8th ANNUAL EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP SERIES
Open to Roundtable Members, Associate Members, Their Guests
and the Public

ABUNDANCE

Featuring
DEREK THOMPSON
Co-Author of NYTimes #1 Bestk-Seller Abundance
Columnist for The Atlantic
and Host of Plain English Podcast

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 2025  //  8:00 – 11:00AM

DoubleTree by Hilton  //  Emerald Ballroom
870 Williston Rd.,  So. Burlington, VT

For Sponsorship Opportunities, Contact: 

Sherra Bourget [email protected] or (802) 865-0410 ext. 210

Tables, Half Tables, and Individual Seat Reservations will go on sale later this summer
Stay tuned for your formal invite.

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About This Event: The Executive Leadership Series events are designed to be valuable professional development and networking opportunities for CEOs and their key team members and proteges, as well as influential leaders in the private, non-profit and public sectors.

About This Year’s Keynote Presenter:  Few speakers can match Derek Thompson’s ability to synthesize mega-trends in society, labor, economics, technology, and politics. Put another way: Derek trawls the data sets and does the forecasting and deep reporting necessary to help us better understand how we live, how we vote, how we spend, and how we work.

In his latest book Abundance, the #1 New York Times bestseller co-written with fellow journalistic titan Ezra Klein, Derek shows us how we’ve fallen into a world where we feel like we never have enough — whether in housing, energy, workers, innovation, or progress — and offers a radical, hopeful new path towards a politics of plenty. He argues that the future is ours to build, if we’re willing to take a risk. In the New York Times, opinion columnist David Brooks writes that Derek and his co-author “inspire hope and enlarge the imagination by describing the good things that are actually within our grasp.” Financial Times calls Abundance “a forceful, quick-moving broadside” and “a worthy read,” while Kirk’s, in a starred review, praises its “cogent, well-timed ideas for meeting today’s biggest challenges.” In talks, Derek draws on the book to apply its lessons across industries, showing audiences how to shift their mindset, build for success, and spark extraordinary growth. Read Full Bio