\nThere\u2019s nothing like The Innovators in Manitoba. For every member of the ICT and business community in Winnipeg and beyond: join us for a remarkable evening.
\nIt\u2019s all about making connections. Get up close, ask questions, share ideas. Let\u2019s create the future we want to see.
\nIf you’re unfamiliar with The Innovators, click here to see a gallery<\/a> from 2017 featuring Janet Bannister, founder of Kijiji.ca and Partner, Real Ventures. To view an overall event profile, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
About Lawrence Levy:<\/h2>\n
(source: \u00a0http:\/\/lawrencelevy.com\/about-me\/<\/a>) In 1994, out of the blue, I received a phone call from Steve Jobs to see if I had any interest in running Pixar\u2019s business. Over the next twelve years, I served as Pixar\u2019s Chief Financial Officer, a member of its Office of the President and later as a member of its board of directors. During this period I developed and put in place the strategy that would transform Pixar from a money-losing graphics company into a multibillion-dollar entertainment studio. You meet a girl: shy, unassuming. If you tell her she\u2019s beautiful, she\u2019ll think you\u2019re sweet, but she won\u2019t believe you. She knows that beauty lies in your beholding. And sometimes that\u2019s enough. But there\u2019s a better way. You show her she is beautiful. It is hard, very hard, but when she truly believes you, suddenly the story she tells herself in her own head changes. She transforms. She isn\u2019t seen as beautiful. She is beautiful, seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Big Shout out to ICTAM! Thank you ICTAM, Kathy Knight and Lawrence Levy for taking out time to visit our high school<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nABOUT ME<\/h2>\n
\nI then took a break from corporate life to pursue my passion for eastern philosophy and meditation. I came to see the power of these ideas for realizing our potential as individuals and for creating human-centered organizations that foster creativity, dignity, and excellence.
\nIn 2016, I released my first book,\u00a0To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).\u00a0The book is An Amazon Best Book of 2016 in Business and Leadership<\/em>\u00a0and A Fortune Magazine Best Book of 2016<\/em>. The New York Times described it as \u201cenchanting\u2026Mr. Levy has quite a story to tell\u201d and Fortune Magazine called it \u201cAn epic tale of Levy\u2019s quest to balance the competing interests of the quiet artists and technologists who created Toy Story\u00a0and the mercurial entrepreneur who controlled their professional fates.\u201d
\nI recently published an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled\u00a0Finding the Healthy Tension Between Being Confident and Collaborative<\/em><\/a>. I speak regularly on the Pixar story and these topics including talks at Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Pixar and Google.
\nMy education includes a law degree from Harvard Law School. After moving to Silicon Valley in the 1980s and starting the first technology transactions law practice, I became a partner at the law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati. From there, I joined Electronics for Imaging as its chief financial officer and vice chairman of the board, a company I took public before joining Pixar.
\nIn 2003, together with four co-founders, I created a non-profit called Juniper Foundation<\/a>\u00a0that focuses on bringing Indo-Tibetan meditation practices to contemporary life. I teach meditation weekly and continue to write and speak on a range of topics including creativity and innovation, collaboration, realizing our potential, and building human-centered organizations.
\nI live in Palo Alto, California with my\u00a0wife Hillary. I am an avid reader, with a wide range of interests including philosophy, anthropology, and science fiction, and I love to exercise and enjoy the latest in pop culture with my family. Here\u2019s one quote I love, from Patrick Rothfuss\u2019s The Name of the Wind<\/em>:<\/p>\n
\nYou can also find me on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Linkedin<\/a>.<\/strong>
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