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In this episode of Critical Thinking, Amit Popat, Global Head of Financial Institutions at Mercer, is joined by Han Dieperink, Chief Investment Officer of Auréus, and Richard De Groot, Head of Global Investment Center at ABN AMRO Bank. Recorded live at Mercer's Global Investment Forum, together they explore how the wealth management industry is adapting to shifting client expectations, regulatory pressures, and advancements in technology.Key takeaways include:Evolving client expectations: While the fundamentals of wealth management remain unchanged, clients now demand greater personalisation, transparency, and access to alternative investments.The role of AI and technology: AI-driven tools are helping to streamline operations, improve client communication, and enhance investment decision-making. However, firms must balance automation with the human relationships that remain central to private banking.Navigating regulatory challenges: Increasing compliance requirements place significant demands on IT budgets and resources, forcing firms to prioritise innovation while meeting regulatory obligations.The rise of private markets: Alternative investments, particularly private equity, are becoming more accessible to wealth management clients. However, challenges remain in fund selection, operational due diligence, and scaling access to a broader client base.This content is for institutional investors and for information purposes only. It does not contain investment, financial, legal, tax or any other advice and should not be relied upon for this purpose. The materials are not tailored to your particular personal and/or financial situation. If you require advice based on your specific circumstances, you should contact a professional adviser. Opinions expressed are those of the speakers as of the date of the recording, are subject to change without notice and do not necessarily reflect Mercer's opinions.This does not constitute an offer or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell securities, commodities and/or any other financial instruments or products or constitute a solicitation on behalf of any of the investment managers, their affiliates. For the avoidance of doubt, this is not formal investment advice to allow any party to transact. Additional advice will be required in advance of entering into any contract. Read our full important notices - click here

Welcome to Episode 28, Season 9 of A CEO's Virtual Mentor®  In this compelling episode of Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor, we are joined by Dan Bane, the retired CEO of Trader Joe's, to explore the remarkable journey of leading one of the most iconic brands in modern retail through a period of unprecedented growth. From 2001 to 2023, Trader Joe's expanded from 150 to 547 stores, maintaining its unique culture, customer-centric approach, and reputation for excellence. This conversation dives into the leadership strategies that guided this transformation, offering invaluable lessons for CEOs and board members navigating rapid growth.  The episode is divided into five insightful segments:  A Brief History of Trader Joe's: A look back at the company's origins under founder Joe Coulombe and its transition into a national retail powerhouse following its acquisition by Theo Albrecht.  Dan Bane's Leadership Journey: From his roots in accounting and retail to his role as CEO, Dan shares how his experiences shaped his approach to leadership and decision-making.  Managing Explosive Growth: Drawing on Steven Bragg's framework from his book Managing Explosive Corporate Growth, the discussion highlights how Dan balanced strategy, operational efficiency, and culture to navigate geographic expansion and product innovation.  Trader Joe's Seven Core Values: Dan reflects on the values he introduced as CEO, including integrity, a product-driven mindset, and a “wow” customer experience. These principles were pivotal in fostering accountability, innovation, and a scalable culture that remained true to Trader Joe's identity.  Lessons Learned: In the concluding segment, Dan shares parting insights on leadership, emphasizing the importance of talent development, customer connection, and a relentless focus on continuous improvement.  Program Guide A CEO's Virtual Mentor Episode 28 “Leading Explosive Growth” with Dan Bane, Retired President and CEO of Trader Joe's  0:00 Introduction to the program and to guest, Mr. Dan Bane, Retired President and CEO of Trader Joe's. 4:27 Part 1: A brief history of Trader Joe's 9:21 Break 1 9:36 Part 2: Dan Bane's experience leading to Trader Joe's 14:40 Break 2 15:02 Part 3: Becoming CEO and the Trader Joe's seven core values formation 22:05 Break 3 22:55 Part 4: Becoming CEO and the Trader Joe's seven core values formation 33:44 Break 4 43:57 Break 5 1:02:35 Break 6 1:03:02 Part 5: Managing explosive growth reprised, lessons learned, and parting thoughts 1:18:24 Closing comments  We would like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast.  Informative and Helpful Links  Amazon.com: Managing Explosive Corporate Growth eBook : Bragg, Steven M.: Kindle Store         Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Director of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 23 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of corporate clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 34-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Join the Lyceum Circle of Leaders® a community of forward-thinking leaders dedicated to improving leadership through shared intelligence. Please spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.  Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.          This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2025. All rights reserved.   

This week, the Leaders in Finance podcast welcomes is Dan Dorner, member of the Executive Board of ABN AMRO Bank.  Dan is a banker and executive with over 25 years of experience in the financial sector. Since November 2021, he holds the position of Chief Commercial Officer Corporate Banking at ABN AMRO. Dan Dorner earned his bachelor degree in banking and capital markets and an MBA in business administration, supplemented by various management courses at institutions such as Nyenrode, IMD and INSEAD.   Finally, he has two kids, is married and grew up in Romania and currently lives in Amsterdam.     *** Books:  Man's Search for Meanin

Frans Westdorp, Product Owner Trade Finance, ABN AMRO Bank & Richard White, Head of Trade Finance, Commercial Banking Applications (CBA)ABN AMRO Bank recently went live with Norwegian software vendor Commercial Banking Applications' Transaction Due Diligence (TDD) functionality within CBA's IBAS GBF - Global Banking Factory. The bank is now using TDD across its global trade finance operations to monitor transactions and flag suspicious activity, helping to combat financial crime and ensure full compliance with national and international regulation. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence spoke to Franz Westdorp of ABN Amro (pictured) and Richard White of CBA about the implementation and the efficiencies it has created. 

In this episode of ScamRangers, we dive into the transformative power of storytelling with Niels Vink and Kathelijne Swaak from ABN AMRO's fraud prevention team. Discover how ABN AMRO is flipping social engineering on its head by using real customer stories to strengthen their fraud awareness strategies.Learn how this innovative approach creates a deeper emotional connection with customers, making fraud prevention messages more memorable and impactful. We also explore insights from Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on decision-making and how ABN AMRO leverages these principles to better engage and empower their customers.Key Takeaways: How storytelling can effectively communicate scam risks and avoid fear. The role of emotional connection in enhancing customer engagement. The impact of internal collaboration on successful fraud prevention campaigns. Addressing new fraud threats and reaching diverse audiences.Tune in to see how ABN AMRO is leading the charge in protecting customers through the art of storytelling.Here is more information about our speakers:Niels Vink:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsvink1/Kathelijne Swaak: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathelijneswaak/This podcast is hosted by Ayelet Biger-Levin who spent the last 15 years building technology to help financial institutions authenticate their customers and identify fraud. She believes that when it comes to scams, the story starts well before the transaction. She has created this podcast to talk about the human side of scams, and to learn from people who have decided to dedicate their lives to speaking up on behalf of scam victims and who take action to solve this problem. Be sure to follow her on LinkedIn and reach out to learn about her additional activities in this space. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayelet-biger-levin/ ScamRanger: https://scamranger.ai/

Does the term "Blockchain" mean anything to you? Are you curious to discover what the fuss is all about and how it will impact you and your business?Today you can gain a great understanding of blockchain's potential in the procure-to-pay landscape directly from a senior business leader.ABOUT THE GUESTMy guest today is Amit Malik, the President of WadzPay Japan, Asia Pacific, & Australia with a remarkable career spanning Aviva Life Insurance, Glaxo Smith Kline, and more.Amit is a business, customer and people focused leader, with strong beliefs in inclusion and diversity. He has had an outstanding career, having worked in the C-Suite for many years in positions including CEO, Managing Director and Vice President at companies including ABN Amro Bank, Bank of America and Aviva.In this episode, I am excited to learn more about, and discuss, blockchain technology with Amit.To discover more about Amit and Wadzpay follow these links:Website:        https://wadzpay.com/ Facebook:     https://www.facebook.com/WadzPay/ Instagram:    https://www.instagram.com/wadzpay/ Twitter:          https://twitter.com/wadzpay YouTube:       https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZsMD2r_6d676L8alwl5kEA Threads:        https://www.threads.net/@wadzpay LinkedIn:       https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik26/ABOUT THE HOSTMy name is Dave Barr and am the Founder and Owner of RLB Purchasing Consultancy Limited.I have been working in Procurement for over 25 years and have had the joy of working in a number of global manufacturing and service industries throughout this time.I am passionate about self development, business improvement, saving money, buying quality goods and services, developing positive and effective working relationships with suppliers and colleagues, and driving improvement through out the supply chain.Now I wish to share this knowledge and that of highly skilled and competent people with you, the listener, in order that you may hopefully benefit from this information.CONTACT DETAILS@The Real Life BuyerEmail: david@thereallifebuyer.co.ukWebsite: https://linktr.ee/thereallifebuyerFor Purchasing Consultancy services:https://rlbpurchasingconsultancy.co.uk/Email: contact@rlbpurchasingconsultancy.co.ukFind and Follow me @reallifebuyer on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads and TikTok.Click here for some Guest Courses - https://www.thereallifebuyer.co.uk/guest-courses/Click here for some Guest Publications - https://www.thereallifebuyer.co.uk/guest-publications

Jos van de Kerkhof is werkzaam als Country Manager bij Visa Nederland. Jos behaalde zijn bachelor in Finance, Management and Organisation aan de Universiteit van Tilburg, en volgde een Master in Supply Chain Management aan de Universiteit van Maastricht. Tijdens zijn studententijd was hij oprichter en eigenaar van The Jeans Outlet, een kleine online jeanswinkel en daarnaast werkte hij als parttime medewerker bij Vodafone als technical support advisor en sales advisor. Vervolgens werkte Jos circa 10 jaar in diverse managementfuncties bij de Royal Bank of Scotland Group en ABN AMRO Bank, onder andere als Head of Payments & Open Banking Products. Voorafgaand aan zijn huidige functie bekleedde hij de positie van Director Products & Solutions voor Nederland en Zwitserland en werkte in de productorganisatie. Jos is 37 jaar, heeft een vriendin en twee jonge kinderen en woont in Huizen.   *** Op de hoogte blijven van Leaders in Finance? Abonneer je dan op de nieuwsbrief.    ***  Leaders in Finance wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door EY, MeDirect, RiskQuest, Kayak en Roland Berger.     ***  Vragen, suggesties of feedback? Graag! Via email: info@leadersinfinance.nl en check de website leadersinfinance.nl   *** Eerdere gasten bij de Leaders in Finance podcast waren onder andere: Klaas Knot (President DNB), Robert Swaak (CEO ABN AMRO), Frank Elderson (directie ECB), David Knibbe (CEO NN), Janine Vos (RvB Rabobank), Jos Baeten (CEO ASR), Nadine Klokke (CEO Knab), Gita Salden (CEO BNG Bank),  Annerie Vreugdenhil (CIO ING), Karien van Gennip (CEO VGZ), Maarten Edixhoven (CEO Van Lanschot Kempen), Jeroen Rijpkema (CEO Triodos), Chantal Vergouw (CEO Interpolis), Geert Lippens (CEO BNP Paribas NL), Simone Huis in 't Veld (CEO Euronext), Nout Wellink (ex DNB), Onno Ruding (ex minister van financiën), Maurice Oostendorp en Martijn Gribnau (CEOs Volksbank), Yoram Schwarz (CEO Movir), Laura van Geest (Bestuursvoorzitter AFM) Katja Kok (CEO Van Lanschot CH), Ali Niknam (CEO bunq), Nick Bortot (CEO BUX), Petri Hofsté (Commissaris, o.a.  Rabobank en Achmea), Peter Paul de Vries (CEO Value8), Barbara Baarsma (CEO Rabo Carbon Bank), Jan van Rutte (Commissaris PGGM, BNG Bank, vml CFO ABN AMRO), Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (Chair Aon Holdings), Annemarie Jorritsma (o.a. Voorzitter NVP), Lidwin van Velden (CEO Waterschapsbank), Don Ginsel (CEO Holland Fintech), Jan-Willem van der Schoot (CEO Mastercard NL), Tjeerd Bosklopper (CEO NN NL), Joanne Kellermann (Chair PFZW), Steven Maijoor (Chair ESMA), Radboud Vlaar (CEO Finch Capital), Karin van Baardwijk (CEO Robeco) en Annette Mosman (CEO APG). --> tussen haakjes de functie ten tijde van het interview  

Choy van der Hooft-Cheong is de Chief Commercial Officer Wealth Management in de Executive Board van ABN AMRO.  Ze werd eind 2021 benoemd en heeft meer dan 25 jaar ervaring in de financiële sector. Ze begon haar carrière in 1996 als management trainee bij ABN AMRO Bank en vervolgens bekleedde ze diverse management functies, waaronder relatief recent de rol van Head of Corporate Sales Global Markets en Chief Executive van ABN AMRO MeesPierson. Ook is ze projectmanager geweest bij ABN AMRO Business Services India in Mumbai. Choy is bestuursvoorzitter van Talent naar de Top en wil daarmee haar steentje bijdragen om de top van het bedrijfsleven inclusiever te maken. Bovendien is zij de oprichter en bestuurslid van de Stichting Children's Khazana Foundation, die als missie heeft kinderen te ondersteunen bij het ontwikkelen van solide basisvaardigheden op het gebied van financiën.  Tot slot, Choy is 52 jaar, getrouwd en woont in de buurt van Amsterdam.   *** Op de hoogte blijven van Leaders in Finance? Abonneer je dan op de nieuwsbrief.  ***  Vragen, suggesties of feedback? Graag! Via email: info@leadersinfinance.nl en check de website leadersinfinance.nl ***  Leaders in Finance wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Kayak, EY, Odgers Berndtson en Roland Berger.     *** Eerdere gasten bij de Leaders in Finance podcast waren onder andere: Klaas Knot (President DNB), Robert Swaak (CEO ABN AMRO), Frank Elderson (directie ECB), David Knibbe (CEO NN), Janine Vos (RvB Rabobank), Jos Baeten (CEO ASR), Nadine Klokke (CEO Knab), Gita Salden (CEO BNG Bank),  Annerie Vreugdenhil (CIO ING), Karien van Gennip (CEO VGZ), Maarten Edixhoven (CEO Van Lanschot Kempen), Jeroen Rijpkema (CEO Triodos), Chantal Vergouw (CEO Interpolis), Geert Lippens (CEO BNP Paribas NL), Simone Huis in 't Veld (CEO Euronext), Nout Wellink (ex DNB), Onno Ruding (ex minister van financiën), Maurice Oostendorp en Martijn Gribnau (CEOs Volksbank), Yoram Schwarz (CEO Movir), Laura van Geest (Bestuursvoorzitter AFM) Katja Kok (CEO Van Lanschot CH), Ali Niknam (CEO bunq), Nick Bortot (CEO BUX), Peter Paul de Vries (CEO Value8), Barbara Baarsma (CEO Rabo Carbon Bank), Jan van Rutte (Commissaris PGGM, BNG Bank, vml CFO ABN AMRO), Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (Chair Aon Holdings), Annemarie Jorritsma (o.a. Voorzitter NVP), Lidwin van Velden (CEO Waterschapsbank), Don Ginsel (CEO Holland Fintech), Jan-Willem van der Schoot (CEO Mastercard NL), Tjeerd Bosklopper (CEO NN NL), Joanne Kellermann (Chair PFZW), Steven Maijoor (Chair ESMA), Radboud Vlaar (CEO Finch Capital), Karin van Baardwijk (CEO Robeco) en Annette Mosman (CEO APG). --> tussen haakjes de functie ten tijde van het interview

Professor Wan Wongsunwai, Associate Dean of MBA Programmes and Director of MBA Programmes at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School, discusses what makes the CUHK MBA unique, the school's admissions process, career opportunities and more. Topics Introduction (0:00) Program Highlights - What Makes the CUHK MBA Unique? (4:30) CUHK MBA Admissions & Scholarships - How to Improve Your Chances? (27:30) Career Opportunities after CUHK Business School - What to Know & How to Prepare (47:20) About Our Guest Professor Wan Wongsunwai is Associate Dean of MBA Programmes and Director of MBA Programmes at CUHK Business School, where he has worked for over 7 years. His research interests include financial reporting quality, corporate governance, entrepreneurship and private equity. Before coming to CUHK, he taught and researched at Insead and Northwestern Kellogg Professor Wan earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Imperial College and later received his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. Prior to obtaining his doctoral degree, he worked at KPMG in London, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Hong Kong and then as an equity analyst with ABN AMRO Bank in Hong Kong, covering software and information technology. Show Notes CUHK Full-time MBA Touch MBA Episode write-up and overview of the CUHK Full-time MBA:  https://touchmba.com/chinese-university-of-hong-kong-cuhk-mba-program-admissions-interview-wan-wongsunwai Get free, personalized school selection help at Touch MBA: https://touchmba.com

Professor Wan Wongsunwai, Associate Dean of MBA Programmes and Director of MBA Programmes at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School, discusses what makes the CUHK MBA unique, the school's admissions process, career opportunities and more. Topics Introduction (0:00) Program Highlights - What Makes the CUHK MBA Unique? (4:30) CUHK MBA Admissions & Scholarships - How to Improve Your Chances? (27:30) Career Opportunities after CUHK Business School - What to Know & How to Prepare (47:20) About Our Guest Professor Wan Wongsunwai is Associate Dean of MBA Programmes and Director of MBA Programmes at CUHK Business School, where he has worked for over 7 years. His research interests include financial reporting quality, corporate governance, entrepreneurship and private equity. Before coming to CUHK, he taught and researched at Insead and Northwestern Kellogg Professor Wan earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Imperial College and later received his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. Prior to obtaining his doctoral degree, he worked at KPMG in London, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Hong Kong and then as an equity analyst with ABN AMRO Bank in Hong Kong, covering software and information technology. Show Notes CUHK Full-time MBA Touch MBA Episode write-up and overview of the CUHK Full-time MBA:  https://touchmba.com/chinese-university-of-hong-kong-cuhk-mba-program-admissions-interview-wan-wongsunwai Get free, personalized school selection help at Touch MBA: https://touchmba.com

Steeds meer kinderen tussen de 8 en 12 jaar hebben een eigen betaalrekening en betalen met een eigen bankpas, blijkt uit recent onderzoek van ABN AMRO. Hebben kinderen daardoor minder zicht op hun inkomsten en uitgaven? En hebben ze nog een idee wat hun geld eigenlijk waard is? Hoe bevorder je het gesprek over geldzaken? Podcastredacteur Arno Lagendijk spreekt hierover met Babet Boswinkel van ABN AMRO. Ook gaat hij in gesprek met leerlingen uit groep 5 en 8 van de Willem Farelschool in Hoevelaken. Een van de vragen die ze kregen is: Wat is voor jou van grote waarde, terwijl het in euro's uitgedrukt weinig waarde heeft? „Mijn knuffelbeer”, zei de een. Een ander: „Een boekje dat ik van mijn oma kreeg kort voor ze overleed.”

https://youtu.be/FDw4G2K8kM8 Ian Schnoor is the Executive Director of the Financial Modeling Institute (FMI) and Founder of The Marquee Group, a leading financial modeling training, consulting, and accreditation provider. We discuss financial modeling essentials, the basics of giving equity to your employees, and effective ways to attract and retain good employees.   --- Fear Not To Share Equity With Ian Schnoor My guest is Ian Schnoor, the Executive Director of the Financial Modeling Institute or FMI, and the President and Founder of The Marquee Group, a leading financial modeling training, consulting, and accreditation provider for finance's most important decision-making tool, the spreadsheet-based financial model. Ian, welcome to the show. Thank you, Steve. It's a real pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. If this happened many years ago, I would be extraordinarily excited because at the time, I was doing a lot of financial modeling and I was very into it. I'm not as into it now, but I'm still excited about having you on the show and bringing me up to date with what's happening in the financial modeling world. Tell me, how does one become a financial modeling entrepreneur? How did you get here? I would describe myself as an accidental entrepreneur, as I'm sure is the case for a lot of entrepreneurs. We didn't grow up and at five years old say, "I want to become an entrepreneur." I don't know that many people do. Based on my background and my personality, I thought I would be a corporate person for my whole career. I was always very interested in paying attention to what I was thinking and listening and being adaptive to change. I started my career as an investment banker. As you mentioned, I spent six years in banking. At the time, all banks trained all their own people. Every year a new cohort would come in, a bunch of new juniors would come in, and they would call people that were a little older me to train them. Every year, they'd say, "Ian, the new guys are coming. We need you to train them." I'd say, "Okay." I'd be working very hard. For a couple of weeks in the summer, I would be teaching all the new hires that had joined us. People always ask me, "How did you decide to leave banking?" I didn't. That was an easy decision. That decision was made for me. I always tell people that if you stick around in banking long enough, someone's going to make that decision for you at some point. It was after 9/11. I was working at Citibank. There were cuts every week. They were cutting offices, groups, and people, and our team got cut towards the end of 2001. The decision was not should I leave. The decision was what to do next. I had a couple of opportunities to join other banks right away, but it didn't feel right. I'm glad I listened to myself. I didn't feel ready to jump back into another banking role. I paid attention to what my body and my mind were saying. I thought about it. I thought about what could I do and what I like to do. I always loved teaching. That's how I got to a university. I tried to tutor people. I like teaching and modeling. I thought maybe I could try offering up the service to run modeling training and even some modeling consulting. I did that, and I thought I'll do it for 3 to 6 months to take a break from corporate life. I'll take a break for six months, and then I'll go back. It's been many years. I haven't gone back yet, but such is life. It was in a circuitous way. That's how it happened. I'm so fascinated to hear that because I was in a very similar situation. I was at ABN AMRO Bank, which was one of the competitors of Citibank at the time. I got the X about a year later than you did. I think it was September 6th, 2002. I rallied the opportunity to get out, do something else, and do my own thing. Anyway, you decided to teach people and to stay with financial modeling and get into it. What I'm really curious about is, how did you turn it into a business?

