Join us for a conversation with Lloyd Shefsky about his latest book Visionarie$ are made not born, 2017. The event will be moderated by Anita Brick, Chicago Booth Career Services.
Event Details
VISIONARIE$ are business super stars as rare as pop divas—and richer, too. But they are not divinely gifted like a top vocalist. In truth, visionaries learn their craft: one that powerfully impacts segments of our lives, often in ways that we don't even recognize. And their cunning is accessible, once defined. In Visionarie$ Are Made Not Born, retired Kellogg School of Management Professor Lloyd Shefsky lays out five elements of visions and explains how to become a business visionary. Shefsky uses the stories of amazing business visionaries, in addition to his expert insight, to demonstrate how those elements have been successfully used in the past.
$45 Chicago Booth alumni & students
$50 Guests
Registration fee includes a signed copy of the book, appetizers, and one drink ticket
Speaker Profiles
Lloyd Shefsky (Speaker)
Lloyd Shefsky is a consultant, coach, mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs, family businesses and public companies controlled by families. Over the years he has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, often from their earliest stages through expansions, public offerings, sales of the businesses, and in some cases succession to one or two additional generations of the founders' families. He's helped family businesses in establishing and improving corporate governance; leadership and succession planning, ownership, and voting power; instituting philanthropic efforts and performed training aimed at developing relationships among family members.
Shefsky has co-founded several businesses and not-for-profit organizations. Lloyd recently retired as Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Founder and Co-director of the Center for Family Enterprises and Co-Founder of the Center for Executive Women at the Kellogg School of Management. He has taught courses, lectured and spoken in China, Japan, India, Thailand, Canada, Israel and throughout the United States. Shefsky has written professional articles on family business, entrepreneurship, and other related topics. He is the best-selling author of Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born, published by McGraw-Hill and translated into seven languages, and Invent Reinvent Thrive, published by McGraw-Hill in August, 2014, as well as Visionarie$ Are Made Not Born, published in 2017.
Lloyd serves on corporate boards and has served on boards of private and public companies in the U.S. and elsewhere. Within those boards, he has served on Audit, Compensation and Nominating committees. He has received honors, including the 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for his support of entrepreneurship from Ernst & Young and Merrill Lynch; the 2002 Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League; the 1992 Award of Excellence from the Sports Lawyers Association; and the 1990 Distinguished Alumni Award, DePaul University. Lloyd serves as Of Counsel to the Taft Law Firm which recently acquired the Chicago law firm, Shefsky & Froelich which he founded. As such he advises businesses on a broad range of legal, financial and business matters, including public and private capital funding, mergers and acquisitions, employee motivation and expansion.
He received his JD from The Law School at the University of Chicago, a B.S. from DePaul University, and is also a CPA.
Anita Brick (Moderator) '81
Director, Career Advancement Programs, Chicago Booth Career Services