Global Leadership Series: Elevate Strategic Competencies Part 2

How do you develop strategic competitive advantage? In using the value chain as our framework, we will offer insights to help you gain tools in understanding and analyzing your company’s competitive advantage to deepen your strategic competencies. Subject matter experts from The University of  Texas at Dallas Global Leadership MBA program will lead the panel discussion around marketing, operations, business analytics, finance and leadership.

Watch this virtual event, second of our five panel discussions from Global Leadership Series: Elevate Strategic Competencies, as we highlight the value of finance with our panelists, Dr. Carolyn Reichert, Professor Julie Lynch and Adjunct Professor Lauren Minch. This discussion series will cover one area of leading towards a deeper understanding of strategic competitive advantage.

You will also have a chance to:

   ➢   deepen your understanding as to why any leader should have knowledge of all these topical areas,

   ➢   understand how each of these areas will impact your company’s or business unit’s competitive advantage,

   ➢   gain tools to help you analyze your company’s or business unit’s competitive advantage.

Carolyn Reichert, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor, Naveen Jindal School of Management

Carolyn Reichert is a Clinical Associate Professor at UT Dallas in the Jindal School of Management. She has served as Chair on the Sustainability Committee, and her research interests include sustainability, corporate governance, and compensation. She is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D.) and The Ohio State University (B.S. in Finance and B.A. in Mathematics).

Julie Lynch

Director of the Real Estate Center at the Naveen Jindal School of Management​

Professor Julie Lynch is the chief talent officer and principal of LYNOUS Talent Management. Over the last 20 years, she has developed a distinguished reputation as a real estate professional and adjunct professor teaching for the top real estate programs in the United States. She has worked for well-known major national and regional companies in the real estate community, such as: Prudential Real Estate Investment Group, NationsBank, Provident Bank of Maryland, Spaulding & Slye (acquired by Jones Lang LaSalle), Oliver T. Carr Company (acquired by CarrAmerica), and REALM. In addition, Julie was a founding principal of her own real estate brokerage company in Maryland while teaching at Johns Hopkins University in the Master of Science in Real Estate and MBA programs before relocating to Dallas, Texas.

Lauren Minch

Adjunct Professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management​​

Ms. Minch has spent over 22 years in various roles within the finance and accounting industries ranging from auditing to corporate finance to private wealth management to financial education. She is a member of the CFA Institute and is currently President of the CFA Society of Dallas/Fort Worth, a 1,700 member society located in one of the top financial services cities in the United States. 

Ms. Minch is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and currently serves as Chair of the Advanced Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Planning Committee. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas and at University of Texas at Dallas.