Welcome to Episode 27, Season 7 of A CEO's Virtual Mentor® Are you a new board member serving on a regulated company board, but from a non regulatory background? This episode is directed especially to newer board members and executives in utility companies regulated at the state and even federal levels.   My guest in this episode is Dr. Mark Jamison. Dr. Jamison is Director and Gerald Gunter Professor, Public Utility Research Center at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida in Gainesville. PURC is an internationally recognized academic center dedicated to research and to providing training in utility regulation and strategy to support effective utility policy, regulation, management, and leadership. PURC helps government and industry officials develop efficient utility infrastructure to better meet the needs of their customers. PURC's view is educated executives, employees, and board members, organizations benefit from better decision making and thus a more promising future.  Our discussion today is merely a survey of the history, development, structure, and process of utility regulation with advice on a few best practices in regulatory affairs posture and approach. Lyceum sees fitting coverage of the vast subject of regulation as well beyond this brief podcast. This is an appetizer.  For the main course - and to help you navigate more thoroughly through the changing regulatory landscape - please contact our guest Dr. Mark Jamison at the Public Utility Research Center.  For more about PURC, its ever-expanding body of research and its training courses, conferences and other events see the PURC webpage thought the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. See important hyperlinks in the program's album notes.    Program Guide   A CEO's Virtual Mentor Episode 27: A Regulatory Primer for Board Members with Non Regulatory Backgrounds  0:00     Introduction to the program and to guest, Dr. Mark Jamison  3:50     Part 1: The history of regulation 15:25   Break 1  15:45   Part 2: The structure of the regulatory commission  21:49   Break 2  22:09   Part 3: How does the regulator set prices?  30:01   Break 3  30:44   Part 4: Regulatory risk and strategies for dealing with risk  52:27   Closing comments We would like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast.  Thanks for listening.  We can't improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.    See you next time.  Informative and Helpful Links  ​PURC Webpage: https://warrington.ufl.edu/public-utility-research-center/   ​Links to Biographies of Guests: Mark A. Jamison ​Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Director of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 18 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of corporate clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 32-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders. Program Disclaimer  The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.  Follow Leadership Lyceum on:  Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com  LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC  Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com  This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2023. All rights reserved. 

Jan van Rutte is momenteel onder andere vice-voorzitter van de Raad van Commissarissen van BNG Bank, lid van de Raad van Commissarissen van PGGM en lid van de Raad van Toezicht van Healthcenter Hoenderdaal. Jan heeft voor zijn huidige betrekkingen een lange staat van dienst (40 plus jaar!) in de financiële sector. Zo was hij onder andere CEO van Fortis Bank Nederland, CFO van ABN AMRO Bank en later president commissaris van De Volksbank. Hij vervulde daarnaast een veelheid aan nevenfuncties. Hij startte zijn loopbaan in 1978 bij de Algemene Bank Nederland.  Jan studeerde Bedrijfseconomie aan de Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam. Jan is 72 jaar, woont met zijn vrouw in Driebergen en heeft 2 volwassen kinderen en 3 kleinkinderen.   *** Recent is het boek van Leaders in Finance verschenen: "100 Gesprekken: De mens achter het succes" - bestel het nu via de website!    *** Volg Leaders in Finance via de website. Volg Leaders in Finance via Linkedin. *** Op de hoogte blijven van Leaders in Finance? Abonneer je dan op de nieuwsbrief.  ***  Vragen, suggesties of feedback? Graag! Via email: info@leadersinfinance.nl ***  Leaders in Finance wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Kayak, EY, Odgers Berndtson en Roland Berger.    *** Eerdere gasten bij de Leaders in Finance podcast waren onder andere: Klaas Knot (President DNB), Robert Swaak (CEO ABN AMRO), Frank Elderson (directie ECB), David Knibbe (CEO NN), Janine Vos (RvB Rabobank), Jos Baeten (CEO ASR), Nadine Klokke (CEO Knab), Gita Salden (CEO BNG Bank),  Annerie Vreugdenhil (CIO ING), Karien van Gennip (CEO VGZ), Maarten Edixhoven (CEO Van Lanschot Kempen), Jeroen Rijpkema (CEO Triodos), Chantal Vergouw (CEO Interpolis), Simone Huis in 't Veld (CEO Euronext), Nout Wellink (ex DNB), Onno Ruding (ex minister van financiën), Maurice Oostendorp en Martijn Gribnau (CEOs Volksbank), Olaf Sleijpen (Director DNB), Allegra van Hövell-Patrizi (CEO Aegon NL), Yoram Schwarz (CEO Movir), Laura van Geest (Bestuursvoorzitter AFM) Katja Kok (CEO Van Lanschot CH), Ali Niknam (CEO bunq), Nick Bortot (CEO BUX), Matthijs Bierman (MD Triodos NL), Peter Paul de Vries (CEO Value8), Barbara Baarsma (CEO Rabo Carbon Bank), Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (Chair Aon Holdings), Annemarie Jorritsma (o.a. Voorzitter NVP), Lidwin van Velden (CEO Waterschapsbank), Don Ginsel (CEO Holland Fintech), Mary Pieterse-Bloem (Professor Erasmus), Jan-Willem van der Schoot (CEO Mastercard NL), Tjeerd Bosklopper (CEO NN NL), Joanne Kellermann (Chair PFZW), Steven Maijoor (Chair ESMA), Radboud Vlaar (CEO Finch Capital), Karin van Baardwijk (CEO Robeco) en Annette Mosman (CEO APG). --> tussen haakjes de functie ten tijde van het interview        

Welcome to Episode 26, Season 7, of the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor®. This episode coupled with the prior Episode 25 on Overcoming Homophily forms two episodes themed to span both Black History Month and Women's History Month. I'm joined in this program by four of five women who on May 1st, 2019, published together a collective autobiographical book titled The Energy Within Us. It is their stories across the arc of their lives from childhood environments and experiences that shaped them to, and through, their long careers in executive leadership roles in the energy industry. These women have a great deal in common. They're all dear friends. They're all accomplished executive leaders in the energy industry and their careers. They're all giving back by serving broader leadership roles in corporate and non-for-profit boardrooms and social service organizations. They all have unbounded generosity of spirit. And they all, as you will hear, exude the energy within themselves. The discursive style of our interview revealed a wealth of advice for current and future business leaders especially in the realm of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Topics covered include – role models, mentors and coaches, courage to challenge the status quo and hold leaders accountable, assumptions and misunderstandings, barriers to developing instrumental networks and receiving developmental feedback. Program Guide A CEO's Virtual Mentor Episode 26 The Energy Within Us A wide-ranging discussion about the upbringing and developmental experiences of four pioneering corporate leaders 0:00  Introduction to the program and to guests and authors Telisa Toliver, Carolyn Green, Joyce Hayes Giles, and Hilda Pinnix-Ragland. 2:54    Part 1: What motivated the authors to write their autobiographies? 15:04    Break 1 15:43    Part 2: Upbringing, Environment, and Foundational Experiences 15:49    Author Joyce Hayes Giles and segregated Mississippi 22:01    Background on Medgar Evers 24:00    Audio clip of speech of Medgar Evers 27:56    Audio clip of speech of Myrlie Evers Williams 31:35    Break 2 31:51    Author Hilda Pinnix-Ragland and the North Carolina farming community 36:49    Author Telisa Toliver and growing up in white communities in Oklahoma 43:08    Break 3 43:32    Part 3 Formative Decisions, Influencers, and Mentors 52:15    What is misunderstood about people? 56:02    Break 4 56:46    Part 4 Barriers to Professional Development: Forming Instrumental Networks and Critical Feedback and Coaching. 1:09:24    Break 5 1:09:42    Part 5: Conclusion and Closing Comments and Advice from the Authors 1:12:51    End of Program and Preview of Episode 27, a primer on the regulatory construct that regulated utilities operate within. We would like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast.  Thanks for listening.  We can't improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  See you next time.   Informative and Helpful Links  Amazon Link to the book. The Energy Within Us  https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Within-Illuminating-Perspective-Trailblazers/dp/1945875615 Links to Biographies of Guests  Joyce Hayes Giles https://dpsfdn.org/about/board-and-staff/joyce-hayes-giles-2/  Carolyn Green https://www.ase.org/biography/carolyn-green Telisa Toliver  https://www.aabe.org/docs/pages/19/file/Toliver%20-%20Short%20Bio%202013.pdf Hilda Pinnix Ragland  https://www.aabe.org/docs/fck/file/Leadership%20Profile%20-%20Hilda%20Pinnix%20Ragland.DOC Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Director of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 18 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of corporate clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 32-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders. Thanks for listening.  We can't improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues. Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.  Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Thanks for listening.  We can't improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2023. All rights reserved.

Welcome to the 65th Episode of the #100MasterCoaches​ Show. In this episode, Mel interviews Andrew Sheridan from Luxembourg. Andrew is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), holds the Master Certified Coach (ICF), and is a founder, past (and once again current) President of the ICF Luxembourg Chapter. Andrew is a founding partner of several international firms specializing in organizational development and change management, with a strong focus on leadership impact, emotional intelligence, and effective communication. Andrew's early career was in international banking, where he spent 10 years working as a sales and relationship manager in the securities divisions of Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank. Managing a portfolio of institutional clients including ABN Amro Bank, Bank of England, and Barclays among others, Andrew went on to become Vice President of Sales for Benelux. In 2007, he left the corporate world and undertook in-depth study and research in the fields of social science, psychology, and management theory at the Australian College of Applied Psychology in Brisbane. He further strengthened his skills within the coaching arena by pursuing professional accreditation at the highest industry standards, and is also a certified Process Communication Coach, using the tools of transactional analysis to help develop client awareness regarding impact and behaviour. Andrew is also certified in the use of the Leadership Circle 360 Profile as well as being a Team Diagnostic Assessment Facilitator for Team Coaching International. Andrew is a current senior member of the CTI faculty, delivering coach training programs globally in both English and French, in public and organizational forums. He also carries out Certification, Supervisory, and Examiner roles for students undergoing professional accreditation. Andrew is also part of Google's Internal Mastery Faculty Team, delivering online and in-person events to their global community. In recent years, Andrew has worked extensively with General Managers, Country Managers, and Executive Committees in a wide range of industries. Both a Luxembourgish and British national, Andrew has lived in Luxembourg, Germany, Australia, the UK, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. His central European upbringing coupled with an extensive work focus in the Asia Pacific have shaped his strong interest in cultural communication and diversity. Fluent in French and with strong working knowledge of German, Andrew is currently based in both Luxembourg and Hong Kong. Desire to become a Master Coach like Andrew? Then start your transformative coaching journey here at Catalyst Coach. www.catalystcoach.live.

An innovative culture is a crucial aspect of all business models but how to make sure its implementation process is smooth in large organizations? Well, we have all the answers you need!Netguru's Fintech Client Partner, Sean O'Connor, meets with Anna-Lena Lorenz, Head of Innovation Process at ABN Amro Bank to discuss what is the most challenging aspect of innovative culture and how to implement and conduct successful experimentation in this field. You can't miss this one so sit back, relax, and enjoy this episode of Disruption Talks.

If you believe in providing personalized customer service, you'll love my interview with Frido Diepeveen. In this episode, Frido shared his wealth of experience from 17 years in recruitment and how his Dutch-Hungarian upbringing influenced his service-oriented approach toward his clients and candidates.   Born in the Netherlands, Frido trained as a lawyer before discovering his true passion in recruitment and executive search in 2005. That's when he joined a recruitment firm and helped the founder grow to 55 employees before selling it to Randstad in 2010. After the transaction, he remained on the board as Commercial Director and helped the new owner achieve 20-30% year-on-year growth. He stayed with Randstad until 2018 when he decided to start a new recruitment firm from scratch. Frido is now the MD of Diepeveen & Partners, a boutique search firm with a team of 15 based in Budapest, Hungary, and serving clients in North America and Europe. Episode Outline and Highlights [04:49] What inspired Frido to change careers from banking to recruitment? [14:30] Key lessons that Frido gained from his first recruitment job. [17:25] How Frido defines “personalized service.”  [24:13] How to handle candidates you can't help and those you can't place right away. [28:49] Frido's insights on cultural sensitivity when dealing with key stakeholders. [31:32] Success factors in rapidly growing a recruitment business. [39:50] Can you position your firm to recruit at all levels, from junior positions right up to senior leadership roles? [43:05] How Frido has grown a boutique search firm from scratch to a team of 15 [52:16] Outsourcing to Hungary - how Frido provides candidate sourcing and recruiting services to other recruitment companies around the world Loving the Recruitment Profession Before becoming a recruiter, Frido worked in banking - first as an in-house counsel and then in a commercial role as an account manager. It was in 2005 that he found his true calling as a recruitment professional. In 2005 he was asked to join a recruitment firm in a start-up phase, called ProfiPower. Founded by Dutch-Hungarian entrepreneur Ilonka Jankovich, he later became an equity partner and they were able to build the business into a market-leading recruitment firm in Hungary. Prior to selling it to Randstad in 2010, they had a team of 55 employees! What were the factors that led to such rapid growth? Frido shared two factors:   Service Orientation - they stick to the principle of delivering personalized service. The Dutch way of being straightforward - doing what you say and saying what you do.   What Does Delivering a Personalized Service Look Like? How does Frido define personalized service? Pretty much all recruitment firms will say that they offer personalized service to their customers.    Fido explained their approach, “Many of my clients have become personal friends over the years… Being personal to me means that you should not see an assignment as one of the many but you should consider it as a unique job that you are so lucky to get to work on.”    Frido elaborated on his commitment to client service. For example, he always meets his clients in person regardless of where they're located. That involves lots of international travel.  Why bother jumping on a plane to see a client when he could meet on Zoom or Teams? He explained how his mindset on personalized service builds chemistry and long-term relationships with his clients and candidates which eventually results to repeat business.   Quality Over Quantity In 2018, Frido started his own recruitment firm from scratch - Diepeveen & Partners International. He leveraged his experience and learnings from his previous organizations. His own firm is rooted in the solid philosophy of quality comes before quantity. This philosophy not only guides the organization on the services they provide to their clients but on how they handle their own employees as well. They ensure that their 15 team members are not overworked and assigned reasonable assignments - improving their quality of work and output.    Our Sponsors This podcast is proudly sponsored by i-intro and Recruitment Entrepreneur.   i-intro® is an end-to-end retained recruitment platform. Their technology and methodology allow recruiters to differentiate themselves from the competition, win more retained business, bigger fees and increase their billings. Their software combined with world-class training enables you to transition from transactional, contingency recruiter to consultative, retained recruiter. Instead of being perceived as a “me too” vendor, you'll be positioned as a “me only” solutions provider. Be sure to mention Mark Whitby or The Resilient Recruiter. Book your free, no-obligation consultation here: www.recruitmentcoach.com/retained Recruitment Entrepreneur is the world's leading Private Equity firm specializing in the international recruitment industry. If you've dreamed of starting, scaling and selling your recruitment business, this is your chance. James Caan and his team at Recruitment Entrepreneur are actively seeking ambitious recruiters who they can invest in. They provide everything you need to grow a successful recruitment business including: funding, financial expertise, coaching and mentoring, operational strategy, backoffice support, marketing and talent attraction solutions. Be sure to mention Mark Whitby or The Resilient Recruiter. Start a conversation here: https://www.recruitmentcoach.com/vc   Frido Diepeveen Bio and Contact Info  Frido is the founder of Diepeveen & Partners. Having obtained a law degree in international and civil law (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), he started his career in 1998 as an in-house lawyer at the head office of Abn Amro Bank in Amsterdam. In 2001, Frido moved to Hungary, continuing his finance career at another Dutch financial institution, ING Bank. During this time, he had the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of the Hungarian financial sector and to become fluent in the Hungarian language. After four years of back-office as well as front office positions, he found his true calling.   In 2005, he started a career in HR consulting and (executive) search. From 2005 to 2010, Frido co-owned and co-managed the recruitment firm ProfiPower that went on to become Hungary's market leader in 2008. In 2010, the firm was sold to a listed company, which has since then become the world's largest HR services company. After selling ProfiPower, for seven successful years, he continued as commercial director of the newly merged company. He then founded Diepeveen & Partners in 2018. They have now expanded globally and specializing in specific fields, such as SCM, Pharma and Professional Services.   Frido on LinkedIn Diepeveen & Partners website link   People and Resources Mentioned Abid Hamid on LInkedIn   Connect with Mark Whitby Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call Mark on LinkedIn Mark on Twitter: @MarkWhitby Mark on Facebook Mark on Instagram: @RecruitmentCoach Related Podcast You Might Enjoy TRR#48 Recruitment Entrepreneur: How to Start-Up and Scale an Exitable Recruitment Business, with Abid Hamid Subscribe to The Resilient Recruiter  

Justina Tartilaite is the Co-Founder of Adsum, tax credit specialists. Adsum is pioneering innovation in tax-based financing and is at the forefront of leveraging modern technology in order to provide businesses with much-needed tax credits in real-time. Prior to launching Adsum, Justina worked as a Director at Deutsche Bank and in various capital markets roles for ABN AMRO Bank. Justina joined us on this, our penultimate episode of the season, to discuss her career leading up to Adsum, why she decided to become an entrepreneur and what the early bootstrapped days looked like. Later in the episode, Justina opens up about her love of referrals, building an exceptional culture and what it was like to finally seek external capital. Make sure to like and subscribe to the Riding Unicorns podcast never to miss an episode. Also, don't forget to give Riding Unicorns a follow on Twitter and LinkedIn to keep on top of the latest developments.

