If you are the parent of a Young Adult (18-35), or have a parent-like relationship with a Young Adult, you can likely relate to the challenges and opportunities for connecting with them as your role shifts from “authority” to “guide”.

During this disruptive season, many Young Adults are wrestling with the first “real” crisis of their adult lives. This gives Halftimers a unique opportunity to provide wisdom, perspective, and guidance – but how do we start that conversation?

After leaving a senior banking career, Halftime Alum, David W. Miller, PhD, set out to teach Young Adults who were pursuing professional careers, and to advise C-Suite leaders how to think about integrating faith and work.

First at Yale and now, Princeton University, David has spent the last 17 years working with students much like the Young Adults in your life. He’s become an expert at having free-ranging conversations with young men and women about faith and how it should impact their leadership in business and beyond. To give you a window into his teaching at Princeton:  Keller Center at Princeton University: Business Ethics Course Comes to Keller: No Soul Selling Required 

In this 30-minute webinar David will share with us:

How the best educational environments shape Young Adults’ worldviews (for better or worse)

What he has learned about engaging Young Adults in deep, meaningful faith conversations

PLUS a few recommendations for engaging with the Young Adults in your life, particularly during this season of disruption

For those who can stay tuned, Doug Piper and Lloyd will facilitate 30 minutes of interactive Q&A with David.

David brings an unusual “bilingual” perspective to the classroom and the boardroom. Before receiving his Ph.D. in ethics and joining the faculty at Princeton University, he spent 16 years in senior executive positions in international business and finance, including eight years in London.

David is the Director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative, a Senior Professional Specialist in Ethics, and a Lecturer in the Department of Religion. In addition to his research, teaching, and programs, he also serves as an advisor to corporate CEOs and senior executives on ethics, values-based leadership, culture, and the role of faith at work. As a thought leader, many senior executives seek his counsel, and scholars, religious organizations, and the media seek his views. An article in the Wall Street Journal recently featured his work with one global client referring to him as the “on-call ethicist.”

Prior to academia, David lived and worked in London, England for eight years, where he was a partner in a private equity firm that specialized in international investment management, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.  Before that he was a senior executive and director of the securities services and global custody division of HSBC Group, having held the same position at Midland Bank plc before its acquisition by HSBC.  He moved to London as the managing director of the European operations of State Street Bank & Trust, a leading US securities services bank.  He started his management career in the U.S., working for IBM for eight years in a variety of sales and marketing management positions.  David speaks German, having lived and worked in Germany. He is a graduate of Bucknell University.

After his corporate experience, he entered academia, receiving his M.Div. and a Ph.D. in ethics from Princeton Theological Seminary.  Before joining the faculty at Princeton University in 2008 and launching the Faith & Work Initiative, he taught for five years at Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Management, and was the executive director of the Center for Faith & Culture.

At Princeton, the nickname of his signature course is, “Business Ethics: Succeeding without Selling Your Soul.”  Harvard Business Review  called David’s book, God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement  (Oxford University Press), "most thoughtful."

Lloyd Reeb, a successful real estate developer, made a mid-life transition, looking for greater meaning, joy, and impact in his second half.

For over 20 years Lloyd has helped leaders make their second half their best half. He is the founding partner of the Halftime Institute, a global team that teaches, coach and connect successful men and women in pursuit of significance. He’s taken this message around the world.

Lloyd is the author of From Success to Significance: When the Pursuit of Success Isn’t Enough; with his wife, Linda, co-wrote Halftime for Couples (free PDF download) and his newest eBook: Finally Connected  (free PDF download).

A Princeton Prof's Wisdom: Engaging Your Adult Kids