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Roch Parayre
Dr. Roch Parayre is Founder and CEO of Strategique, a boutique strategy consultancy, and a Teaching Fellow in Executive Education at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
A strategist and master teacher who blends rigor with contagious enthusiasm, Dr. Parayre speaks, consults and facilitates strategy sessions with senior executives. His focus is on how people and organizations think, decide, compete, and innovate. He urges leaders and organizations to adapt or die.
Dr. Parayre teaches executives at the Wharton School, for Duke Corporate Education, at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and at INSEAD in France.
He has advised leaders and given executive education seminars on 5 continents across the Fortune 500, on the topics of scenario planning and strategy, innovation, decision making, and strategic leadership – with organizations such as Coke, GE, Microsoft, Disney, L’Oreal, BlackRock, Comcast, Mayo Clinic, and the US Olympic Committee, to name just a few.
He was previously a Partner at Heidrick Consulting and a Senior Fellow in the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, and was on the faculty at the Cox School of Business at SMU, where he won numerous MBA teaching awards. His research work has been published in a variety of academic journals, industry reports, and trade publications. He holds an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics magna cum laude from the University of Ottawa, a Master degree in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in business strategy from the University of British Columbia.
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John E. Oliver
John Oliver is the founder and principal of CUplanning.com. His career in the banking industry spans over forty years, working both in Europe and the United States. Over the past twenty years he has built a thriving consulting practice with focus on strategy development, change management and corporate governance in the financial services sector.
John’s passion lies in strategic management consulting and he is responsible for the creation, design and implementation of his company’s highly-regarded FIplanner strategy-development process for community banks, and the similar CUplanner process for credit unions. The goal of these comprehensive processes is to focus on the practical rather than the conceptual and to develop meaningful, data-driven, and measurable strategies to guide organizations through these most challenging times and into a viable and relevant future. His processes have been hailed as “a logical, step-by-step process without all the abstractions that are so often involved.”
John is the author of the book What Really Is Expected of Me–The Directors Guidebook and has contributed to strategy-related articles in numerous financial services publications. Over the last two decades he has addressed bankers and board members from all over the world. His consulting services have been successfully utilized by institutions of all sizes and types, from small community-based organizations to major multi-national institutions. His passion and enthusiasm as a speaker serve to make difficult topics both compelling and thought-provoking.
Brett Christensen
Brett Christensen
As the owner of CU Lending Advice, LLC, Brett works directly with credit unions in the U.S and Canada as a consultant and teacher specializing in various lending topics. His personal and entertaining speaking style have also made him a popular and sought out speaker in the credit union industry.
Prior to forming his own company, Brett worked as a lending consultant and trainer for Lending Solutions Consulting, Inc. of Elgin, Ill. Prior to his job at Lending Solutions, Brett was the chief sales officer of APPRO Systems, Inc. which purchased the Loan Link Lending Center which Brett managed as the president. Prior to his work at Loan Link, Brett worked at the $680 million Clark County Credit Union in Las Vegas. He also worked as a civil engineering officer in the United States Air Force.