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In this episode, Katie Blum, Associate Vice President for Strategic Innovation at the University of Illinois Foundation, shares valuable insights into the challenges she's faced as a Catalyst executive. She explores three key hurdles: the need to balance visibility and influence, managing objection burnout, and cultivating a supportive community of “yes and” peers.. She emphasizes the power of amplifying other innovators' work to gain visibility and understanding when it's culturally appropriate to spotlight your own contributions. On overcoming objections, Kathryn reframes “no” as often being a “not yet” and highlights the insights objections can provide when we listen deeply. Finally, she underscores the importance of peer communities, like the Catalyst Leadership Trust, in providing energy and momentum to drive change. Original music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lynz Floren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

November 12, 2024 - Natalie Beck of the Heart of Illinois Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about the new electrical box wraps, supporting public art, grants they has issued, their wish list, and having much more coming. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Gabe Cagwin recently took on the role of vice chancellor for advancement at the University of Illinois Springfield. He also serves as senior vice president for the University of Illinois Foundation. Dr. Cagwin spoke to Community Voices about what led him to higher education and his vast experience with fundraising. He also shared what he is looking forward to in Springfield and at UIS.

Barry Benson, Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement, is the senior fundraiser and responsible for managing frontline advancement efforts for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Serving on the Chancellor's Executive Leadership Council, Vice Chancellor Benson, who also holds a Senior Vice President title at the University of Illinois Foundation, leads a team of approximately 275 advancement professionals both centrally and within over 20 colleges/units.Benson is an experienced advancement professional who relocated with his wife and three daughters (two of whom attend UIUC while the youngest is a senior in high school) to Urbana-Champaign from the University of Arizona in March 2017. In Tucson, AZ, he served for nearly a decade in escalating capacities culminating in the role of Senior Vice President for Development where he was responsible for successfully achieving a $1.5 billion campaign goal two years ahead of schedule and while overseeing all central campaign activities, marketing and communications, planned giving and regional development for the University of Arizona Foundation. Benson also has extensive experience leading successful college-based advancement programs in business and engineering. Vice Chancellor Benson is active in the advancement industry participating in various leadership capacities and speaking engagements. In addition to his higher education experience, Benson also is an active civil servant having served on various nonprofit community boards.A finance graduate and former collegiate baseball letterman from the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO), Benson also holds a Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University (Ft. Collins, CO) and is a former Certified Financial Planner practitioner who values spending time with family and friends while also enjoying the outdoors golfing, skiing, and doing yardwork (yes, it's true).

On today's manager meetings, Ellen Ellison speaks with Rashmi Kwatra. Ellen is a past guest on Capital Allocators when she was Chief Investment Officer of the University of Illinois Foundation. Rashmi is the founder and CIO of Sixteenth Street Capital, a Singapore based manager focused on emerging and frontier markets in South and Southeast Asia with $240 million under management. Sixteenth Street manages a concentrated fundamental equity portfolio with a long-term focus on Asia's fastest growing capital markets. Before they kick it off, Ellen and I discuss her due diligence process and the fit of Sixteenth Street in her portfolio. Learn More Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google  Follow Ted on Twitter at @tseides or LinkedIn Subscribe to the mailing list Read the transcripts

On today's manager meeting, Ellen Ellison speaks with Jon Brolin. Ellen is the former Chief Investment Officer of the University of Illinois Foundation, which she joined in 2013 as the first leader of the now $2.4 billion Foundation. Jon is the Founder and Managing Partner of Edenbrook Capital, a $400 million manager of a concentrated portfolio of micro and small cap U.S. equities.  Edenbrook applies a private markets approach to public markets, intending to own and add value to its portfolio companies over a multi-year time horizon.  First, Ellen and I discuss how she came to find an off-the-run manager and some of her process in getting over the hurdle to allocate to what became a very successful partnership. Learn More Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google Follow Ted on Twitter at @tseides or LinkedIn Subscribe to the mailing list Read the transcripts

