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Wright State Applied Research Corporation (WSARC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 2011, that is affiliated with, but separate from Wright State University. WSARC provides administration and oversight of government and defense contacts, while Wright State Research institute (WSRI) performs the scientific work associated with those contracts.

WSRI provides research services, playing a critical role in testing, evaluating, and inventing products and services in the human performance and technology sectors for the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense, and a variety of other organizations.

Over the past eight years, the organizations have experienced significant growth in the number and value of contracts. Dennis James Andersh, CEO and President of WSARC and Executive Director of WSRI will address explain the organizations’ missions and services. His presentation is titled, “The Science of Intelligent Teaming.”

BIO: DENNIS ANDERSH

CEO, President, Wright State Applied Research Corporation

Executive Director, Wright State Research Institute

Mr. Andersh connects the university’s research to new markets, while also leveraging the Wright State Institute’s (WSRI) existing commercial and healthcare business. Mr. Andersh was named Chief Executive Officer of the Wright State Applied Research Corporation (WSARC) in May 2014.  In September 2015 Mr. Andersh was also named Executive Director of WSRI. 

With more than 20 years of documented leadership, management, and technical innovative successes, Mr. Andersh’s expertise lies in basic research; laboratory research and development (R&D); system concept development; system and platform development; and the fielding of air, ground, and space mission-critical systems. He is highly respected for building collaborative partnerships of academia, industry, government, commercial, congressional, and local entities to create strategic growth across multiple new markets in the federal, state, and local government. 

Before coming to Wright State, Mr. Andersh held several leadership positions at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He led the Dayton region as Senior Vice President where he was responsible for SAIC’s business with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Springfield Air National Guard, and the Dayton region.

 The History of the Dayton Dragons • Key to the Dragons’ Success: Family Entertainment and Community Involvement • Former Dragons Players Who Have Reached the Major Leagues • Our relationship with the Cincinnati Reds • The Minor League Baseball Story • The Day in the Life of a Minor League Ballplayer

We will rebook this speaker as soon as possible. 

Associate Dean of Enrollment and Communication, Kettering College

Emotional Intelligence Researcher and Group Facilitator

Jessica Beans is the Associate Dean of Enrollment and Communication at Kettering College, the educational institution of Kettering Health Network which specializes in offering healthcare degrees. She previously worked at Kettering College as the Marketing and Public Relations director for 5 years.

In 2017, Jessica graduated with a masters in organizational leadership with an emphasis in change management. Through this she began researching how emotional intelligence impacts organizations and she started facilitating discussions around how to build emotional intelligence, understanding group dynamics, leadership, and change management. Jessica loves discovering insights and tools to aid leaders in steering their teams and creating a healthy, trusting work atmosphere and to improve communication.

Jessica will speak about the power of emotional intelligence in the workplace and will focus on how she has seen this applied in industries she’s been most involved including higher education, healthcare, and small business.  

She and her husband have lived and worked in Kettering, Ohio, since 2014. Her husband works for the parks and recreation department for the city of Kettering and they also co-founded a local coffee roasting company and have launched a coffee line (Enneagram Coffee) to encourage growing your own emotional intelligence while enjoying specialty coffee.

45 years of experience in civil engineering, concentrated on highway planning and design.

National Urban County Engineer of the Year, 2016, National Association of County Engineers
Immediate Past President, County Engineers Association of Ohio (CEAO)
Past President, Transportation Officials Division, ARTBA.
Board Member and Past President, We Care Arts
Past President, DSPE.
Past President of ACEC Ohio.
Past Chair of Ohio Council, ASCE.
Past Board Member, Ohio Contractors Association.

Specialties: Have made numerous presentations at regional and national conferences and published in regional and national magazines related to various transportation engineering topics

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Neal Gittleman
Artistic Director and Conductor, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra

Neal Gittleman enjoys a career and reputation of international dimensions. With the historic merger of the Dayton Ballet, Dayton Opera and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra into the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance in July 2012, his expanded conducting duties include frequent performances with the Ballet and Opera.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Neal Gittleman graduated from Yale University in 1975. He continued his musical studies with the eminent teachers Nadia Boulanger and Annette Dieudonné in Paris, Hugh Ross at the Manhattan School of Music and Charles Bruck at both the Pierre Monteux Domaine School and the Hartt School of Music, where he was the recipient of the Karl Böhm Fellowship. In 1984, he was the Second Prize Winner of Geneva’s Ernest Ansermet International Conducting Competition, and, two years later, he was awarded Third Prize at the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition in New York City. In 1989, he was selected for the American Conductors Program at the American Symphony Orchestra League’s annual conference in San Francisco. In May 2014, he was awarded a 2014 Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio.

Neal Gittleman inspires each listener’s imagination with his unique programming, in-depth comments, easygoing style and infectious enthusiasm for music. His focus is to make symphonic music readily available, as well as appreciated, by all musical tastes. Under his direction, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra has received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music nine times. Neal Gittleman will celebrate his 25th season with the DPO in the 2019–2020 concert season.

Neal Gittleman and his wife, Lisa Fry, make their home in Dayton.

Jim Ghory, in addition to being an active member of our Kettering Rotary Club, is an Associate Vice President, and a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley.

In addition to being an active member of the Kettering Rotary Club, Mark is the Kettering City Manager.
 

We're please to have Amanda George join us via ZOOM! Amanda was part of our Group Study Exchange in 2013. Amanda is an Educational consultant, life coach, speaker, mentor and counsellor with more than 13 years’ experience working with children, teenagers, tweenagers and young adults.  

My name Amy Zahora, Executive Director, Miami Valley Restaurant Association. I have been the executive director since 2004. I run the association a little different than your typical association. While we do have cost savings programs, my main focus is promoting the restaurants to help create public awareness mainly thru events. 

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”   Einstein didn’t say it but the truth is still there!  Bees are a constant source of inspiration and mystery challenged by mankind’s greed.

Dr. Peter Bath Bio:

Dr. Bath has more than 42 years’ experience working in a variety of leadership roles in health care, higher education and church congregations – locally as President of Kettering College for 10 years in the 90s and Pastor of the Kettering Adventist Church for 10 years in the 80s.  Building community has been a consistent theme throughout his ministry, networking communities and resources to bring about both understanding and response to the needs of the people. “…seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” Jer 29:7 

Peter and Catherine have been married 43 years. Their interests include sailing, skiing, scuba diving, music, camping and bee-keeping.  Their family includes three daughters, two sons- in- law, three grandsons and one granddaughter, most of whom reside in Ohio or the Washington D.C. area except for Gillian who is living in London England.

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