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A fireside chat with Joel Peterson, Author of Entrepreneurial Leadership, & Dr. Samantha Dewalt, Managing Director at Lehigh@Nasdaq
About this Event
We welcome Joel Peterson for a fireside conversation with Dr. Samantha Dewalt, Managing Director at Lehigh@NasdaqCenter, to discuss his book Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, & Running Stuff. Joel has spent his career evolving into an Entrepreneurial Leader as the 12-year Chairman of JetBlue, former Chairman of the Hoover Institution & an award-winning professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Laying out his vision for a leader-manager's highest calling & a clear path for action, Joel organizes the mission & work of aspiring Entrepreneurial Leaders. He'll share how to:
Build Trust by assessing your values & increasing your tendency to run toward the fire, demonstrate dogged persistence, & display integrity.
Create a Mission by finding meaning in what you do & setting MAD-that is, Memorable, Aligned, & Doable-goals.
Secure a Team by hiring great people for values consistency & demonstrating effective attitudes-likeability, gratitude, humility, humor-in your interactions.
Deliver Results with maps to guide you in how to make decisions, negotiate, communicate, survive growth, drive change, overcome adversityand more.
As Peterson says, This is profoundly important & impactful work-and the world needs more people capable of doing it. In this fireside chat, Joel will illuminate these invaluable lessons with stories-his own & those of colleagues at JetBlue, Bonobos, Trunk Club, Asurion, & other companies-to offer valuable lessons for the journey to entrepreneurial leadership, sign up today!
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Joel Peterson
Joel Peterson is the 12-year Chairman of JetBlue Airways, retiring in May 2020, former Chairman of The Hoover Institution, & the Founding Partner of Peterson Partners, a Salt Lake City-based investment management firm with $1 billion under management. He is a business leader, investor, & teacher who has worked firsthand with over 2,300 businesses, hundreds of partners, & thousands of leaders.Since 1992, Peterson has been on the faculty at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, teaching courses in real estate investment, entrepreneurship, & leadership. He was the original seed venture investor for several unicorns (including Bonobos & Asurion) helmed by former students.He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of Trammell Crow Company, the world's largest private commercial real estate development firm at the time. Peterson earned an MBA from Harvard Business School & received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. Joel has been awarded the 2005 Distinguished Teaching Award & the 2016 Robert K. Jaedicke Silver Apple Award at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Dr. Samantha Dewalt
Dr. Samantha Dewalt is an entrepreneurial leader & strategic thinker with bold ideas & relentless execution - passionate about inspiring others to reach their greatest potential through education & authentic leadership. Dewalt serves as the inaugural Managing Director of Lehigh@NasdaqCenter, an exclusive academic-in-residence partnership between Lehigh University & the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco. Lehigh@NasdaqCenter accelerates student transformation & societal impact through entrepreneurial education, research & thought leadership. As managing director, Dewalt provides strategic & operational leadership for the center, develops innovative programs focused on entrepreneurial talent development, & fosters engagement with students, faculty, alumni & global partners.
Dewalt has 15 years' experience leading strategic innovation in entrepreneurial environments, serving industries including retail, healthcare, technology & higher education. Prior to joining Lehigh, Dewalt served as the inaugural Associate Director of IT Corporate Engagement at the University of Oklahoma, following six years in industry as Vice President of Marketing for Cole Technology Group & as Partner & Vice President for Hal Smith Marketing Group. Dewalt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication & a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma, & earned a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University.
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The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center is a 501c(3) public charity whose mission it is to make entrepreneurship accessible to all. We deliver world-class resources & mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential. Please join us & make your gift to ensure these transformative programs may continue to reach the underserved.
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