Our guest is Robin de Jongh, Managing Director of Detecting Financial Crime at ABN AMRO Bank. Robin brings 25 years of experience in program management, risk management, product management and audit. Listen to Robin talk to Rob about the role of banks as gatekeepers in the financial system, the challenges in fighting financial crime, and ABN AMRO's on-going battle to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our guest is Robin de Jongh, Managing Director of Detecting Financial Crime at ABN AMRO Bank. Robin brings 25 years of experience in program management, risk management, product management and audit. Listen to Robin talk to Rob about the role of banks as gatekeepers in the financial system, the challenges in fighting financial crime, and ABN AMRO's on-going battle to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Vivek Pathak is IFC's Global Head and Director of Climate Business. In this role, he facilitates business growth, provides thought leadership, new product development and facilitates all work related to climate business. He is responsible for identifying new business opportunities for climate business and facilitating the mobilization of capital into this space. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Pathak was IFC's Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific, leading advisory and investment operations across 18 countries, which in fiscal year 2020 reached US$4.2 billion in long-term investments, including funds mobilized from other investors. He has extensive emerging markets experience in principal investments, restructuring and risk management. Earlier in his career, Mr. Pathak was Global Head and Director for Investment and Credit Risk, responsible for global coverage of credit risk, investment risk, integrity risk, pricing and credit/equity training. Prior to that he oversaw IFC's portfolio in the Middle East and North Africa and led business development in frontier markets in the Middle East and North Africa. Before IFC, Mr. Pathak worked at Bank of America and ABN AMRO Bank in new business and risk management. In this episode we discuss Climate Finance, ESG investing, and how an economic downturn might impact Climate Investments. Hope you enjoy my conversation with Mr. Vivek Pathak!

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Right now Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Insider, Business Week and so many other publications are all talking about retaining key talent and helping employees be fulfilled, happy, and well. We are in a time when many people have done deep soul searching in relation to both their personal lives and career. My guests today are part of a company called FitBiz 360. FitBiz360 is our Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that digitizes the classic consulting service model enabling you to automate the discovery assignments, analytics, and reporting.  They offer expert-prepared assessments ready for immediate use focusing on People Performance specifically in the areas of:  Leadership, Employee Engagement & Wellbeing, Change readiness & Change Success, WFH- - working from home and Managing Remote Teams. All of this with the end goal of helping people flourish.   What You'll Learn: How to empower employees to advocate for their own well-being Why our old approach to engagement is no longer effective Creating trust to encourage open discussion Efficient and effective ways to give all your employees a voice Why creating space is vital to to progress and creativity in your people What a well-being survey can tell you that an in-person conversation may not The important differences between employee engagement and well-being How an engaged employee affects those around them How to navigate “return to the office” scenarios   Resources:   Twitter: @yourtransform Website: www.fitbiz360.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-walters-472536154/   Bio: Michael Walters CEO and Founder of Transformance Business Solutions Michael has more than 20 years of experience as a management consultant. He has consulted for American Express, Visa International, 3M, Abbott Laboratories, ABN Amro Bank, General Motors, and Mercedes Benz and many others. During his time as a consultant with these international corporations, Michael developed many specific business improvement tools and KPIs. Diane Duckworth COO Diane has more than 20 years in the Automotive Industry having worked with General Motors (GM) in global, regional and market roles spanning marketing, CRM development, digital strategies and customer engagement.   Diane has also worked with primary management consulting firms and agencies also in the areas of data and analytics, customer experience, and program management.

This Episode is Sponsored By: HSBC Bank USA, National Association Everyone can benefit from a global perspective on food trends. John Church, co-head of HSBC Bank's food and beverage unit, joins The Food Institute Podcast to discuss everything from wheat markets to foodservice drive-thrus to health and wellness. Church, tapping into his wealth of knowledge from the farm gate to the dinner plate, also examines the global implications of inflation. More About John Church: Mr. Church has been in the banking industry for approximately 35 years. In 2018, he joined HSBC Bank as the Co-Head of Food & Beverage banking practice in the United States and was later appointed Head of Food & Beverage in 2020. Prior to joining HSBC, Mr. Church spent 14 years with Rabobank International where he managed the Chicago office and was the North America Sector Head for Farm Inputs. In addition to managing the Chicago office of Rabobank, Mr. Church was actively engaged in the management of middle market and large cap client relationships in the food, agriculture and beverage industries at ABN Amro Bank and NatWest Markets PLC. Mr. Church was raised on a family farm in central Illinois where he remains engaged in its 6,500 acre row crop enterprise. Mr. Church graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agribusiness. Mr. Church holds a General Securities Registered Representative license (Series 7) and a Uniform Securities Agent license (Series 63). Thanks to Our Sponsor: HSBC Bank USA, National Association HSBC Bank USA, National Association (HSBC Bank USA, N.A.) serves customers through wealth, personal banking, commercial banking, private banking, and global banking and markets segments. As of the close of business on December 31, 2021 it operated bank branches in: California; Washington, D.C.; Florida; New Jersey; New York; Virginia; and Washington. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. is the principal subsidiary of HSBC USA Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings Inc. In the United States, deposit products are offered by HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Member FDIC, investment and brokerage services are provided through HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., (Member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC) and insurance products are provided through HSBC Insurance Agency (USA) Inc. For more information, please visit, http://www.business.us.hsbc.com.

Vandaag het gesprek met Ceren Danış. Ceren is originally from Istanbul, Turkey. After having been to an international high school in Istanbul, she realised she wanted to continue her education abroad. She graduated from the University of Utrecht with BSc in Economics and Business Economics, and from the Rotterdam School of Management with MSc in Finance and Investments. Before starting her full-time entrepreneurial journey, she worked at ABN AMRO Bank as Associate Global Markets and The Citco Group of Companies.  She has been a full-time fashion and impact entrepreneur since July 2020, focusing on sustainable and circular business models to change the fashion industry for the better. She has launched her first company Wearebasics back in 2021 and is now on to launching another project in 2022. Enjoy the insights of Ceren. Laten we beginnen… Meer over Ceren Danış: https://wearebasics.nl/https://www.circularify.co/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceren-danis/ Video of the conversation with Ceren Danis https://youtu.be/KyYALTtC4PE Bronnen die ik noemde tijdens dit gesprek: De voedingsketen digitaliseren voor positieve impact – Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt (Blockchain)Activist die de keten verandert – Rob van den DoolMinder gedoe zonder managers zodat Luscii harder groeit – Joris Janssen (Investment from Japan)Business model gekoppeld aan sociale impact – Marian Spier (FEM start)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPPP_w3kNo (DWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23vUvQN-R1Y (DWhttps://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2018-2019/future-fashion.htmlhttps://kro-ncrv.nl/met-deze-tips-zorg-jij-voor-duurzame-kleding - KRO NCRV De prijsknaller over kleding - kijk hier https://www.npostart.nl/de-prijsknaller/11-02-2022/KN_1728912 https://www.yumeko.nl/blog/fast-fashion-het-kan-ook-anders "DE NEGATIEVE GEVOLGEN VAN FAST FASHION Jaarlijks wordt zo'n 39.000 ton onverkocht textiel van fast fashion-ketens gedumpt in de Atacama woestijn in Chili. Hier liggen kledingbergen van 4 tot 5 meter hoog, en er komt alleen maar meerbij [1]. Het zijn juist de items die niet biologisch afbreekbaar zijn die hier belanden, omdat plaatselijke stortplaatsen ze niet accepteren. De kleding vervuilt ondergrondse waterreservoirs in dit enorm droge gebied en de bergen textiel staan regelmatig in brand [3]. Dit is het schrikbarende resultaat van textielbedrijven die talloze collecties per jaar produceren om onze shopdrift te bevredigen. Zo maakt ZARA jaarlijks zo'n 24 collecties en H&M 14 collecties [4]. Consumenten worden door lage prijzen en slimme marketing steeds weer verleid tot het kopen van nieuwe kleding, door in te spelen op hun trendgevoeligheid [4]. Het resultaat is dat er zoveel kleding wordt geproduceerd dat de industrie het aan de straatstenen niet kwijt kan. Bovendien wordt fast fashion gemaakt van goedkope materialen die niet lang meegaan, zodat consumenten snel weer iets nieuws kopen. Om de kosten zo laag mogelijk te houden worden de collecties geproduceerd in lagelonenlanden, waar veel arbeiders ook nog eens worden uitgebuit en onder slechte omstandigheden werken. Daarnaast is het productieproces van fast fashion enorm vervuilend. Veel van deze goedkope kleding wordt gemaakt van synthetische materialen, gemaakt van petroleum – een niet-hernieuwbare grondstof – of van niet-biologische katoen waarvoor veel chemicaliën en water wordt gebruikt. En dan is er ook nog de hoge uitstoot van CO2 om deze kleding naar andere delen in de wereld te transporteren [4]."Blog Yumeko - Fast fashion, het kan ook anders

Itzik Amiel is the global leading authority on business networking, business development, personal branding & relations capital. He is a growth strategy expert and client relationships advisor to many leading professional firms globally. Itzik is a sought-after International professional speaker, trainer, Business mentor & Attorney-at-law. He is also the bestselling author of “The Attention Switch” [attentonswitch.com]. The book has been recognized as the leading book and deep-dive instruction manual every professional needs to have to leverage the power of authentic connections and to uncover the best building relationships and networking strategies. Itzik successfully helps professionals (lawyers, accountants), business executives, firms, and associations create and maintain a successful and strategic relationship; Helps professionals build their personal brand boost their authority, and stand-out; Switch Relations to Revenue, Referrals, and Results & follow up. Itzik does so by providing internationally public speaking, training & personal or group mentoring through innovative online and offline programs. Itzik is the founder & CEO of The SWITCH™ and The SWITCH HUB™, the leading online training and community platform for professionals globally. Itzik organize and curate since 2005 many of the best global leading legal and accounting online summits, including the legal business development summit, women-in-law rainmakers summit, Legal project management summit, legal sales and service summit, intelligence in business and many more. Itzik delivered over a few thousand of keynote presentations and executive briefings in more than 69 countries worldwide. His keynote presentations, training and business mentoring combine in an interactive way practical knowledge with unique how-to's and unforgettable stories. His presentations and keynote speeches are truly a memorable experience. Itzik has shared the stage with world's premier thought-leaders including sir Richard Branson, Les Brown, Darren Hardey, Mark Victor Hansen, Steve Wozniak (apple co-founder); Marianna Williamson, Chris Gardner, Robert Kiyosaki, Nick Vujicic and Tom Hopkins. Itzik honed his skills during his corporate career at prominent firms such as ABN AMRO Bank, Moore Stephens, international law firms and leading trust companies. Itzik holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) cum laude and an Advanced Master of Laws (LL.M.) in international taxation. He is the founder and first chair of Young IFA (International Fiscal Association), Vice Chair of IBA LFMC Business Development & Marketing subcommittee. He is a member of many professional associations, a former board member and an international ambassador of the CRM Association. Besides, Itzik was a senior advisory board member for Corpdata (USA) and Globals inc. Itzik is also on the board of editors of the international tax Magazine, Analitica (Russia; CIS) and in the mentoring committee of ‘Big Consulting' magazine.Connect with Itzik:Links: https://hub.theswit.chhttps://itzikamiel.comhttps://www.attentionswitch.comSocial Media:https://www.linkedin.com/in/itzikamiel/

Nesse #episodio4 o chefe de cozinha autodidata, que também exerce a função de assistente social Edson Leite convida para um bate papo sobre alimentação saudável, sustentável e acessível o comunicador social Lucio Vicente, formado em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, possui pós-graduação em Gestão de Marketing pela Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado – FAAP e especialização em Socionomia pela ABPS/FEBRAP. Com sua equipe, conquistou, de 2014 a 2018, cinco prêmios consecutivos pela Revista Época Reclame Aqui, como melhor atendimento ao cliente entre as redes de supermercados e atacados do país. Lucio tem passagens pelo Banco PanAmericano e ABN Amro Bank. Coautor do livro ‘O Encontro com a Sustentabilidade: Contribuições do Psicodrama', no qual apresenta ideias e exemplos de como promover o despertar de consciências para construir uma sociedade mais sustentável. Hoje é um projeto que visa provocar transformações sociais através dos alimentos. Descomplicando e desmistificando todo o universo da cozinha, para que as pessoas aprendam a comer melhor e preparar suas próprias refeições. Tem como foco montar a primeira escola de gastronomia da quebrada; o projeto conta também com um aplicativo para mapear os estabelecimentos foods da periferia; programas webs, oficinas, eventos etc.

O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Leo Kuba, Miguel Cavalcanti e In Hsieh. Neste episódio (#064​) Um bate-papo com Anibal Messa, partner da Plataforma Capital e pioneiro em venture capital no Brasil.  Anibal tem 14 anos de experiência em Private Equity/Venture Capital e 8 anos como consultor na McKinsey & Co. e Bain & Co. Executou uma das maiores “saídas” na história do VC brasileiro, através da venda do BuscaPe, a maior empresa de comparação de preços da América Latina, para o grupo Naspers da África do Sul por US$ 342 milhões.   Atuou como Diretor de Investimentos da Temasek Holdings – um fundo soberano da Ásia, tendo estabelecido o escritório em 2008 e executado operações chave, tais como: LAN Aerolíneas, Netshoes e Visanet.  Anibal possui experiência executiva diversificada, tendo trabalhado para a Delco Electronics, uma empresa GM Hughes Company, ABN/AMRO Bank e Royal Dutch/Shell.   Anibal graduou-se em administração pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas e estudou na Escola Politécnica da USP, é CFA e possui MBA em finanças pela Universidade de Chicago. Atuou como “board member” da Netshoes, BuscaPe Inc. e boo-box. O Man in the Arena tem apoio da Livraria Cultura, KingHost e FIAP. Para saber mais: Plataforma Capital: http://plataformacapital.com​ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anibalmessa​ Acompanhe e participe nos canais do Man in the Arena: YouTube: http://youtube.com/maninthearenatv​ Facebook: http://facebook.com/maninthearenatv​- iTunes (Audio): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m...

O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Leo Kuba, Miguel Cavalcanti e In Hsieh. Neste episódio (#064​) Um bate-papo com Anibal Messa, partner da Plataforma Capital e pioneiro em venture capital no Brasil.  Anibal tem 14 anos de experiência em Private Equity/Venture Capital e 8 anos como consultor na McKinsey & Co. e Bain & Co. Executou uma das maiores “saídas” na história do VC brasileiro, através da venda do BuscaPe, a maior empresa de comparação de preços da América Latina, para o grupo Naspers da África do Sul por US$ 342 milhões.   Atuou como Diretor de Investimentos da Temasek Holdings – um fundo soberano da Ásia, tendo estabelecido o escritório em 2008 e executado operações chave, tais como: LAN Aerolíneas, Netshoes e Visanet.  Anibal possui experiência executiva diversificada, tendo trabalhado para a Delco Electronics, uma empresa GM Hughes Company, ABN/AMRO Bank e Royal Dutch/Shell.   Anibal graduou-se em administração pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas e estudou na Escola Politécnica da USP, é CFA e possui MBA em finanças pela Universidade de Chicago. Atuou como “board member” da Netshoes, BuscaPe Inc. e boo-box. O Man in the Arena tem apoio da Livraria Cultura, KingHost e FIAP. Para saber mais: Plataforma Capital: http://plataformacapital.com​ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anibalmessa​ Acompanhe e participe nos canais do Man in the Arena: YouTube: http://youtube.com/maninthearenatv​ Facebook: http://facebook.com/maninthearenatv​- iTunes (Audio): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m...

We catch up with Manuel Heyden, cofounder of nextmarkets who are aiming to revolutionise trading with a fee-free model. Manuel Heyden (M. Sc. , born 1980) is co-founder and CEO of nextmarkets, Europe's fee-free neobroker based in Cologne. As CEO, he heads offices in Cologne, Lisbon and Malta with currently 42 employees. nextmarkets is backed by leading venture capitalists such as Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Christian Angermayer, Axel Springer, Falk Strascheg and the listed FinLab AG. In addition to one of the largest offerings on the market and innovative financial products such as fractional trading or the specially developed money market product, nextmarkets is characterised by its clear focus on conveying stock market knowledge through free coaches. Manuel Heyden | CEO, Co-founder Manuel was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1980. He started his career in 1999 founding his first online marketing company at age of 19. Since then Manuel has followed his passion for product development, design and online marketing especially in the financial technology sector. After spending two and a half years in investment banking with ABN AMRO Bank in Frankfurt and London to establish an online brokerage company, he founded the social trading company, ayondo, in 2007 and sold most of his shares in 2014. Manuel holds a Master of Science from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. nextmarkets is Europe's fee-free neobroker based in Cologne. The German fintech operates offices in Cologne, Lisbon and Malta with currently 42 employees. nextmarkets is backed by leading venture capitalists such as Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Christian Angermayer, Axel Springer, Falk Strascheg and the listed FinLab AG. In addition to one of the largest offerings on the market and innovative financial products such as fractional trading or the specially developed money market product, nextmarkets is characterised by its clear focus on conveying stock market knowledge through free coaches.

Guest Contacts:https://twitter.com/sherif_ninjahttps://www..linkedin.com/in/ahmedsherifInterviewer:https://www.linkedin.com/in/younes-hassanin-233809144/Prepared By:https://www.linkedin.com/in/0xmohammed/ The post 24 Ahmed Sherif – Sr. Information Security Expert at ABN AMRO Bank, Netherlands first appeared on Nakerah Network.

Marcel Zuidam is de CEO van Nationale-Nederlanden Bank N.V. Marcel werkt al zijn hele loopbaan in de financiële sector. In 1994 startte hij als management trainee bij ABN AMRO Bank, waar hij diverse management functies bekleedde in Corporate en Retail banking, laatstelijk als CFRO van ABN AMRO Hypotheken Groep. Na de afronding van de integratie met Fortis Bank Nederland stapte hij in 2012 over naar Quion Groep, een business process outsourcer op het gebied van hypotheek servicing, waar hij als directievoorzitter een succesvolle turnaround leidde. Daarna trad hij in dienst bij Delta Lloyd waar hij als CEO verantwoordelijk werd voor de bankactiviteiten. Via de overname van Delta Lloyd trad hij in 2017 dienst van Nationale-Nederlanden, waar hij als als Chief Transition Officer de integratie van beide banken leidde. Sinds twee jaar is hij CEO van Nationale-Nederlanden Bank. Marcel bekleedt diverse nevenfuncties waaronder lid van de Raad van Toezicht van Hostelketen Stayokay. Hij studeerde bedrijfseconomie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Marcel is 50 jaar en woont met zijn vrouw en twee kinderen in Hilversum. Zijn favoriete sporten zijn mountainbiken, wielrennen, hardlopen en, als de reissituatie het toelaat, skiën.   ***  Volg Leaders in Finance via de website. Volg Leaders in Finance via Linkedin. *** Op de hoogte blijven van Leaders in Finance? Abonneer je dan op de nieuwsbrief. ***  Zou je graag een bepaalde gast willen zien bij Leaders in Finance of ken je iemand die je wil voordragen? Laat het ons weten via gasten@leadersinfinance.nl  ***  Vragen, suggesties of feedback? Graag! Via email: info@leadersinfinance.nl  ***   Als je de Leaders in Finance podcast leuk vindt, zou je dan een review willen achterlaten bijvoorbeeld bij Apple Podcasts? Of ons willen volgen bij Spotify. Veel dank, want sommige mensen gaan alleen luisteren naar deze podcast als ze weten dat er genoeg anderen zijn die het leuk vinden!  ***   Leaders in Finance wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Interim Valley, FG Lawyers, Odgers Berndtson en Roland Berger.   ------------------------------------ *** Zelf gaan podcasten? Podcast inzetten voor jouw organisatie? Vragen over Hosting? We willen best even meedenken, dus neem gerust contact op: info@leadersinfinance.nl  *** Interesse in een podcast serie over een specifiek inhoudelijk onderwerp voor jezelf of je medewerkers? Met Leaders in Finance Academy maken we series over specifieke onderwerpen in de financiële sector. Zo maakten we een serie over Anti Money Laundering en komende maanden volgen series over Bijzonder Beheer, Open Finance en Sustainable Finance. We horen graag van je: info@leadersinfinanceacademy.nl       

Digital Savages proudly presents the new episode of 'Challenging the Status Quo' podcast season two with Maarten Hoekstra, team lead compliance learning & awareness at ABN Amro Bank. Maarten looks for a different angle in everything he does while framing it positively. Instead of being a man of success, he is a man of value. He brings value through learning while being curious about the curiosity itself! Train yourself to wonder, and do not take life too seriously!

