National Cancer Centers Conference Speakers
Peg C. Neuhauser
Peg Neuhauser is president of PCN Associates, the management consulting firm she established in 1984. As a speaker and consultant , she offers practical tips for actions to create a more innovative and adaptive organization. She focuses on increasing collaboration in cross-functional teams, improving relationships among work colleagues, avoiding burnout, and strengthening the organization's culture to work on its goals more effectively. Her stories, case examples, and humor illustrate each idea in a way that is both entertaining and easy to remember. Peg Neuhauser is also the author and co-author of several books about corporate culture and conflict resolution. More info at www.pegneuhauser.com
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Marilyn Moats Kennedy is founder and managing partner of Career Strategies, a 31-year-old management consulting firm in Wilmette, Illinois.
A former DePaul University faculty member, she is also founder and publisher of Kennedy's Career Strategist, a newsletter on career planning, job hunting and office politics. She makes more than 100 presentations a year on a variety of topics that affect the evolving workplace. Of particular interest today are age diversity issues such as cross-generational motivation, management, communication, and recruitment and retention. Predicting Future Management Trends and Organizational Politics are also frequently-requested topics.
For 10 years Kennedy wrote “In the Trenches,” a column in Across the Board magazine and for 18 years was the "Job Strategies" columnist for Glamour magazine. She currently writes for The Physician Executive and is quoted regularly in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine and Fast Company magazine. She has appeared on "20/20" and "Good Morning America".
Kennedy holds a BSJ and MSJ from Northwestern University and is a charter member of Northwestern University's Council of 100 and The Medill School's Journalism Hall of Fame.
George J. Weiner, M.D.
C.E. Block Chair of Cancer Research Director, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
George Weiner, MD, is the director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. He completed his undergraduate work at the Johns Hopkins University, his M.D. degree at at The Ohio State University, his internal medicine residency at the Medical College of Ohio and served as a Hematology and Oncology Fellow at the University of Michigan.
