Interim Exec- Resource and Career Path
What’s an effective response for an entrepreneur facing a pressing, significant challenge for which his firm is short resources and talent? Or for a business founder concluding the latest venture and looking for the next best opportunity in addition to serial entrepreneurship? And in both cases, to have confidence that the performance one needs or can deliver will be appropriately rewarded?
This month will feature an accomplished, longtime practitioner of interim management who founded and leads the global professional association that helps systematize best practices of this emerging executive role. His experience will provide the basis for insightful discussion of considerations on calling upon these specialists, their underlying value proposition, the processes of their assignments, and how entrepreneurs can most effectively accelerate the development of their enterprises.
Presentation with opening reception: January 8, 2018, 6:15-9:00 P.M.
Sponsor: Chicago Booth Entrepreneurial Roundtable, West Suburban Chapter
Location: Rev3 Innovation Center, NIU-Naperville, 1120 E. Diehl Road, Naperville, IL
Moderator: Greg Gocek
Speaker:
Robert Jordan, CEO/Founder, InterimExecs https://www.interimexecs.org/
With nearly three decades of executive experience and two thirds of those in an interim capacity, Robert began his entrepreneurship by launching Online Access, the first Internet focused magazine, which he sold after its landing on the Inc. 500 list. He subsequently founded his current professional association and RedFlash, an interim management team specializing in corporate development. He is the author of a book profiling exceptional entrepreneurs, How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America and is the publishing partner of a study of negotiation, Start with NO. Robert is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.