Our Nordics Lead Alexander Esser speaks with Lisa McDermott - Executive Director Renewable Project Financing at ABN AMRO Bank. Lisa started her career as a lawyer at Clifford Chance, specialising in tax, M&A and fund structuring. Since 2004 she has held a number of senior origination, structuring and management roles within various structured finance disciplines. ABN AMRO is one of the earliest project financiers for offshore wind and one of the most active debt providers for renewables and sustainable business in Europe. Alex and Lisa discuss: • ABN AMRO’s role in financing the energy transition • Changing environment for project finance of renewables • Financeability of electrolysers for green hydrogen production

O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Leo Kuba, Miguel Cavalcanti e In Hsieh. Neste episódio (#064​) Um bate-papo com Anibal Messa, partner da Plataforma Capital e pioneiro em venture capital no Brasil.  Anibal tem 14 anos de experiência em Private Equity/Venture Capital e 8 anos como consultor na McKinsey & Co. e Bain & Co. Executou uma das maiores “saídas” na história do VC brasileiro, através da venda do BuscaPe, a maior empresa de comparação de preços da América Latina, para o grupo Naspers da África do Sul por US$ 342 milhões.   Atuou como Diretor de Investimentos da Temasek Holdings – um fundo soberano da Ásia, tendo estabelecido o escritório em 2008 e executado operações chave, tais como: LAN Aerolíneas, Netshoes e Visanet.  Anibal possui experiência executiva diversificada, tendo trabalhado para a Delco Electronics, uma empresa GM Hughes Company, ABN/AMRO Bank e Royal Dutch/Shell.   Anibal graduou-se em administração pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas e estudou na Escola Politécnica da USP, é CFA e possui MBA em finanças pela Universidade de Chicago. Atuou como “board member” da Netshoes, BuscaPe Inc. e boo-box. O Man in the Arena tem apoio da Livraria Cultura, KingHost e FIAP. Para saber mais: Plataforma Capital: http://plataformacapital.com​ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anibalmessa​ Acompanhe e participe nos canais do Man in the Arena: YouTube: http://youtube.com/maninthearenatv​ Facebook: http://facebook.com/maninthearenatv​- iTunes (Audio): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m...

Welcome to Episode 25, Season 6, of the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor®. This is part one of two episodes aimed as a celebration of Black History Month. In August 2020, USA Today reported that 11% of the directors across the 50 largest companies in the S&P 100 are black. On the other hand, gender diversity on boards has shown better improvement over the last seven years. BoardEx just released data that revealed gender diversity on corporate boards in the US increased about 10% over the seven-year period from 2014 to 2020, that is from 19% to 28.8%, a year on your average growth rate of about 1.4%. France and Norway are at 44% and 39% respectively, but their growth rate is slower than the US. You see, they started from a higher percentage level in the first place. We agree with all the benefits of having diverse boards, but we think that a 1.4% growth rate is not even close to good enough. Since the 2017 founding of our sister company, Lyceum Leadership Consulting, we’ve placed diverse candidates in 24 out of 43 of our board and executive searches, or 56%. It's a track record we're proud of, but we can do better. If we assume the good intentions of everyone involved in board selection decisions to improve upon those numbers, then what is holding us all back? What is causing the stubborn persistence of diversity levels across the world? Lyceum Leadership Consulting thesis is that we are battling our own human nature. In my search work over the last decade and a half, I often observed that a missing link in creating boardroom diversity is often a lack of diversity in the professional networks of the board of directors or the nominating committee themselves. As often, candidates are identified and selected from these networks. In order to understand what causes a lack of network diversity to exist, it's instructive to understand sociology applied to these social networks. In this program, we examine ways of counteracting our own human nature to ultimately make significant improvements in boardroom and executive diversity. Joining me on the program is Associate Professor of Sociology, James M. Cook, from the University of Maine. One of Dr. Cook's areas of expertise is in the area of social network analysis. I discovered Professor Cook's work in my own research on this perplexing issue. I was especially intrigued and informed by an academic paper that he co-authored in 2001 called Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks.         Program Guide A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 25  Why is Achieving Diversity So Hard? Overcoming Homophily and Our Own Human Nature with Sociologist James Cook  0:00     Introduction to the program and Dr. James M. Cook, Associate Professor of Sociology, from the University of Maine. 4:26     Definition of Homophily 7:25     Homophily in the boardroom setting and the limitations of the board 11:20   Break 1 11:19   Social Capital: Bonding and Bridging 14:34   Break 2 14:47   Part 1 of the Framework for Overcoming Homophily: Finding people who are different 25:35   Break 3 26:19   Part 1 (continued): Finding, or being found, at the individual level 33:46   Break 4 34:29   Part 2 of the Framework for Overcoming Homophily: Uniting through the instability that bringing people who are different causes 40:24   Break 4 40:51   Part 3 of the Framework for Overcoming Homophily: Managing conflicts that are bound to arise. 44:15   Break 5 44:38   Conclusion: Intergroup relations and advice toward improvement in diversity outcomes 55:06   End of Program and Preview of Episode 26, part 2 of 2, in celebration of Black History Month   We would like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast. Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  See you next time.   Informative and Helpful Links USA Today Article Biographies of Guests Dr. James Cook Dr. James Cook is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine at Augusta. His primary areas of interest in research and teaching are political organizations, social networks, social media, and the sociology of gender. That interest is reflected in the development of new courses at UMA in Social Networks and Analyzing Social Media and in community service (where his current projects are attempts to deepen student connections with the UMA Community Gardens civic engagement project and the Maine State Legislature). His present research interests include applications of social network and social identity theory to social media, the development and testing of a social network model of state legislators, and the application of workplace theories of glass ceilings and escalators to explain patterns of cooperation among legislators along and across lines of gender.  He is also engaged in research regarding the social network characteristics of publicly-communicating groups of sexual minorities. Dr. James Cook received a B.A. in Sociology from Oberlin College in 1993 and M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona in 1996 and 2000, respectively.     Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Director of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 16 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of corporate clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 30-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders. Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.   Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com   Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.  

Anne Merel Oosterbroek, Head of Data & Analytics, Financial Restructuring and Recovery at ABN AMRO Bank NV shares her tips on creating data literacy campaigns for senior executives Successful digital transformations require careful planning and significant investments of time and money. Demystifying data and analytics for senior leadership is an essential part of winning that financial investment, argues Anne Merel Oosterbroek, Head of Data and Analytics, Financial Restructuring and Recovery for ABN AMRO Bank NV in this week's episode of the Business of Data Podcast. Data teams steeped in data and analytics know their power and potential. However, educating senior leaders who may be less aware of the benefits is an important step toward successful digital transformations. “Start with the top,” she recommends. “It's very important to create those believers, not only at the lower levels of an organization but [also] at the top. If you have a few believers, [then] it is a lot easier to have those investments approved.” By creating a data literacy campaign specifically for senior executives, data and analytics leaders can demonstrate how digital transformation will help their businesses to achieve their goals. “We shouldn't assume that our leadership team understands what we can do with data and analytics,” she says. “We should really start by answering the very basic questions. As soon as we've done that, we can then explain what is possible, so they actually get enthusiastic.” Communicating data and analytics success stories is also an important part of winning hearts and minds across the business, Oosterbroek says. “Invest your time in understanding the possibilities of data and analytics, and don't be shy to make your colleagues [feel] enthusiastic about this fantastic world of data analytics,” she concludes. Key Takeaways Don't assume that senior executives understand the potential of data and analytics. Start with the basics and build toward more complex topics from there Educate senior leadership on the benefits to secure buy-in. Their support is essential to achieve successful digital transformations Become a data and analytics evangelist. Establish data and analytics literacy programs and prioritize education across business units to get people excited about the future

Inspiring award-winning performances from your talent: Crossover applications to business leadership from the theatrical development process with Charles Newell, Artistic Director of Court Theatre in Chicago A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 24   Welcome to Episode 24, Season 5, of the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor®. I'm joined in the program today by Charles Newell, the Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of the renowned and critically acclaimed Court Theatre in Chicago. This interview was recorded in the summer of 2019 as the Court Theatre's production of the play, The Adventures of Augie March, had completed its record-breaking performance run. We had intended to publish this episode early this year in 2020, but COVID hit and it seemed a little bold to put this out at the early stage of the pandemic. The world had other pressing items that deserved attention. But now, in the middle of the holiday season, we've been without live theater and entertainment for nine months, we thought this interview might be not only informative, but also soothing at this stage of the pandemic.   This interview is timeless and gets deep into a theatrical production's creative process as seen through the mind's eye of the director. In general, we, as an audience of entertainment, be it sports or the performing arts, are often spoiled with the perfection and professionalism of the finished product. But what is involved or required from a leadership perspective to develop and burnish the performance into the form to which we are also accustomed? What goes on in the business of theater has crossover applications to all business leaders. We'll cover a wide range of topics in today's program. We'll outline the organizational form of the Court Theatre, including its governance, funding and management structure. But the majority of our time will be spent stepping through the phases of the creation of a production from script selection to closing night.   Program Guide A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 24 Inspiring award-winning performances from your talent with Charles Newell, Artistic Director of Court Theatre in Chicago 0:00     Introduction to the program and Charles Newell, Artistic Director of the Court Theatre in Chicago 3:20     Court Theatre’s history, governance structure, funding sources and unique structure with the University of Chicago. 5:09     Achieving high caliber of performances on a smaller budget than peers theater companies in Chicago 7:25     Unique mission and social-societal outcomes of Court Theatre in the realm of national theater. 10:39   Break 1 11:19   Phase 1 of the Theatrical Development Process: Finding and developing a script. 17:11   Break 2 17:27   Phase 2 of the Theatrical Development Process: Developing the look and feel of the production. Revealing the collaborative creative process. 25:01   Break 3 25:35   Phase 3 of the Theatrical Development Process: The Casting Process. Dealing with barriers and constraints. 32:45   Break 4 34:51   Phase 4 of the Theatrical Development Process: Production development, rehearsal, and refinement. Inspiring and motivating actors to perform at their best. 39:20   Break 5 39:46   Phase 5 of the Theatrical Development Process: The arc of production and performance evolution from opening night to closing night. Keeping a production evolving and improving in the absence of continuous rehearsals. 49:33   Break 6 50:03   Retrospective self-reflection on the evolution of a theater director. 55:06   Conclusion and coming attractions.   We would like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast. Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  See you next time.   Informative and Helpful Links   https://www.courttheatre.org/ http://manualcinema.com/   Biographies of Guests Mr. Charles Newell Charles Newell is the Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of Court Theatre. He was awarded the SDCF Zelda Fichandler Award, “which recognizes an outstanding director or choreographer who is transforming the regional arts landscape through singular creativity and artistry in theatre.” Charlie has been Artistic Director at Court Theatre since 1994, where he has directed over 50 productions. He made his Chicago directorial debut in 1993 with The Triumph of Love, which won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Production. Charlie’s productions of Man of La Mancha and Caroline, or Change have also won Best Production Jeffs. Other directorial highlights at Court include All My Sons, The Hard Problem,  Man in the Ring; One Man, Two Guvnors; Satchmo at the Waldorf; Agamemnon; The Secret Garden; Iphigenia in Aulis; M. Butterfly; The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; Proof; Angels in America; An Iliad; Porgy and Bess; Three Tall Women; Titus Andronicus; Arcadia; Uncle Vanya; Raisin; The Glass Menagerie; Travesties; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Invention of Love; and Hamlet. Charlie has also directed at Goodman Theatre (Rock ‘n’ Roll), Guthrie Theater (The History Cycle, Cymbeline), Arena Stage, John Houseman’s The Acting Company (Staff Repertory Director), the California and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, Juilliard, and New York University. He has served on the Board of TCG, as well as on several panels for the NEA. Opera directing credits include Marc Blitzstein’s Regina (Lyric Opera), Rigoletto (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), Don Giovanni and The Jewel Box (Chicago Opera Theater), and Carousel (Glimmerglass). Charlie was the recipient of the 1992 TCG Alan Schneider Director Award, and has been nominated for 16 Joseph Jefferson Director Awards, winning four times. In 2012, Charlie was honored by the League of Chicago Theatres with its Artistic Achievement Award.   Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Director of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 15 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of corporate clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 30-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders. Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.   Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com   Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.  This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved.

Manuel Heyden, CEO, Co-founder of Nextmarkets, joins me on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast. He started his career in 1999, founding his first online marketing company at the age of 19. Since then, Manuel has followed his passion for product development, design, and online marketing, especially in the financial technology sector. After spending two and a half years in investment banking with ABN AMRO Bank in Frankfurt and London to establish an online brokerage company, he founded the social trading company, ayondo, in 2007 and sold most of his shares in 2014. Manuel holds a Master of Science from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. Manuel shares his vision for Nextmarkets and how he and his team are passionate about improving the way private investors trade on the stock markets through education. I learn how Europe’s commission-free online broker considers itself as an exchange coach, analyst, and trading platform in one. In a world of up and downs, private investors can be accompanied by more than a dozen trading coaches in an innovative way, so that the term “curated investing” has been created. I also learn more about the technology that makes all this possible. Nextmarkets, with offices in Cologne and Malta, currently employs 35 people and is backed by leading venture capitalists such as Peter Thiel, Falk Strascheg, and the publicly listed FinLab AG.

Selwyn discusses the impacts the 2020 election will have on companies companies with a shift left, towards more environmentally focused initiatives, healthcare changes, and parental leave policies. Selwyn Rayzor is President of the Rayzor Company, a real estate and investment company, and is on the Board of Directors of Suderman & Young Towing as well as G&H Towing, harbor towing companies in the Gulf of Mexico. She is also a member of the Westpark TIRZ (Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone) Board with the city of Denton, Texas. Before returning home to Texas, Rayzor was a Managing Director within the investment banking division of the ABN Amro Bank in London. Prior to her time in London, she was a mortgage derivative trader in New York. Rayzor’s passion for helping underprivileged women and children was deepened after traveling with UNICEF USA to Uganda and Nepal. She is the founding Board Chair of the North Texas Board of UNICEF USA and serves on the National Development Board of UNICEF USA. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas as well as board chair for talkSTEM. Rayzor is a proud graduate of Duke University, and now serves on the Duke Alumni Association Advisory Committee as an alumni interviewer and on the Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative Advisory Board. She is a founding member of the Duke UNICEF Innovation Accelerator. She has chaired fundraising events for UNICEF, Family Gateway, Texas Women's Foundation, Annie’s List, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, the Lamplighter School and the Greenhill School. Rayzor lives in Dallas with her husband Rich and children, Jack and Adair.

COVID-19 is having a dramatic impact on the nature of market, credit, financial, and operational risks facing companies. Information about these risks is evolving at a rapid pace. To help risk managers stay informed of the latest developments and address the challenges associated with COVID-19, GARP has launched a podcast series featuring lively discussions with thought leaders and experts.   This week we will be taking a look at the intersection between the COVID-19 crisis and risks around Climate Change. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a lot of questions about the impact of the lockdowns on the environment, how quickly new behaviors can be adopted in a crisis and what lessons can be learned from our experience with COVID-19 that may be helpful as risk managers move to mitigate the expected consequences of Climate Change. In this episode, we speak with Naeem Siddiqi, Senior Advisor, Risk and Quantitative Solutions, SAS Institute Inc. and  Peter Plochan, FRM, Principal Business Solutions Manager at SAS about what COVID-19 can teach companies about mitigating climate risk.         Over the years, GARP and SAS have worked together to bring risk practitioners unique insights on a variety of topics related to financial risk and have partnered on this episode of our COVID podcast series. About SAS As a leader in analytics, SAS has more than 40 years of experience helping organizations solve their toughest problems. Our unrelenting commitment to innovation enables banks to modernize and sustain a competitive edge. SAS provides an integrated, enterprise-wide risk-management platform for managing risk in an organization, from strategic to reputational, operational, financial or compliance-related risk management. Learn more about how SAS is driving innovation and business value for risk and finance professionals at www.sas.com/risk.   Speaker Bios Peter Plochan, Principal Business Solutions Manager at SAS is a FRM certified Risk Management specialist with strong analytical mindset and finance background. He is combining 10+ years of Risk Management experience from ABN AMRO Bank, PWC, Atradius, GARP, PRMIA. Since 2014 he is with SAS as global acting domain expert leveraging the latest trends in AI and analytics with the deep risk management & finance expertise.   Naeem Siddiqi is the author of Credit Risk Scorecards (Wiley & Sons, 2005), and Intelligent Credit Scoring (Wiley & Sons, 2017), and has advised and trained bankers in over 20 countries on the art and science of credit scoring. Naeem has worked in retail credit risk management since 1992, both as a consultant and as a risk manager at financial institutions.   At SAS, Naeem played a key role in the development of products relating to credit scoring. He is currently responsible for advising customers on issues pertaining to credit scoring and decisioning, risk strategy, climate change risk, AI/ML in credit risk as well as modernizing analytics infrastructures. He continues to meet and advise C-level bankers in between 40-50 top lending institutions worldwide annually.   Naeem has an Honours Bachelor of Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of London, and an MBA from York University in Toronto.      

