User:Jvdapena/Carlos Valdes-Dapena

Carlos Valdes-Dapena, MSOD, is a keynote speaker, author and organizational development professional. He is the managing principal of Corporate Collaboration Resources, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in team collaboration. Carlos’ books include “Resilience: Virtual Teams: Holding the Center When You Can’t Meet Face to Face” and “Lessons From Mars: How One Global Team Cracked the Code On High Performance Collaboration and Teamwork”. Carlos worked at Mars, Inc for 17 years where he developed a framework for high performance team collaboration, outlined in both his books. Prior to Mars, Inc, Carlos was an internal executive coach for the top 35 executives who reported to Lou Gerstner at IBM in Armonk, NY. Carlos also has a degree in MSOD from American University, and an MFA from the Florida State University. His undergraduate studies earned him a summa cum laude BA degree from University of Miami. He is the sixth of eleven children, and the son of the celebrated pediatric pathologist, Dr. Marie Valdes-Dapena, who wrote the first paper on SIDS. His brother, Peter, reviews cars for CNN. Carlos is located in New Jersey, and travels the world for speaking engagements and consulting to his clients like J&J; Maersck; Mars, Inc; and the World Cocoa Foundation on team development and collaboration.

Carlos and his team at Mars, Inc designed and developed the high performance team collaboration framework, a research-based globally successful method for leading teams' collaboration guided by three imperatives:

The 3 Imperatives for High Performing Team Collaboration
Clarity, Intentionality Discipline.

From these imperatives, 6 practices arose to implement the action-oriented framework for high performing teams.

The 6 Practices of High Performance Team Collaboration
→Clarify Context

→Inspire Purpose

→Crystallize Intent

→Cultivate Collaboration

→Activate Ways of Working

→Sustain and Renew

Books by Carlos Valdes-Dapena
Lessons From Mars: How One Global Company Cracked the Code on High Performance Collaboration and Teamwork A unique insight into corporate team building within a global giant. Lessons from Mars challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of corporate team building and offers an alternative framework along with a set of tools and techniques. Based on the author's 20-plus years of experience working with teams and six years of research specifically on Mars teams, the book offers a unique view into this closely-held private company and how it has unlocked the power of collaboration. '...it turns out that while women are from Venus, valuable lessons in corporate management are from Mars, Inc.' Roy Sekoff, Founding Editor, The Huffington Post

Print Length: 448 pages

Publisher: Changemakers Books (October 26, 2018)

Publication Date: October 26, 2018

Language: English

ASIN: B07J4ZCJKB

Resilience: Virtual Teams: Holding the Center When You Can’t Meet Face-to-Face In the face of the COVID-19 virus, organizations large and small are shuttering offices and factories, requiring as much work as possible be done from peoples’ homes. The book draws on the insights of the author's earlier book, Lessons from Mars, providing a set of the powerful tools and exercises developed within the Mars Corporation to create high performance teams. These tools have been adapted for teams suddenly forced to work apart, in many cases for the first time. These simple secrets and tested techniques have been used by thousands of teams who know that creating a foundation of team identity and shared meaning makes them resilient, even in a time of crisis. The "Resilience Series" is the result of an intensive, collaborative effort of our authors in response to the 2020 coronavirus epidemic. Each volume offers expert advice for developing the practical, emotional and spiritual skills that you can master to become more resilient in a time of crisis.

Print Length: 85 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1789046912

Publisher: Changemakers Books (May 8, 2020)

Publication Date: May 8, 2020

Language: English

ASIN: B088BH1XCG