Good morning awesome and motivated people! We hope you all had a great weekend. We have a blended white mocha this morning and it's very tasty. Let's get into the news, we have a lot to talk about today! - Now yes, this is an Aurora show, but we can give credit where credit is due! Our neighbors Oswego, Yorkville & Kendall county have experienced a lot of growth! Read this article to learn more about the growth and changes taking place in Kendall county. https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-aurora-kendall-county-census-numbers-st-0820-20210822-3zbw67wrprhqzhrjjof7ql3ide-story.html - The Civilian Review Board was created with the purpose of providing civilian review over police complaints, and advice over training. With a diverse team of inspired locals, the board seeks to create and foster constructive dialogue between law enforcement & residents. Read the article here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-aurora-board-st-0822-20210820-znj3j4jblfgotb3ufji3wbguay-story.html - Our friends Aurora Public Library, Illinois Foundation are seeking to upgrade our beloved Bookmobile. How will they do this you ask? With YOUR participation in their Lace Up For Literacy virtual 5K. This is taking place from August 30th to September 6th, online, and at your own pace. Many of our community partners have been contributors for many years; let's all come together for our youth and take part! Click this link to register: https://e.givesmart.com/events/mNd/ It's Monday and we're off to a strong start! We have a lot going on this week, tune in each day to learn about what's going on locally. We have a VERY cool event coming up in September so stay tuned for more details. We had a really cool question of the day: "what would you name an orange, if you couldn't call it an 'orange'?" Let us know your answer here in the comments or send it to us at goodmorningaurorail@gmail.com Have a fantastic day and a great week! See you tomorrow at 8 am!

Mary Anne Ehlert is a certified financial planner (CFP), and the president and founder of Protected Tomorrows, a company comprising expert advisors dedicated to serving families of individuals with special needs to help them plan for a bright future. She serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Special Olympics of Illinois Foundation and Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation. She is also a Partner of Forum Financial Management, serving the financial planning needs of the families.  Mary Anne speaks at conferences nationally and locally on planning for families with special needs, and recently authored The Gift I Was Given.    In today’s episode, host Shay Beider welcomes Mary Anne to talk about how she brings security and peace of mind to thousands of individuals with special needs and their families, and how her career was inspired from being a caregiver at a very young age for her sister who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Mary Anne shares the top “need-to-knows” for a family who has a child with special needs, and some of the changes she hopes to see within the system to recognize the value in hiring and educating people of all abilities.   Transcripts for this episode are available at: https://www.integrativetouch.org/conversations-on-healing    Show Notes: Parent University™   This podcast was created by Integrative Touch for Kids (ITK). ITK is working to change the way people experience healthcare. ITK supports families whose children have any type of special health or medical need. This includes kids with cancers, genetic conditions, autism, cerebral palsy, traumatic stress, and other serious health issues. We have pioneered a new therapy called Integrative Touch™ and reach 3500 people each year in the hospital and community settings. We engage communities in support of families struggling with special medical needs and offer unique Telehealth programs to families and healthcare providers during this challenging time. Thanks to the incredible support of our volunteers and contributors, individuals are able to receive our healing services at little or no cost.

This week, Laura and Joelle are joined by Sharon Howerton, president of Chicago Uptown Lion’s Club, a volunteer service agency committed to service in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods since 1921. Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with over 1 Million members. Their mission is to improve our communities and have been doing so for nearly 100 years. Don’t miss the Lions of Illinois Foundation’s annual fundraiser, Candy Days, this Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13! To view episode show notes, please click here. 

