BENS Southeast Luncheon with Katherine Gehl at the Buckhead Club
August 19, 2021 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm EDT
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BENS Southeast Luncheon with Katherine Gehl at the Buckhead Club. Ms. Gehl will lead a discussion on her latest book, “The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy.”
Katherine M. Gehl is the founder of The Institute for Political Innovation (IPI), a nonpartisan nonprofit founded in 2020 to catalyze modern political change in America. She is the originator of Politics Industry Theory. Her latest book is co-authored with Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter.
A veteran of the public and private sectors, Katherine is the former president and CEO of Gehl Foods, a $250-million high-tech food-manufacturing company based in Wisconsin that she sold in 2015. In the public sector, Katherine served on the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution. She is on several nonprofit boards, including Unite America, New America, and Business for America, and is an active philanthropist. She is also the honorary co-chair of the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, and the co-founder of Democracy Found.
Cost: $43.00
Organizer:
STalley@bens.org
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