KEARNEY Kirk Stinson will present Grow or Die: A Survival Guide to Professional and Personal Development at 11 a.m. Thursday in the University of Nebraska at Kearney Ockinga Seminar Center.

Stinson, the 2012 Ron Landstrom Executive in Residence, grew up in a retail family that owned and operated a hardware store in Superior. He graduated from UNK in 1991 with a degree in business administration and an emphasis in marketing.

His first job out of college was a sales position with Black and Decker in the Kansas City area. Stinson was then moved to the DeWalt/Black and Decker corporate headquarters in Baltimore to assume the vice president of sales and marketing role. He has since been promoted to CEO for the Stanley Security Division, which is based in Indianapolis.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

The Ron Landstrom Executive-in-Residence program brings successful business executives to the campus to talk with College of Business and Technology students about best business practices and their career paths and lessons learned.

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CEO Stinson talks Thurs. on personal, professional development at UNK