Part one of this two part series features Bob Chapman, the Chairman and former CEO of St. Louis, MO-based Barry-Wehmiller, a $3B global manufacturing business with almost 12,000 team members. Chapman’s experiences were the inspiration behind his 2015 WSJ bestseller Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, co-authored with Raj Sisodia. Bob’s approach to business was featured in a case study by Harvard Business School. In 2013, Bob and his wife Cynthia launched a nonprofit, Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities, to bring Barry-Wehmiller’s groundbreaking “Listen Like a Leader” training to communities. In 2015, the Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute was founded to bring the principles of Truly Human Leadership® to for-profit organizations through culture transformation and leadership training. Bob and his team have been collaborating with the Gonzaga School of Business for three years.
Kelsey Carlston is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Gonzaga University. Her research is primarily on the causes and consequences of intergenerational economic mobility....
In part 2 of our Barry-Wehmiller series, David Pickersgill, Senior Outreach Program Leader at BW, discusses his role in educating a variety of businesses,...
Dr. Vivek Patil is a Professor of Marketing and Director of Graduate Business at Gonzaga. He discuses the MBA, MSBA and his vision for...