Leading Matters

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Join Tina Seelig, Executive Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS) as she interviews KHS Founder and Director John Hennessy on leadership in the newest podcast from KHS. The topics they discuss are drawn from the Knight-Hennessy Leadership Model, which forms the basis of the KHS leadership development program.

In their conversations, John shares about his experiences and what he has learned in different leadership roles, including as a faculty member, entrepreneur, president of Stanford University, and founder of Knight-Hennessy Scholars.

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Tina Seelig is Executive Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, the largest, university-wide, fully-endowed graduate fellowship in the world, and Director Emeritus of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She teaches courses in the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford and has led several fellowship programs in the School of Engineering that are focused on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Seelig earned her PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford Medical School, and has been a management consultant, entrepreneur, and author of 17 books, including inGenius, Creativity Rules, and What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20. She is the recipient of the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the Olympus Innovation Award, and the Silicon Valley Visionary Award.

John Hennessy is co-founder and Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars. He is Chairman of the Board of Alphabet and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Hennessy has been on the faculty of Stanford University since 1977 and previously served as the President of the university for 16 years after roles including chair of Computer Science, dean of the School of Engineering, and university provost.

He co-founded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications. He and Dave Patterson were awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Prize for 2017 and the National Academy of Engineering Draper Prize in 2022.