Executives Club: Business Impact of Corporate Culture featuring Lura McBride, CEO, Van Meter
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Date and Time
Friday Feb 1, 2019
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CST
Registration and Breakfast Open: 7:00 am
Event Starts: 7:30 am
Ends: 8:30 am
Fees/Admission
Members: $25.00
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Marcy Hyder
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Business Impact of Corporate Culture featuring Lura McBride, President & CEO, Van Meter
Van Meter is a 100% employee-owned organization that is focused on helping their people be their best so they in turn can help their customers be their best. Van Meter’s purpose is to create lasting value for their customers and their employee-owners. Lura McBride will share some insights on Van Meter’s story and the culture they have intentionally created over the years that has fueled the company’s growth and success.
Lura McBride is the President & CEO at Van Meter Inc. She has responsibility for the overall vision, direction and growth strategy of a one-hundred percent employee-owned electrical and automation distributor that employs 525 employee-owners in 14 locations across Iowa and Nebraska. Her focus is on building strong leadership and a high performing culture to create lasting value for customers, supplier partners, communities and employee-owners. She serves on the Van Meter Board of Directors, the Werner Electric Supply Board of Directors and the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED).
Prior to joining Van Meter in 2008, Lura worked for 15 years at Accenture, a global management consulting company based out of Chicago, Illinois. Her work experiences were in the areas of Systems Integration, Change Management, Human Performance, Knowledge Management, Business Process Design and Program Management.
Lura graduated from University of Iowa with degrees in Finance and Marketing. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with her husband Ryan and four children. Lura is passionate about making a difference in her community and spending time with her family. In the community Lura is serving on various boards and committees including Tanager Place, The Hall-Perrine Foundation, Unity Point St. Luke’s Hospital, Iowa BIG and the Cedar Rapids Police Chief Council.
This program is exclusively for Presidents, CEO's and Executive teams, register to attend.
**Cancellation Policy - If you need to cancel your registration, you must do so more than 72 hours prior to the event date in order to receive a full refund.
