ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — St. Bonaventure University will welcome Mark W. Sickles, an accomplished corporate leader, board director and management consultant, to campus as the second Lenna Visiting Professor of the spring semester.
Sickles will share his multidisciplinary professional and personal experiences in a public presentation and classroom discussions during his visit. Sickles is CEO of SuperOrg, Inc., and chair of the Chief Capital Officer Institute. In both roles, he works with corporate leaders to develop interdisciplinary approaches to governance, leadership and management.
The public is invited to Sickles’ talk, “Creating the Right Conditions for Sustainable Shareholder and Stakeholder Value,” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in the Doyle Conference Center at St. Bonaventure. During his two-week visit, Sickles will speak in a number of business, writing, and leadership classes at St. Bonaventure and Jamestown Community College. He also will give the luncheon address at the April 9 Leadership and Authentic Community conference at SBU.
Sickles has authored books and numerous articles and has taught in Rutgers University’s Business School and School of Management and Labor Relations, as well as at the Singapore Institute of Management and AT&T.
In his work with businesses, Sickles stresses the need to create sustainable financial value for shareholders in ways that make a positive impact on economic, environmental, and social sustainability on behalf of all other stakeholders, and vice versa.