{"id":54343,"date":"2018-11-12T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=54343"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:15:19","slug":"distinguished-grad-to-share-industry-wisdom-with-brock-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/11\/distinguished-grad-to-share-industry-wisdom-with-brock-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished grad to share industry wisdom with Brock community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian Parsons (BAdmin \u201990) manages the Canadian operations for one of the world\u2019s largest risk management firms \u2014 and on Thursday he\u2019ll return to his old stomping grounds to share industry insight with the next generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parsons will be honoured at a special Nov. 15 reception as the recipient of the 2018 Goodman School of Business Distinguished Graduate Award. He was first named as this year\u2019s award-winner at Brock\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/09\/awards-ceremony-to-honour-brocks-distinguished-grads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homecoming celebration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parsons, President and CEO Canada Region of Willis Towers Watson, has close to three decades of experience as a trusted insurance and risk management professional and has wide-ranging knowledge on people and risk issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since graduating, he has maintained his connection to Brock and Goodman, including recently hosting a Goodman alumni roundtable at his office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goodman Dean Andrew Gaudes invites the Brock community to attend the reception and hear Parsons\u2019 insights and experiences first-hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re very proud to have Brian as a representative of our School,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s a great speaker, very engaging and has a lot to offer anyone who wants to hear his thoughts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reception runs from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Goodman School of Business Atrium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone interested in attending the event can RSVP to Teighan McIntyre at x6685 or <\/span><a href=\"mailto:tmcintyre@brocku.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tmcintyre@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Parsons (BAdmin \u201990) manages the Canadian operations for one of the world\u2019s largest risk management firms \u2014 and on Thursday he\u2019ll return to his old stomping grounds to share industry insight with the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,39,1],"tags":[3333,7184,4698,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54345,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54343\/revisions\/54345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}