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Join the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at Duke University for a conversation on "Media and Against the Grain" with Almar Latour and Paul Tash. COLE is an Academic Partner.? ?? When: Thursday, April 10, 2025 ?? Time: 5:30PM ?? Where: Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, Room 04 ?? Speakers: ? Almar Latour, CEO, Dow Jones; Publisher, The Wall Street Journal https://lnkd.in/e96_dDzW ? Paul Tash, Distinguished Fellow at the DeWitt Wallace Center; Former CEO and Publisher, Tampa Bay Times https://lnkd.in/eEhhe6uu cc: Sanyin Siang

Lauren Cooks Levitan joins the COLE Advisory Board!!! ? Lauren Cooks Levitan is the President of Faire, a venture-backed marketplace with the mission of empowering brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities. Lauren joined Faire in 2019 as their first Chief Financial Officer and has helped lead the company through a period of dramatic growth. As president of Faire, she is currently focused on developing and launching new business initiatives. Under her leadership, Faire has raised over $1B in funding to-date from investors including Baillie Gifford, D1 Capital Partners, Dragoneer, DST Global, Durable Capital Partners LP, Forerunner Ventures, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Wellington Management, and Y Combinator. Lauren has more than 30 years of strategic, financial, and operational experience at some of the most transformative brands at the intersection of retail and technology.?Previously, as?CFO at Fanatics (the global leader in licensed sports merchandise), she oversaw financial planning, accounting, strategic analysis, and investor relations to drive multi-channel growth across all divisions. Earlier in her career, she pioneered the e-commerce space as a Managing Director at Robertson Stephens and built the consumer retail franchise of Cowen & Co.?She also spent time earlier in her career at Crate & Barrel, the Gymboree Corporation, and Goldman Sachs.?She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Duke University. ? Lauren has been recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as the 2024 CFO of the Year in the Emerging Company category. The award honors the important contributions Chief Financial Officers make to the Bay area’s regional economy and community. ? She has served on the board of directors (current Audit Committee Chair, former Comp Committee Chair) for E.L.F. BEAUTY, Inc. (NYSE: ELF) since 2016. She previously served as the Chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Trust, on the advisory committee of Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Women’s Initiative Network, and was co-chair of the Duke University Northern California Women’s Forum. ? Lauren knows that “business is, first and foremost, about satisfying customers. Her career has always been informed by a passion for meeting consumer needs”.??She is a long-time advocate for women-owned businesses and women in leadership. ? Lauren is also passionate about leveling the playing field for female entrepreneurs. Listen to how she accomplishes this in her interview with?Woman Inc.?where she also offers tips on how to navigate the venture capital space, the importance of building relationships and shared values. https://lnkd.in/ega99Azn ? We are excited to have Lauren Cooks Levitan on our team!!! #CreatingImpact #WomenLeaders #WomensHistoryMonth Sanyin Siang Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

COLE in partnership with Duke Alumni Engagement, curated our first Duke-COLE European Forum in London on March 7. Hosted at Bloomberg’s European Headquarters, this intimate, invitation-only gathering, according to participants, was an interesting, thought-provoking, engaging and educational session on the topic of "Rethinking Power, Cultivating Influence". “It was so refreshing to shift the conversation of today where Power is talked about mainly in terms of top down driving efficiency, to a more sustainable Power to empower others.” Some of the 40 leaders who participated included Duke University alumni such as Viscount Rothermere (CEO of Daily Mail), Rebecca (Bex) Smith, (Duke soccer champ and former captain of the New Zealand soccer team), Ade Hassan, MBE, founder of Nubian Skin, partners of finance firms, and new friends of Duke such as the CEO of the largest global chemical supply chain, the chief communications officer of BT and founder of the new UK-Saudi basketball league. Stay tuned for more participant takeaways from the discussions facilitated by Sanyin Siang, COLE executive director. #RethinkPower #CultivateInfluence #Leadership

Friend of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) Anne Sempowski Ward (Chairwoman of the Board, CURIO Brands) shares her story of resilience at the Celebrating The Sistas awards ceremony. 1?? Remain resilient even in the face of adversity 2?? There is no one path to greatness 3?? Be intentional & courageous about sharing what matters to you Congratulations Anne Sempowski Ward!!! #BelieveInYourself #Resilience #WomenHistoryMonth #SistaRipples

Great leaders enable the success of their teams by: ?? Creating a space for psychological safety, so people can have permission and the protection to fail ?? Creating a culture of shared ownership ?? Creating a culture of curiosity to foster innovation and new ideas ?? Empowering your team to believe in their boundless potentials Read the latest issue of our e-newsletter for more leadership insights. https://lnkd.in/emvWWmjS cc: Sanyin Siang #InnovativeLeader #LeadershipInPractice

The Responsible AI Symposium at Duke University begins tomorrow, Feb. 28. Preview all of the archived abstracts being presented at the symposium here: https://lnkd.in/drzaVuBU The Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE) will be a part of this important conversation, as a co-sponsor and through COLE executive director, Sanyin Siang co-developing a guide around key questions that those working in AI use to guide their work for positive society. We’ll be sharing insights and updates throughout March—so stay tuned! Thanks to Brinnae Bent, PhD for her leadership on this symposium!

