Leadership Conference: June 11, 2026
Leadership in a Time of Tumult
8:00-8:40 a.m.
Registration / Light Breakfast and Refreshments
Ambani Auditorium / Forum
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104
8:45-8:55
Welcome & Introductions
Peter Cappelli, Director, Wharton Center for Human Resources
Michael Useem, Faculty Director, McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton
9:00-9:50 a.m.
Vik Malhotra, Senior Partner, McKinsey
9:55-10:45 a.m.
Mary McVeigh Connor, CEO, Common Goal
Fireside Chat with Umi Howard, Senior Director, Advancement
& Faculty Partnerships, McNulty Leadership Program
10:55-11:05 a.m.
BREAK
11:10-12:00 p.m.
Pat Harker, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Fireside Chat with William P. Lauder, Chair, Board of Directors
The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.
12:00-1:00 p.m.
LUNCH
1:15-2:05 p.m.
George R. Oliver, Former Chairman and CEO, Johnson Controls
Fireside Chat with Jeff Klein, Executive Director,
McNulty Leadership Program
2:10-3:00 p.m.
Katie Rogers, White House Correspondent,
The New York Times
3:00-3:15 p.m.
BREAK
3:20-4:10 p.m.
Andrew Burstein, Charles P. Manship Professor of History
(emiritus), Louisiana State University; Biographer
4:15-5:05 p.m.
Michelle A. Sartain, President, Marsh US and Canada
Fireside Chat with Peter Cappelli, Director, Wharton Center
for Human Resources
5:05-5:10 p.m.
Final Reflections
Peter Cappelli, Director, Wharton Center for Human Resources
Mike Useem, Faculty Director, McNulty Leadership Program
5:15-6:15 p.m.
Reception
