Alan Willett - Lead with Speed

<p>https://exceptionaldifference.com/<br>https://alanwillett.com<strong></strong></p><p>Expert consultant, speaker, and award-<br>winning author of Leading the Unleadable:<br>How to Manage Cynics, Divas, and Other<br>Difficult People, and Lead With Speed, Alan<br>Willett is co-founder of Exceptional<br>Difference.<br>Alan works with clients around the world,<br>including the UK, Turkey, South Africa, China,<br>India, Canada, and Mexico, and of course,<br>throughout the United States. Alan Willett has<br>consulted with HP, Oracle, Microsoft, NASA,<br>General Motors, Intuit, NAVAIR, Orbital ATK,<br>OnStar, Cornell University, Rutgers University,<br>Technological de Monterrey, and many more.<br>Alan's passionate work has focused on<br>leadership and the unique challenges of<br>leading in the elevated pressure environments<br>of high-technology developments.<br>Alan was a member of an elite team at the<br>Software Engineering Institute (SEl), located<br>at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. At<br>SEI, Alan joined other renowned thought<br>leaders in developing cutting-edge<br>methodologies adopted by corporations<br>globally. Through this work, Alan was able to<br>establish a worldwide network of peers and<br>thought leaders that constantly push the<br>high-tech development world to<br>"do better." It<br>is from this position that Alan launched his<br>consultancy in 2012. Alan has designed and taught many different<br>workshops at universities and corporations<br>around the world, reaching over 2000 people<br>directly. His personal backstory enlivens his<br>writing and his speaking. He grew up on a<br>dairy farm that had been in the family for over<br>170 years and which was honored as the dairy<br>farm of the year for New York State for many<br>years running. Alan has run across the United<br>States from ocean to ocean with his college<br>team, beating the record of the Pony Express<br>and earning him a spot in the Guinness Book<br>of World Records. He is a co-founder of<br>EcoVillage at Ithaca, the