2024 ETM Executive Seminar Series
The ENGINEERING and TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT Program’s Executive Seminar Series allows executives from industry to pass on insight and knowledge to graduate students preparing for challenges that the seasoned executive understands well. This ETM Program initiative facilitates active involvement by industry executives, through teaching, student advising activities and more.
Joe Eazor
Joseph F. Eazor is a seasoned executive with a distinguished career in technology driven companies.
Joe is currently on the board of Discover Financial (NYSE: DFS) and Clario, where he recently stepped down as CEO. He is a multi-time CEO and board member of both private and public companies with expertise in strategy, customer engagement, global sales, marketing, outsourcing, and mergers and acquisitions. Joe served as CEO of Conifer Health Solutions, Rackspace, and Earthlink. He has also held senior executive roles at EMC, HP and EDS, leading organizations as large as $25 billion in revenue. Joe was also a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and A.T. Kearney. During his career, Joe has lived and worked in China, Singapore, and Europe.
Joe graduated with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
SESSIONS
Session 1 - Building a Successful Career: How a Mines' PE Ended Up As CEO
Date: January 23, 2024
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Marquez Hall 226
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Session 2 - Creating a Career Plan: Purpose, Values, Goals/Objectives, & Work/Life Balance
Date: February 13, 2024
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Marquez Hall 226
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Session 3 - getting off to a good start part I - what are the keys to being successful in your early career?
Date: February 27, 2024
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Marquez Hall 226
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Session 4 - getting off to a good start part II - understanding your employer and how you fit in
Date: March 12, 2024
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Marquez Hall 226
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Session 5 - becoming a leader - leading vs managing / making difficult decisions
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Marquez Hall 226
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Session 6 - How to handle disruption and failure
Date: April 9, 2024
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Marquez Hall 226
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Session 7 - Questions and Lessons Learned
Date: April 23, 2024
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: Marquez Hall 226
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SPEAKERS
Art Hopkins: Global Co-Lead of Technology Officers Practice at Russell Reynolds
Gerard Brossard: CEO of Denison Consulting, former COO of Remini Street, former COO of HP Software
Barbara Spitzer: Founder/CEO of Two Rivers Partners, former Managing Director at Accenture and leader in the CEO and Board advisory practice
Louis Alterman: CEO of Stratix, former CFO of Rackspace, former CFO of EarthLink
Are you looking for information about past years’ Executive in Residence seminar series?
Below you can find flyers for past years’ Executive in Residence Series
2022 – Jim Franklin
2021 – John Bedker
2020 – Mark Sawyer
2019 – Michael Oakley
2018 – Raj Rawat
2017 – Raul Alvarado
2016 – Stephan Reckie