Intellectual Acupuncture, Perseverance, and a View from the Top
By Rya Waterford, Director of Marketing & Conference Programs
With a focus on core corporate real estate business practice areas, IAMC programming blends targeted professional development with world-class knowledge sharing. Spring Forum keynote speakers will tie it all together inspiring and informing with big pictures views:
Monday Afternoon Keynote Address: C-Suite Spotlight
Keynote speaker Luke Petherbridge was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Link Logistics in September 2020. He has over 15 years of financial and global real estate management experience, most recently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Shopcore and LivCor properties.
Luke previously held the positions of Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer of DDR Corp., one of the largest owners of shopping centers in the United States. While at DDR, he served in various roles and held responsibilities including capital raising activities, balance sheet management, lender relations and execution of various corporate-level transactions.
Before DDR, Luke served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of shopping center owner EDT Retail Trust (formerly Macquarie DDR Trust) and as Director of Transactions with Rubicon Asset Management, where he oversaw approximately $5 billion of transactions across the United States, European and Japanese real estate and real estate structured finance markets.
Luke received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Macquarie University. He is a Trustee and Member of the Executive Board for the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC.) He also serves as a board member of World Business Chicago, Chicago’s public-private economic development agency. In addition, he is Co-Founder and Chairman of CoreGiving, an organization that seeks to fight childhood hunger and food insecurity.
Tuesday Morning Keynote Address: Understanding the Future
Keynote speaker Magnus Lindkvist is a trendspotting futurologist and author who weaves together important current trends to forecast what life, society and business might look like in the future.
As a writer, Magnus Lindkvist is driven by a relentless curiosity about our mental space where the outside world collides with the human brain. His recent book Minifesto (2016) tells us why small ideas matter in the world of grand narratives. By sharing a vision of the future, we can strive to surround ourselves with as many strange, conflicting ideas that we can in order to immerse ourselves in future possibilities and possible futures.
His talks are often described as "intellectual acupuncture" with the expressed intention of changing our minds with needles of insight, examples and observations.
Wednesday Morning Keynote Address: The New Meaning of Perseverance
Never give up means something completely different in today's world of rapidly shifting global markets and ever-changing 21st century technologies than it ever has before.
Using her experiences and research to illustrate, Keynote Speaker Bonnie St. John, Paralympic Ski Medalist, shares examples of four kinds of perseverance and persistence techniques that lead to a competitive edge in a highly fluid, international business world. As an amputee living in San Diego with no money (or snow!) for training, Bonnie needed to apply extraordinary tenacity to become the first African-American to win Olympic medals in ski racing. The dogged determination she learned led her to further success as a Rhodes Scholar, a sales leader at IBM, a White House economic official during the Clinton Administration, and in her own business as a best-selling author, dynamic corporate coach and inspiring keynote speaker.
In every stimulating presentation, Bonnie encourages audiences to persist and adapt at the same time motivating your team to become virtually unstoppable in their quest for success.
And, be on the lookout for an exciting announcement about the Spring Forum Opening Keynote Speaker!
We look forward to seeing you in Florida this spring!