November 18: [Call for Participants] Center for Entrepreneurship Education Certified Event "Practical Approaches to Business Leadership and Entrepreneurship"

The Center for Entrepreneurship Education is pleased to welcome Wilf Blackburn, a global business leader and author of Optimal Leadership: Reflections of a Serial CEO, for a lecture entitled “Practical Approaches to Business Leadership and Entrepreneurship” on Wednesday, November 18, 2026. The lecture will be held in a hybrid format, with in-person attendance at Ookayama Campus and online participation, followed by a Q&A session.

Focusing on business, the lecture will explore ways of thinking and practical approaches to creating value in highly uncertain environments from three perspectives: entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership and value creation.

Drawing on his experience as a CEO in multiple countries, Mr. Blackburn will share lessons learned from failure, approaches to empowering teams, and insights into effective leadership in cross-cultural environments.

The event is open to participants from all disciplines and backgrounds, including students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the general public.

*This is a Center for Entrepreneurship Education-certified event. Students who attend the lecture and complete the post-event survey will earn one entrepreneurship point. This point counts toward the entrepreneurship points required for the course “ENT.B211: Science, Technology, Culture, Society and Innovation 1” (1 credit), which is available to undergraduate students who enrolled at Science Tokyo in academic year 2024 or later.

“ENT.B211: Science, Technology, Culture, Society and Innovation 1" Syllabus