2 PDU credits
Speaker: Bjorn Billhardt
Title: "Soft Skills Focus with AI: Enabling Peak Performance, Shifting Mindsets and Behaviors, Navigating Critical Conversations, and Influencing Without Authority"
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Speaker Bio:
Bjorn Billhardt is co-author of The 12-Week MBA and the CEO of Abilitie, a leadership development company focused on teaching business acumen and management skills with team-based business simulations. Abilitie’s leadership programs have educated 100,000 learners in 50 countries, including rising leaders at many Fortune 500 companies such as Coca-Cola, Dell, GE, Marriott, Pfizer, and Southwest.
Prior to founding Abilitie in 2015, Bjorn was the CEO of Enspire Learning, a custom e-learning development company he co-founded in 2001 while studying at Harvard Business School. Before business school, Bjorn worked as a consultant and corporate trainer for a Dutch software company and McKinsey & Company. Bjorn holds a BA from the University of Texas and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Bjorn has served on the boards of The Magellan International School, Spa Partisan (the parent company of the milk + honey spa), and the Advisory Board of the University of Texas at Austin School for Undergraduate Studies and the UT-HDO Program. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and three boys. A native of Hamburg, Germany, Bjorn came to the United States as an exchange student, attending Pflugerville High School outside of Austin, TX.
