A
chief dream maker is a master at developing people and organizations. As
early as high school, Dr. Sun coached other runners on the track team
and achieved great success. In college, he refined his leadership skills
to coach a dance team toward their first-ever, national finals
qualification. As an executive development expert, he’s taught many
leaders the basic principles that reshaped life as they knew it. Today,
Dr. Sun is the owner of multiple businesses, a renowned consultant and a
well-respected educator and researcher around the world. His
work/expertise has been featured and/or recognized by ABC, NBC,
Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc Magazine, Harvard Management Update, Columbus
CEO, Diversity Inc, HR.com, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Business First
and many more. Dr. Sun was featured on
ABC commenting on the President Debate of 2004, on
NBC for the 2005 New Year's show and
2007 New Year’s Resolution. Furthermore, his latest research has
repeatedly received the attention of a world audience: the International
Journal on Business and Economics invited Dr. Sun to present his studies
and expertise at the Global Conference on Business and Economics in 2007
for a 3rd appearance; this one was in Rome, Italy.
Furthermore, Dr. Sun was selected as The Faculty of the Year and
received the honor of virtually presenting to a UN Global Forum in 2006.
In July of 2007, a major publishing company (Praeger/Greenwood) honored
Dr. Sun by publishing his research in a new book titled:
Survival Tactics (look for it on
Amazon). Currently, Dr. Sun has appointments at 7 different
universities that stretch across the world from Southern New Hampshire
University in the east to Argosy University in the west. It also
stretches across the world from the Far East (CityU in Beijing, China)
to the south Atlantic (University of Virgin Islands). Recently, Dr.
Sun’s work has led him to being appointed as the Dean for the School of
Business with the
Swiss Management Center to develop the most innovative learning
programs for the world. Professionally, he guides/consults leaders on
workplace stress, change and organizational learning systems. Dr. Sun
designs and facilitates leadership development programs with many
organizations such as Leadership Worthington. Recently, he had the honor
to teach leadership in China with many fortune 500 Chinese executives
and he also presented at the
14th Annual National Conference on Diversity, Race and
Learning at the Ohio State University in May, 2008. As you get to
know Dr. Sun, you’ll personally experience the passion that he has for
helping people live their dreams.
Background
Dr. Sun was born in Shanghai, China and moved to the US
when he was 10 years old. At a very young age, Ted had to learn to
survive and mastered the art of street smarts while living in the city
of New York as an immigrant with nothing. After three years of tough
city-life, he moved to Columbus, Ohio at the age 13 and has been here
ever since.
Ted’s desire to help people succeed hit him like a ton of bricks in High
School. As a district track champion, he trained a group of younger
runners. An indescribable excitement hit him as these runners won their
first race. It was a life changing moment to go from being successful
himself to playing a critical role in helping others to succeed.
Ted has carved a path of success in each and every role he has played.
He coached many organizations to national success such as Ohio State
University ’s first-ever national finals appearance in Dance Team
competition. Ted was also one of three Outstanding Senior of the Year
for Mechanical Engineer at Ohio State. While studying for his MBA, he
led the class as the class representative. He was awarded the Service
Legend award after only one year of service in a national
telecommunications company. Today, Dr. Sun's book (Survival
Tactics) is shaking up the business world, helping leaders make
incredible impacts.
Education
Not fully understanding the feeling that came from
helping others achieve success, Ted’s initial interests were in
engineering. At The Ohio State University (OSU), he successfully pursued
a BS in Mechanical Engineering with honors. Shortly after, he began to
consciously realize the incredible feeling of helping people succeed.
Thus, Dr. Sun completed an MBA from OSU in hopes to create a bigger
impact by reaching more people in management. He also holds a Doctorate
degree in Management on Organizational Leadership. Currently, he is
pursuing a second doctorate in Organizational Psychology.
In addition to his education, Dr. Sun is also part of the faculty at The
Ohio State University, the University of Phoenix, Argosy University and
Southern New Hampshire University. Using his expertise in working with
various organizations at all levels, he teaches graduate-level classes
(online and on-grounds) such as Organizational Behavior, Management
Ethics, Leadership and Computer Information Science to students across
the world and in Columbus, Ohio. Even in an online environment, Dr. Sun
has changed many lives in the US as well as other countries such as
Saudi Arabia, the Bahamas, Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Coaching
While at OSU, Dr. Sun began his career at coaching. As
the trainer for the Ohio State dance team, Dr. Sun played a key role in
their first ever National Finals appearance. He also had a successful
track club that won every track meet as a team at OSU. With each
position, he coached people to regional and national successes. He
learned to love the feeling of the team’s success.
Dr. Sun started ballroom dancing in 1995 and has achieved a number of
championship titles on a national and inter-continental level. His
passion is to dance and allowing music to carry him away into the magic
of a new language is only second to his love of helping people succeed
at their dreams. This is the source of much of his incredible
creativity.
Also, working with various management teams across the country, Dr. Sun
played a vital part to the network management implementations for
Verizon Wireless. He not only led a team of specialists to implement
systems, Dr. Sun also coached many executives and their teams through
the tough transitions of a merger. Within the first year of his
employment, Dr. Sun was one of the youngest to receive the most
prestigious awards in the company – A Service Legend. Today, he
continues to enable leaders toward their dreams.
As the founder and principal partner, Dr. Sun is leading Executive
Balance and Knowledge Builders toward a new horizon of success.
Professionally:
Today, Dr. Sun owns Creative Innovations Enterprises – a holding company
with 3 different entities. In addition, he is also the founder of
Executive Balance and Knowledge Builders. Leadership Worthington has
also recognized his expertise by engaging his services to lead the
city’s premier leadership Development Program. His role as the Chief
Dream Maker is to help change the world and enable others to achieve
their dreams. Dr. Sun’s successes with his clients have been highlighted
by a number of features in Business First and Columbus CEO. His
expertise is well recognized by both ABC and NBC news as they have
featured his commentary on various subjects such as the Blackout of 2003
and the Presidential Debates 2004. Multiple universities such as Ohio
State University, Argosy University (Phoenix, Arizona), and Southern New
Hampshire University frequently engage Dr. Sun’s services to design
and/or lead both undergraduate and graduate level courses. Dr. Sun is
also nationally respected for his expertise from the Los Angeles Times
and Chicago Tribune to Entrepreneur and Inc, magazines, and even the
Harvard Management Update. Recently, Dr. Sun was honored with a book
contract by
Greenwood/Praeger and the United Nations Global Forum as a virtual
presenter for the Global
Forum: Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Management Knowledge
Leading Positive Change.
Vision
Dr. Sun enjoys his life greatly due to the fact that he
is living his dream of helping people. With each new piece of knowledge
he gains from his research and teaching, he finds that most of it has
tremendous power in creating learning organizations where people are
happy with the improvements in their life. As he continues to live the
reality of living a life of endless possibilities, his success is
defined in the number of hearts he can touch in helping others reach
their goals.
The personal vision of Dr. Sun and his organization as
of June, 2007:
Making systemic shifts in thought around the world and leading
humanity toward evolution from Within
Whether you’re looking at Dr. Sun as a coach, a
facilitator/presenter, you can expect the best from his innovative
educational methods and in-depth content. Whatever your goals are, he’ll
help you get there. Guaranteed!
To Your Success and the Achievement of your dreams,
