Comments on: Empowerment: Jeff Conant’s Leadership Legacy

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By: Daryl P. Mensik, DVM, MBA

Daryl P. Mensik, DVM, MBA — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:36:55 +0000

Dr. Conant will truly be missed. I enjoyed the class that he taught during the MBA program and also his continued involvement with the MBA students during the rest of the program. Being part of the DVM/MBA program, my fellow veterinary students and I sometimes felt like outsiders in the program and that we didn’t quite belong with the other superstar business students. Dr. Conant made it a point to get get our “virgin” perspectives during case discussions and even tailored a few case discussions to our particular expertise. Come to find out, Dr. Conant was raised in a farming community in Northern New York and was a country boy at heart. I value his teaching everyday in practice and hope to soon leverage that experience into starting my own veterinary practice. Many patients and clients will indirectly benefit from his teaching of this veterinarian and novice businessman. RIP Dr. Conant.

Sincerely,

Daryl P. Mensik, DVM, MBA
Mays MBA class of 2007

By: thomasmcmillanjr

thomasmcmillanjr — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:40:56 +0000

I’m glad to hear about how many lives Dr. Conant has touched…I am sure it is too many to count.

By: Wendy Flynn

Wendy Flynn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:18:44 +0000

Beautifully stated, Thomas …

By: Terrell Johnson

Terrell Johnson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:19:09 +0000

Dr. Conant was one of the first faculty members I met while working at the Center for Teaching Excellence that truly empowered me to be a better support professional. He respected the work that I did for the Faculty Teaching Academy and praised me often. I respect him for his teaching and administrative abilities and will miss him both personally and professionally.

By: Blake Walker 03'

Blake Walker 03' — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:07:42 +0000

I spent most my days at A&M in a haze of late nights and live music and rarely did a professor know my name or recognize my face but Dr. Jeff Conant was the only professor in 5 years that got to know me and gave a damn about where I ended up. My parent’s neighbor went to college with Jeff so when they found out I went to A&M they told Dr. Conant to look me up. My junior year I met Jeff and he told me to enroll in one of His marketing classes. The first day in a sea of 300 students Dr. Conant walked up my row during His lecture and called me out by name in front of the entire class. Dr. Conant actually remembered me and asked me some crazy question about what sets A&M apart from other schools and I looked up with a blank stare and began quoting some brain washed crap I’d heard 1,000 times about traditions and outside looking in blah blah blah. After that day I never missed Dr. Conant’s class and I actually got my first B+ because I started to understand motivation. I met with Dr. Conant about twice a semester after that to get advice and career ideas but most of all to feel like I mattered in a huge school where most professors care more about publishing or weeding you out if you can’t swing a 4.0. That time in my life was very, “wheels off” and the advice I got form Dr. Conant was priceless. I remembered right before graduation I went to see him one last time to try and get some direction in my life and to get a better idea of where a kid with a C average should go to try and stake his claim in the real world. I had no interviews lined up and I was really scared about my future at that point but Dr. Conant sat me down and gave me some fatherly advice and talked me off the ledge. I left his office that day a proud graduate and ready to take on the world, (I took a job with a rock band because he told me to follow my dreams and do what I was passionate about) Now the rock band thing ran its course but his words of wisdom stayed with me and I never got to go back and thank him. To a young man in his early twenties trying to find himself, a prof like Jeff is one and a million. I’ll always regret never getting to go back and tell Jeff how much he truly meant to me, but I hope if you’re reading this you’ll take a look back at your life and make the time to go back and tell an old prof or teacher or coach how much they meant to you. Jeff had tons of awards and made his way up to become the Marketing head at A&M and he didn’t need me to tell him how great he was but maybe he needed an old student to tell him how great he made me and that in all my days at A&M no professor ever knew me by name after I left except Dr. Jeff Conant. R.I.P. Jeff you will be missed old friend………………………………………

Romans 8:28