Biography

Dr.² Ted Sun – Chief Dream Maker                                                      In Profile…

A chief dream maker is a master at developing people and organizations around the world. While NBC called Dr. Sun a world-renowned motivational speaker, he does much more than motivation. He transforms people's thought processes, with a rare foundation of two terminal degrees in Business and Psychology. In the last two years, leaders from 38 different countries felt the impact of Dr. Sun's work. In 2011, he spoke to audiences in the thousands in Asia, worked with government leaders in Africa, guest spoke on major television media in the U.S. and leads multinational research involving hundreds of universities across the world. These interactions reshaped significant aspects of many people’s lives. As a result of such impacts, Dr. Sun is a respected author, a renowned consultant and a highly sought after educator and researcher around the world.

•   Expert Features: Radio: Communication Across Cultures, Entrepreneur Magazine, Harvard Management Update, Columbus CEO, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, ABC commenting on the President Debate of 2004, NBC for the 2005 New Year's show, 2007 New Year’s Resolution, 2008 Presidential Debates, 2009 Economic Crisis and 2010 Spring Cleaning your Emotions
• Research Presentations: Leading effectively in higher education: ACBSP Region 8 Conference, Vienna (2010) – best presentation award; International Academy of Management and Business (2009): Change Leadership, Istanbul, Turkey; 9th annual European Shared Services & Outsourcing (2009): Aligning Shared Services and Corporate Strategy, Budapest, Hungry; International Conference on Advanced Management Perspectives 2010: Performance Management, Suzhou, China; ACBSP best presentation award 2011: Leading effectively in higher education: Overcoming challenges in a new fiscal reality 
• Major Publications: Inside the Chinese Business Mind: A Tactical Guide for Managers (2010) and Survival Tactics (2007)
• Global Academic Appointments: 11 universities around the world such as Southern New Hampshire University, Argosy University, CBIT in Beijing, China, University of Virgin Islands and SMC University in Switzerland and Austria and Kaduna Business School in Nigeria
• Leadership Development and Organizational Design: in over 38 countries such as Leadership Worthington in the U.S., Power Ministry in Nigeria, Institute for Professional Studies in Ghana, the most prestigious university in Thailand and many more.  

As you get to know Dr. Sun, you’ll personally experience the passion that he has for helping people live their dreams. Key strengths from the latest research and professional experiences in working with global business leaders.

• Shifting Human Resource Management practices towards Human Capital Development systems in organizations

• Conducting organizational capability analysis that incorporates multiple intelligences at the individual, group/team and organizational levels

• Developing validated instruments to balance intangible and intrinsic drivers for performance that accurately predict tangible performance indicators (www.InternationalValuesStudy.org)

• Transforming traditional management practices into leadership thought such as change management to change leadership

• Helping organizations visualize and master systemic thought through process design at multiple levels of human dynamics

• Enabling organizations to move from blaming people towards enhancing processes

• Integrating key software systems such as Remedy and Fronter as organizational knowledge management systems

Vision:

Dr. Sun enjoys his life greatly due to the fact that he is living his dream of helping people. With each new piece of knowledge he gains from his research and teaching, he finds that most of it has tremendous power in creating learning organizations where people are happy with the improvements in their life. As he continues to live the reality of living a life of endless possibilities, his success is defined in the number of hearts he can touch in helping others reach their goals.

The personal vision of Dr. Sun and his organizations as of June, 2007:

Being a Transformative Change Leader enabling systemic shifts in thought around the world and leading humanity toward evolution from Within  (December, 2011).