Today’s business climate is dynamic, tumultuous, and fiercely competitive. To be successful, business professionals must possess many important skills, leadership attributes, innovative thinking, and strong business acumen. BizTalk@Drake is about leading people and organizations at a time of change, uncertainty, and even disruption; it is about exposure to opportunities, business trends, leadership philosophies, and management paradigms. This College of Business and Public Administration seminar series features prominent and distinguished chief executive level (C-level) business and community leaders who will share their experiences (both successes and failures) and their perspectives on timely topics related to business trends, strategic challenges, and leadership in an interactive setting. 

Speaker Lineup: 
• Friday, Feb. 8, 12–12:50 p.m. : Mike Draper, Founder of RAYGUN
• Friday, Feb. 22, 12–12:50 p.m.: Heather (Chief Executive Officer) and Doug (Retired Owner) Bruce of the Osmundson Manufacturing Company
• Friday, April 12, 12–12:50 p.m.: Tiffany Tauscheck, Chief Strategy Officer of the Greater Des Moines Partnership
• Friday, May 3, 12–12:50 p.m.: Tanner Krause, President of Kum & Go 

The seminar series is open to the campus community and is also a part of BUS 003 & BUS 004 courses. Each session will be held in Parents Hall. For questions, contact cbpa.undergrad.office@drake.edu.

Kailee Springer, CBPA Director of Undergraduate Programs