John Rooney is the founder of Emerging Leaders Group, bringing together 30 years of corporate leadership, coaching expertise, and career-development experience to help organizations unleash the full potential of their rising leaders. John’s career has been uniquely shaped by work in three interconnected worlds: Fortune 500 business, graduate business education, and leadership coaching. He began his career in brand management and marketing with Chevron and Georgia-Pacific, leading iconic brands and high-stakes commercial initiatives. Those years taught him how high-potential leaders directly shape culture, performance, and bottom-line results. For nearly two decades at the University of Notre Dame and now as the Executive Director of Graduate Business Career Services at the Wisconsin School of Business, John has coached and developed thousands of emerging leaders. He has led large teams, built employer partnerships across the country, and designed development programs that consistently produced record career outcomes. At Emerging Leaders Group, John integrates all of that experience—corporate execution, human-centered coaching, and strategic career development—to help organizations build their next generation of leaders. His approach is grounded in a simple belief: when emerging leaders grow, companies transform. Through peer learning cohorts, one-on-one coaching, and practical leadership frameworks, he helps leaders increase self-awareness, navigate complexity, and deliver meaningful impact for their teams and organizations.