General Bryan P. Fenton joins the COLE Team as a Military Liaison to the COLE Advisory Board!!! ? General Bryan P. Fenton is a career Special Forces (Green Beret) Officer and Army 4 star General. He currently serves as the 13th Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) overseeing 70,000 U.S Special Operations personnel. Before assuming command of USSOCOM, General Fenton served as the Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and prior to that, he was the Senior Military Assistant for two U.S. Secretaries of Defense. ? He has commanded at all levels in the U.S Military and U.S. Special operations while deploying numerous times to combat in Afghanistan, Iraq and locations throughout the world.?With his 37 years of experience, Gen Fenton has a global geo-strategic view and experiences in every region of the world (Africa, Indo Pacific, South America, Europe and the Middle East). ? General Fenton is a Leader of Consequence. He is one of the most innovative and compelling leaders we know.?Not only has his range of experiences and keen strategic mind been invaluable to our nation, his focus on the human factor and his care for people create wins by leveraging the hardest currency to obtain?- TRUST.? ? Because of who General Fenton is, he forges a culture of continuous excellence through a life of service, curiosity, and humility.?A source of his effectiveness is his ability to ask questions and draw from a wide range of diverse perspectives. ? General Fenton has been recognized for his leadership, receiving numerous awards, including the University of Notre Dame’s Moose Krause Service Award and its Rev. William F. Corby Award for Distinguished Military Service; along with the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Eisenhower Award. Gen Fenton will be the first to say that he is most proud to be known as the husband to an incredible Texas woman and to two amazing daughters. ? Watch this 2-minute video of General Fenton with Sanyin Siang, COLE executive director, sharing why and how investment in people and culture creates continuous wins. https://lnkd.in/epUwXzfT ? We are excited to have General Fenton on our team!!!

COLE is thrilled to co-sponsor the inaugural Responsible AI Symposium (February 28-March 3, 2025), alongside The Society-Centered AI Initiative at Duke, the Duke AI Master of Engineering, Duke AI Health, the Duke Office of Climate and Sustainability. Our Center’s ethos has always been “knowledge in the service of society.”?It’s not enough to develop technologies, we must also ensure that technological progress occurs in a way aligned with human flourishing.?To do so requires interdisciplinary and intra disciplinary perspectives – which is one of Duke University’s strengths, and also COLE’s approach to leadership. We are excited to contribute to this conversation and explore?the leadership-related aspects of using AI responsibly. The symposium will convene?industry and academic leaders, researchers, and students to discuss emerging trends in society-centered AI and responsible AI, including: Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji, the first Chief Economist at OpenAI and distinguished professor at the Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business. He is also a COLE Advisory Board member. Ronnie's work spans academia, public policy, and business. Most recently, he served in the Biden Administration as White House CHIPS coordinator and Acting Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, overseeing the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act implementation. Dr. Cynthia Rudin, Director of Duke University's Interpretable Machine Learning Lab and recipient of the 2022 Squirrel AI Award (the "Nobel Prize of AI"). Dr. Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a Professor at New York University. Dr. LeCun was the founding Director of Meta-FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. A recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award, his groundbreaking work in neural networks has laid the foundation for many of today's AI advances. …and many more industry and academic leaders. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eHSV5Zff

"As a leader, you get to live in uncomfortable places that are never going to get comfortable. Uncertainty about the future is one of those places, and you will be a better leader for admitting the limits of your knowledge — and the limits of risk management and probabilistic thinking". Sanyin Siang COLE executive director, Sanyin Siang shares how to build for an unpredictable future in her most recent MIT Sloan Management Review's #AskSanyin column. https://lnkd.in/dRbMXfr3

Thanks Dr. Sarah Glova for kicking off the 4th Annual Investing In Women Conference, with your talk on "Blueprints To Innovation". It was indeed inspiring and thought-provoking! Sharing some takeaways from the keynote session: ?? Create spaces for others to innovate. Innovation needs a safe space for curiosity. ?? Innovation is a skill, shaped by our individual strengths. ?? Your passions, hobbies and interests are not distractions; they fuel most innovative breakthroughs. They drive success. ?? We are the sum of everything we love and learn along the way. How can you help create spaces that support innovation? Share in the comments below. The conference was presented by the Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business' Association of Women In Business (AWIB) and Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE). A special thanks to the Investing In Women Conference planning committee -- Duke MBA students Melati Devi, Marissa Klee, Meghana Madala, Oghenerume (Rume) Otogbolu, Julia Pasek, and COLE executive director, Sanyin Siang-- for bringing together leading experts, to explore: advancements in women’s health; strategies for systemic equity; and leadership in frontier industries-how their innovations are driving progress and redefining possibilities in these transformative sectors. https://lnkd.in/eWc7E8SH