About our Speaker
Stefanie Heiter, Strategies in Play, LLC

Stefanie Heiter is among the nation’s leading thinkers and consultants in the human side of virtual work. She helps people to think differently about leadership, team development, and communications, bringing about executable solutions to the challenges of bridging virtual distance. Stefanie’s strong background in change management allows her to easily adapt proven processes to local and distributed organizations. Her efforts enable people to create productive relationship across distance, while pulling them out of the email and meeting insanity, giving them back valuable time and focus.

As a pioneer, Stefanie’s research, consulting, and training experience in the world of dispersed, global teaming and leadership began 15 years ago, and continues today. Her clients include many of today’s leading businesses, such as Microsoft, Walgreens, Lockheed Martin, and Verizon. She has improved each of these firms’ ability to thrive in today’s virtual world by reducing, targeting, and/or improving their use of all virtual communications and relationships with customers, vendors, employees, and the public.

Stefanie has authored numerous published articles in the area of virtual leadership, teams and communications, and is currently finishing a book. In addition, she has created 6 training workshops used extensively by her firm and other distributors throughout companies around the world. These include The Virtual Leader™, The Advanced Virtual Leader, Electronic Body Language™, Virtual Work Essentials, The Dynamics of Virtual Teams, and Cross-Cultural Communications 2.0.

Prior to her consulting role, Stefanie has held various leadership titles in both corporate and non-profit organizations. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Clark University and a Master of Science in Organization and Management from Antioch University, where her thesis focused on trust and communications in virtual teams.

When not at her client office locations, Stefanie works remotely from her home in Townsend, Massachusetts, but remains closely connected to her partners, distributors, clients and associates through technology.

About our Sponsor
Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) is a world-leading semiconductor company specializing in high performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs). Since ADI was founded in 1965, its focus has been to solve the engineering challenges associated with signal processing in electronic equipment. ADI's products play a fundamental role in converting real-world phenomena such as temperature, motion, pressure, light, and sound into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of applications ranging from industrial process control, factory automation, radar systems, and CAT scanners to cellular base stations and telephones, broadband networking, computers, cars, and digital cameras. The ADI company brand is recognized throughout the electronics industry for innovative, high-performance technology and world-class engineering support. ADI's portfolio of more than 10,000 products serves the needs of more than 60,000 customers worldwide. For more information: www.analog.com

Directions:
From North or South:

Follow I-95/128 North/South to Exit 15B, Rte 1 South/Norwood Follow Rte 1 South, approx. one mile to first set of lights. (McDonald's and Burger King are on the right, Analog's Corporate Headquarters are on the left) Take a left onto University Ave and first left into Analog Devices parking lot Visitor parking is in the front of the building.

From West:

Take I-90 East to I-95 South. Then follow the directions above.