15th Annual Business Leadership Luncheon

Tickets are on sale for Simpson University’s 15th annual Business Leadership Luncheon on Wednesday, Aug. 31, featuring consultant, professor and former university president Dr. James M. Grant. The event, sponsored by Redding Bank of Commerce, is in the Heritage Student Life Center on campus, 2211 College View Drive. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.; the event begins at noon. Platinum-level tickets (preferred seating) cost $25, or $240 for a table of 10; gold-level tickets are $18 or $175 for a table of 10. Dr. Grant will speak on “Comfort Describes More Than Mama’s Cooking” and examines comfort as a strategy behind successful businesses and how this can be added to improve our own business operations and workplaces. The businesses and workplaces that attract the most people provide more than goods, services and compensation. They offer places where visitors and workers feel comfortable. Dr. Grant teaches master’s-level courses in management, fundraising and marketing, grant writing and issues in nonprofit management at Southern Illinois University. In addition, he does consultation work in management and fundraising with particular emphasis on nonprofit and public organizations.