Mulva Leadership Symposium
Date: Friday, April 12th
Location: 5th Floor Rowling Hall, Special Events Room
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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About
The University of Texas at Austin Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NROTC), in partnership with the McCombs Center for Leadership and Ethics, is proud to present the inaugural convening of the Mulva Leadership Symposium in Austin, Texas on 12 April 2024.
The Mulva Leadership Symposium (MLS), in its inaugural year, will be a 150-person event targeting leaders at The University of Texas. The conference is named in honor of James Mulva and the Mulva Family Foundation, one of the most significant supporters of military and business leadership education at the University of Texas. Our mission is to create a community of cross-functional, interdisciplinary leaders through intercultural exchanges and education around shared leadership topics. One of the most urgent and least-discussed threats to national security and domestic peace in the United States today is the divide between our citizens. Collective distrust in government, politics, and big business is high; we hope that by providing a venue for emerging leaders across our campus to learn together, we can begin to rebuild trust and understanding, starting within the current undergraduate student body at the University of Texas at Austin.
This year’s conference will be centered around leading and managing through crisis; focusing on preparing for crisis, leading through crisis, and recovery. Our intent is to grow this conference in future years across the entire university campus and eventually beyond UT and Texas to share our message with the nation.
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Schedule
11:00-11:30 Check-In/Light Refreshments Offered
11:30-12:30 Opening Remarks: Joseph Kopser
Keynote: Doug Wolfe, SVP Horizon Bank
12:40-1:30 2 Breakout Sessions
Room 4.314 Professor Shefali Patil: Overcoming Knee-Jerk Reactions to Crises
Room 4.402 Professor Caroline Bartel: Relational Capital and Pre-Crisis Resilience, Hardwiring Organizational Systems to Promote Positive Social Connections
1:45-2:00 Remarks by Dean Lillian Mills
2:00-3:00 Keynote: UT Basketball Coach, Rodney Terry
3:10-4:00 2 Breakout Sessions
Room 4.314 Professor Shefali Patil: Overcoming Knee-Jerk Reactions to Crises
Room 4.402 Cara Biasucci and Professor Robert Prentice: Ethics in Crisis
4:10-5:00 2 Breakout Sessions
Room 4.314 Teal Pennebaker: Crisis Communications
Room 4.402 Cara Biasucci and Professor Robert Prentice: Ethics in Crisis
5:00-5:30 Transition to AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, George Gau Amphitheatre
5:30-6:30 Keynote: Admiral Bill McRaven, USN (Ret.)
6:30-7:30 Refreshments on the Terrace
Keynote Speakers
Doug Wolfe
Doug Wolfe
Doug Wolfe is an Executive Vice President with Horizon Bank in Austin, TX, where he oversees operations for Horizon subsidiary STRATA Trust, as well as Information Technology and Human Resources for both organizations. Wolfe joined Horizon Bank in 2019 with more than two decades of strategic management and leadership experience. Before joining Horizon Bank, Wolfeheld leadership roles at Facebook and two Austin startup companies to include the sports apparel company, Outdoor Voices. Wolfe began his career as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a logistics officer and deploying with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the 1st Marine Division in Iraq. He graduated from Taylor University with a BA in economics and business administration and earned a MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Rodney Terry
Rodney Terry
Rodney Terry is the 26th head coach in Men’s Basketball program history at The University of
Texas. In his first year as head coach, Terry guided the Longhorns to a 22-8 record that included the Big 12 Tournament title and a run to the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight for the first time since 2008. A former head coach at Fresno State and UTEP for a combined 10
seasons, he has 28 years of collegiate coaching experience including nine as an assistant previously with the Longhorns from 2002-11. He was in his second year as Associate Head Coach at Texas prior to being named Interim Head Coach. Terry graduated from St. Edward’s University in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a minor in physical education. During his collegiate career, he was a three-year starter at point guard and a three-time Academic All-Big State Conference selection. Terry was tabbed 2023 Sporting News National Coach of the Year, becoming the first coach in program history to earn the prestigious honor. He was named the Clarence “Big House” Gaines College Basketball Division I Coach of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Terry also was one of 20 finalists for the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award and one of 25 finalists for the Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year.
Bill McRaven
Admiral Bill McRaven, USN (Ret)
Admiral William H. McRaven, is a retired U.S. Navy Four-Star admiral and the former Chancellor of the University of Texas System. During his time in the military, he commanded special operations at every level. His career included combat during Desert Storm and both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The forces under his command were responsible for the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Phillips and the mission to get Osama bin Laden. His final assignment was the commander of all U.S. special operation’s forces. As the Chancellor of the UT System he led one of the nation’s largest and most respected systems of higher education. As the chief executive officer of the UT System, McRaven oversaw 14 institutions that educated 220,000 students and employed 20,000 faculty and more than 80,000 health care professionals, researchers, and staff. McRaven is a recognized national authority on U.S. foreign policy and has advised Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama as well as other U.S. leaders on defense issues. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Lazard Financial Advisory and he is on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the National Football Foundation, the International Crisis Group, The Mission Continues, and ConocoPhillips. McRaven graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1977 with a degree in Journalism, and received his master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey in 1991. McRaven is the author of six books, SPEC OPS: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare, and five New York Times Best Sellers, Make Your Bed, Sea Stories, The Hero Code, The Wisdom of the Bullfrog and a children’s book, Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal. He met his wife, Georgeann, while they were students at UT Austin, and they have three grown children. McRaven stays active with his writing, speaking and board commitments.
