Full name: Daniel L. Juneau
Title: President (since 1989)
Company: Louisiana Association of Business & Industry (LABI)
Age: 61
Hometown: Alexandria, LA
Why do you do what you do?
The business community needs and deserves professional advocacy, and I enjoy leading the effort to provide it.
What is your greatest professional accomplishment?
The Civil Justice Reforms, enacted in 1996.
What was your first job?
Administering vocational skills tests at a school for the developmentally disabled.
What is the best advice you've ever received?
Not to take the job I have if I wanted people to love me.
Who do you most admire in the local business community and why?
Jensen Holliday, God Rest His Soul. He did so much for the community while he was alive.
If you could have any job other than your own, what would it be?
Teacher
What is the greatest personal or professional obstacle you've overcome?
Stuttering
If you started over, what would you do differently?
Nothing.
What is your prescription for life?
Move your body, exercise your mind, and never let your love go unexpressed.
What book are you currently reading?
Night Over Water by Ken Follett
If you could have dinner with any three living people, who would they be? (Authors? Leaders?)
Peggy Noonan, contributing editor for The Wall Street Journal; Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts; and my wife, Charmaine
Who would play you in a movie?
Kevin Costner
What do you do to unwind?
Read
What is the most expensive purchase you've made for yourself?
I don’t make expensive purchases for myself.
What is your favorite weekend activity?
Golf
What's your theme song?
Takin' Care of Business
What's your favorite spot in Baton Rouge?
The PMAC for Lady Tigers basketball games.
How do you take your coffee/tea?
Strong, with Splenda and cream.
What is your favorite movie? TV show? Band?
High Noon. Anything on the History Channel. The Eagles.
What is your favorite gadget?
Computer
What is something that you can't live without?
My two grandchildren, Aurora and Brayden.
If you could change one thing about Baton Rouge, what would it be?
Traffic!
What is your greatest hope for Baton Rouge?
That we will bridge the racial divide.
What is your greatest fear for Baton Rouge?
That we won’t.
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