Keynote: How to Transition to Management

Event Overview

For many employees, the promotion from individual contributor to their first managerial role is the most important promotion of their lives. Yet we find that talented people who fail to get promoted are often not failing because they are ineffective at their job. On the contrary, in many cases they are outstanding performers.

So what is missing? What does it take to set yourself up for and successfully make this transition?

Join Cornell lecturer and technical entrepreneur Dirk Swart for a brisk conversation on how to elevate your managerial and business acumen to guide yourself toward a lucrative and fulfilling career.

What You'll Learn

The “rules of the game” to successfully make the transition to management
How to position yourself to increase the chances that you will be promoted
What you need to be successful as a junior manager

Speaker

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Dirk Swart

Lecturer

Cornell Engineering

Dirk Swart’s teaching focuses on developing critical skills for leadership, including: negotiation, emotional intelligence, individual and team behavior, conflict management and problem solving, managing contracts and IP, ethics, and engineering management decision making.
Dirk has over 20 years experience as a technical entrepreneur and is currently the CEO of Zynect, an embedded sensor company based in Ithaca NY. He co-founded Zynect in 2010, has raised over $2.4m in funding and brought over 20 successful embedded products from concept to market. Prior to that he was a visiting fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future.

Degrees include a BBusSc (Computer Science) from the University of Cape Town and an MA from Tuft’s Fletcher School. His thesis title was: More Voice but Less Say: An analysis of North-South Trade Agreements. His thesis supervisor was Adil Najam.

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