Investment banker, Managing Director and head of media and entertainment for The Bank Street Group LLC, and author of the practical and enlightening book How to Hit a Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business, Scott R. Singer, describes how unexpected changes are a part of your business and personal life. These often challenging changes, that he calls curveballs, can happen at any time and throw anyone off their game. Ge shares how to not only survive, but to thrive, when faced with uncertainty. Discover how to turn a crisis and its challenges into tremendous career and business opportunities. Learn how to look for the curveball, and hit it out of the park.
Scott R. Singer is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, April 15, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Investment banker, Managing Director and head of media and entertainment for The Bank Street Group LLC, and author of the practical and enlightening book How to Hit a Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business, Scott R. Singer, describes how unexpected changes are a part of your business and personal life. You will learn:
* Why changes in society make unexpected events more frequent
* How to identify these curveballs before they happen
* How to turn unexpected problems into home run opportunities
* How to avoid striking out on curveballs in your life
Scott R. Singer (photo left) has spent the past 20 years advising companies on how to adapt to change, to embrace technological advances, and to put the best strategy in place to deal with the next big thing—essentially, teaching them how to hit curveballs.
A noted media industry expert, investment banker, and strategy consultant, Scott serves as Managing Director and Head of Media & Entertainment at The Bank Street Group LLC, a boutique investment banking firm focused on providing sophisticated advice regarding mergers & acquisitions; fairness opinions; private debt, equity, and venture capital raising; as well as bankruptcies, restructurings, and turnarounds to telecommunications, media, technology, aerospace and defense, and healthcare companies.
Prior to Bank Street, Scott held prestigious leadership positions at BMO Capital Markets, Deloitte, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and TD Securities.
During his career, Scott has emerged as the change expert, focusing on corporate finance, M&A, and strategic advisory transactions totaling over $110 billion for such clients as Cablevision Systems, CBS Corporation, Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation, Discovery Communications, Hollinger International, Liberty Media, NBC Universal, News Corp., Time Warner, Viacom, and Young & Rubicam as well as many private equity and venture capital firms.
Scott is regularly called on by Bloomberg, CNBC, FOX Business, Reuters and numerous publications such as, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNNMoney.com, Crain’s New York Business, and Forbes.com in addition to many other industry publications as a media expert to address various domestic and global topics.
He has served on numerous industry panels and has been a guest lecturer at both Columbia Business School and NYU’s Stern School of Business. Most recently, Scott was a member of The Paley Center for Media’s Board of Governors in Los Angeles and is a Vice Chairman of Bucknell University’s $400 million capital campaign. He was formerly Chairman of the Annual Fund at The Dalton School in New York City.
Scott received his MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and his BSBA in Management from Bucknell University. He is the immediate past President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Bucknell’s Alumni Association, a Trustee (ex-officio) of the University, and was a member of the Search Committee for Bucknell’s 16th President.
He’s currently working on his second book with Mark Levine, What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid? Scott lives in New York City and Connecticut.
My book review of How to Hit a Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business by Scott R. Singer with Mark Levine.
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Let's talk with investment banker, Managing Director and head of media and entertainment for The Bank Street Group LLC, and author of the practical and enlightening book How to Hit a Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business, Scott R. Singer, as he describes how unexpected changes are a part of your business and personal life. These often challenging changes, that he calls curveballs, can happen at any time and throw anyone off their game. Ge shares how to not only survive, but to thrive, when faced with uncertainty. Discover how to turn a crisis and its challenges into tremendous career and business opportunities. Learn how to look for the curveball, and hit it out of the park on Blog Business Success Radio.
