Thornton May, IT Futurist, Executive Director and Dean, IT Leadership Academy, presents his keynote presentation at BetterManagement LIVE 2006 in Las Vegas.
About Thornton May
Thornton May is one of the premier communicators in the information technology industry today. He combines a scholar's passion for empirical research, an entrepreneur's capacity for identifying opportunities and a stand-up comic's gift for storytelling. He deftly uses all these skills to help executives figure out what comes after what comes next. May is responsible for sculpting executive education IT curricula at four major business schools: UCLA, UC-Berkeley, Arizona State and Ohio State.
From 1997-2000, May was responsible for designing and delivering the information technology portion of the curriculum at the University of Amsterdam's Controller's Institute. With James Robinson III, May founded the Director's Institute, a program to improve board-level technology decision making. May served on the doctoral review board at the University of Texas, Austin; he now serves on the advisory board at Comdex.
May's research has been acknowledged in such seminal business books as Seth Godin's Permission Marketing; Michael Schrage's Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate; Moshe Rubenstein's The Minding Organization; Bill Jensen's Simplicity; and Jeff Williams' Renewable Advantage: Crafting Strategy Through Economic Time. He wrote the preface for George Geis' Digital Deals and Marc Farley's Building Storage Networks.
He is the nontoxic behaviors coach at Lawson Software. May has a master's degree in industrial administration from Carnegie-Mellon University and a bachelor's degree in Asian studies from Dartmouth College.
