Illinois in 1976. After earning his Ph.D in Marketing from Northwestern in 1981, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin. 

In 1987, he moved to the University of Minnesota. He is the General Mills/Paul S. Gerot Chair in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His interests centre around distribution channels and high tech marketing. Specifically, he is interested in the strategic and efficiency aspects of governance choices in these settings. 

His academic honors include an American Marketing Association award for his Ph.D dissertation in 1981, and his selection in 2003 as a “Highly Cited Researcher” in the Business/Economics category by Thomson Reuters Web of Science.