B. Geiger Group excels at educating corporate audiences about an array of subject related to landscape and urban planning history. Currently showcased:

The Magic to Stir Men’s Blood:
Daniel H. Burnham and the City Beautiful

A timely look at the work of Chicago’s preeminent architect as we approach the centennial of the 1909 City Plan. Burnham was the individual responsible for creating the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and for developing systematic, future-facing planning to the City with his 1909 Plan (in conjunction with Edward Bennett and the Commercial Club).

What drove this man? How did he overcome obstacles that would daunt the most ambitious and powerful, and make life-long friends in the process? How did he network?