EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4:45-6:15 p.m. Nov. 9, 2011.

EVENT: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Adam Bryant, deputy national editor of the New York Times, will join corporate management expert Robert Knowling Jr. in an interactive dialogue on lessons learned from more than 70 successful CEOs. The event is open to the public.

Bryant, who oversees coverage of education issues, military affairs and law and works with reporters in many of the Times’ domestic bureaus, conducts interviews with CEOs and other leaders for “Corner Office,” a weekly feature in the Sunday Business section and on nytimes.com.

Bryant has been an editor at the New York Times since 2006 and was a business reporter at the paper throughout the 1990s, covering a number of beats such as airlines, aviation safety, executive pay and corporate governance. From 1999 to 2006, he worked at Newsweek magazine as a senior writer and then as business editor. Before moving to the national desk in 2010, he was deputy business editor. He also won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as the lead editor of a series on the dangers of distracted driving.

Knowling is chairman of Eagles Landing Partners, which helps senior management formulate strategy, lead organizational transformations and re-engineer businesses. Before launching Eagles Landing Partners in 2009, Knowling served as CEO of several companies and organizations, including Telwares Inc., the NYC Leadership Academy, SimDesk Technologies Inc. and Covad Communications. He also held senior management positions at US West and Ameritech.

His new book, “You Can Get There from Here: My Journey from Struggle to Success,” chronicles his journey from childhood deprivation to the summit of the telecom industry.

PLACE: Blau Auditorium, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 701 Tappan St., Ann Arbor.

SPONSORS: Global Business Partnership at the Ross School of Business and the Ross Leadership Institute Speaker Series.

INFORMATION: Call (734) 764-5134.