10 YEARS LEADING MICHIGAN TO THE TOP TEN

TOP TEN TALK

Where is Michigan?Where does our economy stand?

Where do we rank on various fronts? What direction are we headed in?Should we reverse our course?

Can we?

Monday, February 3, 2020, 8:30am – 12:00pm • Lansing Center

AGENDA

8:30–9:00am Breakfast & Networking

9:00–9:05am Welcome – Doug Rothwell, President & CEO, Business Leaders for Michigan

9:05–9:45am Michigan’s Road to Top TenWhere do we stand? We’ve benchmarked Michigan’s performance on almost every indicatorpossible. Doug will share where we landed on key data points and touch on how the challengesidentified by this research could undermine Michigan’s prosperity. To spur action addressing thesechallenges, Doug will walk through priority recommendations of BLM’s data-based strategic plan:Michigan’s Road to Top Ten.Doug Rothwell, President & CEO, Business Leaders for Michigan

9:45–10:30am Winning Strategies from Top Ten StatesTen states currently perform above the rest on key indicators of success: jobs, GDP, personalincome and population. Knowing the strategies of your competitors is key to improvement. So forthree of those states, we’ve brought together the leaders of business leadership organizations topick their brains. What strategies have worked, and what can Michigan’s leaders do that will havethe most meaningful impact for short- and long-term growth? Learn what has catapultedMassachusetts, Washington and Minnesota to the top of the pack.JD Chesloff, Executive Director, Massachusetts Business RoundtableSteve Mullin, President, Washington RoundtableCharlie Weaver, Executive Director, Minnesota Business PartnershipModerator: Zoe Clark, Program Director, Michigan Radio

10:30–10:45am Break

10:45–11:15am The Importance of Being Top Ten and Business Climate RankingsWhat do large employers look for when they’re choosing a new site? Out of 50 states, whatindicators do they use to narrow it down? For a decade Ron Starner has been helping global &national companies navigate these decisions, as well as ranking states on their attraction abilities.This is a rare opportunity for insight into Ron’s expertise and the advice he gives to companieswhen making key location decisions.Ron Starner, Executive Vice President, Conway Inc./Site Selection MagazineModerator: Selma Tucker, Vice President, Public Sector Consultants

11:15–11:45am Interview with BLM’s new Chair: Gerry AndersonHe’s been Newsmaker of the Year for Crain’s Detroit Business, WXYZ & the Detroit News, and nowhe is BLM’s Board Chair for the next two years. At DTE, Gerry has been a forward-thinking leader,increasing focus on clean energy as well as increasing the company’s philanthropic contributionto the Detroit region. Gerry will talk about his vision for BLM as we start a new decade.Gerry Anderson, Executive Chairman, DTE EnergyModerator: Christy McDonald, One Detroit Anchor, Detroit Public Television

11:45–12:00pm Closing RemarksDoug Rothwell, President & CEO, Business Leaders for Michigan

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Gerry AndersonExecutive Chairman, DTE Energy

“We’re employers, not educators. We’re looking for waysas companies to help on the education front withoutpositioning ourselves as experts to fix the system.”

Gerard M. Anderson is executive chairman of DTE Energy. Anderson joined DTE in 1993 and heldvarious senior executive leadership roles throughout the enterprise until being named president in2004, CEO in 2010 and chairman in 2011. He was the architect and leader of the company’sstrategy to focus on cost and operational excellence in the utility business and develop itsnonregulated businesses. As CEO, he focused on building a positive, highly engaged culture – andon deeply connecting DTE Energy to the communities it serves, enabling it to act as a force forgood.

In 2019, Anderson was elected executive chairman to serve as an advisor to DTE’s CEO onbusiness issues and focus on DTE’s community, political and broader industry roles.

JD ChesloffExecutive Director, Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR), Boston, MA

“When we talked to a lot of employers, they will tell you there’s a holein the supply chain of workers. If you’re going to use a strategy to gofix that supply chain, it makes a ton of sense to start at the beginning,and early childhood is that strategy.”

As Executive Director, JD develops and implements the strategic framework and direction forMassachusetts Business Roundtable in partnership with the Chair, Executive Committee andBoard of Directors. He works with MBR Task Forces and MBR leadership to develop its agenda onpublic policy matters and convey those ideas to opinion leaders and policymakers to help informtheir deliberations.

