Join us for the next two segments of the Strategy Imagination Forum (SIF), where Professor Richard Whittington, President-Elect of the Strategic Management Society, continues the conversation with two speakers from the SMS-moderated panel, Developing a Long-Term Strategy, recently featured at The CEO Forum’s Transformative CEO Summit: A Quarter Century of Reflections & The Journey Ahead.
SMS partners with The CEO Forum, which hosts quarterly gatherings of top CEOs to address today’s most pressing business challenges. Click here to watch the recording of Richard’s panel.
In this upcoming webinar, Richard is joined by Bill Canady, Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products (AEP). Bill will draw from over thirty years of experience as a global business executive across a variety of industries and markets to share key principles for leading organizations to achieve profitable growth—even in the toughest conditions.
This conversation expands on their original panel discussion and offers valuable insights into leading with resilience and crafting strategies that endure.
The Strategy Imagination Forum is designed to foster practitioner-academic dialogue, provide practical insights, and support strategic engagement on emerging issues.
Register here for the second segment, Putting People into Strategic Planning, Jennifer Colosimo, President of Franklin Covey’s Enterprise Division, Enterprise and Richard Whittington, Oxford University, SMS President Elect.
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Speakers:
Bill Canady is a global business executive with over 30 years of experience leading industrial and consumer products and services companies across public, private, and sponsor-owned sectors. He currently serves as Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products (AEP), overseeing organizations with combined sales of $2.5 billion and thousands of employees worldwide. Under his leadership, OTC grew revenues by 43% and earnings by 78%. A passionate developer of strong leadership teams, Bill created the Profitable Growth Operating System (PGOS), a proven framework to help companies drive growth, improve profitability, and enhance decision-making. A U.S. Navy veteran, Bill holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Elmhurst University (summa cum laude) and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, the University of Toulouse and the University of Technology Sydney. He is currently President-elect of the Strategic Management Society. He has published singly or jointly eleven books, including a history of strategy: ‘Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today’ (OUP, 2019). His co-authored textbook ‘Exploring Strategy’ is ranked by the Financial Times 2021 Teaching Power index as the most influential strategy textbook worldwide (recorded on nearly 3,000 course syllabi). He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St. Gallen.