Adam Bryant, a best-selling business author and managing director of Merryck & Co., has spent decades researching the personal characteristics that lead to business success.

He will deliver the fourth annual Rocco Abessinio Lecture in Management and Entrepreneurship Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1 p.m., at Neumann University’s Mullen Communication Center.

The free presentation is open to the public.

Bryant’s first book, The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed, is a New York Times best-seller.

In it, he consolidates lessons from more than 70 chief executives to reveal the keys to success in the business world, including the five essential personality traits that all high performers exhibit―qualities that the CEOs themselves value most.

He is also the author of Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.

Prior to joining Merryck, a senior leadership development and executive mentoring firm, Bryant worked for 30 years as a journalist. He was reporter, editor and columnist for 18 years at the New York Times.

He interviewed more than 500 CEOs for Corner Office, a weekly series on leadership and management he created in 2009.

Bryant is a frequent speaker at business schools, corporate retreats and industry gatherings. He writes on LinkedIn and Forbes.com, and conducts interviews on leadership for CNBC.com.

In 2016, Bryant was named editorial director of The NYT Live, the news organization’s global conference enterprise. He is also a former senior writer and business editor for Newsweek magazine.

Register to hear Bryant’s free presentation here.

Neumann’s inaugural lecture in Management and Entrepreneurship was delivered by the lecture series’ namesake, Rocco Abessinio, in 2016. He and his wife Mary funded the series to bring an expert in management and entrepreneurship to campus each year.

Abessinio is a 1979 alumnus and chief executive officer of Roch Capital, Inc., a privately-owned capital management firm in Glen Mills.

He is also the founder of Applied Bank and Applied Card System, the 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the country.

The Abessinio Family Foundation established the Business Division Professorship in Management and Entrepreneurship in 2015. This professorship will bring in faculty to teach in a proposed Entrepreneurship Minor starting in the fall of 2020.

The Abessinio Family Foundation also funds an annual scholarship for a Division of Business student who exemplifies excellence in management and entrepreneurial understanding and application.

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