Indiana University East’s School of Business and Economics Fall Speaker Series will begin on September 18 with expert Ray Sylvester, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing and personal branding at Anderson University.

Ray Sylvester

Sylvester will present “It’s Persona! B!Z!” Your ‘Personal Brand V.A.L.U. E™’ drives purpose and performance,” at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, in Whitewater Hall Room 132. The series is free and open to the public.

The Fall Speaker Series is sponsored by the Charles Koch Foundation and co-sponsored by Delta Mu Delta, the IU East Business and Economic Research Center, the IU East Center for Economic Education, School of Nursing and Health Sciences and the Department of Criminal Justice and Political Science.

Anthony Gill

Sylvester is a professor, coach, consultant, and speaker. He currently teaches at Anderson University.  He works with individuals and companies in multiple sectors including technology, banking and finance, healthcare, energy, music and entertainment, elite and professional sport, and not-for-profit. Ray moved to the United States in 2016 with his wife and four children. He is a former British college champion, British Championship and international medalist in the Olympic sport of Judo.

Robert Lawson

Later this fall, presentations by Anthony Gill, professor of political science at the University of Washington; Robert Lawson, Ph.D., professor of practice and Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business; Punyamurtula Kishore, M.D., founder of Preventive Medicine Associates, Addiction Medicine Associates, and National Library of Addiction; and Jake Monaghan, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans.

Fall Speaker Series Presentations

Punyamurtula Kishore, M.D.

• Ray Sylvester, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Anderson University
• Date/Time: Wednesday, September 18, 3:30 p.m.
• Location: Whitewater Hall Room 132.
• Topic: “It’s Persona! B!Z!” Your ‘Personal Brand V.A.L.U. E™’ drives purpose and performance”

• Anthony Gill, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington
  

  Jake Monaghan

• Date/Time: Wednesday, October 23, 2 p.m.
• Location: Whitewater Hall Room 132
• Topic: “Tipping Points” An Economic Defense of Gratuities.

• Date/Time: Thursday, October 24, 12:30 p.m.
• Location: Springwood Hall Room 203
• Topic: The Comparative Endurance and Efficiency of Religion

• Robert Lawson, Professor at Southern Methodist University
• Date/Time: Thursday, November 7, 12:30 p.m.
• Location: Springwood Hall Room 203
• Topic: Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World.

• Punyamurtula Kishore, M.D., Founder of Preventive Medicine Associates, Addiction Medicine Associates, and National Library of Addiction
  Co-sponsored by the School of Nursing and Health Sciences.
• Date/Time: Wednesday, November 13, 9:30 a.m.
• Location: Whitewater Hall Room 132
• Topic: The Language of Addiction & Recovery
• Date/Time: Wednesday, November 13, 4:30 p.m.
• Location: Tom Raper Hall Room 124
• Topic: Addiction and Its Effects on Families/the U.S. Population

• Jake Monaghan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Criminal Justice.
• Date/Time: Wednesday, November 13, 12:30 p.m.
• Location: Springwood Hall Rooms 203 and 211
• Topic: Lessons from the Opioid Epidemic