{"id":3379,"date":"2018-03-02T13:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunwoody.edu\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2018-03-02T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:09:46","slug":"learning-about-leadership-in-todays-technology-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/2018\/learning-about-leadership-in-todays-technology-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning about Leadership in Today\u2019s Technology Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3380\" src=\"http:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9510W.jpg\" alt=\"Mitch DeJong speaking at Dunwoody\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">March Leadership Lecture featured<br \/>\nChief Technology Officer from Design Ready Controls<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Multi-generational workforce development, embracing conflict and harnessing diverse perspectives to find creative solutions were just a few of the topics Mitch DeJong spoke about at Dunwoody\u2019s March 1 C. Charles Jackson Leadership Lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Chief Technology Officer at Design Ready Controls, DeJong shared leadership lessons he\u2019s learned from a career that has spanned the automotive, environmental and manufacturing sectors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cEmbracing passion equals embracing conflict,\u201d DeJong said during his lecture, explaining that when you can embrace conflict between two diverse viewpoints, rather than trying to build a middle-ground consensus that doesn\u2019t make either side happy, you can arrive at a better solution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3381 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9518W.jpg\" alt=\"Mitch DeJong with Dunwoody President Rich Wagner and VP of Institutional Advancement Brian Nelson\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span>DeJong has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Natural Resources Science and Management and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">His career and research have focused on multi-perspective design in a variety of fields, including: automotive design, expert systems software architecture, natural resources planning, and most recently, multi-generational workforce development. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Design Ready Controls is a growing manufacturing company headquartered out of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Leadership Lecture featured Chief Technology Officer from Design Ready Controls Multi-generational workforce development, embracing conflict and harnessing diverse perspectives to find creative solutions were just a few of the topics Mitch DeJong spoke about at Dunwoody\u2019s March 1 C. 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