Academic Talks and Presentations

Werner Erhard has been creating transformational models and applications for individuals and organizations for over 40 years. He has spent his life on a quest to discover the nature and function of being for human beings. For the last two decades, Werner Erhard has been writing and lecturing almost exclusively in the academic world.

Werner Erhard is largely self-educated, albeit with tutoring from some important thinkers of his time – Richard Feynman, Michel Foucault, Humberto Maturana, Sir Karl Popper, and Hilary Putnam, to name a few. Currently Erhard collaborates with, among others, the highly regarded scholar Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Strauss Professor of Business Emeritus at Harvard Business School and retired California State University System Chief Academic Officer and Vice Chancellor, Jeri Echeverria.

Since 2002, Werner Erhard has been writing academic papers and leading courses at Universities throughout the world including the University of Munich, Simon School of Business at Rochester University, Harvard Law School, Erasmus Academie, University of Southern California, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance at Yale University, Depaul University and the John F. Kennedy Center for Public Leadership.

 

Links to Werner Erhard's Recent Academic Presentations:

 

Being A Master Of Life, What It Takes, London, UK, November 2019

Being A Master Of Life, What It Takes, New York New York, USA, April 2018

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model, University of California Los Angeles, USA, July 2019

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model, University of California Los Angeles, USA, July 2018

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Clemson University, College of Business, South Carolina, USA, July 2016

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Zayed University Convention Center in Dubai, UAE, January 2015

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, July 2014

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Cancun Mexico, 2013

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Entrepreneurship@UBC at the University of British Columbia, June 2013

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, June 2012

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Texas A&M University Mays School of Business in June 2010

Being A Leader And The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model: Under the auspices of the IC Centre for Governance and MW Corp in November 2010

Center For Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, October 15, 2009

Conversations on Compassion with Dr. James Doty, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, November 2017

Conversations with Rutgers Students and Werner Erhard: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model of Leadership, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA, June 21, 2017

Creating Course Leaders Workshop, Rutgers University, Paul Robeson Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA, June 2017

Creating Course Leaders Workshop, AMA Executive Conference Center, New York, New York, USA, June 2016

Creating Course Leaders Workshop, St. Andrew's Conference Centre Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2015

Creating Course Leaders Workshop, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 2014

Creating Course Leaders Workshop, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2013

Creating Leaders: A New Model: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard’s presentation given at the University of California, Berkeley Zellerbach Hall on 13 May 2015 and the University of Chicago Mandel Hall on 3 May 2015

Creating Leaders: A New Model: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard’s talk at New York University Skirball Center on 5 November 2013.

Creating Leaders: A New Model - 11 Years On: This presentation reviews the history of the leadership course created at the Simon School of Business in the years 2004-2008. The presentation of this material took place at the Simon School of Business “Sands Lecture” on February 5, 2014 and later to the Simon School NYC Conference – “The Global Marketplace: Rising To the Challenges of Regulation, Disruption and International Competition”, May 8, 2014, Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

Discussion with Werner Erhard and Professor Jonathan D. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania First Annual Bioethics Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, April 2016

Four Ways of Being that Create the Foundations of A Great Personal Life, Great Leadership and A Great Organization -- PDF File of Powerpoint Slides

Fourth Annual Leadership Seminar, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, September 4, 2008

Governing the Corporation - Yale School of Management, September 19, 2007

HBS Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen and Werner Erhard Seminar at Erasmus Academie, June, 2009

Integrity: Where Leadership Begins - A New Model of Integrity; Center For Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, May 10, 2007

Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, May 8, 2008

Leadership and the Next Presidency - Video

Living With Mastery: Where Life Actually Happens: Tokyo, Japan, April 2011

On Mastery: Bangkok, Thailand, December 2010

On Mastery: New Delhi, India November 2010

Neuroleadership Summit, October 27, 2009

Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, November, 2017

The Hidden Power of Integrity and Access to Vast Increases in Performance (Video and PDF file of Keynote Slides) Mike Jensen’s 2013 talk at University of British Columbia on Integrity

The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization - Given as the Commencement address by Michael C. Jensen at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University Commencement Ceremonies, May 21, 2011.

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, November 9, 2007

Train The Trainers, United States Airforce Academy, 2010

USC Marshall School of Business Distinguished Researcher Series, November 16, 2007

'Value-Free' Approach to Values (PDF File of Powerpoint Slides)

Watch Werner Erhard talk at JFK School of Government, Harvard University

 

Read Werner Erhard's Academic Papers

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Werner Erhard at Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, November, 2017

 

 

 

 

Creating Leaders: A New Model

New York University (2013)

University of California, Berkeley and

University of Chicago (2015)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Werner Erhard speaks to Kennedy School students on his latest work: "Why We Do What We Do: A New Model Providing Actionable Access to the Source of Performance."

 

 

Werner Erhard, Mumbai, 2010

Werner Erhard in Mumbai, India, 2010

 

 

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Werner Erhard speaks at the Neuroleadership Summit

 

 

 

Werner Erhard at DePaul University Business Conference, pictured with Michael Jensen, Gonneke Spits

Integrity

A Business Conference -

May 8, 2008

 

 

"Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model," led by Dr.Michael Jensen, Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron

 

Werner Erhard, Michael Jensen, Steve Zafron, Kari Granger present the Leadership Course at Erasums Academie

 

 

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