Walk the Talk

In Attendance

• John Cole,
• Victor Forlani,
• Henry Jacobs,
• Jack Lohbeck
• David Bowman,
• Ben Hartings,
• Alex Percy,
• Jeremy Rambo,
• Erich Wudke

Minutes

1. Mission & Identity: Henry Jacobs & Jeremy Rambo to discuss & give recs next meeting.

* What are we about? What do we do? How are we structured? Relationships with other organizations?

* Ideas shared & summarized below may be useful.

2. Possible Means and Models:

o Interact with Executives regarding matters of Call and of Ethics
o University of Pittsburgh MBA Model ->

o Twice a semester talk in late morning by an executive

o Lunch afterwards with a few MBAs selected by lottery and that executive

o Tribute Meals wherein we thank and honor business people supporting Bus as Call
o Connect with many groups like ours around the Miami Valley ->
o Find out what’s already in place -> for instance those at

Lexis Nexis, Wagner Smith, Rotoract. Find out what’s already in place.

o Our MBA WTT group would constitute one of those groups
o We would also coordinate the programs we are contemplating here.
o Meals before tasks & projects such as video taping or retreat planning
o Semi annual gathering of all with guest executive and / or speaker
o Use Annual Business as a Calling Fall Symposium as one of them

3. Our MBA WTT Format:
o Prayer or Reading / Introductions around the Table / 15 – 18 ideal size
o Business meeting dealing with projects like the BAC Annual Symposium
o Topic du Jour for some mtgs; different member coordinating each. Develop a “Tool Kit”.
o What’s on our mind? Issues we’re facing or wondering about? “Collective Mentoring”

In attendance

• John Cole
• Victor Forlani
• Jack Lohbeck
• Matt Schmitt
• Bob Smith
• Christian Kiewitz
• Jeremy Rambo
• Erich Wudke

Minutes

• Question we struggle with: What are we about?
• How do we roll out MBA WTT to local Business Community? How do we promote ourselves?
• Through Rotary; Generation Dayton, MBA Programs
• Create a MBA WTT UDayton Blog or Quickplace (“WalktheTalkDayton.com “) to be a forum for opinion and reaction for those who cannot attend MBA WTT meetings & promote free flow thinking with provision for anonimity
• How do we raise awareness of ethics in the community?
• Outreach to ethical companies?
• Rotary-style meeting set up with speaker, Q & A, discussions at tables, reports from tables.
• A social - “Beer at Tanks” - once a month?