Rabbi
Jim Ponet,
our classmate, who has been the Jewish chaplain of Yale for the
past 25 years, brings some framing thoughts to this panel. Jim
was the one who first noted that striving and stopping would be
a particularly appropriate topic for consideration at this time.
Jim, among his other duties, is a visiting lecturer at Yale Law
School where he teaches a course on “Job and Injustice.”
Last year he was honored by Yale for his 25 years of service.
Former Yale Law School Dean Anthony Kronman, an organizer of the
day, said “in Jim we have one of the world’s great
talkers and teachers…”
Sam
Pease
joins the panel bringing a career of experience in the search
business first at Russell Reynolds and then as a partner at Heidrick
& Struggles. Sam has worked with many senior executives on
the topic of striving and stopping and new beginnings. Today Sam
is a Vice President in a Boston-based venture, New Directions,
where he works with current and former senior executives and professionals
helping them to make the transitions that come with career and
life changes.
Dr.
Dan Begel joins
the panel from Santa Monica where he maintains an active psychiatric
practice. Dan is the founder of the field of Sport Psychiatry,
the author of the seminal book to define this field, Sport Psychiatry:
Theory and Practice (W.W. Norton, 2000). Dan was the founder of
the International Society of Sport Psychiatry. Today Dan is an
inventor and new venture developer exploring new directions of
his own.
Andy
Morse
has
spent his career in the field of finance. He heads the Morse Group
with UBS Financial Services (since 2001) and was a Senior Vice
President at Salmon Smith Barney and its predecessor (1993-2001)
among other firms. In addition to his own conversations about
new directions with Jim Ponet with whom he serves on a foundation
board devoted to the future of science, Andy Morse is on the board
of Americans for Generational Equity, a policy think tank. |