Deze week hebben we Eric Barratt-Jones te gast, Managing Director Advice en Mortgages bij ABN AMRO Bank.  We zitten midden in de Corona crisis en daarom is er voor deze aflevering gekozen om dit gesprek digitaal op te nemen.  Eric en ik kennen elkaar al circa 13 jaar maar hebben zeer beperkt contact gehad in die periode, maar via een gezamenlijke relatie Jan Paul van Geen heb ik toch altijd het gevoel gehad redelijk goed op de hoogte te zijn geweest van hoe het met jou is gegaan. Kortom, extra bijzonder om daarom vandaag met jou in de setting van Leaders in Finance te praten!  Voordat we van start gaan wil ik je graag introduceren. Zoals hierboven genoemd, Eric is Managing Director Advice en Mortgages bij ABN AMRO bank. Het deel Advice in zijn functietitel gaat over financieel advies aan circa 225 duizend vermogende particulieren. Het deel Mortgages in zijn functietitel gaat over advies inzake hypotheken voor particulieren en private banking klanten. In totaal werken er meer dan 1.200 mensen in de teams van Eric.  Na zijn studie Small Business in Haarlem, is Eric gestart met het traineeship bij ABN AMRO en gaan werken als relatiemanager zakelijke klanten. Daarna volgden diverse functies bij ABN AMRO, onder andere bij de innovatie en consultancy takken, werkte hij bij ABN AMRO's dochteronderneming Moneyou, was hij hoofd van performance management van de Retail Bank en werkte hij als eindverantwoordelijke voor 30 retail kantoren van Amersfoort tot de Achterhoek om uiteindelijk op zijn huidige functie terecht te komen.  Naast zijn baan bij ABN AMRO heeft Eric meerdere ondernemingen gerund, waaronder een Lingerie Store en een bedrijf in de vastgoedsector. Wat er van deze bedrijven is gekomen en wat Eric er van heeft geleerd zullen we ongetwijfeld horen tijdens dit gesprek. Dat wil zeggen: ik zal er zeker naar vragen!  Eric was finalist van de Young Captain Award 2019. Daarnaast was Eric vroeger een fanatiek sporter, hij hockeyde op hoog niveau. En hij is nog steeds aan het sporten, zo loopt hij marathons. Hij liep bijvoorbeeld de marathon van New York in hetzelfde jaar als ik.  Eric is 38 jaar oud, is getrouwd en heeft 2 kinderen. Hij woont met zijn gezin in Eindhoven.    ***  Volg Leaders in Finance via https://www.linkedin.com/company/leaders-in-finance  ***  Zou je graag een bepaalde gast willen zien bij Leaders in Finance of ken je iemand die je wil voordragen? Laat het ons weten: gasten@leadersinfinance.nl  ***  Vragen, suggesties of feedback? Graag! Via email: info@leadersinfinance.nl  ***  Als je de Leaders in Finance podcast leuk vindt, zou je dan een review willen achterlaten bijvoorbeeld bij Apple Podcasts? Of ons willen volgen bij Spotify. Veel dank, want sommige mensen gaan alleen luisteren naar deze podcast als ze weten dat er genoeg anderen zijn die het leuk vinden!  ***  Leaders in Finance wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Interim Valley, FG Lawyers en Bizcuit. Meer informatie:  https://www.leadersinfinance.nl/interim-valley  https://www.leadersinfinance.nl/fg-lawyers  https://www.leadersinfinance.nl/bizcuit 

Andrea Middel joins the show and highlights the impressive fintech landscape in The Netherlands, why the majority of financial planners are specialists, not generalists, and how we can increase access and awareness of financial planning for all. The Netherlands banned financial product commissions in 2013 so technology has stepped in to provide execution-only platforms for financial products (like life insurance) and ‘financial planning lite' options since consumers are now aware that advice isn't free — both developments that Andrea embraces as being good for consumers and financial planners. You'll Learn Why carrots are orange (really!). That the majority of financial planners in The Netherlands, including CFP professionals, specialize in one area, like mortgage planning, divorce planning and asset management. Business models in The Netherlands following a ban on commissions in 2013. What happened to those product providers when commissions were banned. About the robust Fintech environment in The Netherlands, including lots of B2C platforms being embraced by financial planners. What DURF Financieel Planners means in English and how its slogan translates to all aspects of life. One of the most impactful ways we can expand access and exposure to financial planning — through it being provided as an employee benefit Guest Bio Andrea Middel worked at ABN AMRO Bank for 13 years before starting her own fee-only financial planning firm in 2006. In January 2020, she became a partner in a new independent, fee-only firm, DURF Financieel Planners. In 2011, she was named Financial Planner of the Year in The Netherlands; served on the Board of the Federation of Financial Planners (FFP) from 2012-2018; and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. Resources and Terminology Andrea's LinkedIn Andrea's Twitter DURF Financieel Planners website Holland Fintech

Annemieke Roobeek is hoogleraar strategie en transformatie op Nyenrode Business Universiteit en is daarnaast commissaris bij de ABN AMRO Bank en was dat tot verkort ook bij de KLM. Ze is voorzitter van Social Finance NL en bij PGGM voorzitter van de Advisory Board for Responsible Investments. Ze is eigenaar van o.a. MeetingMoreMinds, een netwerkorganisatie. We bespreken in deze podcast hoe bedrijven duurzaamheid in de strategie kunnen toepassen vanuit zowel de theorie als praktijk. Zo gaan we bijvoorbeeld in op duurzaamheid in de luchtvaartsector waar zij invloed had op het gevoerde beleid door KLM. Binnen ABN AMRO geldt ‘banking for better’. Voor Social Finance NL is de focus om maatschappelijke vooruitgang met innovatieve financiële instrumenten te stimuleren. Annemieke Roobeek denkt groots en plaatst grote vraagstukken in een verrassend perspectief van duurzaamheid, innovatie en maatschappelijke betrokkenheid.

O Programa Márcia Peltier Entrevista na rádio JB FM  trouxe entre os dias 28 de outubro e 3 de novembro a conversa  com o consultor de carreiras e mercado e escritor Alberto Roitman. Ele está lançando seu novo livro ‘’Você é o que Você Entrega’’. Alberto é formado em Direito  pela Universidade Mackenzie-SP e pós- graduado em Marketing e Administração de Empresas. Trabalhou em grandes companhias como Citibank e Abn Amro Bank. Atuou por 15 anos no meio corporativo e acumula mais 10 anos em Consultoria de Treinamento e Desenvolvimento de Pessoas. Também é autor do livro ‘’A Última Chance’’ Durante a conversa  com Marcia Peltier, ele explica o título do livro ‘’Você é o que Você Entrega’’,fala sobre gestão de carreiras e marketing pessoal, diz como um profissional pode ter uma boa imagem profissional e aborda a importância da "inteligência espiritual".

“Service First, Safety Always” The Anatomy of a Private Equity Investment: from M&A roll-up, to IPO, and beyond with Advanced Disposal Services’ Chairman and CEO Richard Burke A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 23  Welcome to episode 23 and the beginning of Season 4 of A CEO's Virtual Mentor. I'd like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that have enabled us to bring you this podcast, and to you, ladies and gentlemen, our devoted listenership, for your continued encouragement and programming suggestions. And let me mention that we cannot improve without your feedback and suggestions. Please take a moment and subscribe on iTunes or your favorite podcast platform, and rate us with your feedback. There are two main features on our program today. I. We occasionally feature a spot on the program called Famous Last Words. We will intersperse excerpts of a dramatic scene from the 1956 movie, “Patterns…of Power!”, through the breaks in our program. Patterns’ brilliant screenplay was written by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame. The Patterns script predated Twilight Zone and is considered by many as the finest piece of writing Rod Serling has ever done and brought him instant acclaim. We'll feature the dramatic scene between ruthless, cold, and calculating owner of the corporation Walter Ramsey, played by Everett Sloane, and youthful, charismatic and considerate industrial engineer, Fred Staples, played by Van Heflin. Ramsey is impressed with the performance of Fred Staples at a company Ramsey has recently acquired. Ramsey's grooming Staples to replace the struggling, but highly principled Bill Briggs, played by Ed Begley, as the second in command at the company. II. For our main event in the program, I'm joined by Richard Burke, Chairman and CEO of publicly-traded solid waste services company, Advanced Disposal Services.  We'll be discussing Richard's leadership in a company that delivers a service punch well above its $1.6 billion weight class. We'll cover its evolution from private equity backed roll-up of solid waste businesses through its IPO in October of 2016 and right up to just prior to the announcement on April 15, 2019, that Waste Management would purchase Advanced Disposal. Our interview covers a lot of ground and addresses an array of situation-specific business leadership topics, including: The economics of the solid waste business. A company’s evolution from private equity ownership to IPO M&A and the "Four D’s" behind a seller’s motivation Corporate Reputation and Integrity Reputation Derived from Investors on the Path to an IPO Safety and Corporate Culture Post-IPO Board Composition Considerations  We would like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast. Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Informative and Helpful Links “Patterns…of Power!” (Full Movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnU4faUMUY   Program Guide Episode 23 “Service First, Safety Always” The Anatomy of a Private Equity Investment: from M&A roll-up, to IPO, and beyond with Advanced Disposal Services’ Chairman and CEO Richard Burke A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 23  0:06     Introduction to Program 1:05     Introduction to Famous Last Words feature “Patterns…of Power!” 2:51     Interview with Richard Burke 11:02   Music Break 1 11:19   Patterns Scene 1 of 4    15:24   Music Break 2 15:43   Richard Burke on Landfill Economics 16:48   The Secondary Vertically Integrated Market 19:09   Geographic Adjacencies 21:28   The Seller’s Consideration and “the Four D’s” 23:03   Reputation Requirements for M&A 23:20   Music Break 3 23:26   Private Equity Interest and Approach in the Solid Waste Sector 27:13   Advantages of Funding/Partnering with Private Equity 28:48   Music Break 4 29:07   Patterns Scene 2 of 4    30:22   Music Break 5 30:40   Transactions that Formed ADS Today 32:47   Reputation Derived from Investors on the Path to an IPO 33:49   Assembling the Management Team During the Formative Transactions 35:12   Culture and “Service First, Safety Always” 38:49   Music Break 6 38:55   Patterns Scene 3 of 4    39:23   Music Break 7 39:36   Post-IPO Board Composition Considerations 44:56   Post-IPO Management Team Skills/Experience Considerations 46:43   Music Break 8 47:10   Richard Burke’s Individual Leadership and Foundational Experiences. 52:22   Concluding Comments 52:59   Patterns Scene 4 of 4    Biographies of Guests Mr. Richard Burke Mr. Burke serves as Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Disposal. Prior to serving as CEO, he served as President of the company and was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, purchasing, risk management, human resources and strategic planning. He joined Advanced Disposal following the acquisition of Veolia Environmental Services Solid Waste in November 2012, where he was President and CEO of Veolia Environmental Services North America since 2007. Mr. Burke began his employment with Veolia in 1999 as Area Manager for the Southeast Wisconsin area and served as Regional Vice President for the Eastern and Southern markets until he was appointed Chief Executive Officer.  As CEO, Mr. Burke was responsible for leading Veolia Environmental Services in the U.S. and Canada, which included annual revenue of $2 billion, more than 200 locations and a team of 10,000 employees.  Prior to joining Veolia, he spent 12 years with Waste Management in a variety of leadership positions.  He currently serves on the Board of the Environmental Research and Education Foundation and in September 2017 was named to the Board of Estre Ambiental S.A., which is the largest waste management company in Brazil and Latin America by disposal capacity. Mr. Burke holds a bachelor’s degree from Randolph Macon College.   Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 14 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 28-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues. Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.   Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com   Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.  This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.

Alex Terpstra, head of innovations at ABN AMRO Bank, was born and raised for customer service. His father, a retailer in the Netherlands, never failed to remind young Alex who put food on the family's table. “Every day on our dinner table we were talking about customers.” On this episode of the Net Promoter System podcast, Alex explains how he helped ABN AMRO to launch radically new services for its customers, even at the risk of a short-term profit hit. The payoff, he says, has been highly lucrative customer relationships that pay dividends far beyond the initial costs.

Cyrille Langendorff is managing director of the international affairs and private equity department of French bank Credit Coopératif (CC), a member of the BPCE banking group, and has more than 20 years of experience in the banking sector. After achieving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance from Paris Dauphine University, Cyrille began his investment banking career at Banque Paribas (now BNP Paribas) and ABN AMRO Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, London, and Paris for 15 years. Prior to his current role, Cyrille worked for four years analyzing and monitoring CC’s solidarity portfolio of investment funds managed by Ecofi Investissements (an asset management company in the CC Group) in France, and the European investments done with CC’s partners at the European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks (FEBEA) and the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV). Cyrille represents CC on the boards of social finance and microfinance investment companies CoopEst, CoopMed, and Inpulse (CC’s subsidiary in impact investment funds), Microfinance Solidaire, a subsidiary of French NGO Entrepreneurs du Monde, and on the executive board of FEBEA. He’s also a board member of the French NGO, ACTED. He’s been rapporteur for the French National Advisory Board’s (NAB) report on social impact investment (2014) and is now chair of the group representing France on the executive committee of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) under the chairmanship of Sir Ronald Cohen. He’s also chairing the Impact Invest Lab, an operational arm of the NAB.   “I think you learn from the mistakes, you learn from worst investments you made, so don’t be disappointed. It’s part of the investment life.” – Cyrille Langendorff   Worst investment ever Cyrille was a young investment banker in 1995, so he was still quite a rookie in the market. He (his bank and clients) had the opportunity to invest in Nokia stock, the Finnish mobile phone maker that was far more popular in the 90s. It was June 1995 and the stock had already gone up to 2 euros per share from around 1.10-1.20 euros in January. There was a lot of interest and many clients were coming to a big roadshow in Paris and Nokia management were also attending. Amid this positive atmosphere, Cyrille was not suspicious about this kind of event. Everybody was saying Nokia was a great story and rushed to buy the stock at the end of the roadshow the next day at around 2 euros. Very soon afterwards, the stock crashed and everyone was complaining that they had been convinced at the show by all the marketing events and promotion of the stock to buy it. The stock slid to around 1.25 euros by the end of the year. So basically, Cyrille lost 75 euro cents per share. It was a terrible investment in a short period. It took nearly two years for the price to return to 2 euros. Some investors were not patient enough, so they sold for a loss. But those who were patient who kept thinking it was a good story had to wait two years. So the timing was wrong but the stock even today is at around 5 euros. So, Cyrille says, if you were willing to wait for 25 years to make some money, that’s great. He also noted that it went up to much more in 2000-2001 (50 euros per share). Some lessons Don’t be discouraged by market movements. Markets can fluctuated quickly so be very persistent and patient. However, that patience and belief in the idea that the story is good, look deeper at what went wrong before you sell (and of course before you buy). This should include sector research, competitor analyses, detailed examination of the target company’s business model, and face-to-face visits with company management. It can take patience, perseverance, and also a strong belief in the story to hold on for the long term.Be very cautious about worldwide company roadshows. They can sometimes be dangerous to preserving your wealth or that of your clients. Andrew’s takeaways Be aware of companies’ “dog and pony shows”. Their purpose is to raise capital, so they really push the positive side of the stock’s story. They put a lot of energy, practice and marketing psychology into making a good presentation. Particularly if you are young in the industry, it is difficult to see clearly what is behind that show. Actionable advice Do your homework and be patient. Do your research. Don’t be in a hurry. Take a modest position after a rally to test the story. If you think the story is still good, and there’s a strong rally of the stock, just buy a small package of shares. Don’t use the whole of your position and see what happens. No. 1 goal for next the 12 months The French High Commissioner for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Social Innovation, will convene in Paris a global meeting to support the development of impact investing, inclusive economics and social innovation known as the Pact for Impact Summit on 10 and 11 July. In his role as chair of the Impact Invest Lab, Cyrille is working to be a strong promoter of the event and help in its organization in order to encourage his organizations’ best projects and best practice. Parting words “I’ve learned a lot (from my mistakes) and I have moved from listed to non-listed companies and now I don’t have to look at daily charts.”   You can also check out Andrew’s books How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market My Worst Investment Ever 9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming’s 14 Points   Connect with Cyrille Langendorff: LinkedIn  Connect with Andrew Stotz astotz.com  LinkedIn Facebook  Instagram Twitter  YouTube My Worst Investment Ever Podcast 

 A Remarkable Corporate Turnaround: The “Take-Private” of Talen Energy with CEO Ralph Alexander and CFO Alex Hernandez A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® Episode 22  Welcome to Episode 22 and May 2019, which marks Lyceum’s three-year anniversary of publishing A CEO's Virtual Mentor®. Today I'm joined by Talen Energy’s CEO, Ralph Alexander, and CFO, Alex Hernandez. We'll be discussing the remarkable turnaround of Talen Energy that Ralph and Alex have been leading. Talen Energy in its privately-held form today is unique and its evolution to its current state illustrates the range of leadership approaches available for a company in a “take-private” setting. There's a definite before, middle, and beyond to the take private transformation. Talen is still in the early stage of the “beyond” era. The red-letter date of the take-private was December 6th, 2016.  And to set context, we have to back up a little bit.  About a year and a half before the take-private, Talen Energy was formed when Pennsylvania Power & Light, or PPL, spun off their power generation assets and combined them with those belonging to private equity group Riverstone. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on June 1st, 2015, with initial ownership being 65% PPL and 35% Riverstone. That company, which Ralph and Alex refer to as “Talen 1.0,” had about 15,000 megawatts of capacity split across fuel sources, with about 43% from natural gas, 40% from coal, and 15% from nuclear (from the company’s one nuclear facility, Susquehanna). Those assets sold into two major wholesale markets in ERCOT and PJM, plus a small amount in New England. Talen generated a proforma of $4.3 billion in 2014 revenues. On December 6th, 2016, Riverstone purchased the remaining 65% of Talen, making Talen a privately-held company, and appointed Ralph and Alex to lead the company. They faced the massive task of sorting out what the company had and planning what they would do with it.  Our interview covers a lot of ground and addresses an array of business leadership questions, including: What are the expectations and requirements that a private equity owner has for a company and a management team? What historical decisions prior to new ownership of a company led to lackluster performance? What were the strategic views embedded in the private equity investor’s thesis about a company? Why invest more deeply in a company that is suffering from lackluster performance? Can new management and their decisions have a marked impact? How does a new leader ferry the costs out of and efficiencies into a business after acquisition? Does private ownership provide benefits for a company? What does a productive, strategic partnership between a CEO and a CFO look like? What is the role of a “strategic” CFO? Is good leadership universal? Is a management team and its profitable approach transportable to other sectors?  We would like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.    Informative and Helpful Links Talen Energy's Website - https://www.talenenergy.com/ Riverstone's Website - https://www.riverstonellc.com/ Economic dispatch of power generation resources explained by the EIA - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=7590   Program Guide Episode 22 A Remarkable Corporate Turnaround: The “Take-Private” of Talen Energy with CEO Ralph Alexander and CFO Alex Hernandez  0:00     Introduction to Talen Energy and CEO Ralph Alexander and CFO Alex Hernandez 4:00     Expectations and requirements that Riverstone had for the company and the management team. 7:11     Historical decisions prior to new ownership of the company that led to lackluster performance. 9:17     Break 1 9:35     Why invest more deeply in a company that is suffering from lackluster performance?  Can new management and their decisions have a marked impact? 12:32   How does a leader lead the costs out and the efficiencies into the business through others? 20:11   Break 2 20:30   Does private ownership provide benefits for a company? 26:04   Break 3 26:32   What does a productive, strategic partnership between a CEO and a CFO look like? 30:24   What is the role of a “strategic” CFO? 34:29   Break 4 34:49   What is the next chapter for Talen Energy? 39:00   Break 5 39:24   Is good leadership universal? Is a management team and its approach profitability transportable to other sectors? 44:52   Closing comments and coming attractions   Biographies of Guests Mr. Ralph Alexander Ralph Alexander was appointed President and CEO of Talen Energy on December 6, 2016. He was previously a Partner with Riverstone Holdings, LLC. For nearly 25 years, Mr. Alexander served in various positions with subsidiaries and affiliates of BP plc, one of the world's largest oil and gas companies. From June 2004 until December 2006, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Innovene, BP's $20 billion olefins and derivatives subsidiary. From 2001 until June 2004, he served as Chief Executive Officer of BP's Gas, Power and Renewables, and Solar segment and was a member of the BP Group Executive Committee. Prior to that, Mr. Alexander served as a Group Vice President in BP's Exploration and Production segment and BP's Refinery and Marketing segment. He held responsibilities for various regions of the world, including North America, Russia, the Caspian, Africa, and Latin America. Prior to these positions, Mr. Alexander held various positions in the upstream, downstream, and finance groups of BP. Mr. Alexander currently serves on the boards of Enviva Partners, LP, Talen Energy Corporation, and CHI St. Luke’s Health. He has previously served on the boards of Foster Wheeler, Stein Mart, Inc., Amyris, and Anglo-American plc. In addition, Mr. Alexander is currently Chairman Emeritus of the Board of NYU School of Engineering and a Trustee for New York University. He received an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Brooklyn Polytech (now NYU School of Engineering - Polytechnic) and holds an M.S. in Management Science from Stanford University.   Mr. Alejandro (Alex) Hernandez Alex Hernandez was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Talen Energy on December 6, 2016. Before that appointment, Mr. Hernandez was a Senior Advisor at Riverstone Holdings, LLC, where he focused on the power sector and on the acquisition of Talen Energy. ​Prior to joining Riverstone, Mr. Hernandez was CFO of Terraform Power until November 2015. Mr. Hernandez was formerly Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, with a primary focus on coverage of North American companies in the merchant power, utilities, and renewable energy sectors, providing strategic and capital markets advice to management teams and boards of directors. ​Mr. Hernandez currently serves as a Roundtable member of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Mr. Hernandez received a B.A. in Economics from Rice University, a B.S.C. from the London School of Economics, and an MBA from Columbia University. Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 14 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 28-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast. Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.  This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.

