David Brooks, Moira Forbes, Steve Wozniak featured in OSU’s 2014-15 speaker series

Friday, August 29, 2014

David Brooks, Moira Forbes and Steve Wozniak will be the featured speakers visiting Oklahoma for the 2014-15 Executive Management Briefings and Tulsa Business Forums, presented annually by Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business along with corporate sponsors. Each year, this speaker series showcases distinguished business, political and world leaders, authors and policymakers to the Oklahoma City and Tulsa business communities. Both the Executive Management Briefings and the Tulsa Business Forums are coordinated by OSU’s Center for Executive and Professional Development. David Brooks, New York Times columnist and commentator on the PBS NewsHour and NPR, will be speaking Nov. 4-5. He will be providing insight on the impact of business and politics.

Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWoman, will speak March 11-12, 2015 on the impact of “Leading through Power Change.” Steve Wozniak, chief scientist of Fusion-io and co-founder of Apple Computer, is scheduled to speak April 7, 2015. He will meet with the Oklahoma City and Tulsa business communities while participating in a question-and-answer session. “Once again, we have a great slate of speakers scheduled for the Executive Management Briefings and Tulsa Business Forums. We are glad that we can bring such outstanding individuals to Oklahoma who will provide insight into the issues faced by business leaders today,” said Ken Eastman, dean of the Spears School of Business. The schedule for the 2014-2015 series is as follows: Executive Management Briefings November 5, 2014 – David Brooks, New York Times columnist and commentator, 12-1:30 p.m., Cox Convention Center March 11, 2015 – Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWoman, 12-1:30 p.m., Cox Convention Center

April 7, 2015 – Steve Wozniak, chief scientist of Fusion-io and co-founder of Apple Computer, 4-5:30 p.m., Cox Convention Center Tulsa Business Forums November 4, 2014 – David Brooks, New York Times columnist and commentator, 12-1:30 p.m., Hyatt Regency Hotel March 12, 2015 – Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWoman, 12-1:30 p.m., Hyatt Regency Hotel April 7, 2015 – Steve Wozniak, chief scientist of Fusion-io and co-founder of Apple Computer, 10-11:30 a.m., Mabee Center Registration is $220 for each series. Costs for individual presentations are $85 per seat (for the Brooks and Forbes luncheons), and $50 for the Wozniak question-and-answer session Register online at http://cepd.okstate.edu/emb for the Executive Management Briefings in Oklahoma City, or at http://cepd.okstate.edu/tbf for the Tulsa Business Forums. For more information about the Tulsa Business Forums or to learn how you can participate as a sponsor, contact Karen Ward at karen.ward@okstate.edu or 405-744-8650. For more information about the Executive Management Briefings in Oklahoma City or to learn how you can participate as a sponsor, contact Mandy McKinney at mandy.mckinney@okstate.edu or 405-744-5208.