PepsiCo, Barclays Executives Headline UVA Darden Spring Leadership Speaker Series
By Dave Hendrick
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business will welcome top business leaders from a diverse set of global companies this spring as part of its Leadership Speaker Series.
The Leadership Speaker Series offers Darden students, faculty, staff and guests the opportunity to hear advice on leadership directly from prominent executives. Leaders share their stories, expertise and advice in a flexible one-hour format on Darden Grounds, ranked No. 1 in the world for facilities by Financial Times.
All talks are free and open to the public.
The spring 2017 Leadership Speaker Series includes:
15 February: Tobias Dengel, CEO, WillowTree
22 February: Dr. Claudy Jules, managing director, Accenture Strategy and head of leadership consulting
27 March: Barbara Byrne, vice chairman, investment banking, Barclays
30 March: Jim Dwyer (MBA ’82), CEO and president, Michael Foods
Watch videos of past Leadership Speakers on Darden’s website. Many speakers also join Dean Scott Beardsley in his one-on-one video interview series, Darden Ideas to Action C-Suite Insights.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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