Lehigh ISE Spencer C. Schantz Distinguished Lecture - Public Lecture
Speaker: Christine Burke
Title: Executive Director at Morgan Stanley
Lecture: Resilience, the Art of Surviving and Thriving
Location: Mohler Laboratory, room 453, 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem PA
Abstract:
The imperative to ensure personal and organizational resilience has never been greater and will grow with an urgency matching the accelerating pace of change in nearly every facet of our lives. Businesses fend off many thousands of cyber-attacks alone every day. The truth about our collective and individual vulnerabilities is well beyond the data heists, outages and ransomware revealed in daily newsfeeds. We know being compromised is a ‘when’ not an ‘if’. Are you ready? Relentless exposure to media in overdrive, positive and negative, social and otherwise, elicits a persistent stress response. How does that feel? As symbiotic denizens of a shared planet the climate crisis impacts us personally and collectively, directly and ever closer to our periphery. Are you ready? Increasing interconnectivity makes us stronger and more at risk. So, what do we do? As it turns out, solutions for personal and group resilience are not dissimilar. We are each a microcosm of our many larger wholes, and much can be learned from viewing varied perspectives. Over the course of my career as global change agent, COO, Talent Management Officer, entrepreneur, teacher and now resiliency leader I have seen how critical well-developed resilience is to well-being for individuals, teams, and organizations. Having led the implementation of programs and practices significantly improving resiliency postures, I know there are levers we can pull that are at once simple, systemic, effective...many squarely from the ISE space. In this session we will talk about what resilience means in its many contexts and discuss tools you can employ to prepare for the constant of change we live in and to help organizations and individuals you care about to not just survive but to thrive.
Bio:
Christine Burke is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where she has been a global change leader, Talent Management Officer (twice), Chief Operations Officer (three times), Chief of Staff, internal entrepreneur and is currently a resilience governance leader. She has held leadership positions across the firm in Operations, Technology, Cyber Security and Trading. She is also on the Morgan Stanley Technology Philanthropy Steering Committee having originated the MS cyber-philanthropy initiative. Christine has also been a math teacher in the Bronx, the founding Director of Finance, Operations, Technology and HR in a foundational diverse by design charter school network and is the owner of a global brand unrelated to any of the above. In her time at Morgan Stanley, and prior to that with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, Christine has worked and, in some cases, lived in over 10 countries. In addition to being a triathlete and having summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, Christine has served on the board of Brooklyn Prospect Charter School and as Co-Chair for Partnership for Children and is a member of the Lehigh ISE Alumni Advisory Council.
Spencer C. Schantz Distinguished Lecture Series: This lecture series is endowed in the name of the late Spencer C. Schantz, who graduated from Lehigh in 1955 with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Following progressive responsibilities with several electrical manufacturing companies, in 1969 he founded U.S. Controls Corporation and became its first CEO and President. The Spencer C. Schantz Distinguished Lecture Series was established by his wife Jerelyn as a valuable educational experience for faculty, students, and friends of Lehigh’s Industrial and Systems Engineering department.