Women Entrepreneur Week: Leading Change: The role of Responsible Decision-Making

The Texas South-West SBDC's have partnered together to bring you expert content to help your small business grow and succeed. The rise in women entrepreneurs tells us women are a force to be reckoned with. Beginning November 8th, we kick off 2 weeks of showcasing events geared toward women entrepreneurs and providing valuable resources to allow women to continue breaking glass ceilings.

This session will cover two important topics in business: leading change and decision-making. Leading change is the most difficult process leaders face. The decisions a leader makes in how change is communicated and implemented are crucial to the success and buy in from others. This seminar will include foundations of leadership and change management strategies as well as a discussion about important biases and fallacies that keep leaders from making good decisions. The more leaders are aware of decision pitfalls, the more likely they will avoid them and lead change effectively.

• Presenter

  Stephanie T. Solansky, Ph.D.

  Garland Hunnicutt Professor of Management and Associate Professor of Management @ Texas State University, Department of Management at McCoy College of Business

  Her research passions are leadership, teamwork/collaboration, diversity, wisdom, temporality in organizations, and complexity theory. She has published in top tier journals in the field of management including journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Leadership Quarterly, Group and Organization Management, and Management Learning. Dr. Solansky has been honored in her teaching and research endeavors with a multitude of achievement awards. Her professional experience outside of her role as a professor include: Director for a multi-million-dollar leadership professional development program in which over 1000 organizational administrators were trained; consulted with organizations on behavioral, decision-making and strategic issues, worked as a purchasing agent in a public corporation. She is also regularly invited to serve as a keynote speaker/panelist due to her work in the area of leadership development.