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2017 VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AWARD RECIPIENTS
Dr. Louanne Smolin is an urban educator with diverse experiences in arts research and teacher education. Her areas of expertise include curriculum reform through multimedia and arts integration. She currently serves as a researcher on large scale program evaluations for arts organizations serving urban public schools, including working as a principal investigator on studies for US Department of Education funded initiatives for the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) as well as other arts organizations in Chicago. As a researcher, she uses her educational background in curriculum, professional development and the arts to investigate areas such as effective collaborative partnership practices, arts integration professional development, and emergent interdisciplinary curriculum implementation.
Dr. Smolin has experiences with multiple program evaluation approaches, including process and outcome based evaluations, as well as utilization and collaborative program evaluation methods. She has published journal articles and book chapters related to collaborative program evaluation, multimedia, and teacher professional development. She has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences, including the American Educational Research Association and the International Society for Technology in Education.
David Eaton solves problems for companies involved in – or emerging from – restructurings and special situations. He draws on his four decades of extraordinary success in all aspects of restructuring, corporate governance, business strategy, reorganization plan formulation and implementation, M&A, corporate finance, related negotiations, dispute resolution and litigation.
Regarded as a steady hand in times of crisis, David makes an immediate positive impact. He is regularly called upon to assess the big-picture needs of an organization and make the hard choices that help achieve stability. 85 Armed with extensive legal, business, investment banking and crisis management experience, his role in balance sheet restructurings and organizational turnarounds has taken many forms. He is often called to serve as an independent director but also has experience as interim CEO and general counsel. David’s hands-on approach lends itself well to post-restructuring positions in which he guides and stabilizes companies through the critical period after the ink has dried. In each engagement, David leverages his experience directing companies’ high-stakes restructuring efforts at Kirkland & Ellis and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led some of the largest out-of-court restructurings and complex Chapter 11 reorganizations in the world. His work spans a myriad of industries from consumer products, energy, finance and asset management, manufacturing, retail, technology and transportation.
David has also served on the boards of numerous companies in special situations, including as executive chairman. His extensive background also includes being a founder and managing director of AEG Partners, a business transformation firm.
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KEYNOTE JEFF ROSSEN SPEAKER Award-winning investigative journalist - The TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News, & Author of Rossen to the Rescue
Jeff Rossen began his broadcasting career as a teenager in radio before making the transition to local television as a reporter. He earned an Emmy Award for “Deadline News Writing,” an Edward R. Murrow Award for his work covering the September 11th attacks, and has also received an award from the U.S. Justice Department for his special reporting on crime victims. Jeff Rossen joined NBC News as a New York-based correspondent in September 2008 and was named National Investigative Correspondent in 2012. He contributes to all NBC News programs and platforms including TODAY, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, NBCNews.com, and the network’s mobile properties.
Author of Rossen to the Rescue, (October 10 release date)
Jeff attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
As a special THANK YOU, all 2017 ORT Business Leaders Lunch attendees will receive Jeff’s newly released book, Rossen to the Rescue
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19th @ 11:30 AM STANDARD CLUB - 320 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604
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Thank you for your leadership in helping create The leaders of tomorrow. See you on October 19th @ 11:30 AM @ Standard Club!
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INVENTIVE DISCOVERERS & CRITICAL THINKERS A MESSAGE FROM HONOREES, LOUANNE & DAVID:
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.” Jean Piaget, 1971
Creativity, discovery, critical questioning. These are qualities that span education and business and reflect the ideals that have driven our respective careers.
We need leaders who are creative, inventive discoverers and critical thinkers in every endeavor, including business, academia and government. Education is the fountain of these qualities. Through our involvement in ORT we’ve seen these qualities instilled in individuals and linked to their families, communities and beyond to the world. In Israel, we saw students who, through ORT, are rising above challenging backgrounds and contributing to Israel’s stability and growth. We’ve met a graduate of the ORT school in Moscow whose ORT experiences provided a high quality STEM education to her and her classmates, preparing them for business leadership roles. This education also instilled tolerance in students of any religion, helping them become exemplary citizens of the world.
A better future for our world starts with creative, inventive discoverers. We believe that ORT is an important catalyst for nurturing these future leaders.
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