The Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by Commerce Bank and the William T. Kemper Foundation. Here is a list of all distinguished lecturers.
- Jim Snee, Hormel Foods Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer
- Peter Mallouk, President and CEO, Creative Planning
- Lynn Rogers, Kansas State Treasurer
- Bill Zollars, Chairman, President and CEO, YRC Worldwide
- Robert Knight, Chief Financial Officer, Union Pacific
- Leanne Caret, Executive Vice President, President & CEO of Defense, Space & Security, The Boeing Company
- Zane Burke, President, Cerner
- Jeffrey Ettinger, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Hormel Foods
- Kathy Collins, Chief Marketing Officer, H&R Block
- Michael F. Goss, Managing Director and Head of Global Investor Relations (Retired), Bain Capital
- Larry Kendall, Founding Partner, The Group, Inc. | Author, Ninja Selling
- Steve Feilmeier, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Koch Industries
- Randy Sims , Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President, Cerner
- Greg Case , Aon plc., President and CEO
- Manu Chandaria, The Comcraft Group of Companies, Chairman and CEO
- Esther George, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, President and CEO
- J.P. Bilbrey , The Hershey Company, President and CEO
- Rand Berney , ConocoPhillips, Senior Vice President, Corporate Shared Services
- Jon Darbyshire, RSA Archer's eGRC Solutions, General Manager
- Wilbur R. (Wil) Davis, Ontario Systems, Chairman and Co-founder
- David W. Kemper, Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Chairman, President and CEO
- Lawrence Kendall, The Group, Inc.
- Randy Fletchall, Ernst & Young, Partner
- Earl McVicker, Central Financial Services and Central Bank & Trust Co., Chairman and CEO
- Jon Wefald, Kansas State University, President
- Neal L. Patterson, Cerner, President and CEO
- Stephen M. Lacy, Meredith Corporation, President and CEO
- Mark A. Ernst, H&R Block, Chair, President and CEO
- Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., Hallmark Cards, Inc., President and CEO
- Barry Melancon, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, President and CEO
- Douglas Hill, Edward Jones, Managing Partner
- William L. Stowers, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, Vice President
- Tom Hoenig, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, MO, President
- Ivor J. (Ike) Evans, Union Pacific Railroad, COO
- William A. Porter, Emeritus of E*TRADE, Chairman
- David Oreck, Oreck Corporation, President
- Warren Staley, Cargill, Chairman and CEO
- Joseph Searles, Joseph L. Searles and Company, President and Chair
- Howard Fricke, The Security Benefit Group of Companies, Chairman and CEO
- John Allen, Cincinnati Reds, COO
- John (Jack) Barclay, Wire Rope Corp. of America, Inc., Chairman and CEO
- Jonathon Kemper, Commerce Bank, N.A., Chairman, President and CEO
- John Bachman, Edward Jones, Managing Partner
- John Hayes, Western Resources, Chairman and CEO
- Daniel Scroggin, Ground Room Restaurants, Inc., Chairman, CEO and President
- Charles Koch, Koch Industries, Inc., CEO
- Harvey Mackay, Mackay Envelope Company, CEO
- James Stowers, Twentieth Century Company, CEO
- Herman Cain, Godfather's Pizza, Chairman and President
- Barbara Grogan, Western Industrial Contractor, Inc., President
- William Esrey, Sprint and United Telecom, Chairman, President, and CEO
- Robert Glauber, Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury