Thursday Feb 4, 2021
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Thursday, February 4, 2021
The IgniteNC 2021 Virtual Summit schedule is as follows:
8:30am to 8:35am Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:35am to 9:25am Michael Walden, Ph.D. will present The Economy During and After the Pandemic
Break
9:30am to 10:20am Jim Caldwell will present The Six Pillars of Effective Leadership
Break
10:30am to 11:25am Vivian Howard will present Small Town Big Reach
Break
11:30am to 12:20pm Matt Heller will present The Myth of Employee Burnout
12:20pm to 12:30pm Closing
We hope you will join us VIRTUALLY for the IgniteNC 2021 Summit! Join us from the comfort of your own office or home.
Register now and receive a $30 discount per ticket!
If you have already registered, you will receive your link Wednesday, February 3rd.
We will host leaders from the state of NC for a virtual summit, discussing business resiliency and the state of the economy.
Join us virtually on February 4th, 2021 from 8:30am - 12:30pm. Tickets are on sale now, and you won't want to miss this exciting new event!
Dr. Michael L. Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and Extension Economist at North Carolina State University and a member of the Graduate Economics faculty with The Poole College of Management. His Ph.D. degree is from Cornell University and he has been at N.C. State since 1978. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Duke University. He also serves as a member of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Board of Economic Advisors.
Dr. Walden has teaching, research, and extension responsibilities at NCSU in the areas of consumer economics, economic outlook, and public policy. He has published eight books and over 250 articles and reports, including the book North Carolina in the Connected Age, published by the UNC Press. He has served on several local and state-level commissions. With his wife, he is the co-author of three economic thrillers?, Macro Mayhem, Micro Mischief, and Fiscal Fiasco, designed to teach economics in an entertaining way.
Dr. Walden can be frequently seen, heard, and read in the media. He has daily radio programs aired on stations around North Carolina for which he has won two national awards. He is often interviewed on local TV and radio news broadcasts, has appeared on NBC, CBS, The Fox Report, and the Newshour With Jim Lehrer, and is frequently quoted in such newspapers as USA Today, The News and Observer, The Charlotte Observer, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. His biweekly column, You Decide, is carried by over forty newspapers in the state. He has made over 2500 personal presentations.
Dr. Walden directs the semiannual economic forecast, The North Carolina Economic Outlook. He has won numerous academic and public awards, including two Champion-Tuck Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting, the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Public Service in 2010, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine in 2013, and the Holladay Medal for Excellence from North Carolina State University in 2014. His newest books are Real Solutions: Commonsense Ideas for Solving Our Most Pressing Problems and Disunion: A Political Thriller.