The Heart of Business :
Lunch and Conversation with Hubert Joly
Please join Alliance Française in welcoming Hubert Joly back to Minneapolis for a lunch and conversation on his book, The Heart of Business (2021).
The Heart of Business is a timely guide for leaders ready to abandon old paradigms and eager to lead with purpose and humanity. This notion that companies are not soulless entities, but human organizations made of individuals working together in pursuit of a common purpose, implies that we need to change what we expect of leaders, at all levels. This is how we can unleash “human magic,” achieve improbable results and reinvent capitalism, to contribute to a sustainable future.
Join us to hear more from Hubert on The Heart of Business, what it takes to be a purposeful leader and his engagement in the local Minneapolis community as a former resident.
Hubert Joly is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc. where he led the company’s turnaround and transformed it into an industry leader, consistently rated one of the best places to work. Prior to Best Buy, he was the CEO of Carlson Companies, a senior executive at Vivendi S.A., the president of EDS France and a partner at McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of HEC Paris and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Hubert is now a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the New York Public Library and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, as well as the Honorary Chairman of the Alliance Française capital campaign.
$50 for Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul members
$60 for the general public
Copies of The Heart of Business will be available for purchase in La Boutique at Alliance Française. AF Executive Director Christina Selander Bouzouina will lead a Question and Answer session. A light lunch will be served. Please contact Alliance Française with any dietary restrictions.