2020
December 16 Webinar - Why and how to be yourself as a leader in pursuit of performance: Minter Dial (Y87), author and speaker on leadership, brand and digital strategy, gave an interactive webinar on how to develop one's leadership skills for the new world order. Taking into consideration the context, a younger incoming generation of employees, our tech-infused and increasingly transparent world and evolving customer desires and behaviors, what sort of leadership is needed? The demands on leadership have not only changed, they've increased. In this speech, based on his international experience as a senior executive at L'Oréal and working closely with blue chip CEOs as a consultant since 2009, Minter will present a simple framework for anyone who has to manage a team. Minter will be speaking in advance of the launch of his new book, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (by Kogan Page), which is coming out January 3, 2021. Advance praise for the book has come among others from Maurice Lévy (Publicis), Mark Read (WPP) and Anne Boden (Starling).
December 9 Webinar by Rob Stor - Joan Mitchell: A Furious Pastorale: Joan Mitchell was a central figure among the second generation of Abstract Expressionists. At a time when women were marginalized in the art world, she captured the attention of leaders of the New York avant-garde such as Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning and was only a handful of women invited to join The Club, where the Abstract Expressionists met for weekly discussions. In 1959, she moved to France, where she died in 1992. Robert Storr delivered a special Arts Arena Lecture from Yale University and gave us insights into Joan Mitchell’s work in anticipation of a comprehensive retrospective co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “Virus rescheduled,” the exhibition will now open in the US in March and travel to Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2022.
November 19 Virtual Yale Happy Hour: Members of the Yale Club of France connected for a virtual Happy Hour. It was wonderful to have great conversation with friends.
October 22nd Virtual concert: Opera singer and Yale alumnus Lauren Libaw, composer and pianist Daniel Schlosberg gave a brand-new recital via the virtual festival “Live from Elm Court." The musical program included the premiere of a newly commissioned song cycle by Daniel Schlosberg on poems by Lydia Davis, songs by Elgar, Ives and Copland, and favorite lullabies.
September 6th Walking tour: On this walk we enjoyed the medieval streets of the neighborhood, discussed the origins of the University as well as medieval student life, and heard of pioneering scholars such as Peter Abelard. We explored the churches of St. Severin and St. Julien-le Pauvre (one of the oldest in Paris). We saw the 15th-century Cluny mansion and the Roman baths, and finish up the tour at the main entrance to the Sorbonne. Brad Newfield, a former Angelino who has lived in Paris since 1994, has a Ph.D in History from UCLA, lectured in History and Communication Studies, and develops walking tours on historical themes in Paris, in order to bring together the city's past and present in untraditional ways.
July 4th Picnic with the Yale Club: We celebrated the Fourth of July and the summer with a picnic at les Invalides.
May 5 Webinar - How to develop empathy in the office and in remote work: Minter Dial (Y87), author and speaker on leadership, brand and digital strategy, who brings significant experience as a former executive with L'Oréal gave a webinar on empathy in the office. Do you want to boost innovation? Are you looking to improve the productivity of your salespeople or the effectiveness of your marketing? Are you looking for a better commitment and team cohesion among your colleagues and workforce? Would you like to make remote working as good as — or maybe even better than — working at the office? In this speech, based on facts, data and concrete examples, Minter told us how to boost your level of empathy and propagate it across the company, including in remote work. His last book, Heartificial Empathy, was the Book Excellence Award 2019.
May 26 Virtual Yale Happy Hour: Members of the Yale Club of France connected for a virtual Happy Hour. It was wonderful to have great conversation with friends.
April 28 Virtual Yale Happy Hour: Members of the Yale Club of France connected for a virtual Happy Hour. It was wonderful to have great conversation with friends.
April 7 Virtual Yale Happy Hour: Members of the Yale Club of France connected for a virtual Happy Hour. It was wonderful to have great conversation with friends.
February 19 Feb Club: The Yale Club of France took part in this winter Yale tradition, which has now gone global.
January 19 Concert at the American Cathedral in Paris: Young American musicians Dhyani and Riana Heath are both international solo artists and chamber performers. Having graduated from the Yale School of Music and the Mozarteum Salzburg, Dhyani Heath is now studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Michael Hentz. Her sister Riana Heath is currently studying violin and viola at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Thomas Riebl and Lily Francis. They have been performing and playing together in the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany and France. They have participated in numerous music festivals, such as the Vermont Mozart Festival 2018, Kronberg ‘Musik mit Einander’ 2016, and have won numerous prizes as solo and chamber musicians. Their common vision of musical color combined with individual expressiveness are what make for a captivating and unique sound.
