Your Company, Culture and Values

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The future belongs to companies who can create synergies between their company’s people, profits and passions. Doing so begins with understanding which markets and stakeholders are key to your company’s success, and taking calculated risks that challenge the status quo while keeping values intact.

The Corporate Responsibility Group of Chicago (CR Group) has invited leading executives to discuss their views on how to stay on the forefront of game-changing social issues while addressing the larger question of taking collective action to create a win-win climate for business and society.

Lyric Opera of Chicago, 20 N. Wacker Drive

This discussion features a panel comprised of thought-leaders and trend-setters among Chicago’s leading companies.

Panel Moderator:
Francia Harrington, Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, JPMorgan Chase & Company

Panelists:

Ruth Ann M. Gillis, Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative and Diversity Officer, Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Business Services Company

Richard P. Kiphart, Lyric Opera’s CEO and Head of Private Client Advisors, William Blair & Company

Shannon Schuyler, US Corporate Responsibility Leader, PwC

Eric S. Smith, Managing Director, Investment Banking Group, JPMorgan Chase & Company

Special Welcome by William Mason, General Director, Lyric Opera of Chicago

2007 – Speakers

Anne Ladkey
Executive Director, Women Employed

Dr. Clement Hamilton
Vice President and Director of Research, Morton Arboretum

Rick Hirschhaut
Project and Executive Director, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Richard Jones
University of Chicago,

Sadhu Johnston
Commissioner of the Environment, City of Chicago

Tom Bartoski
Director of International Business Development, World Business Chicago

Gary Johnson
President, Chicago History Museum

Gabrielle Lyon
Executive Director, Project Exploration

Paul Nebenzahl
Community Health Charities,

William Mason
General Director, Lyric Opera

2006 – Speakers

Tim Schwertfeger
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuveen Investments

David Spadafora
President and Librarian, Newberry Library

David Anderson
Executive Director, Freedom Museum

Mary Houpt

Dr. Jose Oberholzer
Director of Cell and Pancreas Transplantation, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Surgery

Dr. Michael Walsh
Chicago Climate Exchange

Margaret Stender
General Manager, Chicago Sky

2005 – Speakers

John W. Rogers, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ariel Capital Management

John Roberts
Managing Director, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

George Rainey
President and CEO, Metropolis

Arne Duncan
Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Public Schools

Geoff Emberling
Museum Director, Oriental Institute

Paul Biebel, Jr.
Presiding Judge, Criminal Division

Dr. Weine
Director, International Center on Human Responses to Social Catastrophes

Aleksander Hemon
MacArthur Genius Award Recipient

Ralph Hughes
Regional Director, Marshall Fields

Brenda Sexton
Managing Director, Illinois Film Office

John A. Kessler M.D.
Chairman, Department of Neurology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

2004 – Speakers

Gordon Quinn
Founding Member & President, Kartemquin Educational Films

Joanna Rudnick
Director of Development, Kartemquin Educational Films

William J. Brodsky
Chairman and CEO, Chicago Board Options Exchange

Lance Schart
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation

Candace Browdy
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation

Larry Suffredin
Commissioner (13th District), Cook County

Raymond Soucek
President/CEO, Haymarket Center

Chivy Sok
University of Iowa

Libby Chiu
Urban Gateways/Community Trust Sarh Solotaroff

Dan Schmidt
President/CEO, WTTW

Mike Peregrine
Gardner, Carton and Douglas Robert Friedman of Bear Stearns

2003 – Speakers

Merri Dee

Paul Lehman
Winning Workplaces

Eddie Lawlor
Dean, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

Sid Mohn
President, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights

Jill Wine-Banks
Chief Officer, Education to Careers Chicago Public Schools

Maureen Blaha
Executive Director, National Runaway Switchboard

Dr. Michael Pagano
Director and Professor, Public Administration Program UIC

Dr. Rebecca Hendrick
Associate Professor, Public Administration Program UIC

Joan Gunzberg
Executive Director, Arts & Business Council, Chicago

2002 – Speakers

Joan M. Klaus
BankOne

Cheryl Lamm Gunn
Quaker Oats

Carolyn Nordstrom
Chicago United

Karyn Harris
Chicago United

Isabel Carter Stewart
Exec. Director, Chicago Foundation for Women

Kaye Felkins
Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Richard Bynum
Dir. of Disaster Svcs, American Red Cross

Kevin Bell
President, Lincoln Park Zoo

Steve Ross
Research Associate for Primates, Lincoln Park Zoo

Mark Germano
Vice President, United Way

Dr. Sylvia Manning
Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Norma Moruzzi
Professor, UIC

2001 – Speakers

Deb deHaas
Andersen

Bill Haljun
President, Big Ideas

Dr. Cynthia Barron
Principle, Jones Magnet High School

Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross
University of Chicago

Katherine Gehl
Office of the Mayor

Hedy Ratner
Co-President, Women’s Business Development Center

Mike Nash
Suite Life

John McCarter
President, Field Museum

Andy Shaw
Channel 7 (ABC)

2000 – Speakers

Elynor Williams
Sara Lee

MarySue Barrett
Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Council

Pastora SanJuan Cafferty Ph.D.
Professor, School of Social Service Administration

Burton Bledstein
Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago

Elaine Schuster Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools, Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Education

Shaye Mandle
President, llinois Coalition

Phillip Jackson
CEO, Chicago Housing Authority

Tom Kirkpatrick
Executive Director, Chicago Crime Commission

Tom Grey
Executive Director, National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling

1999 – Speakers

Cordell Reed
Retired Sr. Vice President, UNICOM

Dr. Phillip Nyden
Director, Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola University Chicago

Julia Stasch
Commissioner Of Housing,

Rev. Monsignor Kenneth Velo
President, The Catholic Church Ext. Society

John McCarter
President, Field Museum

Paul Vallas
CEO, Chicago Public Schools

Eric McKissack
Ariel Capital Management

Valerie Lies
President, Donors Forum

Laurene von Klan
Executive Director, Friends of the River

Dr. Richard Braddock

1998 – Speakers

Jerry Donovan
Executive Director, CR Group

Joseph Sullivan
Chairman, Exec. Committee IMC Global, Inc. and Bd. of Dirs., American Refugee Committee

Terrence Brunner
Executive Director, Better Government Association