Sunday, January 27th - 1:30pm
Keynote Speaker: Alan Deutschman
Author of Change or Die
Executive Director of Unboundary

Drawing on a startling range of compelling case studies—from heart patients and heroin-addicted criminals who transform their lives, to major corporations that revamp their cultures and pull off astonishing turnarounds—Deutschman is an enlightening and energetic speaker who conveys great insight and passion about our untapped potential for profound change.

Deutschman is the Executive Director of Unboundary, a strategy consulting firm whose clientele includes the top executives at major companies such as FedEx and Charles Schwab. In a 19-year career as a top business journalist, Deutschman has been the Silicon Valley correspondent for Fortune; a senior writer at GQ, where he wrote the "Profit Motive" column; and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he has co-authored the "New Establishment" power list for the past decade. Most recently, he was a senior writer for Fast Company. He has interviewed and profiled many of the most influential and innovative figures in global business, including Apple's Steve Jobs, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sergey Brin, and Virgin's Richard Branson, and he has studied the successful turnarounds and change efforts at companies such as Apple, IBM, and Yahoo.

Alan Deutschman has been interviewed as an expert on change and psychology by Katie Couric on The Today Show and by Paula Zahn on CNN. His books have been featured on the covers of the Sunday book review sections of both The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle, and have been published worldwide and translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch.

His latest book, Change or Die, inspired by his sensational cover story for Fast Company, was released in January 2007 and quickly became a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. He is also the author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, which was both a Business Week and a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth, and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma. Deutschman paid his way through Princeton University largely by winning scholarships for public speaking and debate, an experience that inspired him to publish Winning Money for College at age 18.

Jim Brazell, President, ventureRAMP, Inc. &
Consulting Analyst, Texas State Technical College
System and the Digital Media Collaboratory, University
of Texas at Austin

We have heard that globalization, demography, science
and technology are accelerating change around the
world. We know that U.S. competitiveness depends on
how well our students are prepared for 21st century
work, creative innovation and global citizenship.
Today, we understand why we need to change education.
The unanswered questions are: What needs to change?
And, how do we transform in a timely yet effective
way?

Change or Die: Change or Die: Emerging Technologies,
Jobs, Students, Curricula and Partnership Models
explores the answers to these questions in the context
of the mission of Community and Technical Colleges and
the K-12 public education system. The speaker, Jim
Brazell has been working at the intersection of
workforce, education, economic development and
industry to study and create programs to address
college recruiting, public-private partnerships,
instructional transformations and community
innovation.

Since 2006, Jim has addressed many organizations and
conferences including the National Institute for Staff
and Organizational Development, The National Council
on Workforce Education, National Coalition of Advanced
Technology Centers, National School Boards
Association, National Education Computing Conference,
National Tech Prep Network Conference, and the Casey
Journalism Center on Children and Families, the World
Congress on Information Technology.

Jim received a bachelor of science in sociology, Summa
Cum Laude, at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, in
1995. While at Bradley, Jim was a George Gilder Fellow
in High Technology and Public Policy and a Principal
Investigator of the Interlabs Research Institute and
the Social Informatics Minor. Jim earned national
rankings for the Bradley Speech Team, including awards
as a national champion in the American Forensics
League and a top-ten overall speaker in the National
Forensics League. Currently, Jim serves as a
consulting analyst to the Texas State Technical
College System and the Digital Media Collaboratory,
University of Texas at Austin.