Keynote speakers David Brooks, Erin Meyer, Gayle D. Beebe, Marcus 鈥淕oodie鈥� Goodloe, Shaylyn Romney Garrett and Robert Putnam share insights on effective and purposeful leadership at the 2022 Lead Where You Stand Conference June 1-3 at 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Global Leadership Center. Tickets to the three-day event, which cost $499, may be purchased at . Those who buy four seats, get one free.
The Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership, the Brittingham Family Foundation, the Montecito Institute and Sunset and Magnolia interior design sponsor the event.
鈥淎s a leader, how do you build an organization that both succeeds and makes an enduring impact on society?鈥� asks Beebe, 蜜桃传媒 president and author of 鈥淭he Shaping of an Effective Leader.鈥� 鈥淎t Lead Where You Stand, you鈥檒l hear from world-class speakers, who will inspire you to lead well and pursue the greater good. Whether you鈥檙e from the business world, a non-profit organization or the government, you鈥檒l gain valuable new insights and skills.鈥�
Brooks, New York Times columnist and author of the bestselling book 鈥淭he Road to Character,鈥� is one of America鈥檚 most prominent political and social commentators. His most recent book, 鈥淭he Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life,鈥� quickly became a New York Times Bestseller. He writes a bi-weekly op-ed column for the New York Times and regularly appears on PBS News Hour and National Public Radio鈥檚 All Things Considered. He has also written 鈥淭he Social Animal,鈥� 鈥淥n Paradise Drive,鈥� and 鈥淏obos in Paradise.鈥� He worked at the Wall Street Journal for nine years and has written for the New Yorker, Forbes, the Washington Post, and many other periodicals. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has taught at Duke University and teaches a global affairs course on humility at Yale University. This is the third year Brooks has been a keynote speaker at the conference.
Meyer, author of 鈥淭he Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business,鈥� is a professor at INSEAD, an international business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Based in Paris, she analyzes how national cultural differences impact business and speaks about cross cultural management and global teamwork. She was selected by Thinkers50 as one of the 50 most influential business thinkers of 2017. In addition, HR Magazine named her as one of the 30 most important HR thinkers of the same year. At INSEAD, she is senior affiliate professor of the organizational behavior department and program director for Leading Across Borders and Cultures, which teaches students how to lead in a complex, cross-border, multicultural environment.
Beebe, 蜜桃传媒 president since 2007, has spent more than a quarter century in higher education. He has authored or edited 10 books and more than 40 articles, including 鈥淟onging for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion.鈥� Leading unprecedented growth at 蜜桃传媒 while facing significant challenges, he has loved attracting new resources to build out the campus, developing new academic and co-curricular programs, and pursuing the next horizon. He received master鈥檚 degrees in divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, in philosophy of religion and theology from Claremont Graduate University, and in business administration in strategic management from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont, and a doctorate in philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont.
Goodloe, senior fellow for ethics and justice at Dallas Baptist University鈥檚 Institute for Global Engagement, will speak about 鈥淗olding Court with the King: Leadership Lessons from the Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr.鈥� He is a scholar, mentor, speaker and author of the book 鈥淜ing Maker: Applying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.鈥檚 Leadership Lessons in Working with Athletes and Entertainers.鈥�
Romney Garrett and Putnam co-authored 鈥淭he Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again,鈥� which has been hailed as 鈥渁 magnificent and visionary book,鈥� and 鈥渁 must-read for those who wonder how we can reclaim our nation鈥檚 promise.鈥�
Romney Garrett also co-wrote 鈥淎merican Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us,鈥� which won Princeton University鈥檚 Woodrow Wilson Award for best political science book of 2010-11. Her opinions, writing, and research have been published in numerous outlets including TIME Magazine, The New York Times, National Public Radio, BBC Radio, and the PBS Newshour. She is a founding contributor to Brooks鈥� Aspen Institute initiative, Weave: The Social Fabric Project, and co-founded Think Unlimited, a nonprofit venture working to catalyze social innovation in the Middle East.
Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin professor of public policy at Harvard University, founded the Saguaro Seminar, a program dedicated to fostering civic engagement in America. He is the author or fifteen books, including the best-selling 鈥淏owling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,鈥� and more recently, 鈥淥ur Kids: The American Dream in Crisis.鈥� In 2010 he co-authored 鈥淎merican Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us,鈥� which won the American Political Science Association鈥檚 2011 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. He is former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Other speakers include Lynn Aldrich, a sculptor who transforms everyday household or building materials into something unexpected; Anne Snyder, editor-in-chief of Comment magazine and co-editor of the book 鈥淏reaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year鈥�; Reed Sheard, 蜜桃传媒 vice president for college advancement and chief information officer; and Dane Howard, head of UX design and research at Amazon Care and author of the book 鈥淭he Future of Memories.鈥�
The annual conference, which began in 2015, has also featured keynote speakers Doris Kearns Goodwin, Geoffrey Moore and Jon Meacham.