This year the Entrepreneurship Division’s late career consortium took place at the AOM meeting. Once again, we had a good number of attendees to gain tips on career development and ways to enrich their career opportunities. The consortium is open to all divisions within the Academy, and no pre-registration was required. This year’s consortium also featured a presentation and discussion on ethics that the Academy’s Ethics Education Committee facilitated and that they tailored to senior colleagues. The consortium ran for approximately four hours, with each presentation lasting between 10 and 15 minutes. Our goal was to focus on the type of questions and understanding of activities that are pertinent to scholars who finished their PhD 15 years or more ago.
The session was moderated by Jerry Katz, George Saridakis, and Matt Allen. This year’s speakers were:
- Kathy Lund Dean – providing insights on ‘Seeing inside the honeycomb - Moving the needle on important issues and re-defining success’
- Kelly Shaver – who spoke about the virtues of ‘just saying yes - Turning service into much, much more’
- George Saridakis – sharing his experiences of ‘Managing leadership and research excellence’
- Kathy Lund Dean and Rachel Balven (as representatives from the Ethics Education Committee) – facilitating a discussion of ethics in universities.
After serving his second year, Matt Allen is now the immediate past co-chair. Jerry Katz is the new co-chair for the 2025 programme. Congratulations Jerry!
If you would like to participate as a speaker at the Late Career Consortium session at next year’s meeting or if you have some ideas about possible discussion topics, please do contact Jerry Katz, jerome.katz@slu.edu.