ERIE, Pa. — The Speaker Series at Penn State Behrend continues Wednesday, Nov. 5, with a talk by Daniel Luttner, a managing partner at NEOS by Argon & Co., a global supply-chain solutions company.
Luttner’s talk, “Resilient Leadership: Falling, Rising and Leading with Humanity in a Fragile World,” will explore recent innovations in supply-chain networks, including the emergence of artificial intelligence. He also will discuss recent challenges to those complex and interconnected systems, including the COVID-19 pandemic, new U.S. tariffs and emerging geopolitical tensions.
The program, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in Burke 180, is free and open to the public.
Luttner earned a degree in business and an MBA at Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business. He has served on the school’s Business Advisory Board since 2021.
Before joining NEOS by Argon & Co., he served as senior managing partner at Plantensive and as a partner at Vaco, a Pittsburgh-based consulting firm, where he specialized in enterprise software and consulting services, including Oracle and JDA.
“Supply chain analysis is both art and science,” he said in an interview with the “Business Topics On Demand” video series, which is produced by the Black School of Business. “Even if you are the best data analyst or data scientist in the world, if you can’t convey that message or influence the others in your organization, or in your client’s organization, it’s not a super-useful skill. It’s part analytics, part data science, part understanding the technical aspects, and then it’s that soft skill: Working with your clients to convey that message, to tell that story, and to gain consensus for buy-in.”
The Speaker Series at Penn State Behrend is sponsored in part by the college’s Student Activity Fee. This year’s series began with a talk by Ala Stanford, the founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium and a former regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The series will continue in March with a talk by Timothy Beal, distinguished professor of religion at Case Western University.