A scholar, speaker, entrepreneur, and pastor, Dr. Nicholas Pearce is an award-winning Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Vocati Group, a boutique global management consulting firm that has served over 200 of the world's leading companies, nonprofits, and faith communities. He is also the author of the bestselling book The Purpose Path: A Guide to Pursuing Your Authentic Life’s Work.
Dr. Pearce is an internationally recognized organizational behaviorist, keynote speaker, and executive adviser on values-driven leadership, organizational culture, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Through his work at Kellogg and Vocati, Dr. Pearce has served as a trusted adviser, executive coach, and sought-after speaker for over 200 leading corporations, social impact organizations, communities of faith, educational institutions, and government organizations on six continents. Among his speaking and consulting clients are Abbott Laboratories, Allstate Foundation, Archdiocese of Chicago, Aspen Institute, BP, Bush Brothers, Capital Group, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Urban League, Cigna, Echo, Eurasia Group, Facebook, FMC, Google, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Hearst, Hyatt, JPMorgan Chase, KIPP, Knight Foundation, KPMG, Laird Norton, McDonald’s, Morningstar, NASA, Nike, Northern Trust, PepsiCo, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Surge Institute, Teach for America, Tearfund, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Olympic Committee, Whirlpool, and Willow Creek. He and his work have been featured in respected global media outlets including ABC News, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, CBS Evening News, Christianity Today, CNN, Crain’s Chicago Business, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, NBC News, New York Times, NPR, Univision, UrbanFaith.com, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Celebrated for his leadership and scholarship, Dr. Pearce has been honored with The Aspen Institute’s Ideas Worth Teaching Award and has been a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow since 2015. He has also been named Kellogg’s MSMS Professor of the Year, a Galbraith Scholar by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, a Public Voices Fellow by The OpEd Project, a Harvey Fellow by the Mustard Seed Foundation, a Fitzhugh Fellow by the National Black MBA Association, one of Chicago’s 40 Game Changers (under 40) by WVON/Ariel Investments, and one of Today’s Joshuas by The Christian Outlook.
Committed to community impact, Dr. Pearce serves as a trustee of the Chicago Children’s Museum, the Field Foundation, Fuller Theological Seminary, and McCormick Theological Seminary. Previously, he served as a board member of Access Community Health Network, the Chicago Community Trust African American Legacy Fund, the Harvey Fellows Advisory Board, and the Seminary Co-Op Bookstores.
Dr. Pearce holds the Ph.D. and M.S. in Management & Organizations from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the M.A. in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, and the S.B. in Chemical Engineering & Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a concentration in Religious Studies earned in conjunction with Harvard Divinity School.
Learn more about Dr. Pearce and his work at www.nicholaspearce.org and connect with him on social media @napphd.
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Leadership in organizations
Morality & values-driven leadership
Building healthy organizational cultures
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Executive succession
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Leadership & change in organizations
Purpose for leaders & organizations
Building healthy organizational cultures
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Executive succession
Mission-driven & religious organizations
Leading intergenerational organizations
Negotiation strategies
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Individual. Interpersonal. Institutional. Intentionally designed to be in-person, this program empowers you as DEI Leaders to take proven concepts and translate them into bold actions, creating meaningful change for yourself, your employees, and your organization.
Use your own real-life challenges as a platform for putting the latest theories and tools for organizational change management into practice. Learn how to build business agility and organizational resilience — the cornerstones of driving ongoing change.
As an aspiring leader within family enterprise, you’ll discover how to establish your credibility and authority in the business community, among family shareholders, with the board and management team. As an established leader, you’ll explore the complexities of mentoring the next generation and of managing succession and letting-go. For all, the program can enable you to better manage the nuanced paradoxes that are characteristic of family business leadership.
As the world of business changes at breakneck speed, executives must stay at the forefront of management thinking and practice. This program delivers a wealth of new knowledge and insights for managing change with confidence in the 21st century.
As the world of business changes at breakneck speed, executives must stay at the forefront of management thinking and practice. This program delivers a wealth of new knowledge and insights for managing change with confidence in the in 21st century.
This course is designed to provide the fundamentals of negotiation strategy and to improve students' skills in all phases of negotiation. The course provides an understanding of prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to two party negotiations, team negotiations, resolution of disputes, agents and ethics, and management of the negotiation process. The course is based on a series of simulated negotiations in a variety of contexts. Attendance at every class meeting is mandatory.
MORS offers three unique courses in the area of negotiation and conflict resolution: Negotiation Fundamentals, Negotiating in a Virtual World, and Advanced Negotiations. Students ideally begin the negotiation coursework by taking Negotiation Fundamentals and then taking the advanced courses: Negotiating in a Virtual World and/or Advanced Negotiations. Please note that students are required to take Negotiation Fundamentals prior to taking Advanced Negotiations. Students are allowed to take Negotiating in a Virtual World without having taken Negotiation Fundamentals but will be expected to catch up on core concepts asynchronously through the course's virtual format. Once a student has taken Negotiating in a Virtual World, they are no longer eligible to take Negotiation Fundamentals but may go on to take Advanced Negotiations.
