Steve Grove – Good Leadership Breakfast – February 27, 2026

You will experience:

• Listen in on a candid conversation between Steve Grove and Paul Batz
• Learn from Steve Grove, CEO and Publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune
• Contribute to research by participating in real-time, live audience surveys
• Meet like-minded professionals who believe in the power of spreading goodness
• Enjoy excellent live music by The Benny Weinbeck Trio and breakfast from D’Amico catering
• Experience the opportunity to contribute to non-profits through The Bucket of Goodwill

Doors open at 7:15am, the program begins at 7:45am, and concludes around 9:15am at the Metropolitan Ballroom in Golden Valley, MN.

Steve Grove

Steve Grove is CEO and Publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune, where he leads the company’s operations and directs its strategy. Alongside a new management team, he is leading the transformation of the storied Minnesota institution towards a new vision – to become the leading model for local news in America.

He assumed the role of CEO in April of 2023, leaving a role in government. Grove served as Gov. Tim Walz’s Commissioner of Employment and Economic Development, where he led the administration’s efforts to grow and protect the Minnesota economy during a dynamic and challenging four years in state history.

Prior to that, Grove spent 12 years as an executive at Alphabet’s Google and most recently was the founding director of the Google News Lab, which he developed to help media companies and startups drive innovation in the news industry. Grove also led Google’s civic engagement work, including the company’s nonpartisan voter information and get-out-the-vote efforts. His time at Google followed a position on YouTube’s news and politics team, launching the first partnership programs for news organizations, nonprofits, and political candidates. His career began in journalism; he was a journalist for The Boston Globe, ABC News, and the Northfield (Minn.) News, his hometown newspaper.

A Minnesota native and a graduate of Northfield High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and economics from Claremont McKenna College and a master’s degree in public policy analysis from Harvard. Steve and his wife Mary are the co-founder of Silicon North Stars, a nonprofit that helps underserved youth find career pathways in technology. They moved to Minneapolis from Silicon Valley in 2018 and are the proud parents of seven-year-old twins, a yellow lab, and two farm cats. Grove is the author of a book published by Simon & Schuster called How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of Reinvention, a book about moving back to his home state and leaving tech for government and then media.