Ellen Ellison, Chief Investment Officer at University of Illinois Foundation, and Janet Lorin, Bloomberg News Endowment Reporter, discuss Ellison’s aim to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio. David Wethe, Bloomberg News U.S. Energy Reporter, breaks down the impact of strong growth in crude demand on Schlumberger earnings. Patricia Nakache, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, talks about investing in ecommerce and retail in the age of Amazon. We Drive to the Close with David Dietze, President at PointView Wealth Management. And Carol and Cory hit today’s “Movers and Shakers” on Wall Street and Bloomberg Stocks EditorDave Wilson features the “Stock of the Day.” 

Ellen Ellison, Chief Investment Officer at University of Illinois Foundation, and Janet Lorin, Bloomberg News Endowment Reporter, discuss Ellison's aim to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio. David Wethe, Bloomberg News U.S. Energy Reporter, breaks down the impact of strong growth in crude demand on Schlumberger earnings. Patricia Nakache, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, talks about investing in ecommerce and retail in the age of Amazon. We Drive to the Close with David Dietze, President at PointView Wealth Management. And Carol and Cory hit today's “Movers and Shakers” on Wall Street and Bloomberg Stocks EditorDave Wilson features the “Stock of the Day.”  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Ellen Ellison, Chief Investment Officer at University of Illinois Foundation, and Janet Lorin, Bloomberg News Endowment Reporter, discuss Ellison's aim to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio. David Wethe, Bloomberg News U.S. Energy Reporter, breaks down the impact of strong growth in crude demand on Schlumberger earnings. Patricia Nakache, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, talks about investing in ecommerce and retail in the age of Amazon. We Drive to the Close with David Dietze, President at PointView Wealth Management. And Carol and Cory hit today's “Movers and Shakers” on Wall Street and Bloomberg Stocks EditorDave Wilson features the “Stock of the Day.”  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Ellen Ellison, Chief Investment Officer at University of Illinois Foundation, and Janet Lorin, Bloomberg News Endowment Reporter, discuss Ellison’s aim to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio. David Wethe, Bloomberg News U.S. Energy Reporter, breaks down the impact of strong growth in crude demand on Schlumberger earnings. Patricia Nakache, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, talks about investing in ecommerce and retail in the age of Amazon. We Drive to the Close with David Dietze, President at PointView Wealth Management. And Carol and Cory hit today’s “Movers and Shakers” on Wall Street and Bloomberg Stocks EditorDave Wilson features the “Stock of the Day.” 

Ellen Ellison is the Chief Investment Officer of the University of Illinois Foundation, which she joined in 2013 as its first leader of the now $1.7 billion pool of assets. Ellen restarted a program and a portfolio from scratch at a time when longer-established University investment offices already had their chips carefully placed in the markets. Yet with a small team, she built a clever portfolio and is starting to reap its rewards. Prior to joining Illinois, Ellen was the Executive Director of Investments at the University of Miami for five years, the leader of a small family office for a year, and a thirteen-year veteran of Fiduciary Trust Company.  She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Columbia University Business School, and currently sits on the Investment Committee for Mount Holyoke. Our conversation starts with Ellen’s career path and dives into the challenge of starting an endowment investment program from the ground up, including establishing governance practices and figuring out when to put cash to work when markets feel pricey. Her favorite opportunities in the market, including a long discussion of agriculture investing, offers a very different take on the world today. For more episodes, go to capitalallocatorspodcast.com/podcast Follow Ted on twitter at @tseides

