Johnson & Johnson Chairman/CEO addresses CGSC class

Alex Gorsky, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson spoke to the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College on Feb. 6, 2017 in Eisenhower Auditorium of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth.

Alex Gorsky, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson , participates in a discussion with Dr. Dr. Ted Thomas, director of the Department of Command and Leadership, and CGSC students in the Eisenhower Auditorium on Feb. 6, 2017.

Gorsky is a West Point graduate who served six years, leaving active service in 1988 as a captain. The CGSC Foundation helped coordinate Gorsky’s visit to as a leadership speaker for the CGSC Guest Speaker Program and also scheduled him to speak to SAMS students in a separate forum.

Gorsky did not deliver a formal “speech,” but rather had an informal discussion format with Dr. Ted Thomas, director of the Department of Command and Leadership, while sitting on stage. They discussed leadership issues and created a dialogue with the students. Student feedback on his talk was overwhelmingly positive even though the format was new and different.