{"id":135252,"date":"2018-03-14T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=135252"},"modified":"2018-03-14T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:38:40","slug":"auriemma-leadership-conference-adds-speakers-impressive-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/03\/auriemma-leadership-conference-adds-speakers-impressive-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Auriemma Leadership Conference Adds Speakers to Impressive Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/genoleads.uconn.edu\/\">Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference<\/a> has announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/genoleads.uconn.edu\/2018-conference\/2018-speakers\/\">full lineup of speakers<\/a> for the April 17-18 event.<\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alan Murray<\/strong>, president of <em>Fortune<\/em> magazine and chief content officer at <em>Time Inc.<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Beloved UConn Women&#8217;s Basketball alumna and sportscaster <strong>Rebecca Lobo<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee McChesney<\/strong>, president of hand tools, accessories and storage at Stanley Black &amp; Decker;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cindi Bigelow<\/strong>, president and CEO of Bigelow Tea;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Marshella<\/strong>, managing director of Moody&#8217;s;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kim Sayles<\/strong>, a U.S. Office of Protective Operations agent, currently serving as White House sniper, and many other industry experts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m tremendously excited for this year\u2019s presentation,&#8221; said Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business.uconn.edu\/person\/lucy-gilson\/\"><strong>Lucy Gilson<\/strong><\/a>, the conference academic director. &#8220;Our speakers are exceptionally dynamic and hail from a tremendous variety of businesses. Our goal is for participants to leave the conference with powerful new ideas for personal growth and business development, an expanded professional network and a fresh view of the challenges ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conference is being sponsored by Virtus Investment Partners Inc., an investment management company that has been a strong supporter of the leadership conference. <\/p>\n<p>The Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership conference is designed for senior managers and emerging leaders. It will be held at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. For more information, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/genoleads.uconn.edu\/\">genoleads.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As previously announced, the keynote speaker is <strong>Robin Roberts<\/strong>, the anchor of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America.&#8221;  She will share the lessons she has learned through collegiate athletics, her career in the media, including a successful span at Bristol, Conn.&#8217;s ESPN, and her two battles with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The event is the brainchild of <strong>Geno Auriemma<\/strong>, the head coach of the UConn Women&#8217;s Basketball Team, who recognized the need for a conference to address the unique professional needs of accomplished managers. He will deliver a luncheon presentation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course one of the highlights of the conference is a chance to hear Coach Auriemma&#8217;s insight into his career success and how he motivates his players and brings out the best in them,&#8221; Gilson said. &#8220;During lunch he often gives us little insights into the team dynamics, and answers questions from our conference participants. Every year his talk receives rave reviews!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.events.foundation.uconn.edu\/ereg\/index.php?eventid=257863\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-info btn-block\">Register today<\/button><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference has announced its full lineup of speakers for the April 17-18 event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":135253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1862],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2105],"class_list":["post-135252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-busn"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 09:43:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135254,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135252\/revisions\/135254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/135253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135252"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=135252"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=135252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}