The Barton School of Business is the home of real and applied learning. A place where
students apply knowledge gained from faculty and business leaders while developing
professional and life skills. The Barton School is among the top 1% of business schools
worldwide due to its double AACSB accreditation in business and accounting. Housed
in the award-winning Woolsey Hall, the school features artwork, sculptures, gardens,
and The Promise Bridge—a 300-foot-long pedestrian bridge over the water in front of
the building.
Before Margaret joins us at the Barton School of Business on October 27, we wanted
to introduce you to the person behind the keynote. Her career has taken her from the
business world to leadership roles at some of the world’s best-known academic institutions,
and into classrooms and organizations around the globe.
Margaret began her career as a CPA with Deloitte & Touche in San Francisco before
moving into strategy consulting with Mercer Management Consulting, now Oliver Wyman.
She later served as Vice President of Marketing at Putnam Investments. Then came higher
education.
At the MIT Sloan School of Management, Margaret served as Executive Director with
responsibilities spanning the MBA program, admissions, student affairs, career development,
marketing, alumni relations and MIT Sloan Management Review. She later served as Vice Provost at Hult International Business School and Associate
Dean for Management Programs at Harvard University.
Today, she continues to teach leadership and executive education at Harvard, with
courses and programs exploring emotional intelligence, organizational culture, strategic
leadership and the challenges and complexities of leading others. But one question
has been at the center of much of Margaret’s work: How can you effectively lead other
people if you don’t first understand how to lead yourself?
That question led her to create Managing Yourself and Leading Others at Harvard. The graduate-level course has consistently drawn a waitlist, and the
executive program it inspired has become Harvard’s most popular professional development
program. Through her teaching, speaking and consulting, Margaret has worked with thousands
of executives and professionals and has taught on four continents.
She now brings that work beyond the classroom as founder and Managing Director of
The MYLO Center, a leadership development firm focused on helping leaders better understand
themselves, their teams and the organizations around them. In 2025, she brought those
lessons together in her book, Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding. The book explores how our experiences shape the way we lead, how leaders can recognize
their own strengths and blind spots, and how greater self-understanding can improve
everything from decision-making and difficult conversations to managing up, developing
others and navigating organizational culture.
Margaret is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and MIT Sloan School
of Management, where she was named a Seley Scholar, the school’s highest honor. And
on October 27, she’s coming to Wichita.
Join Margaret and the Barton School for an interactive conversation about leadership,
creativity, emotional intelligence and what it takes to become the leader you want
to be.
📅 Tuesday, October 27 📍 Fidelity Bank Ballroom | Woolsey Hall 🚪 Doors open at 9 a.m. | Program begins at 9:30 a.m. 📖 Networking and book signing to follow 🎟️ Free and open to the public
