Management guru Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday celebration last November brought some big-name business speakers to Los Angeles – Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard and Warren Bennis among them.

And it turns out that additional notable speakers will come every year as a result, starting with Michael Eisner this Thursday.

That’s because the Drucker Business Forum, which was launched last year as part of the Drucker Centennial, will host speakers every year.

The first will appear Thursday morning when Eisner, the former chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., speaks at the Herbert Zipper Hall at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles.

In all, there will be nearly two dozen speakers, including Robert Reich, former secretary of labor, author and professor, on Sept. 30; Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post on Oct. 21; Seth Godin, the marketing guru and prolific author, on Nov. 9; and Howard Schultz, chief of Starbucks, on April 5.

The appearances will be in interview style and will take place in the morning at the Zipper Hall or at the KPCC Forum in Pasadena.

The business forum is put on by the Drucker School of Management, the business school of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont. The school is named in honor of Peter Drucker, who taught there for more than 30 years and who is known as the man who invented the study of management.

The business forum is a way to market the school, said Ted Habte-Gabr, the producer of the forum. But it’s more than that, he said, “as we envision it to be a meeting place for the business community in Los Angeles – a live social business network.”

Tickets are $20 for each speaker. For more, go to DruckerBusinessForum.org