1st Tuesday

Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy. 

He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Joly has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. by Glassdoor. 

He is the author of the upcoming book “The Heart of Business – Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism.”

Teresa (Terry) Rasmussen has overall leadership responsibility for Thrivent and its many businesses, guiding the organization on its mission to help members be wise with money and live generously.
She is also a member of the Thrivent Board of Directors. Prior to her role as president and CEO, she was president of Thrivent’s fraternal business after serving 10 years as senior vice president, general
counsel and secretary.

Before joining Thrivent in 2005, Rasmussen served in progressively responsible legal positions with American Express and Ameriprise Financial. She began her legal career in 1984 as part of the U.S.
Attorney General’s Honors Program, where she was a trial attorney in the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Rasmussen serves on the boards of the Walker Art Center and InFaith Community Foundation. She is past chair of the American Fraternal Alliance and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. She is also
past vice chair of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation of the Americas.

She received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Minnesota State University Moorhead. After passing the CPA exam, Rasmussen earned her Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota. She
and her husband live in Orono, Minnesota, and have two adult children.