JD has worked in and around Beacon Hill in Boston for more than 25 years. In the Legislature, hewas the Chief of Staff to the House Committee on Commerce and Labor, and the education issuesanalyst and Deputy Budget Director for the House Committee on Ways and Means.

He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Massachusetts College of LiberalArts, and serves on Boards of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, Science from Scientists, andthe Taly Foundation. He also is on the Advisory Board of ReadyNation.

JD is a graduate of the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Bostonwith an Masters in Public Affairs, and earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Public Policy andTelecommunications Writing from Syracuse University.

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Zoe ClarkProgram Director, Michigan Radio, Co-host, It’s Just Politics

Zoe Clark is Michigan Radio's Program Director. In that role, Clark oversees all programming onthe state's largest public radio station – including the station's award-winning newsroom.

Clark also co-hosts, with Michigan Public Radio Network's Lansing Bureau Chief Rick Pluta,It’s Just Politics, a weekly look at Michigan politics airing Monday mornings on Morning Edition.

Clark previously produced Michigan Radio’s Morning Edition and is the founder and executiveproducer of Stateside.

Clark began her collegiate studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Sheholds degrees in Communication Studies and Political Science from the University of Michiganand lives in Ann Arbor, where she was born and raised.

Email: zoeclark@umich.edu

Twitter: @ZoeMelinaClark

Christy McDonaldAnchor, Managing Editor, One Detroit

Christy McDonald is the anchor/moderator and managing editor of One Detroit. She also anchorsspecial coverage for WTVS Detroit PBS including documentaries, events and the Mackinac PolicyConference. McDonald has appeared on the PBS NewsHour and CNN reporting on Detroit’sfinancial crisis, Michigan politics and the 2016 Presidential Election. A sought after moderator,McDonald has led lively discussions at the Detroit Economic Club, Detroit Policy Conference,Mackinac Policy Conference, Great Lakes Conference among others. McDonald also co-moderated Gubernatorial debates in 2014 and 2018. She has appeared on WDET public radio asa guest host and panelist.

McDonald is an Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter. She connected with Detroit viewersfor 10 years on WXYZ-TV on the big stories, from 9/11 in New York to political corruption in thecity of Detroit. She has received reporting honors from the Associated Press and MichiganAssociation of Broadcasters for anchoring and breaking news coverage. McDonald also hasguest lectured at Michigan State, U of M Dearborn and Wayne State University.

McDonald grew up in Troy and is a graduate of Troy High School. She is a graduate of MichiganState University’s James Madison College with a degree in Political Philosophy.

Email: cmcdonald@dptv.org

Twitter: @ChristyTV

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Steve Mullin President, Washington Roundtable, Seattle, WA

“We’ve demonstrated that if you invest in higher education,there’s a clear return on investment.”

As President of the Washington Roundtable, an organization comprised of senior executives ofmajor private sector employers who work to effect positive change on public policy issues thatsupport economic vitality and foster opportunity for all Washingtonians. He is also board presidentof the Roundtable’s education foundation, Partnership for Learning, a 501(c)3 organization thatworks to increase post-secondary credential attainment among Washington students. Steve isresponsible for providing overall strategic direction and management of both organizations.

Prior to joining the Roundtable, Steve worked for several public affairs consulting firms, as a U.S.Senate staff member in Washington, D.C., and as a legislative staff member in Olympia, WA. He isa graduate of Middlebury College and the University of Washington’s Evans School of PublicAffairs. Steve chairs the board of the Washington State Charter Schools Association and serves asvice-chair of the board of Pioneer Human Services. He also serves on the boards of theWashington Health Alliance and the Washington Research Council, as well as the WesternGovernors University-Washington Advisory Board, the Seattle Colleges Chancellor’s AdvisoryCouncil and the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Steering Committee.

Doug RothwellPresident & CEO, Business Leaders for Michigan

“We need to pursue unified strategies that are in alignment with what thedata suggest—increased investment in talent and infrastructure and apurposeful effort to leverage Michigan’s competitive strengths.”

Doug Rothwell has worked as an executive in the public, private and non-profit sectors. For the pastdecade, he’s led Business Leaders for Michigan – a business roundtable of corporate CEO’s from thestate’s largest companies working to grow jobs and the state’s economy. He’s worked for four Governorsin two states, including as Delaware’s chief of staff and chief executive of Michigan’s EconomicDevelopment Corporation, in addition to chairing both incoming and outgoing gubernatorial transitionteams. In the business world, he managed General Motors’ 400 million square foot global real estateportfolio and was the CAO at Bank of America’s credit card subsidiary and part of the IPO team.

