Each member of the Wiseman team has significant academic and business experience. Our selection bias is conscious and deliberate on our part. We believe the duality gives us the maximum range of motion. On the one hand it allows us to pursue rigorous research and on the other it allows us to present our findings in ways that have the power of relevancy.
Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the President of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, Salesforce.com, GAP, Nike, Symantec, SAP, Microsoft, Genentech, Roche and Dubai Bank.
She is the author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, a Wall Street Journal bestseller. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence, is a frequent keynote speaker, and writes for Harvard Business Review and a variety of other business and leadership journals.
A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development. During her tenure at Oracle, she led several major global initiatives and has worked and traveled in over 32 countries.
Liz holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management and a Masters of Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University. Liz lives in Menlo Park, California with her husband and 4 children who share her over-active curiosity and sense of adventure.
Rob Delange is the Training and Consulting Practice Director for the Wiseman Group. Rob leads the education business worldwide, teaches leadership workshops, and coaches leaders across the spectrum from front-line managers to VP level executives.
Rob has over 15 years experience building corporate learning centers and training programs at global technology companies. Rob began his career as a systems analyst and programming supervisor for Pacific Bell (now AT&T). At PeopleSoft he was the product support manager and then led the technical training organization, where he was instrumental in achieving PeopleSoft’s recognition as number 4 on the ASTD 2004 BEST 100 training companies list. He led the HR training function for EMC’s software division and most recently worked as a talent management consultant at VISA Inc.
Rob is one of those rare education professionals who combines deep experience as a technologist, years of solid management experience, and a gift for teaching and coaching. His greatest talent is enabling business leaders to develop the people around them. He has extensive global experience having worked in over 10 countries and is fluent in Spanish. Rob is SPHR certified and holds a Masters degree in Systems Management from the University of Denver and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Mark Sato is a Master Practitioner for The Wiseman Group where he leads Multipliers workshops for business leaders and certifies other instructors. He has more than 15 years of corporate management and leadership training at Franklin Templeton, Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation. During this time he has designed and delivered dozens of management training programs and has held management roles leading teams of over 100 people.
Since 2005 Mark has led his own training consultancy and is known for his engaging workshops and his warm sense of humor. He is a highly sought after trainer for content providers like the de Bono Group, VitalSmarts and slap. He has global leadership experience working with managers in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, and current clients include Banana Republic, Genentech, LSI Logic, Oracle, Salesforce.com and VMware. Mark holds a Master of Business Administration and lives with his family in the Bay Area.
Elise Foster, an experienced leadership development consultant and trainer. She leads Multipliers workshops and is a certified coach, using the highly effective Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered coaching process. Her work focuses on early career and seasoned professionals to unlock their potential in becoming even more successful leaders. She has experience working with corporate and non-profit clients through her consulting firm, Leadership Potential Consulting, as well as a coach with MBA students at the Kelley School of Business. She has worked with senior leaders during her time at Cummins Inc. as well as Harvard professionals while she was a Management Fellow at Harvard University.
Elise uses her strong analytic and process-oriented approach along with her corporate experience in organizational development and her graduate education in leadership and adult development to deliver an impactful, effective leadership growth experience. In addition to earning a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech, she holds a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she focused her studies on adult development. Elise spends her free time with playing with her daughter, running long distances, and volunteering in the community. She and her family live in Southern Indiana.
Larry Wiseman is Director of The Wiseman Group and runs all aspects of the business operations. Larry has over 10 years of experience in technology marketing and sales and has worked as an international trade consultant for Kanematsu where he traveled extensively throughout Asia Pacific. Larry speaks fluent Japanese, holds a bachelor degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University and also manages a real-estate investment business.
John Staedler is the Webmaster and Project Manager at The Wiseman Group. He has over a decade of freelance administrative, managerial, tech and business development experience with an emphasis in Industrial Organizational Psychology. He recently finished his master’s degree in Psychology at San Jose State University and is the only member of The Wiseman Group with a 4.0 GPA.
Judy Jung wears many hats for The Wiseman Group: Executive Assistant, Project Manager and Graphic Designer to name a few. She’s orchestrated data and pixels for businesses ranging from established corporations to sparkly start-ups, in fields such as finance, human resources, education, technology, e-commerce, business development, fashion, performing arts, graphic design, printing, and web design. In her spare time, she’s a freelance graphic designer.
