Leadership Lessons with Lloyd Trotter

Thursday, June 3, 2021
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
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The Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics and Leadership Lab invite you to join us for a fireside chat with Llyod Trotter, founder of GenNx360 and former Vice Chairman of GE. Considered a pivotal engineer of GE culture after pioneering an organization-wide matrix to measure operational excellence across its businesses, Lloyd will discuss the leadership lessons he's learned throughout his 50-year career. The discussion will also include a candid dialogue on his early efforts to improve diversity and inclusion at GE in the late 1980s and 90s. The conversation will be moderated by Professor Joel Brockner. 

This program is a PPIL-approved event focusing on creating an inclusive environment and DEI tools, policies, and systems. 

About the Speaker

Lloyd G. Trotter is one of the Founders/Managing Partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners. He came to GenNx360 in January of 2008 full time, capping a 40-year career at General Electric (GE) where his last position was Vice Chairman.

As a Vice Chairman of GE and President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Industrial, Trotter was responsible for a $28 billion business with nearly 80,000 employees worldwide. GE Industrial, comprises GE Consumer & Industrial and GE Enterprise Solutions and provides a broad range of products and services throughout the world, including appliances, lighting and industrial products, factory automation systems, security and sensor technology, along with equipment financing, management and operating services.

Earlier, Trotter was Executive Vice President of Operations where he led efforts to improve operational excellence across GE's businesses. From 2004 to 2006 he served as president and chief executive officer of GE Consumer & Industrial, a role he assumed following the 2004 merger of GE's consumer products, industrial systems and supply businesses. 

Trotter was a founding member of GE's African American Forum and is actively involved in professional and community organizations. He represented GE for America's Promise, an organization aiming to increase volunteerism in support of youth. He has served on the boards of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), and the GE Foundation. He is currently on the board of Textron, Inc., and Meritor, Inc. He also served on the board of PepsiCo for nine years and Daimler A.G. for five years.

Trotter graduated from Cleveland State University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, and in 2001 the school awarded him an honorary doctorate degree. He has also been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the school of business at North Carolina A&T State University as well as St. Augustine’s University of Raleigh, North Carolina.