Episode Topic: Leadership Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic

It sounds liberating and exciting to own your own business, but it also feels risky — a drawback that’s been clearly exposed this past pandemic year. Our next Inspiring Conversations speaker knows all about the risk and reward of entrepreneurship. John Ebert ’82 left the comforts of a stable career with an established firm for the possibility of becoming a McDonald’s franchisee. He found success, but then COVID-19 bought the world to a standstill. Join us Tuesday to hear how Ebert’s leadership brought rise to more than 40 McDonald’s restaurants and kept more than 2,000 people employed during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Featured Speakers: 

• John Ebert, President, J.W. Ebert Corporation
• Chris Stevens, Co-Founding Director, Inspired Leadership Initiative

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/5bf0cf. 

This podcast is a part of the Inspiring Conversations ThinkND Series titled “Transforming Lives and Lives Transformed”.

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