Once Upon a Time: Wisdom & Ethics
Clifton Taulbert
Entrepreneur & Author
President & CEO | Freemount Corporation
President & CEO | Roots Java Coffee
OKC
Devon Energy Tower 50th Floor
Wednesday, September 24th
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Networking Time: 10:45-11:15
OK ETHICS will host a half-hour networking event in the adjacent room to the Infinity Room beginning at 10:45 a.m. The buffet will open at 11:15 a.m., and the meeting will start at 11:30 a.m.
Downtown OKC VENUE!! (w/ FREE parking!)
Devon Energy Tower 50th Floor
333 W Sheridan Ave
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Premium Members: Free for the number of pre-paid registrants included in membership
Members: $50
Non-Members: $60
CPE Details:
1. Instruction Delivery Method: Group Live Instruction
2. Prerequisites: None
3. Category: TBD
4. Attendance requirement: 50-minute presentation
5. Refund or cancellation policy: Refunds are not available after the event
6. Complaint resolution policy: email mary@okethics.com with concerns
7. Advanced preparation: none
Content reviewer: Executive Director & CPE Coordinator
Program Description:
Our character and behavior still matter as workplaces around the world are quickly adapting to and embracing much of what technology has to offer. According to Taulbert, "RELATIONSHIPS remain foundational to sustained success, providing both Lanterns and Lessons to employees." Taulbert's conversation highlights the incredible impact that an unselfish and engaged community has had on his life and legacy, as his keynote talk brings his EIGHT HABITS OF THE HEART to life.
Key Takeaways:
- ETHICAL behavior in the workplace is key to an engaged and collaborative community
- Unselfish behavior in our workplaces can become an unexpected lantern for others
- Good behavior with and among workplace peers can have a generational impact
- Time is not a gift to hoard, but a gift to be unselfishly shared with others
- In our workplaces, leaders and followers are one coin with two sides, and are essential for each other’s success
About the Speaker:
When Clifton Taulbert was very young, he lived with his grandmother and grandfather because his young mother could not afford to take care of him. Then, when his grandmother got sick, Taulbert had to leave his grandparents and live with Ma Ponk, his aunt. Taulbert’s mother (Mary Taulbert) became a teacher at Peru School in Glen Allan, Mississippi. Taulbert, at the age of five, was not old enough to start school, but his mother had nowhere else to take him, so he had to go to school with her and sit in the back of the old plantation church which served as the schoolhouse.
Clifton Taulbert graduated valedictorian from O’Bannon High School in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1963. He received his B.A. in History and Sociology from Oral Roberts University and graduated from the Southwest Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University. He later obtained an associate degree in health care management from Tulsa Community College. He also spent a few years in the United States Air Force, where he attained the rank of sergeant and served in a classified position with the 89th Presidential Wing of the United States Air Force in Washington D.C. He is now an internationally-acclaimed speaker, author, entrepreneur, and filmmaker.
Taulbert was the winner of the NAACP’s 27th Image Award for Literary Work: NonFiction for his book When We Were Colored. According to Beth Pinsher of the Dallas Morning News, the director of the film made from this book had difficulty getting the movie released because Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored is not a political film. It’s a nostalgic coming-of-age tale about a boy learning to deal with the segregation imposed on his small Mississippi town in the years following World War II. Taulbert’s book The Last Train North was the winner of the Mississippi Library Association Award and is the sequel to the best-selling When We Were Colored. It traces the author’s journey during the sixties from Mississippi to racially integrated Saint Louis. Taulbert has written three children’s books. Some of the memorable characters from When We Were Colored and his other popular works appear in this first children’s picture book called Little Cliff and the Porch People. In the book, Little Cliff’s great-grandmother needs a pound of butter to make her candied sweet potatoes, and she sends Cliff to get it for her. Taulbert published a second children’s book called Little Cliff’s First Day of School in 2001 and in 2002 Little Cliff and the Cold Place.
In 2014, Taulbert published his fourth memoir titled The Invitation. It is the story of a supper invitation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, in which the adult Taulbert confronts his childhood memories and the legacies of slavery and segregation which must still be acknowledged in his grown-up circumstances.
Taulbert has been banker, a health care administrator, and now is the president of The Freemount Corporation, a marketing company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a city in which he also serves on many civic boards. He has served as a guest professor at Harvard University, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and the United States Air Force Academy. His philosophy is endorsed by many companies. He states that ”he could have failed had it not been for the community of unselfish people who surrounded his life.” In 2003 he was awarded the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award at the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration. He is, of course, a bestselling author and speaker. He lives with his wife Barbara Ann in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and they have two children Marshall Danzy and Anne Kathryn.
