Phoenix, AZ -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/05/2016 -- Change leader Dr. John Kotter will join Dave to speak about his latest book "That's Not How We Do it Here!" that explores crucial obstacles to change, particularly in higher education and education more generally. Kotter joins a long list of prominent guests including Kerry Hannon, Rick Miller, Dan Pink, Ed Schein, Peter Sims, Tony Wagner, and many others who have been interviewed on Big Beacon Radio since its premiere in 2015.

Regarded by many as the authority on leadership and change, Dr. John Kotter is a New York Times best-selling author, award winning business and management thought leader, business entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and Harvard Professor. His ideas and books, as well as the company he founded, Kotter International, have helped mobilize people around the world to better lead organizations and their own lives, in an era of increasingly rapid change.

Kotter's research and pursuits in education, business, and writing over the past 35 years have earned the respect of his peers, helped transform organizations around the world, touched countless lives, and still inspires others to adopt his methods and spread the word. He continues to work tirelessly to achieve the goal of "millions leading, billions benefiting."

"John Kotter cares deeply about effective change, and the application of his ideas to higher education, and education more generally, is now both an educational and a moral imperative", stated David Goldberg, Host of Big Beacon Radio: Transforming Higher Education.

David E. Goldberg is an educational long jumper and catalyst, bringing together the ideas, people, and effective processes for transforming higher education. Toward the end of a 27-year distinguished academic career in which Dave achieved renown for his path-breaking work on genetic algorithms and artificial intelligence, he founded the iFoundry incubator for educational change at the University of Illinois.

In 2012, Dave founded Big Beacon as a non-profit organization for transforming higher education. Today, Big Beacon connects students, innovators, and employers together to learn from each other and to make bold little bets and take action toward transforming higher education. In 2014, he co-authored the groundbreaking book, "A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education" with Mark Somerville of Olin College.

For more information on Dave and his work, go to http://www.bigbeacon.org

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