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Executive Director - Leaders as Teachers Institute

Ed Betof, Ed.D.

Dr. Ed Betof is a senior business executive, author, lecturer, and professor who has pursued his career passion for improving teaching and leadership for over forty years. Ed's leadership, as VP of Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer at BD, helped establish one of the most powerful and effective global leaders as teachers process in the business world. He is a highly successful author of two books, Leaders-as-Teachers, and Just-Promoted! and close to two dozen articles.

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  • The Passing of One of the Great Leader Teachers of Our Times John Wooden Dies at 99
    6:45 p.m. 15 Jun 2010
    Here is how one newspaper began their report of John Wooden’s recent death. They weren't even born when revered UCLA basketball coach John Wooden had his glory days and string of national championships. Yet hundreds of students still gathered on campus in his honor and mourned his death Friday night. Read more >
  • Just-in-Time Teaching: An Effective Approach to Doing Business Every Day
    3:09 p.m. 17 May 2010
    I am often asked the following question….”What is the most frequent concern you hear about starting conducting a leaders as teachers program?” The two concerns or questions I hear the most from learning, development and talent management professionals and leaders are: Read more >
  • Leaders as Teachers...There are Many More Than You Might Expect
    6:38 p.m. 26 Apr 2010
    Over the years I have been delighted to find that if the right conditions exist, it is not nearly as hard to recruit leader-teachers as one might expect. In fact, in many organizations, there are many leaders and talented professionals who are willing to teach, coach and mentor. Read more >
  • Keys to Implementing a Leaders-as-Teachers Process--Twelve Guidelines to Keep You on Track
    8 p.m. 16 Mar 2010
    I am frequently asked to provide a list of “must-does” that will help learning and talent professionals to build momentum, develop organizational energy and to stay on track when implementing a leaders-as-teachers (LAT) approach. The following points are ones that I frequently discuss. They are adapted from Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company’s Best and Brightest. Read more >
  • Use Great Leaders from History as Teaching Models for How to Lead Through Uncertainty
    9:34 p.m. 25 Feb 2010
    Uncertainty in any aspect of our lives can elicit many feelings that can greatly affect individual, team and organizational performance. Leaders in settings as diverse as business, government, not-for-profit organizations, education and the military can learn many lessons from the actions of great leaders from ancient and modern history. Let’s take four leaders from modern history as examples and look at vital lessons they taught, how they taught these lessons and the possible implications for transferring these insights into our own leadership and work settings. Read more >

About Ed Betof

Dr. Edward Betof joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2007 where he was the Senior Fellow and an Academic Director for the first-of-a-kind doctoral program at a major university designed for the preparation of Chief Learning Officers. Dr. Betof retired at the end of 2007 as Vice President, Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a 113-year-old global medical technology company. Dr. Betof had WW responsibility for Talent Management Processes including BD University, HR Planning/Leadership Development, Strategic Staffing, Performance and Development Process and for integrating the worldwide processes of Associate Engagement and Inclusion/Diversity.

BDU has been externally cited as one of the outstanding examples in the corporate world of having successfully designed and implemented the "Leaders as Teachers" concept. In 2007 BD finished in the top five of all worldwide submissions for ASTD's BEST Award and was identified in 2004 by Accenture Consulting as one of 28 out of almost 300 companies as a "High Performance Learning Organization". Dr. Betof previously held senior functional leadership roles at Hoffmann-LaRoche and the Reliance Insurance Companies. Dr. Betof was Senior Vice President of Manchester Consulting where he created the "Newly Appointed Leader Coaching" process and co-led the leadership development practice.

Dr. Betof has held adjunct faculty appointments at the Center for Creative Leadership, Penn State University, Temple University and was a visiting lecturer in high performance leadership for second year MBA students at Columbia School of Business. He is the author of Leaders as Teachers (ASTD Press and Berrett-Koehler) and lead author of Just Promoted! (McGraw-Hill). He has contributed to numerous journals and professional publications. Dr. Betof received his Doctoral degree from Temple University in 1976.