Southeastern Business Lecture to feature business professor, author and corporate trainer
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
by: Tonya Lowentritt
NECK TO DELIVER BUSINESS LECTURE – Christopher Neck, noted author, award-winning professor and corporate trainer, will be the featured speaker at Southeastern Louisiana University’s annual College of Business Lecture. Scheduled April 17, at 7 p.m., in Southeastern’s Student Union Grand Ballroom, the lecture is free and open to the public.
HAMMOND – Noted author, award-winning professor and corporate trainer Christopher
Neck will be the featured speaker at Southeastern Louisiana University’s annual College
of Business Lecture.
The lecture, titled “Self-Leadership: The Power of Self Talk,” is scheduled April
17, at 7 p.m., in the Student Union Grand Ballroom on the third floor. The presentation
is free and open to the public.
Dean of the College of Business Antoinette Phillips said this year’s lecture
is presented in memory of John O. Batson, who established the Business Ethics lecture
series in 1984.
“The programmatic ancestor of the Business Lecture was the Ethics Lecture - for
many years the Livingston Ethics Lecture. John passed away this year and we gratefully
celebrate his family’s commitment to seeing that his history with the lecture series
is honored,” she said. “For this year’s lecture, Dr. Christopher Neck’s dynamic style
and his topic promise to be engaging for students, faculty, staff, and guests.”
An Associate Professor of Management at Arizona State University, Neck is author
and/or coauthor of 22 books. His research specialities include employee/executive
fitness, self-leadership, leadership, group decision-making processes, and self-managing
teams. He has over 100 publications in the form of books, chapters, and articles in
various journals.
Neck is the deputy editor of the “Journal of Leadership and Management.” Due
to his expertise in management, he has been cited in numerous national publications
including “The Washington Post,” “The Wall Street Journal,” The Los Angeles Times,”
“The Houston Chronicle,” and the “Chicago Tribune.”
In 2007, as the recipient of the Business Week Favorite Professor Award, Neck
was featured in businessweek.com as one of the approximately 20 professors from across
the world to receive the award.
Some of the organizations that have participated in Neck’s management development
training include GE/Toshiba, Busch Gardens, the United States Army, American Airlines,
Clark Construction, Dillard’s Department Stores, and Prudential Life Insurance.
For more information about the lecture, contact the College of Business at 985-549-2258.