The Positive Links Speaker Series 2014-15 season features contributing authors of "How To Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact." (howtobeapositiveleader.com)

Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people’s—and their own—capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous resources or huge heroic gestures. Leading scholars describe how this is being done at organizations such as Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, Burt’s Bees, Connecticut’s Griffin Hospital, the Michigan-based Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, and many others. Like the butterfly in Brazil whose flapping wings create a typhoon in Texas, you can create profound positive change in your organization through simple actions and attitude shifts. Please join us to learn how.

Shirli Kopelman is a leading researcher, expert, and educator in the field of negotiations at Michigan Ross. Kopelman is also Faculty Director of Business Practice at the Center for Positive Organizations, President-Elect of the International Association for Conflict Management, and author of Negotiating Genuinely: Being Yourself in Business, published by Stanford University Press. Professor Kopelman has been honored with outstanding teaching and prestigious research awards. She publishes in leading academic research journals and her work has been featured in media outlets such as Businessweek, Fortune, INC., and Harvard Business Review. Her innovative positive framework for negotiations enables people to draw on their leadership strengths to co-create internal and external opportunities that maximize economic profits in a sustainable way, while fostering wellbeing.