Biography: Dale is currently a Project/Program Manager for The Boeing Company's Directed Energy Systems (DES) business unit in California. He has more than 20 years of service with The Boeing Company and has held various leadership positions in engineering as well as project and program management. He has experience in technology development, electro-mechanical design and new product development. Previously he worked 8 years for Lockheed “Skunk Works” in Burbank and 2 years at Vista Controls Corporation in Valencia California.

Dale has a M.A. degree in Design and a M.S. degree in Automation Engineering from California State University - Northridge, as well as a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from The University of Phoenix in Tempe, Arizona. Dale is currently in an Executive Juris Doctorate program attending his 2nd year of law school at Concord where he is specializing in Trademark, Intellectual Property and Patent law.

He has also served for over 10 years supporting the Hugh O’Brian Youth Foundation (HOBY) in many roles from a Seminar Vice-Chair to Ambassador Counselor. He continues to foster the vision to help young adults "Learn how to Think" – "Not what to Think." He is currently a National Management Liaison to HOBY for both the California - LA and California - Central Leadership sites and runs the California Central Ambassador Mentorship Program.

Dale also teaches distance learning in Project Management and Project Management Communications for DeVry University/Keller Graduate School of Management focusing on facilitating students to understand the leadership and management responsibilities in business environments.

Dale has been a member of the In2:InThinking Network since 2001 and a member of the Forum Team for every event. As a transplanted Southern California native, in his off time he likes to mountain bike at the beach and play volleyball.

Website: www.fesserdorff.com. Look here to find the handouts he prepared for all of his pre- post-conference sessions for our annual Forums.

Contact: Dale can be reached by e-mail at d.s.deardorff@att.net for additional information about this pre-conference session.


Title: Think-Tion: Integrating Thinking to Actions

Date: Monday, April 27th

Length: 7.5 hours (Part 1 - 8:30-11:30am and Part 2 - 12:30-5:00pm)

Location: California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge

Cost: $90, to cover the expense of an Herrmann Brain Dominance Individual Profile and a copy of Ned Hermann's book, The Creative Brain

Description: This interactive workshop will give you the chance to understand how Thinking and Actions are integrated together. In previous models and business applications the philosophy is that that we have Situations which lead to Actions which can lead to exceptional Results. The premise of the Thinking required is completely missed and disconnected. What is proposed with Think-Tion™ is the ability to Think like a STAR (Situation-Thinking-Action-Result) and assure that the Thinking pattern is not only connected but that it is aligned to allow the necessary cognitive stimulus and “Value Expectation” in Action’s to predictably produce the desired or expected results. Further details follow below for Part 1 and Part 2;

Part 1:  Understand how the HBDI™ Personal Thinking Preference allows visibility into Whole Brain Methodology which can provide a powerful model for understanding yourself and others, taking the emotional charge out of differences, communicating more effectively and making solid decisions which will allow you to increase your team capacity and company’s success. Learning how to use your whole brain and not just the few specialized quadrant clusters with which you’re most comfortable can put you on a path to improved self-awareness, self-esteem and exploration of the difference between the HBDI™ 4-quadrant thinking model (Right Brained, Left Brained, Upper Cognitive and Lower Visceral)

Part 2:  Understand how the Think-Tion™ Model combines the necessary Thinking-to-Action Flows to allow STAR thinking and results which will align predictable “Value” expectations. This new model will explain how to assure the organizational values are evaluated and assured in Action Flows associated with Leadership, Accountability, Learning, Passion, Fun and Opportunity matrixed against Thinking Flows for Strategy, Planning, Feeling and Innovation.

Target Audience: This workshop is designed for those that desire to learn about their Thinking Preferences and Action Planning for improving the effectiveness of individuals and organizations.

Organization Issues: Attendees for this session can use the Think-Tion™ Tools to create a new cognitive process which will insure participants Feelings are built into a cognitive process flow balanced against Values. The ability to expose true feelings allows closer holistic functioning teams and members creating a Community of Practice based upon shared basic assumptions and espoused Values.

Objectives: Upon completion of the workshop, the participant will see opportunities to connect thinking to action from all Thinking Preferences assuring that Feelings are connected to Values.

Handouts: Available for download after Forum