Speaking
Speaking
Invite Dr. Ivanov to speak on the topics that interest you and your organization. Recent speaking included:
November 29, 2024: 2024 WIMAYA International Conference – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
What Type of Future Do We Want? Some Questions for Future of Management (Keynote Address)
October 22, 2024: 6th International Conference, PaKSoM 2024 – Belgrade, Serbia
Rethinking Leadership: 50 Years of Wrong Direction
October 22, 2024: 6th International Conference, PaKSoM 2024 – Belgrade, Serbia
Small Studies of Competition in Organizations: What Really Moves Organizations Forward?
August 23, 2024: 8th International Conference on Sustainable Management, Bangkok, Thailand
Sustainable Management: Some Questions for the Future (Keynote Address)
October 27, 2023: 1st UICEB International Conference of Economics and Business, Jakarta, Indonesia
Leaders, Followers, and Unicorns: Towards Solving Some of Today’s Problems (Keynote Address)
October 24, 2023: Path to a Knowledge Society-Managing Risks and Innovation PaKSoM 2023 International Conference – Belgrade, Serbia
Leaders and Followers: A Check Against Reality
December 8, 2022: Path to a Knowledge Society-Managing Risks and Innovation PaKSoM 2022 International Conference – Belgrade, Serbia
Organizations of the Planetary Civilization: Change between the Organization of 2022 and 2092
October 15, 2022: FEB-UB International Conference (FEBIC) – Economy and Business Faculty of Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
Transforming Today’s Civilization for the Future: From Jakarta to Washington DC
October 14, 2022: AIB US-Northeast 2022 Chapter Conference – American University, Washington, DC
Structural Impediments to Success: A Theoretical Approach Towards Resolving Crises
November 9, 2021: 30th Anniversary of Independence of Republic of Kazakhstan – Almaty, Kazakhstan
Great Management Illusions: Innovation, Leadership, and the 21st century (available on YouTube)
November 16, 2021: Path to a Knowledge Society-Managing Risks and Innovation PaKSoM 2021 International Conference – Belgrade, Serbia
Understanding the Concept of Work: Exactly What It is and What It is Not
November 15, 2021: Path to a Knowledge Society-Managing Risks and Innovation PaKSoM 2021 International Conference – Belgrade, Serbia
Competition and Collaboration in the Workplace: Deming Revisited
October 22, 2021: Academy of International Business 2021 Conference – virtual / online
Managerial Hierarchy and the State of Fear: Illuminating Feararchy
June 16, 2021: Effective Organizations Conference in Poland– Uniwersytet SWPS, Warsaw, Poland
Incompatibility between the Profits Now – Profits First Mode and Good Leadership: A Perennial Struggle between Good and the Banality of Evil in the Modern Organization
December 3, 2020: 3rd Annual Business Research Conference – Washington, DC
Testing Leaders during COVID Crisis
November 17, 2020: Path to a Knowledge Society-Managing Risks and Innovation PaKSoM 2020 International Conference – Belgrade, Serbia
The Crisis of Feararchy: Basic Problem of the Modern Organization to Move from Type-0 to Type-1 Society (also a Keynote Talk)
November 17, 2020: Path to a Knowledge Society-Managing Risks and Innovation PaKSoM 2020 International Conference – Belgrade, Serbia
An Aspect of a Leadership Theory: Testing Leaders during COVID Crisis
October 23, 2020: Academy of International Business 2020 Conference – virtual / online
Impact of Roles on Language, Communications, and Leadership: an Overlooked and Hidden Dimension in Social Systems?
August 17, 2020: 18th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities – Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery County Campus, Rockville, MD
Women and Leadership: a Case Study of a Woman-run Small Business
June 1, 2020: 17th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities – Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery County Campus, Rockville, MD
Examining and Comparing Good and Bad Leaders Based on Key Leadership Characteristics: a Leadership Case Study
May 5, 2020: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology – Karachi, Pakistan
Leadership in Times of Crises (available on YouTube)
March 19-21, 2020: AABRI International Conference – San Antonio, TX
Leaderless Organizations: Why Most Organizations Continue to Fail (available on YouTube)
October 18-19, 2019: AABRI International Conference – Washington, DC
Presentation of three papers on management and leadership
September 11-12, 2019: Leadership Seminar for Chinese Government Executives – Washington, DC
Organizational Leadership, Science, and Innovation
September 27-29, 2018: 3rd North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM Society – Washington, DC
Organizational Systems and Unicorns: What Systems?
July 24-27, 2018: 4th Eurasian Conference on Language and Social Sciences (ECLSS 2018) – Riga, Latvia
The Modern Language of Management, Leadership, and Organizations, and Its Alchemical Principles.
October 26-29, 2017: Academy of International Business 2017 Conference – Washington, DC
Six presentations on organizational and management topics.
October 19, 2017: International Business Conference – Fairfax, Virginia
Exposing Myths of Modern Management: The Difference between Work and Pseudo-Work or Why Modern Organizations Don’t Do Any Work
September 18-21, 2016: 2016 TOCICO International Conference – Leesburg, Virginia
Before Transformation: What Must Come Before TOC, Management Diseases and Obstacles, W. Edwards Deming and Elliott Jaques
July 14, 2016: Strategic Business Management & Economic Research Conference – Washington, DC
How to Change Employee's Attitude: A Manager's Dilemma
April 15, 2016: 2016 International Conference on Globalization – Washington, DC
Globalization, and Social, Political, and Economic Development of Nations: The Next Necessary Requirement?