The Earth Day Episode - A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 21 Climate Change as the Foremost Challenge of Our Generation with Dr. Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President and CEO of PSEG Happy Earth Day Weekend.  Monday, April 22nd is Earth Day.  In celebration and recognition, we welcome you to our special Earth Day 2019 episode.  I am joined by Dr. Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) in Newark, New Jersey.  This Episode 21 covers a number of topics relevant to our Mother Earth including the subject of climate change which Dr. Izzo considers to be the foremost challenge of our generation.  Our sweeping climate-oriented discussion ranges from the utility industry’s role in combatting climate change, PSEG’s actions and service orientation, cognitive biases in political decisioning, the insurance industry’s role, and nuclear energy’s opportunities in the war on climate change, among other items.    Newark, New Jersey-based PSEG has a $30 billion market capitalization as a public utility holding company that provides regulated electric and gas service through its subsidiaries, as well as investing in solar generation projects and energy efficiency programs.  Dr. Ralph Izzo has served as President and CEO since 2007.  His educational foundation is in mechanical engineering and physics. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics from Columbia University.   We express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Informative and Helpful Links: ​Illustration of the omission bias through the trolley problem - 1 min 37 sec Program Guide Earth Day Episode Climate Change as the Foremost Challenge of Our Generation with Dr. Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President and CEO of PSEG  0:00      Introduction to Episode 21 and Dr. Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President and CEO of PSEG 2:33     Introduction of Climate Change as the foremost challenge of our generation 7:08     A board of directors’ role and interaction with society beyond the boundaries of the corporation 10:44    Break 1 11:06    A utility company’s natural position of responsibility and influence in society.  13:16    PSEG’s actionable steps for society: Step 1 - Energy efficiency and reference to Lyceum’s Earth Day 2018 Episode 15 on Energy Efficiency 15:17    PSEG’s actionable steps for society: Step 2 – Clean energy production and supply 15:52    PSEG’s actionable steps for society: Step 3 – Reliability of energy supply 16:39    Break 2 16:54    What’s in a name?  “Public Service” Enterprise Group 21:10    The human affinity to socialize and associate with reference to Lyceum’s Episode 18 on Associations and Alexis de Tocqueville   22:55    Break 3 23:14    Cognitive Bias in group decisions on climate change and the role of policy 29:24    Break 4 29:42    The role of nuclear energy in combatting climate change 29:54    What is working against the expansion of nuclear energy in the US? 34:04    The insurance industry’s role in combatting climate change. Reference to Lyceum’s article: Risk & Reward: The Insurance Sector on the Climate Frontlines 35:54    Concluding statements - optimism in the face of climate change.  Biographies of Guests   Dr. Ralph Izzo Ralph Izzo was elected chairman and chief executive officer of Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG) in April 2007. He was named the company’s president and chief operating officer and a member of the board of directors of PSEG in October 2006. Previously, Dr. Izzo was president and chief operating officer of Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G). Since joining PSE&G in 1992, Dr. Izzo was elected to several executive positions within PSEG’s family of companies, including PSE&G senior vice president – utility operations; PSE&G vice president – appliance service; PSEG vice president - corporate planning; and PSE&G vice president - electric ventures.  In these capacities, he broadened his experience in the areas of general management, strategic planning and finance. Dr. Izzo is a well-known leader within the utility industry, as well as the public policy arena.  He is frequently asked to testify before Congress and speak to organizations on matters pertaining to national energy policy. Dr. Izzo’s career began as a research scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, performing numerical simulations of fusion energy experiments.  He has published or presented more than 35 papers on magnetohydrodynamic modeling. Dr. Izzo received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in mechanical engineering and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in applied physics from Columbia University.  He also received a Master of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in finance, from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management. He is listed in numerous editions of Who’s Who and has been the recipient of national fellowships and awards.  Dr. Izzo has received honorary degrees from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Doctor of Science), Thomas Edison State University (Doctor of Humane Letters), Bloomfield College (Doctor of Humane Letters), Rutgers University (Doctor of Humane Letters) and Raritan Valley Community College (Associate of Science). Dr. Izzo is the chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).  In addition, he is on the board of directors for the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited (NEIL) and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He also is on the advisory board for the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peddie School and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Advisory Council, as well as a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion.  Dr. Izzo is a former member of the Columbia University School of Engineering Board of Visitors.  In addition, he is a former chair of the Rutgers University Board of Governors and the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.    Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 14 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 28-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.  Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com   Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 20 The ESG Canvas for Corporate Reporting with Pat Kampling, Chairman and CEO of Alliant Energy Welcome to Episode 20. I am joined by Pat Kampling, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alliant Energy in Madison Wisconsin.  This Episode 20 covers several areas of topical interest including a discussion on ‘sustainability’ and the quickly emerging and rapidly evolving area of ESG or “Environmental, Social, and Governance” criteria.  Institutional investors are demanding action and attention to ESG and CEO’s are responding by charting their companies’ course. This is not without tension for corporate management teams. We’ll discuss with Pat how she and Alliant have been addressing ESG and hopefully put you at ease. Madison-based Alliant Energy has a $10.8 billion market cap as a public utility holding company that provides regulated electric and gas service through its subsidiaries, Interstate Power and Light and Wisconsin Power and Light to 410,000 gas customers and just shy of one million electric customers. Pat has served as chairman and CEO since 2012 and prior to that, she was COO for about a year and prior to that, she was CFO and Treasurer and has an extensive finance background. Foundationally, Pat is an engineer and a registered professional engineer at that --- a true renaissance woman. I’d like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast. The UN “Principles for Responsible Investment” or PRI are a set of six principles that provide a global standard for responsible investing as it relates to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors. Organizations follow these principles to meet commitments to beneficiaries while aligning investment activities with the broader interests of society. The PRI movement began in early 2005, when the then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan invited a group of the world’s largest institutional investors to join a process to develop the Principles for Responsible Investment. The Principles were launched in April 2006 at the New York Stock Exchange. Since then the number of signatories has grown from 100 to over 1,800. I’ll briefly summarize the six principles that investor-signatories publicly demonstrate: They incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes. They are active owners and incorporate ESG issues into their ownership policies and practices. They seek appropriate disclosure on ESG issues by the entities in which they invest. They promote acceptance and implementation of the Principles within the investment industry. They work together to enhance their effectiveness in implementing the Principles. They each report on their activities and progress towards implementing the Principles. Sweeping in its reach, isn’t it? But what triggered a Madison-based company to consider these UN Principles as a guide? Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.    Informative and Helpful Links The UN “Principles for Responsible Investment” or PRI. Alliant Energy’s 2018 Corporate Sustainability Report Goldman Sachs’ ESG Report from 2017.  See the impressive list of “Key Metrics and Indicators” on page 30 – 32.   Program Guide Episode 20 The ESG Canvas for Corporate Reporting with Pat Kampling, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alliant Energy  0:32      Introduction to Episode 20 and Pat Kampling, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alliant Energy 2:40     ESG discussion and the Sustainability Report of Alliant Energy 7:46     Break 1 8:12     Investor demands around ESG cuts through politics 9:05     Safety at Alliant Energy 13:38    Break 2 13:52    Culture shaping at Alliant Energy 21:04    Break 3 21:20    Experience and advice in moving from CFO to CEO 22:46    Increasing and managing the tempo of an organization 28:18    The CEO role as a liberating role 28:55    Farewell and congratulations on Pat Kampling’s retirement effective July 1, 2019 28:54    Preview of upcoming Episode 21 with Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President and CEO of PSEG in Newark, NJ  Biographies of Guests Ms. Patricia Leonard Kampling Pat Kampling is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Alliant Energy Corporation.  Her broad experience within the utility industry has proven essential to Alliant Energy’s ability to ensure competitive costs and reliable service for customers, while strategically leveraging a balanced generation portfolio. Pat has responsibility for leading the performance and strategic growth of Alliant Energy’s regulated utility companies (IPL and WPL), serving customers in more than 1,200 communities throughout Iowa and Wisconsin. She also provides executive direction for Alliant Energy Resources, the parent company of Alliant Energy’s non-regulated businesses, which includes Alliant Energy Transportation and non- regulated generation facilities. Pat joined Alliant Energy in 2005 and served originally as Alliant Energy’s Vice President of Finance. She then transitioned into roles as Vice President and Treasurer; Vice President Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In these roles, Pat guided the financial objectives of the company, supported regulatory proceedings, promoted environmental commitments, and was instrumental in the development and communication of a long-term strategic plan. In 2011, Pat became President and Chief Operating Officer. She was responsible for overall corporate operations and was instrumental in the execution of Alliant Energy’s capital plan, commitment to customers, environmental planning and safety initiatives. She was named Chairman, President and CEO in 2012. Before joining Alliant Energy in 2005, Pat spent more than 20 years in increasingly responsible finance, treasury, regulatory and engineering positions within Exelon Corporation, ultimately serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Exelon Enterprises and the Treasurer of Commonwealth Edison. Pat holds bachelor’s degrees in engineering and economics from Swarthmore College, an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School, and is a registered Professional Engineer. She serves on the Boards of Directors of American Transmission Company and Briggs & Stratton Corporation. In February 2019, Pat announced her intent to retire from the company on July 1, 2019. The Board of Directors appointed Alliant Energy President and Chief Operating Officer John O. Larsen to succeed Kampling. More information on that announcement can be found in this article.   Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 14 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 28-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.   Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com   Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 19 Redefining Leadership in a Traditional Industry with Mary Powell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Mountain Power Corporation Welcome to Episode 19. I am joined by Mary Powell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Mountain Power in Vermont.  This Episode 19 presents a unique CEO profile in Mary Powell.  Many of the CEO’s that we have featured in the past have come from science, technology and engineering disciplines or law or finance backgrounds.  Mary was raised in an artistic household on New York’s Upper West Side.  Her father was a hardworking, constantly auditioning New York actor.  Mary attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts made widely famous by the 1980 dramatic film Fame based on student life at the School of Performing Arts. Mary studied art with a particular passion for charcoal drawing with its kinetic form of big, bold, and fast movement.  She was graduated with a degree in Liberal Arts from Keene State College in New Hampshire.  Her career experience prior to Green Mountain Power included a breath of variety – for a large fund manager specializing in money markets, for state government, and in banking. Through our conversation it will become very apparent how Mary’s creative and liberal arts background and variety of experience renders her as a uniquely effective leader in a utility industry that most often abides by tradition. I’d like to express our special thanks to the clients of Lyceum Leadership Consulting that enable us to bring you this podcast.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  See you next time.   Informative and Helpful Links An April 3rd 2013 article on architecture website Arch Daily entitled “Can Architecture Make Us More Creative?” by Jonathan C. Molloy posed an interesting lead in question: “What do MIT’s Building 20, the Ancient Greek Agora, 18th Century British teahouses, and early 20th century Parisian cafés have in common?”  “They were some of the most creative spaces in the world.” Goes the answer.   The Green Mountain Power INSPiRE SPACE. See video link on our program page on the Episode 19 page on our website. Website: https://gmpinspire.com/ From Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist Seneca, “Mihi crede, verum gaudium res severa est.” Epistulae morales, 23, 4 ---- “Believe me, true joy is a serious business.”    Program Guide Episode 19 Redefining Leadership in a Traditional Industry with Mary Powell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Mountain Power Corporation 0:32     Introduction to Episode 19 and Mary Powell, President and CEO of Green Mountain Power 2:17     Introduction to Green Mountain Power 3:44     Progression of Green Mountain Power accomplishments and award recognition. 6:43     Origins of orientation toward fulfilling ‘customer dreams’ and ‘love’ for customers 7:52     The Tesla Powerwall as an answer to customer dreams and to ridding the dependence on ‘peakers’ in Vermont 10:38   Break 1 11:01   Innovation at Green Mountain Power 13:11   Physical space and its role in innovation and GMP’s INSPiRE SPACE. See video link on our program page on the Episode 19 page on our website. And “Can Architecture Make Us More Creative?” by Jonathan C. Molloy 16:54   Break 2 17:09   Boundaries or lack thereof at GMP 21:24   Break 3 21:46   M&A at Green Mountain Power and 'the ability to soar' 25:13   Final Break 4  25:28   Conclusion: Mary Powell’s leadership that draws upon her upbringing and liberal arts education 27:40   Famous Last Words – Seneca “Mihi crede, verum gaudium res severa est.” Epistulae morales, 23, 4 28:06   Preview of upcoming Episode 20 and Patricia Kampling, CEO of Alliant Energy in Madison Wisconsin.    Biographies of Guests Ms. Mary Powell Mary Powell is nationally recognized as an energy visionary, positioning Green Mountain Power as a leading energy transformation company.  Delivering clean, cost-effective and highly reliable power to customers all across Vermont, GMP offers cutting-edge products and service to reduce costs and carbon.  In 2017, GMP was named one of the top 10 energy companies in the world by Fast Company.  GMP has also achieved the top score for mid-sized utilities in the East Region in J.D. Power’s 2016 electric utility residential customer satisfaction study. Mary has served as president and chief executive officer for GMP since 2008.  She initiated and implemented a strategic and comprehensive restructuring of the company that dramatically transformed GMP, and she has been the backbone of a cultural transformation and service quality improvement.  Fast, fun, and effective is her motto.  Under Mary’s leadership, GMP became the first utility in the world to become a member of B Corp, showing a commitment to use energy as a force for good. Mary has delivered on an ambitious energy vision to provide low-carbon, low-cost and highly reliable power to Vermonters.  As a result, GMP became the first utility to offer to help customers go off-grid, built Vermont’s largest wind farm, made Rutland, Vermont, the Solar Generation Capital of New England, and installed smart grid technology across GMP’s service territory. In 2012, Mary led the acquisition of Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS), with a promise to generate $144 million in savings for customers.  GMP has grown from serving 88,000 customers in 2008 to serving over 260,000 customers, with revenues of more than $640 million and $2 billion in assets. And in 2015, Mary led another partnership with Tesla, with GMP becoming the first utility anywhere to offer customers the Tesla Powerwall battery. In 2014, Mary was recognized by Powergen as the Woman of the Year, in 2015 The Burlington Free Press named her Vermonter of the Year, in 2016 Fast Company named Mary one of the 100 most creative people in business, and in 2017, Mary was named one of the top 25 Most Influential Women of the Mid-Market by CEO Connection.    Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 16 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 27-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues. Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast. Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: The Leadership Lyceum LLC Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Please rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues. This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 17 "Leading a Regional Electricity Grid and the Transition to a Clean Energy Future" with Gordon van Welie, President and CEO of ISO New England Welcome to Episode 17. I joined Gordon Van Welie, President and Chief Executive Officer of ISO New England on a clear late summer's day at his office just outside of Springfield, Massachusetts. The general population would likely not be aware of the pivotal and critical role that an independent system operator plays in the reliable delivery of electricity across large regions of the United States moment by moment, 24/7. ISO New England is an independent system operator that is responsible for the transmission of electricity across the six-state New England region that includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The company's power system engineers, economists, computer scientists and other professionals ensure that the region has reliable, competitively priced wholesale electricity today and into the future. Gordon hails from South Africa and spent the foundational years of his career in a variety of engineering roles with Eskom, South Africa's electric utility. He joined Siemens and served as vice president and general manager of their power system's control division, delivering IT solutions for electric companies. From Siemens, he joined ISO New England as COO in September of 2000 and, shortly thereafter, was promoted to CEO in May of 2001.   Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe on iTunes.  See you next time. Informative and Helpful Links FERC Orders 888 and 889 ISO New England’s website    Program Guide Episode 17 Leading a Regional Electricity Grid and the Transition to a Clean Energy Future An Interview with Gordon van Welie, President and Chief Executive Officer of ISO New England  0:30     Introduction to Episode 17 1:07     Introduction to ISO New England and Gordon van Welie its President and CEO 2:18     Foundations and origins of Independent System Operators and Regional Transmission Operators 3:50     Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Orders 888 and 889 4:30     Critical policy question – how to decarbonize the electric system. 8:05     Break 1 8:22     The regional, state and federal level policy tapestry that affects the ISO 14:50   Break 2 10:56   The regional-level versus state-level policy in New England 17:55   Break 3 18:17   Operational risks such as fuel supply and the changing generation resource mix 19:23   “Fuel security” explained 21:24   Break 4 21:46   Is there a phased approach to a carbon-free future that assures power availability? 24:16   Electricity storage and other constraints on arrival speed to our clean energy future 26:40   Break 5 27:01   What can policy makers do to alleviate the constraints? 28:47   Resources, people and talent at the ISO that lead and stay abreast 30:26   Working with universities – intern programs and R&D work with professors 32:23   Closing comments – Perspective for young people coming up in a dramatically more exciting electric industry.   Biographies of Guests Mr. Gordon van Welie  Gordon van Welie is President and Chief Executive Officer of ISO New England Inc., having previously served as the company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined ISO New England from Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution LLC, where he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Power Systems Control Division and was responsible for managing information technology solutions for electric companies. Before coming to Siemens, Mr. van Welie held several positions at ESKOM, South Africa’s electric utility based in Johannesburg. Mr. van Welie is a member of the Executive Committee of the US National Committee of CIGRE and the Member Representatives Committee of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). In 2016, he was awarded the Leadership in Power Award from the IEEE Power & Energy Society. Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes: https://t.co/a70rtSiQnW Follow Leadership Lyceum on:          Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com          LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-linquist-682997          Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically.  Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.    Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 17 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 28-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcasts is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast. This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 18 Leading an Industry Association with Sue Kelly, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Public Power Association (APPA) Welcome to Episode 18. I am joined by Sue Kelly, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Public Power Association (APPA) in her office in Washington, DC. Our past 17 episodes have presented CEOs across a wide spectrum of company settings including publicly-traded, privately-held, and not-for-profits. This episode presents a CEO’s leadership over a unique type of organization – the industry association. Industry associations perform many complex roles for their membership including: as advocate for an industry’s position on political, legislative, and regulatory issues; as information source on current and emerging issues from an informed frontline position; as promoter of the industry, its people and their accomplishments; and as educator for the professionalism of its membership. The American Public Power Association serves its membership, which is comprised of about 1,400 public power utilities, in 49 states, excluding Hawaii, and including the territories of American Samoa, Guam, northern Mariana, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Sue Kelly has served as APPA's CEO since 2014.   Like public schools and libraries, public power utilities are owned by the community and run as a division of local government. Governance is typically provided by a local city council or an elected or appointed board. Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe on iTunes.  See you next time.   Informative and Helpful Links Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Alex Radin’s Public Power - Private Life Washington Post Obituary for Alex Radin from May 31, 2014 Speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt a Campaign Address in Portland, Oregon on Sept 21st 1932 Sue Kelly’s bio and blog  Program Guide Episode 18 Industry Association Leadership and the American Public Power Association An Interview with Sue Kelly President and Chief Executive Officer of APPA  0:00     Introduction to Episode 18 1:44     Introduction to Sue Kelly, President and CEO of APPA 2:44     Associations, democracy, and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America 3:30     An association’s general role and function 4:30     APPA’s service role and function 5:30     Sue Kelly’s foundational experience leading to CEO of APPA 6:33     Policy areas of focus in Sue Kelly’s foundational experience 7:39     Break 1 7:55     Well intended policies – unintended consequences: enter joint action agencies and the autobiography of long time APPA CEO Alex Radin - Public Power - Private Life 10:40   Break 2 10:56   The influence of Alex Radin on public power 12:10   Franklin Delano Roosevelt and public power as the birch rod and historical look at FDR’s influence on public power.  Speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt a Campaign Address in Portland, Oregon on Sept 21st 1932 15:14   Break 3 15:32   Story-worthy moments for Sue Kelly as CEO of APPA 19:46   Break 4 20:05   Technology’s role at APPA as enabler 25:13   The dark side of technology – cybersecurity risk 27:54   (Final) Break 5 28:15   APPA and mutual aid and assistance 32:32   Closing comments    Biographies of Guests  Ms. Sue Kelly Sue is president and CEO of the American Public Power Association — the first woman to hold the position in the Association’s 76-year history. Under her leadership, the Association has advocated to protect tax exemption for municipal bonds and preserve public power’s right to self supply in wholesale electricity markets. She has helped strengthen cybersecurity awareness and resources and raise the profile of public power. Sue was designated 2017 Woman of the Year by the Women’s Council on Energy and Environment. In 2015, she was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women by Washingtonian magazine. She has been in the energy field for 35 years, spending much of her career as an energy lawyer. Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes: https://t.co/a70rtSiQnW or SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thomas-linquist Follow Leadership Lyceum on: Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-linquist-682997 Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically.  Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.    Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 16 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 27-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcasts is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.   This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. 

