Thursday Thought Leaders with Lynne Segall of Emory Goizueta School of Business
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Thursday Thought Leaders with Lynne Segall of Emory Goizueta School of Business
Date:
February 13, 2025
Time:
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM EST
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Event Description:
The ABCs of Executive Presence: Actionable Techniques to Improve Your Personal Impact
Lynne Segall, Associate Professor, Practice of Organization & Management; Associate Dean of Management Practice Initiatives, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
“Executive Presence” can be an elusive concept, but most of us accept that it is an essential skill for leaders.
We know we need it. People with greater executive presence gain access to more opportunities. They are more likely to inspire confidence in their abilities. Others choose to follow them.
We know it when we see it. We notice when someone has it (or when they don’t!), but we can’t always put our finger on why. Because authenticity is so important, there can’t be one formula for executive presence, or everyone with it would be the same. So, how do we develop it in ourselves? How do we coach others to develop it?
Join us for this interactive session with Lynne Segall from Goizueta Business School. She will share a simple framework for Executive Presence and discuss the basic building blocks that all people can apply to develop and improve. Whether you are early in your career and looking to increase your executive presence, or you hold a significant leadership position and find yourself needing to coach and mentor others on their journey, this talk is for you!
About Lynne Segall
Lynne G. Segall is the Associate Dean of Management Practice Initiatives and an Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
In her primary role, Professor Segall leads Goizueta IMPACT, the school’s flagship project-based experiential learning curriculum, which is a core part of the Goizueta MBA experience. It is designed to provide students with both classroom and field experiences to learn and apply practical frameworks and systematic processes to address complex, real-world problems and facilitate effective action. In this role, she leads the overall strategic direction for Goizueta’s project-based experiential learning programs including developing and teaching core courses, cultivating client relationships with the business community, and leading a team of Goizueta IMPACT core and elective faculty to ensure meaningful student and client experiences.
Prof. Segall joined Goizueta in July 2015 after almost 16 years at Accenture. In addition to client service, her tenure at Accenture included roles designing, building and running the global Strategy and Management Consulting capability / professional development programs for 16,000 management consultants. She also developed and executed the talent strategy for Accenture’s management consulting practice, creating, advancing and implementing market-relevant offerings in the areas of leadership, talent, HR and organization change. In addition, she has taught (and provided coaching on) structured problem-solving and communication to full-time MBA student teams at Goizueta Business School since
2002.
In addition to teaching in all of Emory’s MBA-degree programs, Prof. Segall also helps organizations build problem-solving and communication capabilities, with clients including UPS, the US Army Rangers, Georgia Power, Delta Air Lines, Fujitsu, Lucent Technologies, Warner Media, OneDigital, TD Bank, BTS Consulting, Crumbl Cookies, Insight Sourcing Group, Midtown Consulting Group, and Roark Capital.
Prof. Segall holds an MBA from Emory University, where she was a Woodruff Scholar, graduated Beta Gamma Sigma, and received the John Robson Outstanding Student Service Award, the school’s highest student honor. Prior to business school, she spent seven years in the property casualty insurance industry working across multiple functions – marketing, underwriting, accounting and claims. She has served on non-profit boards in Atlanta, including her current role on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for Horizon Theatre, a professional theatre in Inman Park, GA. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.
We know we need it. People with greater executive presence gain access to more opportunities. They are more likely to inspire confidence in their abilities. Others choose to follow them.
We know it when we see it. We notice when someone has it (or when they don’t!), but we can’t always put our finger on why. Because authenticity is so important, there can’t be one formula for executive presence, or everyone with it would be the same. So, how do we develop it in ourselves? How do we coach others to develop it?
Join us for this interactive session with Lynne Segall from Goizueta Business School. She will share a simple framework for Executive Presence and discuss the basic building blocks that all people can apply to develop and improve. Whether you are early in your career and looking to increase your executive presence, or you hold a significant leadership position and find yourself needing to coach and mentor others on their journey, this talk is for you!
About Lynne Segall
Lynne G. Segall is the Associate Dean of Management Practice Initiatives and an Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
In her primary role, Professor Segall leads Goizueta IMPACT, the school’s flagship project-based experiential learning curriculum, which is a core part of the Goizueta MBA experience. It is designed to provide students with both classroom and field experiences to learn and apply practical frameworks and systematic processes to address complex, real-world problems and facilitate effective action. In this role, she leads the overall strategic direction for Goizueta’s project-based experiential learning programs including developing and teaching core courses, cultivating client relationships with the business community, and leading a team of Goizueta IMPACT core and elective faculty to ensure meaningful student and client experiences.
Prof. Segall joined Goizueta in July 2015 after almost 16 years at Accenture. In addition to client service, her tenure at Accenture included roles designing, building and running the global Strategy and Management Consulting capability / professional development programs for 16,000 management consultants. She also developed and executed the talent strategy for Accenture’s management consulting practice, creating, advancing and implementing market-relevant offerings in the areas of leadership, talent, HR and organization change. In addition, she has taught (and provided coaching on) structured problem-solving and communication to full-time MBA student teams at Goizueta Business School since
2002.
In addition to teaching in all of Emory’s MBA-degree programs, Prof. Segall also helps organizations build problem-solving and communication capabilities, with clients including UPS, the US Army Rangers, Georgia Power, Delta Air Lines, Fujitsu, Lucent Technologies, Warner Media, OneDigital, TD Bank, BTS Consulting, Crumbl Cookies, Insight Sourcing Group, Midtown Consulting Group, and Roark Capital.
Prof. Segall holds an MBA from Emory University, where she was a Woodruff Scholar, graduated Beta Gamma Sigma, and received the John Robson Outstanding Student Service Award, the school’s highest student honor. Prior to business school, she spent seven years in the property casualty insurance industry working across multiple functions – marketing, underwriting, accounting and claims. She has served on non-profit boards in Atlanta, including her current role on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for Horizon Theatre, a professional theatre in Inman Park, GA. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.
