Learn and Lead

Facilitated by: Lonnie Bryant, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor of Finance and Scott Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance

What can leaders do to navigate and steer businesses through the turbulent an uncharted waters of today’s global pandemic? How can leaders capitalize on business opportunities and minimize the impact of the crisis through global, regional, local, and workplace levels of analysis? What strategies can leaders use to attract and cultivate their top talent and customers when so many are only communicating electronically? Cut through all the clutter in the popular business press and get to the heart of what’s actually changing and not changing in business and management. This exclusive Learn and Lead Series, provided by the TECO Energy Center for Leadership at the Sykes College of Business, is facilitated by leading business faculty and professionals and is designed to help practicing managers’ sort through the confusion and focus on the real opportunities and threats facing their organizations.

What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the financial risk and return of cyclical and defensive sectors within the economy? How will these factors change as the economy reopens or closes? Why has the technology sector outperformed the consumer discretionary sector over the last three months? This session will provide a sector-by-sector analysis of the unique challenges and opportunities each sector of the economy will face throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

This program is an online Zoom series. Zoom meeting information will be e-mailed to each participant prior to the session start date.