Welcome to Episode 2 of the “Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor” podcast. Part of a Sub-Series on “CEO from CFO” This is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Mark Pytosh, CEO of $300 million CVR Partners, a Houston-based manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate for fertilizer products. The company is owned by billionaire Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises.   Mark will share his experience of moving from CFO to CEO in an Icahn-controlled organization.  Our conversation will explore his experience for working in a variety of ownership structures including public company and private equity-backed organizations.  We will discuss his leadership alterations in moving from CFO to CEO.  He will provide advice to CFOs interested in becoming CEOs and to Boards contemplating developing and promoting a CFO in a CEO succession process. 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. Program Guide  Part 1 of 2 Mark Pytosh Interview 1:41       Introduction to Mark Pytosh 3:50       CEO in a Carl Icahn controlled organization 8:35       Break 8:56       Leadership Alterations as CEO vs. CFO 11:40     Preparations and Prerequisites for Fitness as a CEO 13:56     Breaking Old Habits 15:51     Areas of Impact CEO vs CFO 16:38     Advice for Boards on Promoting a CFO to a CEO 18:39     CFO Categories Strategic Orientation & Capital Markets Operational & Cost Focus Financial Reporting, Controls, & Governance 20:52     End + Preview of Part 2 of 2 Biography on Mark Pytosh Mark Pytosh is the president and CEO of $300 million CVR Partners, a Houston-based manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate for fertilizer products. CVR Partners, whose majority stakeholder (CVR Energy) is owned by billionaire Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises, engages in petroleum refining through two crude oil refineries in Oklahoma and Kansas. Before joining CVR Partners as CEO, Pytosh was CFO at Tervita Corporation, a Canada-based environmental and energy services company; CFO at Covanta Energy Corporation, a global waste energy renewable power company chaired by Sam Zell; and CFO of Waste Services, an integrated solid waste services company that operates in the United States and Canada. Pytosh led recapitalizations of both Tervita and Covanta. Prior to his corporate leadership, he spent 18 years in investment banking. Pytosh earned a BS in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves on the Board of Directors for the University of Illinois Foundation. Your host Thomas B. Linquist is a Partner at leading global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.  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 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. Copyright 2016 by Dinosaur Productions LLC

Welcome to Episode 2 of the “Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor” podcast. Part of a Sub-Series on “CEO from CFO” This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Mark Pytosh, CEO of $300 million CVR Partners, a Houston-based manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate for fertilizer products. The company is owned by billionaire Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises.   Mark will share his experience of moving from CFO to CEO in an Icahn-controlled organization.  Our conversation will explore his experience for working in a variety of ownership structures including public company and private equity-backed organizations.  We will discuss his leadership alterations in moving from CFO to CEO.  He will provide advice to CFOs interested in becoming CEOs and to Boards contemplating developing and promoting a CFO in a CEO succession process. 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. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leadership-lyceum-ceos-virtual/id1118682019 Program Guide  Part 1 of 2 Mark Pytosh Interview 1:09       Introduction to Part 2 2:03       Experiences Developed as CFO toward becoming CEO 4:01       influence of Private Equity Ownership on his leadership 5:36       Break 5:54       Advice for Boards on developing a CFO into a viable CEO Successor 10:53     Break 11:10     CFO Development – the CEO’s Responsibility and CFO Requirements for fitness as CEO 14:02     Break 14:18     What Mark seeks in a viable CEO successor 17:18     Parting advice for CFOs aspiring to CEO 19:15     End + Preview of Episode 3 featuring Bob Flexon, CEO of Dynegy   Biography on Mark Pytosh Mark Pytosh is the president and CEO of $300 million CVR Partners, a Houston-based manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate for fertilizer products. CVR Partners, whose majority stakeholder (CVR Energy) is owned by billionaire Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises, engages in petroleum refining through two crude oil refineries in Oklahoma and Kansas. Before joining CVR Partners as CEO, Pytosh was CFO at Tervita Corporation, a Canada-based environmental and energy services company; CFO at Covanta Energy Corporation, a global waste energy renewable power company chaired by Sam Zell; and CFO of Waste Services, an integrated solid waste services company that operates in the United States and Canada. Pytosh led recapitalizations of both Tervita and Covanta. Prior to his corporate leadership, he spent 18 years in investment banking. Pytosh earned a BS in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves on the Board of Directors for the University of Illinois Foundation. Your host Thomas B. Linquist is a Partner at leading global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.  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 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. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leadership-lyceum-ceos-virtual/id1118682019 Copyright 2016 by Dinosaur Productions LLC