With an admonition to “listen deeply and humbly” and “stay in anything-can-happen-ness,” Ann M. Drake told the 2026 graduating class of Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University that their true value going forward might come more from the questions they ask than from the answers they believe they should have. “Predictability is not where…
Jeanne Gang, the world-renowned architect whose design for the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay is now rising on the banks of Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, was honored on December 5, 2024, with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award by ULI Chicago, the local district council of the Urban Land Institute. Jeanne Gang is the founding partner of Studio Gang, an…
Ann M. Drake’s commitment to ensuring women help lead the next wave of space exploration is reflected in a new exhibit that opened in May 2024 as part of the renovated Henry Crown Space Center at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. The new exhibit showcases the SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft, which flew unmanned missions…
More than 200 supporters, city officials, friends, and dignitaries celebrated the start of construction on a new Women’s Leadership Center in Williams Bay—a unique meeting place designed to foster high levels of creativity, collaboration, and contribution, where accomplished women will come together to incubate fresh approaches to complex challenges—in a groundbreaking ceremony on July 19,…
Part of what’s interesting at a college reunion is seeing who left with an education and returned with wisdom. Sharing personal wisdom was the focus of the 2024 reunion hosted Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4 by and for graduates of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Former business school classmates returned…
This past November, Lincoln Road founder Ann Drake spent a special evening with beneficiaries of the Drake Scholars Fund, which supports Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management students in the Executive MBA and Evening & Weekend MBA Programs. The fund is dedicated to the professional advancement of women in the business world through higher…