Speaker Biographies

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Dick Haab
Performance Leadership Group, Inc.

Dick enjoyed a stellar career  having worked with companies such as Dow Chemical and US Oil and holding senior executive positions such as Senior VP of products and General Manager of Refining.

Despite enjoying a productive career, earning a lucrative compensation package and enjoying the many benefits of his positions, Dick wanted more.  More turned out to be sharing the leadership and coaching development distinctions that helped him become a top leader where he succeeded in getting diverse, adversarial  groups to work together productively.

Dick began providing leadership and coaching development full-time in 1989 as president of the Mentor group. In 1999, he formed the Performance Leadership Group where he continued his leadership development work under that brand.  He brings valuable tools and distinctions, proven over four decades, to bring value to individuals and organizations alike.  His clients include dozens a high profile and Fortune 500 companies as well as many local and regional firms.


John McManus
Watermark Estate Management Services, LLC

John McManus is the CIO for Watermark Estate Management Services LLC, a property management firm based in Kirkland Washington.  He leads the development of Watermark’s Enterprise Architecture and oversees the Information Security team.

During a distinguished federal career, John served as the deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer at the Commerce Department.  Prior to his work at Commerce, he was deputy CIO and CTO at NASA and led efforts to develop an agency wide Information Technology architecture.  As part of the federal IT community John was the recipient of two Federal Computer Week Federal 100 awards and co-chaired the Federal CIO Council’s IPv6 Working Group.




Michael Rogers
Practical Futurist®

Michael Rogers is an author, technology pioneer and futurist, who most recently served as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times. He has worked with companies ranging from FedEx, Boeing and NBC Universal to Microsoft, Pfizer and Siemens, focusing on how companies can think about the future in useful ways. He speaks to audiences worldwide and is a regular guest on radio and television. He began his career as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. He co-founded Outside magazine and then launched Newsweek’s technology column, winning numerous journalism awards.