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Summary Sentence: An Unconventional Path - A Rewarding Career
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Jim McClelland Fall2015Alumni Jim McClelland is former CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana. He continues to work part-time as an advisor to the Goodwill Industries Foundation of Central Indiana, Inc. During his career with the Indianapolis-based Goodwill, the organization grew from 558 to more than 3,200 employees, and from $3 million to $130 million in annual revenue.
He has served on numerous not-for-profit boards at the local, national and international levels and chaired several of them. He currently serves on the Dean’s Council of the Kelley School of Business:Indiana University, Advisory Board of the Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech Grand Challenges Advisory Board, Economic Club of Indiana Advisory Council, Board of Directors of Building Tomorrow, and Urban Areas Commission of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute’s Thriving Cities Thriving State initiative.
In 2009 Jim was inducted into the Central Indiana Business Hall of Fame, and in 2011 he received the Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is also the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from Christian Theological Seminary and has been named a Sagamore of the Wabash by two Indiana governors.
Jim earned a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
McClelland will speak at Georgia Tech's IMPACT Speaker Series on Wednesday,October 21, 2015. All are welcome to attend.
This talk is part of the IMPACT lecture series sponsored by the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
About the Impact Speaker Series:
Since 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership". The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders.
The series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.
