INTERFACE Omaha
Presented by Derek Kruse • Chief Information Officer, Douglas Omaha Technology Commission
Mindfulness is for everyone—yes, even you! Exponential Mindfulness delivers practical tools to finally make mindfulness accessible and useful across all aspects of your personal and professional life. This presentation will introduce you to a universal and easy to implement mindfulness management framework. Now is the time to break through difficult challenges, capitalize on mindful momentum, and build resiliency for compounding improvement.
Presented by: Derek Kruse / Chief Information Officer, Douglas Omaha Technology Commission
Derek Kruse has over 25 years of organizational leadership experience. He has held leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies, the nonprofit sector, government, and higher education. Derek is the Chief Information Officer for the Douglas Omaha Technology Commission (DOTComm), which serves the technology needs of the City of Omaha and Douglas County in Nebraska. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Creighton University in the fields of strategy and entrepreneurship.
He recently launched Exponential Mindfulness to help people harness the power they already have by using simple tools to overcome challenges and build resilience for compounding growth.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, where he played varsity basketball for four years; an MBA from Emory’s Goizueta Business School and a DBA from Creighton's Heider College of Business. He also holds a certificate in Strategy Execution for Public Leadership from Harvard and a certificate in Mindful Leadership from Spirit Rock.
Derek, his wife Dana, and their two children are native Cornhuskers and live in Bennington, NE.
