Chris Lowney
Best-Selling Book Author, Writer, Public Speaker, and Leadership Consultant. He chairs the board of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of America's largest healthcare/hospital systems
Chris Lowney chairs the board of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s largest healthcare/hospital systems with some $ 19 billion in assets. He is a one-time Jesuit seminarian who later served as a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co in New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London until leaving the firm in 2001. He…
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Chris Lowney chairs the board of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s largest healthcare/hospital systems with some $ 19 billion in assets. He is a one-time Jesuit seminarian who later served as a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co in New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London until leaving the firm in 2001. He is a popular keynote speaker who has lectured in more than two-dozen countries on on leadership, business ethics, decision-making and other topics.
He is the author of four books. Heroic Leadership, a # 1 ranked bestseller of the CBPA, was named a finalist for a 2003 Book of the Year Award from ForeWord magazine, has been translated into eleven languages, and was named to the Commandant of the Marine Corps recommending reading list. He is also author of Heroic Living, and A Vanished World– Chris was featured in the PBS-aired documentary, “Cities of Light,” which echoed many of that book’s key themes. His latest work, Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads, has been called, “an invaluable gift,” and “a book for the ages.”
He served as volunteer founding president of Jesuit Commons, an innovative collaboration which offers online university education in refugee camps in Africa and elsewhere. He conceived and co-founded Contemplative Leaders in Action, an emerging leader formation program now active in a half-dozen cities. He founded Pilgrimage for Our Children’s Future, which funds education and healthcare projects in the developing world:
He is a summa cum laude graduate of Fordham University, where he also received his M.A. He is holder of five honorary Doctoral degrees.
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Chris Lowney regularly addresses corporations, healthcare systems, universities, and other organizations with keynote addresses and workshops on leadership, decision making, business ethics, inter-religious dialogue, and other topics.
He has lectured in some two-dozen countries on five continents, in a diverse range of venues including the U.S. Naval Academy, Canada’s Top Employers Conference, Georgetown University, Morgan Stanley & Co, Total (France), Boston College, Providence Health and Services, the Veteran’s Administration, Sanofi, Banco Estado (Chile), ESADE (Spain), Sanofi, the Chicago Board of Realtors, and many others.
Keynote Addresses
Workshops On Leadership
Decision Makin
Business Ethics
Inter-Religious Dialogue
Videos
Chris Lowney at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Heroic Leaders: How They Live. Chris Lowney at ASPIRE Acting Local, Winning Global 2014
The Stanton Distinguished Leaders Series presents Chris Lowney
A snippet from Chris Lowney's Presentation.
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Chris was fantastic everyone loved him!
University of San Francisco, San Francisco
Thank you PDA and Peter for helping us bring in Chris Lowney he was great!
Santa Clara University
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