ND Conversations on Leadership and Ethics

We are so excited to welcome Paul E. Purcell to a conversation with NDCLE on June 11th. Mr. Purcell graduated from Notre Dame in 1969 and now serves as Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Robert W. Baird & Co., Baird Holding Company and Baird Financial Corporation. He is a shining example of what it means to Ask More of Business.

Please join us as Mr. Purcell will surely share his views on leadership and ethics. It is bound to be a great conversation.  You can RSVP here.

Tuesday, June 11th
6:00 – 8:00 PM
224 S. Michigan, 2nd Floor

Biography

Paul E. Purcell is Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Baird Holding Company, Baird Financial Corporation and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated. Purcell joined Baird in 1994 and served in a variety of capacities, including Chief Operating Officer, before becoming President & Chief Executive Officer in 2000. He added the title of Chairman in 2006. Purcell is a member of the Baird Financial Corporation board of directors and Robert W. Baird & Co. board of directors. Prior to joining Baird, he spent 22 years with Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he was a Managing Director and head of the Midwest Investment Banking Group.

In addition to his duties at Baird, Purcell serves on the RC2 Corporation Board of Directors, the Alverno College Board of Trustees, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Advisory Council, the University of Notre Dame Mendoza School of Business Advisory Council, Schools That Can – Milwaukee Board of Directors, the Greater Milwaukee Committee Board and Executive Committee, the Board of Discovery World, the United Performing Arts Fund Board, the Junior Achievement of Chicago Board of Directors, the United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s Board and the Board of Directors of RiverFront Investment Group, LLC. He is past Vice Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) as well as the former Chairman of the Board of Directors at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School.

He received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (1971) and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (1969). In 2009, he received the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Distinguished Corporate Alumni Award. In 2012, he received the Three Harbors Council, Boy Scouts of Americ’s 2012 Distinguished Citizen’s Award adn the Milwaukee Public Library’s Benjamin Franklin Award.

We have a conversation scheduled for October 11th. We are so excited to announce that Joanne Bauer will be joining us for an evening conversation. She is President of Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s Health Care business.

Health Care is one of Kimberly-Clark’s designated growth platforms. This business offers Surgical and Infection Prevention services and products for the operating room such as surgical gowns, drapes and facemasks and Medical Devices in respiratory and digestive health and pain management.

Ms. Bauer was part of the original team that launched Depend incontinence products nationwide, and she led the integration of the first Health Care acquisition, Tecnol Medical Products. Ms. Bauer has been instrumental in growing the Health Care business to more than $1.5 billion by integrating acquisitions, doubling sales outside of North America, introducing new products and categories, and significantly restructuring the supply chain footprint.

Ms. Bauer joined Kimberly-Clark in 1981 in marketing in the Adult Care sector. She held numerous marketing jobs in the Adult Care and Health Care sectors and was promoted to Vice President of KimFibers, Ltd. in 1996. In 1998 she was appointed to Vice President of Global Marketing for Health Care, and in 2001 to President of the Health Care sector.

Ms. Bauer was elected to the Board of Directors of AdvaMed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association, in 2012. She is also on the Board of Directors for MedShare, a nonprofit organization.

Ms. Bauer has a BA from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh.

Well, we have surely missed you and from some of the emails we received, we know the feeling is mutual. So, we are back at it. Over the past few months we have been working on a schedule for the remainder of 20112 and a sneak peak at 2013. Be on the lookout for a new schedule and a list of speakers. We plan to publish it soon.

If you have any questions or want to participate in making NDCLE a success, please feel free to email jay@ndcle.org to get details. We are looking forward to seeing you all again very soon.

We are so excited to host Harry Kraemer with Madison Dearborn Partners on Thursday Dec. 1st from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the Chicago Commons on Michigan Ave. Harry will join us to discuss his book, “From Values to Action”. If you want a sneak peak at what Thursday evening will bring check out this video.

HARRY M. JANSEN KRAEMER, JR. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn, a private equity firm based in Chicago and also a clinical professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Baxter International Inc., a $9 billion global healthcare company. He became Baxter’s chief executive officer in January 1999, and assumed the additional responsibility of chairman of Baxter’s board of directors in January 2000.

We hope to see you there. Just use the registration button to the right of this post.

Thanks,

NDCLE

Rarely does a publisher so perfectly describe a book it’s publishing so succinctly than when it described “From Values to Action” as a book coming at a “critical time when true leadership in every facet of society is desperately needed”. This book is all about Asking More of Business and surely all about a deliberate approach to leading in today’s business and society. We urge you to Get “From Values to Action”! Why, you ask. Well, the author will join us for an evening conversation in December.

Once you read the book make sure you let us know how excited you are to attend the conversation with Harry Kraemer on December 1st. We will post the event registration page in the coming days and will look forward to seeing you soon.

We hope this note finds you all well. Since the last NDCLE event, we have been busy planning the remainder of 2011 and building a great set of conversations for 2012. We are really looking forward to the future of the conversation.

We want you to know that we have an exciting event lined up for early December. If you really want to participate in this great conversation you will want to read the book: “From Values to Action” by Harry Kraemer with Northwestern University and the private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners.

There might just be an opportunity to hold another conversation before December too. As soon as we know, we will surely update you about an event. so stay tuned!

NDCLE

More than 100 people have registered for the NDCLE event on Thursday August 18th. Apparently Mr. Reilly is a big draw and we know why. He is a leader that always asks more of business. As a double domer I am sure he will enlighten us about the impacts ND has had on his career.

It is not to late to register. You can do so by visiting http://ndcle.org/register-for-events. See you tomorrow night.

NDCLE will host Paul Reilly, the CEO of Raymond James Financial, for an evening of conversation regarding the financial crisis and financial reform. From 6:00 – 8:00 PM on the 18th of August join fellow alumni and classmates at the Chicago Commons located at 224 South Michigan Avenue. Mr. Reilly received both his bachelors and masters degrees from Notre Dame. Please email us for more information or register to attend.
We hope to see you there!

After our brief summer break, we embark on what is shaping up to be an interesting late summer and fall.  On August 18th we will be hosting a discussion with the CEO of Raymond James Financial, Paul Reilly.  A Notre Dame grad, Mr. Reilly will join NDCLE for a discussion on the impacts of the financial crisis and financial reform.  This ought to be an amazing conversation.

Paul Reilly became chief executive officer of Raymond James Financial in May 2010, after joining the firm’s management team as president and CEO-designate in May 2009. He has served on the firm’s board of directors since 2005.

Most recent, he was executive chairman of Korn/Ferry International, a global provider of talent management solutions with more than 90 offices in 39 countries throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Mr. Reilly began his tenure with the company as chairman and CEO in 2001 and became executive chairman in mid-2007. Prior to Korn/Ferry, he was CEO at KPMG International, a firm of more than 100,000 employees with annual revenues of $12 billion. Based in Amsterdam, he was responsible for the overall strategy and implementation of the firm’s products, services and infrastructure on a global basis. Before being named CEO at KPMG, he ran the firm’s financial services business and earlier had held senior management positions in its real estate consulting group.

Mr. Reilly earned his bachelor’s degree and an MBA in finance from the University of Notre Dame and holds the Certified Public Accountant designation. He is a St. Petersburg native and avid tennis player.