Southeastern Business Lecture to feature business professor, author and corporate trainer

 

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Christopher Neck
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.




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