Speaker Profile
Dr. Behnam Bakhshandeh & Dr. William J. Rothwel
Executive Coach, OD & HRD Practitioner, Business Consultant & President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc.,Dr. Behnam Bakhshandeh, PhD, MPS is an accomplished business manager and a personal and professional development expert with nearly three decades of field experience working with individuals, teams, and organizations. Dr. Bakhshandeh is widely known as a dynamic writer, speaker, OD and HRD practitioner, trainer, and executive coach.
Behnam founded his own transformational technology and coaching & consulting business in 2001. Since then, he and his team members have helped countless businesses and tens of thousands of individuals achieve their goals and transform their thinking to a much more effective way that allow them to have access to fulfillment, success, and peace of mind. Behnam have a doctorate degree in Workforce Education & Development from Penn State. Behnam enjoyed expanding into psychology as an addition to his already strong background in philosophy and ontology.
Up-to-date, he has authored and published 10 books in the personal and professional development industry. Besides these books, he has designed and facilitated 17 coaching modules for individuals, couples, the public, teams, and organizations, 9 audio/video workshops, 16 articles on personal & professional development topics, and 21 seminars and workshops.
Dr. William J. Rothwell, CPTD Fellow, is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc., Rothwell & Associates, LLC, and Rothwell & Associates Korea. He has over 50 years of human resource experience in the U.S. government and in a Fortune 50 multinational company. He has also been a professor at a Big 10 university. As a consultant he has worked with over fifty multinational companies and countless governments and nonprofits around the world. In addition to the three consulting companies he founded, he also founded three small businesses (a vacation rental home company employing three people; a personal care home for the elderly licensed for fifty beds employing twenty-seven people; and an eighteen-unit motel employing nine people).
As a Distinguished Professor at Penn State University, University Park, where he has taught for 30 years, he is co-Professor-in-Charge of an online and onsite academic program that offers a master’s degree in Organization Development and a Ph.D. in Workforce Education and Development with an emphasis on Talent Development/Organization Development. Before joining Penn State in 1993, he had over fifteen years of executive-level work experience in human resources, talent development, and Organization Development leadership in government (the Illinois Office of the Auditor General) and in business (Franklin Life Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of a multinational company, #forty-eight on the Fortune 500 list). Google Scholar metrics reveal that Dr. Rothwell’s publications have been cited over 10,000 times and include over 154 books, 300 articles, and 198 book chapters.
Behnam founded his own transformational technology and coaching & consulting business in 2001. Since then, he and his team members have helped countless businesses and tens of thousands of individuals achieve their goals and transform their thinking to a much more effective way that allow them to have access to fulfillment, success, and peace of mind. Behnam have a doctorate degree in Workforce Education & Development from Penn State. Behnam enjoyed expanding into psychology as an addition to his already strong background in philosophy and ontology.
Up-to-date, he has authored and published 10 books in the personal and professional development industry. Besides these books, he has designed and facilitated 17 coaching modules for individuals, couples, the public, teams, and organizations, 9 audio/video workshops, 16 articles on personal & professional development topics, and 21 seminars and workshops.
Dr. William J. Rothwell, CPTD Fellow, is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc., Rothwell & Associates, LLC, and Rothwell & Associates Korea. He has over 50 years of human resource experience in the U.S. government and in a Fortune 50 multinational company. He has also been a professor at a Big 10 university. As a consultant he has worked with over fifty multinational companies and countless governments and nonprofits around the world. In addition to the three consulting companies he founded, he also founded three small businesses (a vacation rental home company employing three people; a personal care home for the elderly licensed for fifty beds employing twenty-seven people; and an eighteen-unit motel employing nine people).
As a Distinguished Professor at Penn State University, University Park, where he has taught for 30 years, he is co-Professor-in-Charge of an online and onsite academic program that offers a master’s degree in Organization Development and a Ph.D. in Workforce Education and Development with an emphasis on Talent Development/Organization Development. Before joining Penn State in 1993, he had over fifteen years of executive-level work experience in human resources, talent development, and Organization Development leadership in government (the Illinois Office of the Auditor General) and in business (Franklin Life Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of a multinational company, #forty-eight on the Fortune 500 list). Google Scholar metrics reveal that Dr. Rothwell’s publications have been cited over 10,000 times and include over 154 books, 300 articles, and 198 book chapters.