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 16 "Turnarounds, Veterans, and a Tribute to Senator John McCain" with Don Brandt, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle West  Interview with Don Brandt, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle West (Ticker: PNW) and the turnaround of the company’s principal subsidiary, regulated utility Arizona Public Service through regulatory processes; also hiring military veterans and reservists; and, a tribute to the late Senator John McCain.  This episode is dedicated to our military veterans and to the memory of Senator John McCain of Arizona. Welcome to Episode 16. I joined Don Brandt, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle West, more commonly known as Arizona Public Service, under azure Phoenix skies in early March of 2018. $3.5 bln revenue Pinnacle West Capital Corp. is an energy holding company based in Phoenix, Arizona, has consolidated assets of about $17 billion, about 6,200 megawatts of generating capacity and 6,300 employees in Arizona and New Mexico. Through its principal subsidiary, Arizona Public Service, the Company provides retail electricity service to nearly 1.2 million Arizona homes and businesses.  This episode is dedicated to our military veterans and to the memory of Senator John McCain of Arizona.  Arizona Public Service has its origins within a storied past. Natural and man-made infrastructure were key to the settlement of the western US and provide the backdrop or dramatic context for wild west legend and lore. Railroads access, river crossings, mining, water resources, and power generation were antecedent admixtures to the conditions for statehood in the west. Arizona Public Service was founded five years after the infamous gunfight at OK Corral and a quarter century before Arizona became a state. The company has served Arizona for more than 125 years.  Thanks for listening.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe on iTunes.  See you next time. Program Guide Episode 16 Turnarounds, Veterans, and a Tribute to Senator John McCain with Don Brandt, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle West  0:30     Introduction to Episode 16 2:12     Leading a turnaround of the utility through more effective regulatory processes 5:17     Break 1 5:33     Broader historical context for the setting of the turnaround 12:06   Break 2 12:23   Managing decisions and divestiture of non-regulated diversified assets 14:47   Hiring Military Veterans and Reservists 18:30   Break 3 18:53   Don Brandt and Tony Orlando - Tribute to Senator John McCain 26:31   The End Biographies of Guests Mr. Donald Brandt Donald Brandt is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle West and Arizona Public Service (APS). In 2009, Brandt was elected to Pinnacle West’s board of directors and promoted to Chairman, President and CEO of Pinnacle West and Chairman and CEO of APS. Before assuming these responsibilities, Brandt held several leadership positions with the company, including APS president, executive vice president and chief financial officer. He again added the title of president of APS in 2013. Prior to joining Pinnacle West in 2002, Brandt gained 20 years of power industry experience. He served as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Ameren Corporation, a St. Louis-based energy company. Prior to Ameren, he was at Price Waterhouse & Co., where he provided accounting, audit and consulting services to Fortune 500 public companies.  A recognized industry leader, Brandt currently serves as chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute and vice chairman of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. He also sits on the board of the Edison Electric Institute. Brandt is a leader in the community as well, serving on the boards of the McCain Institute, the Phoenix Art Museum and the Nature Conservancy in Arizona.  Brandt earned his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from St. Louis University.   Mr. Tony Orlando Tony Orlando is one of America’s most endearing and enduring iconic stars.  2017 finds Tony bringing his exhilarating energy, warmth and humor to a tour of live concert shows across the nation as he celebrates over five decades as a beloved entertainer. 2016 found Tony collecting a dizzying number of top honors. These include the Casino Entertainer of the Year Award, recipient of the “Best All Around Entertainer” Las Vegas which he has won a total of four times, and previously three times in Atlantic City; Jukebox Artist of the Year Award from the Amusement and Music Owners Association of New York; The Ellis Island Medal of Honor one of the nation’s most prestigious awards; The Bob Hope Award for excellence in entertainment from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society honoring his efforts on behalf of our nation’s veterans. Tony’s tireless work on behalf of our veterans led to his being named Honorary Chairman at the 40th Anniversary at the NAM-POW’s Homecoming Celebration at the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library in 2014. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Eisenhower Foundation as well as Honorary Chairman of Snowball Express, an organization that serves the children of our fallen military heroes. Tony also hosts the Congressional Medal of Honor dinner every year in Dallas to honor our Medal of Honor recipients. He has also served as the Master of Ceremonies at the Secretary of Defense Freedom Awards at the Pentagon.  Few entertainers have excelled in so many realms as Tony has: a top selling recording artist, songwriter, concert headliner, network television star, Motion Picture actor, Broadway performer and author. Tony was also GM and Vice President of CBS-Music Division April-Blackwood Music from 1966-1970. He represented such songwriters as James Taylor, Laura Nyro, Blood Sweat and Tears and signed and produced Barry Manilow’s first recording while working for the legendary Clive Davis. Grammy Nominee Tony Orlando has sold millions of records, including five number one hits: “Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Ole Oak Tree,” “Knock Three Times,” “Candida,” “My Sweet Gypsy Rose” and “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You).”  “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” was the number one Billboard Song of 1973 and became Orlando’s theme song, and grew into an American anthem of hope and homecoming, reunion and renewal. He has 2 Platinum albums, 3 Gold albums and 15 Top 40 Hits. Tony Orlando and Dawn rank among the Top 100 Billboard Magazine artists of all-time.  The enormously popular Tony Orlando and Dawn television variety show ran for four seasons, from 1973 to 1977, on CBS.  The show catapulted Tony Orlando and Dawn from popular recording artists into major stars. Tony Orlando and Dawn was the first multi-racial singing group to star in a network television series.  Tony is still one of the most popular live concerts artists, and has headlined around the world and entertained for five US Presidents.  Like a painter, Tony is an artist who steps onto a stage as if it were a blank canvas. Each show he weaves colorful emotions set to music touching the deepest part of a person’s heart. A 2016 review says it best, “The truth is: Tony Orlando is more than a singer. He has the ability to reach an audience, touch us inside, and connect with us on a higher level with his voice, style, and values.” Tony is a recipient of three American Music Awards and two People’s Choice Awards for best male entertainer. For outstanding achievements to the entertainment industry Tony was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  Orlando has a wife Francine, a daughter Jenny and a son Jon.   Thomas B. Linquist Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 16 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 27-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues. Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes: https://t.co/a70rtSiQnW or SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thomas-linquist Follow Leadership Lyceum on:          Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com          LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-linquist-682997          Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically.  Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 16 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 27-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcasts is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast. This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2018. All rights reserved.

Welcome to Episode 15.  This is The Leadership Lyceum’s special Earth Day 2018 episode of A CEO’s Virtual Mentor on Climate Change and Clean Energy. We are pleased to present an interview with Ralph Cavanagh, Co-Director of the Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council from October 23, 2017.  We honor Earth Day by bringing in a much deeper perspective than is typically seen by the environmentally-conscious consumer.  We look deeply at the prospects for clean energy on a massive scale in the western region of the US through the lens of the NRDC, the remarkable development of energy efficiency as a resource, and the exciting prospects for clean energy integration across the west through electricity grid regionalization in the western electric transmission grid.    The Natural Resources Defense Council or NRDC is an NGO with really a superhero's mission of working to safeguard the earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. This is a tall order, requiring courageous, charismatic, and competent policy-oriented leaders of influence to carry out the mission. Ralph Cavanagh joined the NRDC in 1979 and has focused on removing barriers to cost effective energy efficiency, and on the role that electric and gas utilities can play in leading a clean energy transition. Ralph has taught energy law and policy at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, U.C. Berkeley Law School, and at the University of Idaho. Ralph serves on several boards. The Bipartisan Policy Center, The Northwest Energy Coalition, Renewable Northwest, The Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies. Ralph chairs the advisory board of the U.C. Davis Energy Efficiency Center. He's a graduate of Yale University, and Yale Law School. Program Guide for Episode 15 "The Earth Day Episode" 0:33                 Introduction to Episode 15                               Part One 2:00                 Introduction to the NRDC Mission 4:37                 Energy Efficiency  8:15                 Integrated Strategies for Energy Efficiency        Part Two 16:27               Western Electric Grid Integration 34:28               End of Episode                                                   Informative and Helpful Links The Natural Resources Defense Council - https://www.nrdc.org/   Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically.  Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.    Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 15 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 25-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast.  This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2018. All rights reserved.          

The Philanthropy Episode – A Holiday Double Feature A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® Episode 14 Holiday greetings from The Leadership Lyceum!  Welcome to our 14th episode of the podcast. ‘Tis the season of giving and we give you our holiday gift in the form of this holiday special double episode on Philanthropy.  We’ll cover the subject from a few different angles. First. from the perspective of the giver – with our first guest, University of Chicago benefactor Bernard DelGiorno.  Bernie also advises his clients on charitable giving in his role in private wealth management at UBS. Next, from the angle of the recipient.  We’ll glean the perspectives of Jennifer Sampson, CEO of The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.  Jennifer led a remarkable turnaround in Dallas and has led the development of programs that fund impactful and innovative social entrepreneurship.  Finally, we introduce you to a group of public company CEO’s in Ohio that are leveraging their musical talents to raise money for charities in Ohio.  Two of the CEOs that we feature have the ultra-cool distinction of being board members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  We feature the music of the CEO band, Power Chords throughout the music interludes in the program.  Segment I: Bernard DelGiorno, University of Chicago benefactor Segment II: Jennifer Sampson, CEO of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Segment III: The Ohio CEO band for charity - The Power Chords.  Perhaps it is not widely known that there is a group of several CEOs in Ohio have given their musical talent and time to charitable fundraising events.  One band that raises money for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame includes three of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board members: Drums: Nick Akins, CEO of utility AEP in Columbus; Guitars, vocals and keyboards: George Barrett, CEO of Cardinal Health; Guitars: Dr. Michael Drake, President of The Ohio State University and; Bass: Greg Harris, President of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Another band, The Power Chords, includes Akins and Barrett, plus multi-instrument virtuoso and vocalist Joe Hamrock, the CEO of utility NiSource.  Segment III is my coverage of The Power Chords at their Thursday, September 28th evening gig fundraiser for the Mid-Ohio Foodbank in Grove City, Ohio, outside Columbus. Conclusion  We hope you enjoyed this holiday season episode of A CEO’s Virtual Mentor and the fitting subject of Philanthropy from its many different angles.  It’s clear across all of these segments the devotion of our guests to something larger than themselves.  Famous Last Words We close our episode in Lyceum tradition with Famous Last Words.  It’s December 24, 1941.  Christmas Eve.  Just 17 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt lights the White House Christmas tree and is joined in this, his 9th ceremonial act (pre-presidential term-limits) by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was in Washington for the Arcadia Conference, the first wartime conference between these two close allies since the US entrance into World War II just 16 days prior on December 8th. Try as I might to edit this down for our 21st Century attention spans and our improved discourse efficiency at between 140 to 280 characters, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, I lacked the courage to cut.  Use a bookmark, because it’s well worth a listen.  On this day, 76 years ago, two of the 20th century’s most monumental figures took the stage with two purposes.  On the surface, they took to the microphone to announce the lighting of a tree.  But in their soaring speeches, they made clear the principles for which they had now committed both of their nations.  The overtones and undertones are thought-provoking and revealing for our current state of sensibility.  Warm wishes for the holidays and for your resolve for the New Year. Thanks for joining us.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe on iTunes.  See you next time. Program Guide Episode 14 The Philanthropy Episode   0:19        Introduction 0:29        Introduction to specific programming in this Episode 14 2:38        Segment I: Bernard DelGiorno, University of Chicago Benefactor 23:05      Segment II: Jennifer Sampson, CEO of The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas 53:20      Segment III: The Power Chords, Benefit Concert 54:18      Nick Akins CEO of AEP 57:19      Matt Habash, CEO of Mid-Ohio Foodbank 1:04:26   Nick Akins CEO of AEP 1:08:03   George Barrett, CEO of Cardinal Health 1:12:12   Joe Hamrock CEO of NiSource 1:13:04   Nick Akins CEO of AEP & Joe Hamrock CEO of NiSource 1:22:42   Conclusion and Famous Last Words with Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (Christmas 1941).    Informative and Helpful Links  Our Sponsor – TransparentCareer https://www.transparentcareer.com   Board Game: Tesla vs Edison War of Currents To ensure pre-Christmas arrival, order your game now through Amazon at www.artana.com/store   Segment I – The Benefactor – Mr. Bernard DelGiorno Article on University of Chicago Alumni Service Medal Award Recipient: http://www.kintera.org/site/c.fnKDIQNsEkG/b.5179039/k.9C22/Bernard_DelGiorno.htm   Segment II – The Recipient – Jennifer Sampson, CEO of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas https://unitedwaydallas.org/   Segment III – Giving Charitable Talents – Ohio's Rock and Roll CEOs The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO Band: http://www.shadowboxlive.org/shows/are-you-ready-to-rock The Power Chords: https://aepretirees.com/2012/10/08/harvest-palooza-raises-50000-to-fight-hunger/ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: https://www.rockhall.com   Famous Last Words Historical Background on the Darkest Days of World War II – 17 days after Pearl Harbor – FDR and Churchill Together in Washington Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/darkest-days-world-war-ii-winston-churchills-visit-white-house-brought-hope-washington-180961798/   The Full Audio of FDR and Churchill’s Speeches on December 24th 1941 Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington https://archive.org/details/PresidentFranklinRoosevelt411224WhiteHouseChristmasTreeCeremony   Biographies of Guests    Mr. Bernard DelGiorno Donor profile from the University of Chicago Alumni & Friends online community: http://www.kintera.org/site/c.fnKDIQNsEkG/b.5179039/k.9C22/Bernard_DelGiorno.htm   Ms. Jennifer Sampson Ms. Jennifer Sampson has been Chief Executive Officer and President of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas since September 13, 2011. Ms. Sampson served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc. since 2004. Ms. Sampson serves as a Member of Customer Advisory Board at Atmos Energy Corp.   Mr. Nick Akins Nick Akins is chairman, president and chief executive officer of American Electric Power. He is AEP’s 11th chairman, 10th president and sixth CEO in the company’s more than 100-year history. He is a member of AEP’s board of directors and is the only management representative on the board. Akins rose through the ranks at both AEP and the former Central and South West Corp. (CSW), which merged with AEP in 2000. Akins began his career in 1982 as an electrical engineer before moving up to positions of increasing responsibility. Prior to being elected president of AEP in December 2010, he served as executive vice president - Generation from 2006 through 2010 with responsibility for all generation activities of AEP’s approximately 38,000 MW of generation resources. Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer for Southwestern Electric Power Company, and held other leadership roles in Energy Marketing Services, Transmission, External Affairs and Industry Restructuring. A native of Louisiana, Akins received his bachelor’s degree in 1982 in electric engineering from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1986 from Louisiana Tech. Additional training includes executive management programs at Louisiana State University, the University of Idaho and the Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas. Akins is a former chairman of the Board of Directors of both the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and currently serves on both boards. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable (BRT) and was appointed chair of the BRT's Energy and Environment Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the boards of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership (GSEP), The Columbus Partnership, Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited (NEIL), Fifth Third Bancorp, OhioHealth and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Akins and his wife, Donna, live in Dublin, Ohio. They have two adult sons.   Matt Habash, CEO of Mid-Ohio Foodbank Matt Habash became executive director of Mid-Ohio Foodbank in 1984.  Prior to that, Matt was with the St. Stephen’s Community House, first as a youth worker and then as the assistant to the executive director.  Matt also was a member of Columbus City Council from 1993 to 2006, serving as Council President from 1999 to 2006. As Council President, Matt governed with civility and humanity.  Co-Chair with Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman, Matt led the 21st Century Growth initiative, a plan designed to balance job creation with sustainable neighborhood development.  Other efforts spearheaded by Matt in his role as Council President was the 315 Research Corridor, the City’s Indoor Clean Air Act and the City’s Bike Path Plan.  He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Xavier University, a Masters of Public Policy from The Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Xavier University. Matt takes an active leadership role in the community, having served on numerous boards and has received numerous awards, recognizing his commitment and work in serving those most vulnerable.   Mr. Joe Hamrock Joe Hamrock serves as NiSource President and Chief Executive Officer. He has been in this role since July 1, 2015, and is also a member of the NiSource Board of Directors. Joe previously served as Executive Vice President and Group CEO for NiSource's Gas Distribution segment, which included local gas distribution companies in Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In that role, he was responsible for all financial, operational, regulatory and commercial performance at NiSource's gas distribution operations. In coordination with leadership teams across each of these areas, he focused on driving the company's long-term growth plan, premised on executing a steady stream of infrastructure improvements and growth investments, synchronized with complementary regulatory and customer program initiatives. Joe joined NiSource in May 2012 after serving in a variety of senior executive positions with American Electric Power (AEP), including President and Chief Operating Officer of AEP Ohio, and roles in engineering, transmission and distribution operations, customer service, marketing and information technology. He began his energy industry career as an electrical engineer in transmission and distribution planning at AEP in Steubenville, Ohio. He went on to work in commercial and industrial customer services, and held leadership roles in commercial marketing and customer services, strategic development and other executive roles. Prior to becoming President of AEP Ohio, Joe was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in AEP's Shared Services organization from 2003-2007, and from 2002 to 2003 was Senior Vice President - General Services. Joe serves on the boards of the American Gas Association, Columbus Downtown Development Corp., the Columbus Partnership, the Greater Columbus Sports Commission and OhioHealth. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Youngstown State University and a master's degree in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Sloan fellow.   Mr. George Barrett George S. Barrett is chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health, a company ranked among the top 25 on the Fortune 500 and dedicated to improving the cost-effectiveness of health care. Barrett has refocused Cardinal Health on its essential role in supporting hospitals, pharmacies and alternative sites of care in their efforts to improve the quality and safety of patient care, while reducing costs and improving efficiency.  The tagline – Essential to care – embodies the company’s strategy and the culture of the organization. Barrett has been chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health since 2009.  He joined the company in 2008 as vice chairman and CEO of the company’s Healthcare Supply Chain Services. From 2005 to end-2007, Barrett served as president and CEO of North America for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.  During 2007, he also served as corporate executive vice president for Global Pharmaceutical Markets.  He held the position of president of Teva USA from 1999 to end-2004. Prior to joining Teva, Barrett held various positions with Alpharma Inc., serving as president of US Pharmaceuticals from 1994 to 1997, and president of NMC Laboratories, prior to its acquisition by Alpharma in 1990.  Barrett serves on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the board of trustees of the Corporation of Brown University. He is a member of the Healthcare Leadership Council and The Conference Board. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable, The Business Council and The Columbus Partnership. Barrett also serves on the board of directors of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Barrett earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University.  He also holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Long Island University’s Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.   Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes: https://t.co/a70rtSiQnW or SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thomas-linquist Follow Leadership Lyceum on:          Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com          LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-linquist-682997          Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum          Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically.  Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.  Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 15 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 25-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.  Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcast is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast. This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2017. All rights reserved.

