The breakfast and presentations will be held at the
DoubleTree Hotel San Antonio
Tamayo Ballroom
Loop 410 and McCullough
Breakfast 7:30 a.m.
A question and answer session will follow each address.

An Adobe pdf version of the brochure is available by clicking here.
Please call 210-999-7601 to register by phone today.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

David Broder - “Inside Politics”

David S. Broder, a national political correspondent for the Washington Post, writes a twice-weekly column that covers broad aspects of American political life.  The column syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Groups, is carried by more than 300 newspapers across the globe. 
Mr. Broder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for distinguished commentary and has been named “Best Newspaper Political Reporter” by Washington Journalism Review.
Before joining the Post in 1966, he covered national politics for the New York Times, the Washington Star and Congressional Quarterly.  Mr. Broder has covered every national campaign and convention since 1960.  He is a regular commentator on CNN’s Inside Politics and makes frequent appearances on NBC’s Meet the Press and Washington Week in Review. Mr Broder is the author or co-author of seven books including the 2000 Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Tucker Carlson - “Election 2008 ~ What Now?”

Tucker Carlson is a senior campaign correspondent for MSNBC.  Until March 2008, he was the host of MSNBC's Tucker, a fast paced, no-holds-barred conversation about the day's developments in news, politics, world issues and pop culture.
            Mr. Carlson joined MSNBC in February, 2005 from CNN, where he was the youngest anchor in the history of that network. At CNN, he hosted a number of shows and specials, including the network's political debate program, Crossfire. During the same period, he also hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered.
 A longtime magazine and newspaper journalist, Mr. Carlson has reported from around the world, most recently from Iraq and Lebanon.  He has been a columnist for New York Magazine and Reader's Digest.  He currently writes for Esquire, The Weekly Standard and New York Times Magazine.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

David Walker - “America on the Brink of Financial Crisis”

 David M. Walker, as President and CEO of the Peter G. Petersen Foundation, is charged with leading the Foundation’s efforts to: enhance public understanding of the nature and urgency of selected key sustainability challenges that threaten America’s future; propose sensible and workable solution to address these challenges; and build public and political will to do something about them.  This includes efforts related to fiscal entitlement, health care, energy, education and non-proliferation issues.
Prior to joining the Peter G. Petersen Foundation, Mr. Walker served over nine years as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).  He was an outspoken and non-partisan advocate for addressing the major fiscal and other national sustainability and government transformation challenges facing the United States.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Tom Peters - “Excellence: Continuing the Search”

Tom Peters has led the way in preparing management for the current era of staggering change that started in the mid-1970s. In particular, with the publication of In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman helped American firms deal with a crushing competitive challenge to their primacy by get them away from strategies based on just the numbers, and refocused on the basic drivers of all successful businesses throughout time: people, customers, values-“culture” action-execution and a perpetual self renewing entrepreneurial spirit.
Tom Peters received his bachelor’s and mater’s degree from Cornell University, and then studied business at Stanford Business School, receiving his M.B.A. and Ph.D.  He served in the United States Navy, making two deployments to Vietnam as a Navy Seabee. 
He is the author of fourteen books. Twenty-six years after launching a management revolution, Mr. Peters remains a forceful voice inspiring people to change the face of business.