Leadership: The Art of Developing Followership

Speaker: 
Anne Mulcahy
 
17 Nov 2010
 
7:30 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Former CEO of Xerox, Anne Mulcahy, is board chair of Save the Children, the leading humanitarian organization working to improve the lives of children around the world. A longtime favorite on FORTUNE, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal's lists of most powerful women, Mulcahy has long been an advocate for corporate social responsibility. She speaks on how businesses can champion social causes and her own transition from the private to the public sector. Mulcahy began her career with Xerox as a field sales representative and assumed increasingly important sales and senior management positions over thirty-three-year tenure. She turned the company around from near bankruptcy when she assumed the role of CEO in 2001. She recently stepped down from her role as chairman of the board at Xerox but continues to serve on the boards at Johnson & Johnson, Target Corporation and The Washington Post Company. Fall 2010 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics and part of the World Affairs Series.

Anne Mulcahy will discuss what she learned about leadership at the helm of Xerox and share how those lessons are even more important in the nonprofit and political environments. Her talk will focus specifically on how leaders develop followers and that successful leaders are authentic. This lecture was taped and broadcast as part of Iowa Public Television's Intelligent Talk Television. Watch it online: [url=http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/15841/intelligent_talk_television/ep:215/episodes]click here.[/url] Intelligent Talk Television showcases recent lectures given by guest speakers at colleges, universities, and libraries across Iowa. The collaborative effort between IPTV and participating institutions provides top-notch programs featuring experts on topics ranging from politics to science to economics for broadcast on IPTV's digital channels and streaming on the ITTV website.