October 20, 2015: U.S. General Services Administration, Leadership Workshop – Washington, DC
Innovation, Feararchy, and the Manager's Job: (Overcoming?) Structural Challenges in All Leadership and Non-Leadership Roles in the US Federal Government, and Q&A Session
September 9, 2015: Social Sciences and Public Policy Conference – Washington, DC
Keynote Speaker: Social Sciences, Public Policy, and Types of Societies Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
August 21, 2015: Global Business Research Symposium, University of Riverside – Riverside, CA
Five Ways of Evaluating Capability: Measures of Human Capacity
July 2, 2015: 2015 Actual Economy: Local Solutions for Global Challenges International Conference Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University – Bangkok, Thailand
Keynote Speaker: Factors Smaller Countries Must Consider for Wealth and Prosperity: Size, Innovation, Tradition, Culture, Fear, Stupidity, and Decision-making in the 21st Century
July 2, 2015: 2015 Actual Economy: Local Solutions for Global Challenges International Conference Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University – Bangkok, Thailand
Welcoming Speaker: Globalization and Innovation Challenges
July 2, 2015: 2015 Actual Economy: Local Solutions for Global Challenges International Conference Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University – Bangkok, Thailand
Innovation Factors in Organizations
May 21, 2015: Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne, Australia
Innovation, Ethics, Morality (available on YouTube)
March 23, 2015: 21st International Deming Research Seminar–Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Hierarchies and Innovation: Debunking Management Myths (Part 2: Exploring a Solution)
March 5, 2015: International Conference on Globalization & Economic Development – Washington, DC
Globalization, & Social, Political, & Economic Development of Nations: The Next Necessary Requirement?
February 26, 2015: Innovation Leaders 2015 Forum – Washington, DC
Honorary Speaker: Great Management Illusions: Leadership, Competition, and Innovation
October 2, 2014: Social Sciences & Public Policy International Conference 2014 – Washington, DC
Keynote Speaker: Modern Societies and Structures
September 17, 2014: California State University – Los Angeles, California
Managerial Hierarchies: A Fraudulent Façade of Modern Bureaucracies?
May 1, 2014: Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne, Australia
Feararchy and Organizations (available on YouTube)
March 4, 2014: 20th International Deming Research Seminar – Fordham University, New York, NY
Hierarchies and Innovation: Debunking Management Myths (Part 1: Identifying the Problem)
October 25, 2013: Conference of the International Academy of Business/Int. Educators – Arlington, VA
Discovering Principles of an Alternative University Structure: Defects or Innovation
October 3, 2013: School of Business Administration, Marymount University – Arlington, VA
Hierarchies and Innovation: Debunking Management Delusions
July 5, 2013: International College Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University – Bangkok, Thailand
Innovativeness of American Companies and Universities
July 2, 2013: International Conference of Organizational Innovation – Bangkok, Thailand
Keynote Speaker: Innovation, Feararchy, and the Next Great Shift
July 2, 2013: International Conference of Organizational Innovation – Bangkok, Thailand
Courage vs. Feararchy: Does Asia Need a New Organizational Paradigm?
June 8, 2013: Executive MBA, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, University of Memphis - Memphis, TN, Leadership Systems
May 16, 2013: Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne, Australia
Leaderless Organizations (available on YouTube)
March 21-24, 2013: Society for Advancement of Management, 2013 International Business Conference – Arlington, VA, Leaderless Organizations: Why Our Organizations Continue to Fail
March 16, 2013: The Annual Washington Business Research Forum – Arlington, VA
Current State of the Modern American Organization: Could It Get Any Worse?
December 14-15, 2012: International Conference on Inclusive Innovation – Bangkok, Thailand
Innovation Paradox or Escape from Feararchy: Why Innovation Cannot Happen in the Modern Organization
October 11, 2012: Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne, Australia
Era of Feararchy: End of the Epoch (available on YouTube)
August 13, 2012: Royal Thai Military-Senior Management Seminar – Washington, DC
Organizational DNA Systems
June 6, 2012: 2012 TOCICO International Conference – Chicago, IL
Corporate DNA Diagnostics: Time, Timespan, and Progress (video)
June 5-6, 2012: 2012 TOCICO International Conference – Chicago, IL, Corporate DNA In-Depth: Advanced Discussion of Time, Timespan, Capabilities, and Structures of Companies (7 PM – 1 AM)
June 5, 2012: 2012 TOCICO International Conference – Chicago, IL, Temporal Dimension to Organizational Research: the Timespan Method of Discovering the Corporate DNA
June 5, 2012: 2012 TOCICO International Conference - Chicago, IL
Why Do Good People Go Bad: The Dark Side of Organizations
June 4, 2012: 2012 TOCICO International Conference – Chicago, IL
Corporate DNA: Improving Corporation and Government
May 6, 2012: 2012 ICMEI International Conference – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Problem of Defects in Modern Organizations
April 26, 2012: Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne, Australia
Defusing the Feararchy: Positioning the Company for Innovation (available on YouTube)
April 16, 2012: Multinational Corporation – Washington DC, Corporate DNA Theory
July 27, 2011: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Honored Guest Speech, Global Need for Organizational Innovation in the 21st Century
March 18, 2011: BARE International – Fairfax, VA
Organizational Assessments and Studies: A Global Untapped Opportunity
January 28, 2009: American Society for Quality (ASQ) LSS Meeting – McLean, VA
Why Organizations Fail
October 1, 2008: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) – Kansas City, MO
Executive Leadership Seminar