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John Lord Leadership Lecture Series
John Lord Leadership Lecture Series at Rollins College on creating shared value, purpose, performance, and executive leadership
The John Lord Leadership Lecture Series brings business, community, and emerging leaders together in Winter Park for a Crummer Graduate School of Business event featuring Mark Kramer, FSG co-founder and co-creator of Creating Shared Value, and Bill Yeargin, Board Chair of Correct Craft.
Purpose that performs
Creating Shared Value
Business strategy and social impact
Community leadership and corporate responsibility
September 16, 2026 at The Alfond Inn
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John Lord Leadership Lecture Series
Purpose that performs.
A Crummer Graduate School of Business EventJoin Mark Kramer, FSG co-founder and co-creator of Creating Shared Value, and Bill Yeargin, longtime CEO and current Board Chair of Correct Craft, alongside leaders shaping business and community across Central Florida. Explore how purpose can strengthen performance, expand impact, and shape the decisions leaders make today.
Where
The Alfond Inn
Winter Park, FloridaRegistration
Seats are limited.
Registration is required through Crummer.
Made possible through the generous support of the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation.
Two perspectives on purpose + performance
Shared value from strategy to practice.
Co-Founder, FSG
Mark Kramer
Co-Creator of Creating Shared Value | Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Mark Kramer has spent decades reshaping how leaders think about the role of business in society. His work has advanced influential thinking around shared value, collective impact, corporate social impact, and impact investing.Board Chair, Correct Craft
Bill Yeargin
Longtime CEO, author, and culture advocate Bill Yeargin spent two decades leading Correct Craft and shaping the company around a simple but ambitious purpose: Making Life Better. His perspective brings purpose from principle to practice.
Reserve your spot
See what purpose can do when it becomes part of how you do business.
Growth, investment, talent, community, and corporate responsibility all create opportunities to align business performance with broader impact. Spend the day alongside business, community, and emerging leaders exploring how purpose can shape the way organizations lead, grow, and create value. Reserve Your SeatHonoring a legacy of leadership through service.
Leadership finds its highest expression in service to community.
The John Lord Leadership Lecture Series honors John Lord's belief that leadership finds its highest expression in service to community. Conceived through the vision of David A. Odahowski, President & CEO of the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, the series carries that legacy forward by challenging leaders to consider how their influence can serve both enterprise and community.
With support from
Rick Goings Institute for Management & Executive LeadershipRollins CollegeFSGCorrect Craft