Speaker Series: Lenny Mendonca
Description
Public Service and the Pursuit of Happiness
Lenny Mendonca, former Chief Economics and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom and Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey Company as well as a local business leader and publisher in conversation with David Gorn, former Deputy Director of KQED about:
- Public service
- Public policy
- The world of national and international consulting
- Community involvement
- The crisis in local news coverage
- Mental health and the pursuit of happiness
Pre-Talk at 6pm: Come enjoy a cup of coffee/tea and baked goods and learn about Odd Fellows membership.
About the Speaker:
Lenny Mendonça was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School.
He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm’s communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
He is the Chair of Fidelity Charitable and New America. He was the Chair of Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, and co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps. He was the Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute, and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He has served on the boards of Western Governors University, UC Merced, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, California Competes, The Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club, National Association of NonPartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, and The Guardian.org. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, The CA Community College Chancellor’s Office, Measures for Justice, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.