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Notable Upcoming Events at the Executives’ Club of Chicago

2025 International Executive of the Year: Chris Leahy

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Registration: 11:30 a.m. CT | Program: 12 – 1 p.m. CT

Hyatt Regency Chicago | 151 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60601

Speaker: Chris Leahy
Chair & Chief Executive Officer, CDW
Moderator: Dorri McWhorter
President & CEO, The Executives’ Club of Chicago

Future-Funded: Inside the Next Wave of Venture Capital

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Program: 12:00pm-1:00pm CT

Virtual

Speaker: Sach Chitnis
Co-Founder and Partner, Jump Capital
Speaker: Jai Das
President and Partner, Sapphire Ventures
Speaker: Mar Hershenson
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Pear Ventures
Moderator: Steve Kaplan
Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Today’s Apprentices are Tomorrow’s NextGen Leaders

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Registration: 4:00pm-4:30pm CT | Program: 4:30pm-5:30pm CT | Reception: 5:30pm-6:30pm CT

Accenture Tower | 500 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60661

Speaker: Hardik Bhatt
CEO, SDI Presence
Speaker: David Jaeger
Program and Operations Lead for the Office of Apprenticeship, Zurich North America
Speaker: Beth Marrion
Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Speaker: Daniel Serota
Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, Aon
Moderator: Kristin Richards
Director, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity

Annual Economic Outlook 2026

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Registration: 11:00am-12:00pm CT | Program: 12:00pm-2:00pm CT

Hilton Chicago | 720 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL, 60605

Speaker: Dr. Bob Froehlich
Former Vice Chairman, Deutsche Asset Management
Speaker: John W. Rogers, Jr.
Chairman & Co-CEO, Ariel Investments
Speaker: Diane Swonk
Chief Economist, KPMG
Moderator: Terry Savage
Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Terry Savage Productions

All Upcoming Events

2025 International Executive of the Year: Chris Leahy

Registration for this program has closed. If you wish to attend, please email programs@executivesclub.org. Where Chicago celebrates leadership that shapes the…

Future-Funded: Inside the Next Wave of Venture Capital

The money may be moving differently, but the momentum hasn’t stopped. Future-Funded is your front-row seat to the forces reshaping…

Exec Club Holiday Party 2025

This program is currently SOLD OUT. Exclusive to Club Members: As the year comes to a close, the Executives’ Club…

Today’s Apprentices are Tomorrow’s NextGen Leaders

In a marketplace where leadership demand is growing faster than traditional talent pipelines can fill, apprenticeships have evolved from a…

Create Enduring Success Together: Five Critical Choices

We all want enduring success—success that is full, complete, and lasting. We want it for ourselves, our loved ones, our…

Intelligence Rising: Scaling Innovation, AI, and Cloud

We are living through the dawn of a new age where intelligence is the currency of progress. AI and cloud…

The Executive Edit: BLVDier

Exclusive to Club Members: The Executive Edit: BLVDier is not your typical networking night. It’s a style-driven, invitation-only evening where…

Annual Economic Outlook 2026

The stakes are high, and the signals are mixed. That’s why Chicago’s business leaders turn to the Annual Economic Outlook…

The Executive Edit: Maria Pinto

Exclusive to Club Members: The Executive Edit: Maria Pinto is not your typical networking night. It’s a style-driven, invitation-only evening…

Soul of Chicago: The Future Called — We’re Up

The future of a city isn’t written by policy alone. It’s told through the stories we project, the talent we…

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