Global Leadership in a Changing Age – Green Lecture, Westminster Symposium
Westminster College 54th John Findley Green Lecture given by Dr. William Roedy on the topic of global leadership in a changing age and gave his "ten tips for young people" as part of the Symposium on Democracy: My Digital Life. Given Wednesday, September 21 at 2 pm in Champ Auditorium at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.
Bill Roedy discusses the challenges facing young people in global leadership today. His lecture is based on the many years of experience he had leading major global media and corporations into uncharted territory in international markets. Mr. Roedy's career saw him lead in combat in Vietnam in the United States Army to pioneering Music Television (MTV) and its multiple platforms and technologies in various corners of the globe. He also utilized MTV networks to get Americans and other global citizens to understand the importance of social responsibility and various global health issues, especially AIDS. Former Chairman and Chief Executive, MTV Networks International. Roedy graduated from West Point and earned a Bronze Star and other medals in the Airborne Rangers of the United States Army in Vietnam. His career has taken him from the military to a vice presidency at HBO in 1979.
After leaving HBO in 1989, he helped MTV expand its operations in numerous global markets and rose to the position of chairman and chief executive of MTV Networks International prior to retirement in 2011. He helped MTV grow and operate 400 digital brands including VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon.
Mr. Roedy holds a MBA from Harvard and he helped lead MTV and affiliated brands into 162 countries with broadcasts in over 33 languages. He helped drive social responsibility in the area of global health serving as Ambassador for UNAIDS. He is the author of What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks (2011). The 2011 Westminster Symposium (now known as the Hancock Symposium) examined the many novel and dynamic uses of digital technology as well as its potential to revolutionize the personal and work lives through enhanced communications, online communities, and collaboration.
The Green Foundation Lectureship was established in 1936 as a memorial to John Findley Green, an attorney in St. Louis who graduated from Westminster in 1884. The foundation provides for lectures designed to promote understanding of economic and social problems of international concern. It further provides that “the speaker shall be a person of international reputation.” The most famous Green Lecture on campus is the “Iron Curtain” speech delivered by Sir Winston Churchill in 1946.
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