Doug co-chairs Launch Michigan (Michigan’s K-12 education coalition) and serves as a director ofITC Holdings (America’s largest energy transmission company) and the Chapel Hill DowntownPartnership. For the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Doug is an Executive-in-Residencefor Economic Development, chairs the Ackland Art Museum national advisory board, and serveson the Chancellor’s Philanthropic Council. He previously chaired the Michigan EconomicDevelopment Corporation, Michigan’s Life Sciences Corridor, the American Center for Mobility andthe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Visitors.

Doug graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Master of PublicAdministration degree, the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts degree and the HarvardUniversity John F. Kennedy School’s Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.He’s a former Presidential Management Fellow and has received the most prestigious honorsawarded by the National Governors Association and the University of Delaware for his public service.

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Ron StarnerExecutive Vice President, Conway Inc., Atlanta, GA

“The best cities of the future will spend significant amounts of capital tobuild communities that connect people and companies to all the resourcesnecessary to allow them to thrive. From new highways and bridges tomodern airports, hyperloops, tunnels and educational systems, these citieswill represent the new standard in competitive business locations.”

Ron Starner is Executive Vice President of Conway Inc. and Site Selection magazine, aninternational corporate real estate publication based in Atlanta. The official publication of theIndustrial Asset Management Council, Site Selection reaches 45,000 high-level decision-makerssix times a year with timely news, analysis and perspective on key events and trends impactingcorporate real estate and economic development. The magazine also publishesSiteSelection.com, the online Web portal for corporate real estate and economic developmentnews and data, and five email newsletters.

Ron served nine years as Executive Director of IAMC, a corporate real estate and economicdevelopment association with 600 members. Based in Georgia, IAMC serves the needs ofcorporate real estate directors of leading Fortune 500 companies such as BASF, Pfizer,Honeywell and Campbell’s Soup.

In his editorial capacity, Ron serves as editor of the monthly TrustBelt Report.

Selma TuckerVice President, Public Sector Consultants

Selma Tucker is a vice president at PSC, specializing in public policy communication. Heoversees the marketing and communications team, which is responsible for strategic direction,brand management, design, corporate giving, and communication across the firm. Selmaperforms similar work for Michigan Saves, a multimillion-dollar nonprofit managed by PSC, andthe Great Lakes Fishery Trust, a multimillion-dollar private foundation also managed by PSC. Heregularly leads statewide communications campaigns and positions organizations large andsmall to leverage their brand to achieve success in a variety of public policy areas includingenvironment, health, economic development, energy, education, and local government.

Previously, he worked for the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, doing work in urban service deliveryand special projects throughout the organization. Selma’s service to the City of Grand Rapidsalso included widespread dissemination of information on complex topics, ranging fromcommunity development to information technology, to both internal and community audiences.

Selma holds a BA in Public Administration, with a concentration in Economic Development and asecond major in Political Science, and an MPA, specializing in Public Management, both fromGrand Valley State University

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Charlie WeaverExecutive Director, Minnesota Business Partnership, Minneapolis, MN

“We cannot solve economic disparities withoutsolving educational disparities.”

Charlie Weaver is Executive Director of the Minnesota Business Partnership, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy organization composed of 115 chief executive officers representingMinnesota’s leading employers.

Prior to joining the Partnership in 2003, Weaver served as Chief of Staff for Governor Tim Pawlentyduring his first year in office. In this capacity, Weaver helped assemble the Pawlentyadministration, craft a state budget, and coordinated the legislative strategy to implement thegovernor’s agenda.

A former Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Weaver also establishedand led Minnesota’s Office of Homeland Security, responsible for coordinating the state’s efforts toprevent and respond to terrorism.

His public service career started with his election in 1988 to the Minnesota House ofRepresentatives, where he served until 1998 as Assistant Minority Leader. Weaver graduated fromthe University of Oregon in 1981 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. He then attendedthe University of Minnesota Law School, graduating with honors in 1984.

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Find out where Michigan stands on all50+ indicators compared to other states,

as well as which way we are trending,at www.MichigansRoadtoTopTen.com.

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Monday, February 3, 2020, 8:30am – 12:00pm • Lansing Center

10 YEARS LEADING MICHIGAN TO THE TOP TEN

www.BusinessLeadersForMichigan.com