Events Calendar

Whether you are unemployed, under-employed, or looking for a new position, please join us for this webinar series addressing all things career-related.

Each session will feature a guest speaker for the first 15-20 minutes. Afterward, we will move to live Q&A from the audience. You can bring any questions related to job search techniques, networking, interviewing, career pivots, optimizing your resume and LinkedIn, and more.

These sessions will be hosted by Jeffrey Feldman '95 MBA and Sam Sneed '72. Our special guest speaker for this session is Michael Lewittes '89.

Business and operations of biotech companies

The life sciences industry is creating breakthrough biotech companies addressing society’s greatest unmet medical needs. These companies translate scientific innovation to make life-altering drugs in order to transform health care. This alumni panel webinar will share insights into best practices for operating biotech companies.

Can leadership principles be applied to increase your life or career satisfaction and success?

Yes! In a series of guided interactive exercises, discover how you can more intentionally lead—not just manage — your life and career, create an initial vision of success for one area of your life or career, and identify at least one next step to get you on your way to implementing personal or professional change.

Facilitated by: Rob Greenly, ’83 MBA, founder of Achieving Leadership™/The Greenly Group, LLC.

Robert G. “Rob” Greenly, ’83 MBA is dedicated to “transforming smart professionals and high achievers into influential leadersTM” through his executive coaching, team facilitation, and leadership development practice. Rob is an Executive Officer of the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors and is a Past President of YaleBoston.

He applies leadership lessons earned from his experience as Director of Leadership at the MIT Sloan School of Management and two decades as a senior human resources, leadership, and organization development executive at several Fortune 500 companies.

Schedule of Events

8:00 – 8:45 p.m. Panel Discussion with:

• Moderator: Bryan Garsten, Chair, Humanities Program Professor of Political Science
• Panelists: Ayla Besemer, Charlotte Dobbs, Josh Mandell, Zelda Roland

8:50 – 9:35 p.m. Simultaneous Breakout Sessions:

• Jensen Harris (Facilitator), with Charlotte Dobbs and Zelda Roland
• Janelle Kellman (Facilitator), with Ayla Besemer and Josh Mandell

COVID 19 has fractured a number of assumptions about both physicians and patients’ attitudes and behaviors toward health care. Is the future of health already here? It posed both challenges and opportunities to the delivery of care in chronic disease management.

Please join Yale alumni and guest speakers Drs. Greg Licholai, MD ‘95, Xiaoyan Huang, ‘91, and Yong Huo from the U.S. and China for a discussion around the current state, successes, challenges and outlook for Virtual Health. This event is moderated by Dr. Jia Chen, PhD, ‘00. Audience will be able to participate in Q&A and networking.

• Willing to hear a Yale alum’s real-life perspective on career pivots?
• Looking for the impact of storytelling and gamification?
• Want tips on venture capital and how to pitch VC’s for funding?
• Seeking to understand the blurring of our physical and virtual worlds?

Take part in our discussion with Bing Gordon ’72 on Thursday, March 4th at 8pm ET. We’re honored to host him! Bing left acting for Stanford Business School, then joining the leadership of EA Sports where he drove branding and product development. In 2008, Bing joined Kleiner Perkins. At Kleiner, Bing now serves as Chief Product Officer and leads Kleiner’s sFund: all things social and mobile. The many corporate boards on which Bing has served include Amazon, Zazzle and Zynga among others.  

The Leadership Forum (now in its ninth year) generates insights on individual leadership and team-building. Past discussion leaders have included: innovators; Rhodes and Marshall Scholars; an executive of the World Bank; a member of the military; Yale Medal winners; movers-and-shakers in financial services; not-for-profit and healthcare leaders; trial lawyers… and many more.

Led by six Yale alums with corporate and political and community and institutional and military and religious leadership experience, the Leadership Forum kicks off with afternoon and evening sessions on Thursday, March 11.

Here’s what you can expect:

• The Leadership Forum is alumni-led
• You'll interact with Yale alums conveying real-life leadership wisdom from far beyond campus
• Everything is interactive; we’ll interactively grapple with tough leadership challenges
• We've set aside time for Q&A and discussion
• We'll later arrange a post-Forum dialogue on your views...and share them with the rest of Yale

The Leadership Forum (now in its ninth year) generates insights on individual leadership and team-building. Past discussion leaders have included: innovators; Rhodes and Marshall Scholars; an executive of the World Bank; a member of the military; Yale Medal winners; movers-and-shakers in financial services; not-for-profit and healthcare leaders; trial lawyers… and many more.

Led by six Yale alums with corporate and political and community and institutional and military and religious leadership experience, the Leadership Forum kicks off with afternoon and evening sessions on Thursday, March 11.

Here’s what you can expect:

• The Leadership Forum is alumni-led
• You'll interact with Yale alums conveying real-life leadership wisdom from far beyond campus
• Everything is interactive; we’ll interactively grapple with tough leadership challenges
• We've set aside time for Q&A and discussion
• We'll later arrange a post-Forum dialogue on your views...and share them with the rest of Yale

Schedule of Events

8:00–8:45 PM — Panel Discussion with Brian H. Kim, Sophia Lear, Jeania Rhee Moore, Peter Norman with moderator Pauline LeVen, Associate Professor of Classics

8:50–9:35 PM — Breakout Sessions: 

• Jeania Rhee Moore, Peter Norman with Ben Stango, Facilitator
• Brian H. Kim, Sophia Lear with Zelda Roland, Facilitator