Atlanta Braves official dishes on how he helped build a consistent winner

John Schuerholz is known in the baseball world as a Hall of Fame general manager and team architect, the person who helped build the Atlanta Braves into the most decorated team of the 1990s.

But Schuerholz, who, in the business world, is essentially a turnaround executive, also proved something else in his long career: going against conventional wisdom, while it can be lonely, can also provide big payoffs. A part-time Naples resident, Schuerholz, 81, was the keynote speaker at the latest NextGen Speaker Series event, held Feb. 25 at the Grey Oaks Country Club in Naples. Benson Blackburn, a boutique financial services firm founded in 1976, is the founding sponsor of the series.