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 13  The Big Shareholder Activism Episode – The Escalation Path Implications and Advice for Corporate Governance and CEO Leadership Our guests in a panel format include: Chris Young, Managing Director and Head of the Contested Situations Group, Credit Suisse Paul Toback, Former President, CEO and Chairman of Bally Total Fitness Marjorie Bowen, Retired Managing Partner of Houlihan Lokey and highly experienced public and private company director with an extensive list of directorships in which she was occasionally the activists’ board nominee. Corporate governance expert and independent director of publicly-traded companies, Tanuja Dehne. Our past two episodes have included segments on shareholder activism provided by our guest Chris Young from Credit Suisse.  Episode 11 included an historical look at the development and mainstreaming of shareholder activism as an asset class and the institutionalization of corporate governance through firms like ISS and Glass Lewis.  Episode 12 looked at the Vulnerability Framework and what brings companies into the attention of the activists.  We mentioned in a prior episode that a Wall Street Journal article had concluded that shareholder activism, which has been a perennial nuisance for chief executives, was now becoming an existential threat. So, what is it like to be in the crosshairs of the activist and what should you do about it? This Episode 13 is our big shareholder activism episode.  We take you step by step down the escalation path through 8 phases – including The Letter through the Proxy Contest. Chris Young from Credit Suisse will provide the steps and the pathway.  Governance expert Tanuja Dehne will provide some governance and management considerations along the way. Paul Toback will discuss his firsthand experience of being CEO at Bally Total Fitness and in the crosshairs at points along the path.  Highly-experienced, independent director, Marjorie Bowen, will provide context as an activist’s board nominee in the setting of activism and also provide governance and management advice for these situations. It’s with great pleasure that we announce that Tanuja Dehne has joined our team at Lyceum Leadership Consulting.  She brings her expertise to our board effectiveness and executive team effectiveness service offerings.  Warm thanks to our guests Paul Toback, Tanuja Dehne, Marjorie Bowen and Chris Young.  And special thank you to our sponsor TransparentCareer.  For those footnote readers, as always, please see the back of our album cover. For those interested, the rise and fall of Bally Total Fitness are covered in two cases at Harvard Business School by Strategy Professor John R. Wells. Please follow our links to the cases on the HBS website. All previous episodes are available on iTunes.  Please tune in to our next big episode on Philanthropy.  We’ll cover the subject from many different angles. From the perspective of the giver – with University of Chicago benefactor Bernard DelGiorno.   Bernie also advises clients on the subject in his role in private wealth management at UBS.  From the angle of the recipient.  We will glean the perspectives of Jennifer Sampson, CEO of The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.  Jennifer led a turnaround in Dallas and has led the development of programs that fund impactful social entrepreneurship.  We will also introduce you to a group of public company CEO’s in Ohio that are leveraging their musical talents to raise money for charities in Ohio.  Two of these CEOs are board members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Thanks for joining us.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe on iTunes.   Program Guide - Episode 13 The Big Shareholder Activism Episode – The Escalation Path Implications and Advice for Corporate Governance and CEO Leadership  0:35       Introduction 0:52       Introduction to specific programming in this Episode 13 3:46       Chapter 1: The Position 19:19     Chapter 2: The Letter 28:37     Chapter 3: The Meetings 34:37     Chapter 4: Making it Public 37:21     Chapter 5: The Compromise 42:20     Chapter 6: The Proxy Contest 47:17     Chapter 7: After the Proxy Contest 52:47     Chapter 8: The Advice  1:07:45  Final Credits  1:08:18  Episode 14 Preview   Informative and Helpful Links Our Sponsor – TransparentCareer https://www.transparentcareer.com   The Lyceum’s Well-Tuned Governance Model  https://www.leadershiplyceum.com/lyceum-board-effectiveness     The Forgotten Beatle - Jimmy Nicol Photo - https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2014/05/1964-beatlemania/b33_06151156/main_900.jpg?1420504210 Story - http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/meet-jimmy-nicol-the-forgotten-beatle-standin-drummer-for-ringo/news-story/0f79dd8eda8adc579d3c35c6bfb32f1f Bally Total Fitness and the Harvard Business School Case Study Collection Harvard Business School Professor John R. Wells [Wells' bio]  teaches the Bally Total Fitness case in his strategy course.  His two cases on Bally cover the rise and fall of Bally Total Fitness, respectively.  For access to abstracts on the case please find the links here: Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004 and Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016 Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016   Scott Joplin: https://www.scottjoplin.org/   Biographies of Guests  Ms. Marjorie Bowen Marjorie Bowen has served as an independent director for twelve public and private companies.  She has significant experience with corporate activism from both the activist shareholder as well as the incumbent board perspective.  As an activist appointed nominee, Ms. Bowen participated in a highly contested proxy contest, was endorsed by RiskMetrics and Proxy Governance, and was elected with 80 percent of the vote.  She also has been appointed as a director as a result of activist and board negotiations.  Conversely, Ms. Bowen has served as a director when an activist shareholder agitated for significant change, and in response she assumed a leadership role in developing and implementing solutions to maximize value for all shareholders.  Ms. Bowen’s directorships often involve complicated situations, operationally and/or financially challenged companies, including those needing to implement significant strategic and/or operational changes, turnarounds, and distressed companies both in and out of bankruptcy, across many industries.  Ms. Bowen’s directorships follow a nearly 20-year career in investment banking at Houlihan Lokey, advising boards of public companies on transactional, strategic and other shareholder matters, serving as a member of the firm’s senior management team, heading the industry leading fairness opinion practice, and providing leadership as the most senior woman at the firm.  She is a qualified NYSE and NASDAQ financial expert, and is well versed in corporate governance matters.   Mr. Paul Toback Paul is a seasoned Senior Executive, Attorney, Founder, Entrepreneur, and Consultant with 30 years of success in health, fitness, technology, and government. Leveraging extensive experience in new business development and strategic planning, he is a valuable asset for service companies looking for growth, team development, and brand building. His broad areas of expertise include public company leadership development; financial engineering and restructuring; mergers and acquisitions (M&A); startup, transition, turnaround, transformation; top-talent recruitment; cost reduction and revenue generation; finance and scaling; and legal, international, and franchising. Throughout his executive career, Paul has held leadership positions at Sproing Sport (Founder and CEO); Sproing Fitness LLC (Founder and CEO); Telegraph Consulting; Bally Total Fitness; The White House; and The City of Chicago. He has been responsible for securing a patent for new-generation high-intensity interval training (HIIT) fitness equipment, establishing fully-integrated manufacturing and global distribution, and opening domestic licensed brand fitness studios. As senior executive and C Suite Officer for the then-largest nationwide fitness center brand, Paul generated a record 22% increase of $1.1B net revenue in 4 years, resulting in $5.6MM net income in fourth year, reversing a $91MM loss. Separately, he increased cash flow $70 million annually by reducing expenses and capital spending for a company; and refinanced $500MM of corporate debt, including senior notes, term loan, and revolving credit, positively impacting nearly 70% of the company’s total debt. Paul secured a B.A. with Distinction in Political Science from Stanford University, graduating in 3 years. He earned a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) in Law from University of Chicago Law School. As a proficient executive, he has served on several boards, including with Bally Total Fitness, and the National Women’s History Museum.   Mr. Chris Young Chris Young has been Managing Director and Head of the Takeover Defense Practice at Credit Suisse AG and Credit Suisse Group since June 1, 2010. Until May 2010, Mr. Young served as the Director of M&A and Proxy Fight at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). While at ISS, Mr. Young was responsible for analyzing contentious M&A transactions, proxy fights and corporate governance issues and providing proxy voting and tender offer recommendations for ISS institutional investor clients. Mr. Young also helped to facilitate a constructive dialogue between ISS institutional investor clients and senior executives and directors of public companies in the US and Europe. Mr. Young is regarded as a leading authority on contested M&A transactions and shareholder activism. Prior to ISS, Mr. Young was a member of the investment banking group at Bear Stearns and the M&A group at Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Young is a CFA charter holder, received his JD, magna cum laude, from Boston University and his BS from Georgetown University.   Ms. Tanuja Dehne Tanuja Dehne is Senior Governance Advisor for Lyceum Leadership Consulting [Tanuja's Bio] and a public company director and former C-level executive of NRG Energy, Inc., a Fortune 250 power company. Tanuja brings perspective and experience from her cross-disciplinary roles to the C-suite and board room. She is a purpose-driven leader, cultivator of talent and proven strategist. She is an award winning corporate attorney, human resources professional and community volunteer who thrives when making a positive difference in the lives of others. During her tenure at NRG Energy, Inc., Tanuja had increasingly expansive roles: initially the company’s securities and finance lawyer, then Corporate Secretary and lead M&A attorney, before becoming the head of Human Resources. Ultimately, in her role as EVP, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief of Staff, she oversaw the company’s Human Resources, Information Technology, Communications, Marketing and Sustainability departments, the company’s charitable giving program, M&A integrations, as well as the construction of NRG’s sustainable corporate headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Tanuja also served as a sponsor, coach and “internal angel investor” of interdisciplinary innovation teams, including the team that created the “Path to Luma,” an environmentally conscious puzzle game launched in August 2015 with record breaking downloads in the Apple and Google stores. Tanuja is a director of Advanced Disposal Services (NYSE: ADSW) and Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp. (NYSE: SBY), and Board Trustee of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, HomeFront of New Jersey and Young Audiences New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. She is a frequent speaker on topics including leadership, corporate governance, and the intersection of the law and human resources. She received a B.A. from Lafayette College, Master’s in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law. Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes: https://t.co/a70rtSiQnW or SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thomas-linquist Follow Leadership Lyceum on:        Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com        LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-linquist-682997 Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 15 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 25-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcasts is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and neither The Leadership Lyceum LLC nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular content, recommendation or methodology discussed in this podcast. This podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor has been a production of The Leadership Lyceum LLC. Copyright 2017. All rights reserved.

In this episode, I talked with Douglas Davis, creative strategist, the author of Creative Strategy and Business of Design and he is also the principal of The Davis Group LLC. We talked about his book, getting the right strategy behind your products, how to write a good strategy and what should you take into account when creating products or solving problems for your consumers. His work experience and previous clients include ABN·AMRO Bank, Council for Economic Education, The Economist, HSBC, Tribal DDB, JWT, Deutsch and many others. Book references during this episode include Hey Whipple Squeeze This by Luke Sullivan, Truth Lies, and Advertising by Jon Steel and Juicing the Orange by Pat Fallon His book can be bought on Amazon: https://goo.gl/2iAsfG You can also listen to this episode on iTunes: https://goo.gl/2cyAgu Soundcloud: https://goo.gl/gByB8P About Laroche: https://www.laroche.co/ ------- Laroche.fm is a podcast hosted by Eugeniu Esanu, the founder and creative director of Laroche.co, a design agency from Amsterdam. We are on a journey of learning from different experts and industry leaders who share their expertise and knowledge. ------- Music: https://soundcloud.com/itsnglmusic

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 12 Shareholder Activism – The Vulnerability Framework; Board Governance & Effectiveness; and a Conversation with WEC Energy Group CEO Allen Leverett Guests include: Chris Young, Managing Director and Head of the Contested Situations Group, Credit Suisse Allen Leverett, President and CEO of WEC Energy Tanuja Dehne, Corporate governance expert and independent director of publicly-traded companies.  If you haven’t joined us in a while, you may have missed the announcement that we formed two companies under Leadership Lyceum’s brand: Lyceum Leadership Consulting which provides executive and board of director’s search, board effectiveness review, and an array of services for successor development and board-readiness.  And Lyceum Leadership Productions which brings you this podcast. Segment I - a continuation of our discussion on Shareholder Activism with Chris Young from Credit Suisse. We will cover what Chris describes as The Vulnerability Framework. We will discuss the conditions that make a company particularly vulnerable to activism. Segment II - a conversation with Allen Leverett, President CEO of WEC Energy Group in Milwaukee. We will discuss how WEC has reshaped itself through M&A over the last 10 years into a vastly different company that serves 4.4 million customers across 4 states in the upper Midwest.  Segment III - a continuation of our discussion with Tanuja Dehne on impediments to boardroom effectiveness. Famous Last Words - In our last episode, Episode 11, we introduced a spot called Famous Last Words. We intersperse excerpts from MGM’s 1954 movie Executive Suite starring William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, and Fredric March. For you utility enthusiasts, it also stars the PPL Building (Pennsylvania Power & Light) in Allentown, Pennsylvania as the exterior of the Tredway Corporation.  The plot backdrop -- Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation has died. But he never named a clear successor, so the Board members must choose. The most likely candidate is Loren Shaw, a skilled businessman with a high degree of financial acumen.  Their intense and consequential boardroom discussion will weave through our episode. Thanks for joining us.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe on iTunes.  See you next time.    Informative and Helpful Links  The Lyceum’s Well-Tuned Governance Model  https://www.leadershiplyceum.com/lyceum-board-effectiveness    Program Guide Episode 12 Shareholder Activism – The Vulnerability Framework; Board Governance & Effectiveness; and Conversation with Wisconsin Energy CEO Allen Leverett 0:30     Introduction to Lyceum’s brands and the podcast Episode 12  1:44     Introduction of Famous Last Words spot – MGM’s Executive Suite 3:47     Famous Last Words spot – MGM’s Executive Suite plot summary 2:35     Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 1/5 3:22     Break 1 3:36     Introduction to Segment I – Shareholder Activism with guest Chris Young, Managing Director of Credit Suisse on The Vulnerability Framework 7:20     Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 2/5 8:28     Break 2 8:41     Segment I (cont.): Chris Young of Credit Suisse 15:26   Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 3/5 17:17   Break 3 17:32   Wrap up of Segment I on Shareholder Activism and preview of next month’s Episode 13 with the final chapter in the series with Chris Young. 17:48   Introduction of Segment II: Interview with Allen Leverett, CEO of WEC Energy Group 27:28   Break 4 27:51   Segment II (cont.): Interview with Allen Leverett 41:30   End of Interview with Paul Bonavia 33:45   Break 5 34:06   Segment II (cont.): Interview with Allen Leverett 37:03   End of Interview with Allen Leverett 37:08   Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 4/5 38:22   Break 6 38:35   Introduction to Segment III – Corporate Governance and Board Effectiveness, a continuation of our discussion with Tanuja Dehne on impediments to boardroom effectiveness. 45:34   End of Segment III and preview of next month’s Episode 13 with Tanuja Dehne 45:45   Conclusion of Famous Last Words with Executive Suite 5/5   Biographies of Guests Mr. Chris Young  Chris Young has been Managing Director and Head of the Takeover Defense Practice at Credit Suisse AG and Credit Suisse Group since June 1, 2010. Until May 2010, Mr. Young served as the Director of M&A and Proxy Fight at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). While at ISS, Mr. Young was responsible for analyzing contentious M&A transactions, proxy fights and corporate governance issues and providing proxy voting and tender offer recommendations for ISS institutional investor clients. Mr. Young also helped to facilitate a constructive dialogue between ISS institutional investor clients and senior executives and directors of public companies in the US and Europe. Mr. Young is regarded as a leading authority on contested M&A transactions and shareholder activism. Prior to ISS, Mr. Young was a member of the investment banking group at Bear Stearns and the M&A group at Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Young is a CFA charter holder, received his JD, magna cum laude, from Boston University and his BS from Georgetown University.   Mr. Allen Leverett Allen Leverett was named president of WEC Energy Group in June 2015 and chief executive officer in May 2016. He was appointed to the board of directors in January 2016. Leverett had served as president of Wisconsin Energy Corporation since August 2013, as well as president – Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, with responsibility for business operations of the company’s utilities in those states. Previously, Leverett served as president and chief executive officer of We Generation, the company’s power generation group, since March 2011, with overall responsibility for the company’s electric generation portfolio, fuel procurement, environmental compliance and renewable energy development strategy. He joined Wisconsin Energy in 2003 as chief financial officer. In May 2004, he was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Wisconsin Energy and We Energies. Prior to joining the company, Leverett served as chief financial officer and executive vice president of Georgia Power in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that, he was vice president and treasurer of Southern Company Services, with overall responsibility for financial planning and analysis, capital markets and leasing, treasury and investor relations. Previously, he held a variety of positions in transmission planning, integrated resource planning, strategic planning, wholesale marketing and finance. Leverett earned his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in electrical engineering and mathematics from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He also earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and a Master of Business Administration degree with a finance concentration from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Leverett is a director of American Transmission Co., non-executive chairman of Church Mutual Insurance Co., and a member of the board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI).   Ms. Tanuja Dehne Tanuja Dehne is a public company director and former C-level executive of NRG Energy, Inc., a Fortune 250 power company. Tanuja brings perspective and experience from her cross-disciplinary roles to the C-suite and board room. She is a purpose-driven leader, cultivator of talent and proven strategist. She is an award winning corporate attorney, human resources professional and community volunteer who thrives when making a positive difference in the lives of others. During her tenure at NRG Energy, Inc., Tanuja had increasingly expansive roles: initially the company’s securities and finance lawyer, then Corporate Secretary and lead M&A attorney, before becoming the head of Human Resources. Ultimately, in her role as EVP, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief of Staff, she oversaw the company’s Human Resources, Information Technology, Communications, Marketing and Sustainability departments, the company’s charitable giving program, M&A integrations, as well as the construction of NRG’s sustainable corporate headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Tanuja also served as a sponsor, coach and “internal angel investor” of interdisciplinary innovation teams, including the team that created the “Path to Luma,” an environmentally conscious puzzle game launched in August 2015 with record breaking downloads in the Apple and Google stores. Tanuja is a director of Advanced Disposal Services (NYSE: ADSW) and Granite Point Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NYSE: GPMT), and Board Trustee of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, HomeFront of New Jersey and Young Audiences New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. She is a frequent speaker on topics including leadership, corporate governance, and the intersection of the law and human resources. She received a B.A. from Lafayette College, Master’s in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law. Ms. Dehne’s Upcoming Speaking Engagements: September 14, 2017: ABA Annual Meeting of Business Law Section in Chicago: Driving Boardroom Diversity:  An Inside Look at What’s Important and What’s Next October 2, 2017: NACD Annual Global Summit, National Harbor, MD:  Compensation Board Committee Forum October 25, 2017: BSR Annual Conference 2017 - How Businesses Lead in Los Angeles: “Engaging Boards: Making a Case” - engaging boards on sustainability issues   Host Mr. Thomas B. Linquist Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 15 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 25-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. 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