North Oaks to Serve as Visionary Sponsor for the Southeastern College of Business Northshore Executive Business Forum

Southeastern Louisiana University’s College of Business will host its inaugural Executive Business Forum in St. Tammany Parish. With North Oaks Health System as a sponsor, the event will introduce a distinguished agenda of speakers sharing timely and essential information to the Northshore in the areas of the economy, technology and talent.

The forum is scheduled for Thursday, April 25, from 9 am to 3:30 pm, at the Castine Center in Mandeville, located at 63350 Pelican Dr. To register to attend, contact Southeastern’s College of Business at 985-549-2258 or business@southeastern.edu, or visit click here.

“Our Executive Business Forum will equip decision makers on the Northshore with the information they need to navigate the future,” shares College of Business Dean Tará Lopez. “Our speakers will take national business issues and tailor the information for Northshore businesses. The attendees will leave well-informed and energized with solutions-focused information. This level of programming would not be possible without our generous sponsors.”

“As a Visionary Sponsor, North Oaks Health System is proud to further strengthen our partnership with Southeastern Louisiana University and its College of Business to help bring an event of this caliber to the Northshore,” asserts North Oaks’ President & CEO Michele Kidd Sutton, FACHE. “Tará Lopez, dean of the College of Business, and her team are deserving of recognition for their efforts in organizing the event and bringing together an expert lineup of speakers.” Sutton, who was honored by the university in 2019 as Alumna of the Year, is serving as a forum host through her work on Dean Lopez’s Advisory Board.

Forum speakers include Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development Susan Bonnett Bourgeois; Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple; Ted Abernathy, managing partner of Economic Leadership, LLC; Kristy Davis, global director of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Strategic Consulting at The Channel Company; General Informatics CEO and President Donald Monistere; among others.