Past Speakers: 2006-2007
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 Steve Lazarus
Failing Retirement: Some Stories from a Four-Career Life Career Life
Steve Lazarus is founder and managing director of ARCH Venture Partners. Career highlights include eight years as President and CEO of ARCH Development Corporation and Associate Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 1992, he and three colleagues spun out of the university to found ARCH Venture Partners, a seed and early stage venture capital fund that, 20 years later, has over a billion dollars under management and has created over 100 new high-technology companies.
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 Charles Knight
Performance Without Compromise: How Emerson Consistently Achieves Winning Results
Charles Knight did not want to be recorded
Charles F. Knight, widely recognized for his management expertise by Fortune, Forbes and numerous other business publications, will discuss his new book, Performance Without Compromise: How Emerson Consistently Achieves Winning Results, which reveals the Emerson management process in detail for the first time. Remarkably smart and simple, Emerson's system consists of six vital management tenets. Knight will discuss the tools and principles that can help any company manage successfully in extraordinary economic times.
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 Doug Lennick
Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance & Leadership Success
Legendary for his innovative approaches to developing individuals and organizations, numerous Fortune 500 executives rely on Doug Lennick for his insights on enhancing leadership and organizational performance. Doug Lennick will discuss his powerful book Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success. The book illuminates the prevailing correlation between strong moral principles and business success. Lennick will present the specific competencies that comprise moral intelligence and show effectively how to promote it throughout the organization.
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 John C. Bogle
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
John C. Bogle is a pioneer of the mutual funds industry. He established Vanguard Capital Management in 1974, serving as Vanguard's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000 when he became President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. John Bogle introduced the first index mutual fund and has sought throughout his career to create investment vehicles that are low cost and low maintenance. Called one of the four "giants of the 20th century" by Fortune magazine in 1999, John Bogle has left his stamp far beyond the walls of Pennsylvania-based Vanguard.
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 General John T (Jack) Chain, Jr. - General (Retired four-star Air Force officer
Lessons Learned from 35 Years in the Air Force and 15 Years in the Corporate World
General Chain will impart the wisdom gained from his 50 years of experience – from time spent as a fighter pilot to two years of combat in Vietnam and Thailand to his leadership roles in corporate America. The General’s military career culminated in serving as the Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command. He’ll share stories of lessons learned the hard way and what he learned from many of his outstanding mentors.
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 Michael Sheehan
The Three M’s of Leadership Communication: Medium, Message and the Messenger
Michael Sheehan will share his expertise on the difficult task of conveying values-based messages to the public. An expert in his field, he has coached more presidents, vice presidents, cabinet secretaries, governors and members of Congress than anyone in the country. Highlights include coaching Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jr., John Kerry, John Edwards, Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen for their televised presidential and vice presidential debates, as well as leading the training for all major speakers at several Democratic National Conventions.
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 Pietra Rivoli
The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
Pietra Rivoli uses the story of the T-shirt, from her uniquely entertaining business book, to illustrate major issues of the globalization debate. The result is a surprising, enlightening and balanced look at one of the major topics of our time. As a speaker, she takes the listener on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the moral, economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple T-shirt. At each stage of the T-shirt’s life, the moral challenges faced by both business people and societies show the inseparability of economic and ethical decisions.
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 Stephanie (Steffie) Allen
Women's Hall of Fame, President of AthenA Group, Chairman of Women'sVision Foundation
A spirited combination of business visionary, women’s advocate and civic leader, Steffie Allen will address the changes facing corporate leaders as they pilot their organizations toward new galaxies—most critically, changes in the workforces that they lead. She will challenge leaders who still believes they can lead in ways that worked in the past and are not prepared for the “new crew.” Steffie will present a model of leadership at a new level - a framework for leading ethically and authentically, creating real relationships and community and serving as public stewards.
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Dan L. Ritchie DU Chancellor Emeritus
What it Means to Lead with Values and Inspiration
This is an extraordinary opportunity to hear DU Chancellor Emeritus Daniel L. Ritchie speak about values, ethics and what it means to be a leader.
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 Nancy Tuor -Vice Chair, Kaiser-Hill Company, CH2M HILL
Making the Impossible Possible (On the cleanup of Rocky Flats, former nuclear weapons plant outside of Denver)
As Vice Chair for CH2M HILL, Nancy Tuor has assumed a wide array of leadership roles during her distinguished 25-year career with the firm. She is currently responsible for strategic planning, governmental affairs, strategic communications and technology commercialization. Nancy Tuor also leads a newly-established corporate development task group that will support the acquisition aspect of the firm’s energy business expansion efforts.
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 Roundtable with Arun Gandhi and other religious leaders
RELIGION ROUNDTABLE
Arun Gandhi, David Trickett, Rabbi Franklin, Reverend Cynthia James and Imam Ibrahimi Kazeroon
We often say that our values must be consistent whether we are at home dealing with family or at work interacting with customers and employees. There is no religion that restricts the values learned to the confines of worship. These values are to be carried throughout all aspects of one’s life. Can we hold money and materialism as our core value and still believe that we are leading an ethical life? How do we deal with the conflict between profit and empathy or justice? Is the conflict between materialism and higher values reconcilable? Arun Gandhi, David Trickett, Rabbi Franklin, Reverend Cynthia James and Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni will share their insights in respect to materialism and capitalism through a roundtable discussion.
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