Registration

Location: Midway West Registration Space

Please stop by our check-in table to get registered and pick up your welcome bag!

Murder Mystery Welcome Dinner

*For those who RSVP'd during event sign up only* Please join us for welcome words and a dinner you are sure to remember!

Together Employee Event!

Location: Grand Hall and Midway East

For those leaders at Together Credit Union, please join us for an Employee Event!

Registration

Location: Midway West Registration Space

Breakfast

Location: Midway West

Activating Your Best Self: Habits

Location: Pegram

Interested in investing some time into your wellness this morning? Set yourself up for success not only this week, but beyond!

• Clarify Priorities
• Audit and Align Habits
• Navigate Shifting from Motivation to Action

Opening Remarks

Location: Regency Ballroom

Please find your seats by 8:45 for our opening welcome words.

Human Centered Leadership

Location: Regency Ballroom

We have changed. Work has changed. Employee attitude and expectations have changed creating the largest evolution in our relationship to work in the last century. This evolution and the accelerated pace of transformation we are navigating is an opportunity to understand the future of work and develop the new leadership skills and competency required to sustain peak performance and drive growth.

Ryan Estis

Wellness Break

Location: Pegram

Have fun while getting your body moving with thoughtful breathing and exercise.

Heroes, Villains, and Drunk Old Men: Lessons for Your Journey

Location: Regency Ballroom

You’re going eleventy-billion miles an hour each day, leading and serving others like a pro while trying to listen well, fight fair, resolve conflicts, build relationships, and be unbelievably awesome. But how do you do all that? How can you keep everybody in your personal and professional lives happy while not completely burning yourself out?

This session has the answers. It will share lessons from a former financial services executive, the most influential storytelling technique ever created, and a motley crew of (formerly) drunk old men.

You'll leave with practical skills that will help you build a company full of heroes, keep the villains at bay, and help you build a brighter future for everyone you serve at work and at home.

Heroes, Villains, and Drunk Old Men: Lessons for Your Journey

Find yourself running eleventy-billion miles a day to meet all the demands in your life? Learn practical skills in how to build happiness in others while not completely burning yourself out.

Andy Janning

Lunch

Location: Midway West

Inclusive Leader Breakout: Working and Leading Among Different Generations

Location: Regency Ballroom

As people are working alongside and leading generations that they may struggle to understand, the need to have courageous conversations with empathy, generosity, and emotional self-awareness is a must.

Learning Objectives:

• Define vulnerability
• Understand the role of courage and vulnerability in daring leadership.
• Learn how curious language can be practiced to develop grounded confidence in holding one another accountable with courage.
• Teach curiosity and the practical application of inquiry/data gathering.
• Discuss how the brain is wired for story, how this influences the development of stories that are not true, and how these stories can affect our behavior.
• Practice curious questions and conversation.

Jason Kotecki

The Business of Caring

Location: Regency Ballroom

The global workforce is not OK. Currently there are several converging forces that are putting steady stress and strain on employees at a time when they are being asked to be more collaborative, more innovative, and more adaptive than ever before. As we continue to co-create the future of work together, we must aim to create a work environment where employee care and well-being is a top priority. Join Forrester Analyst Jonathan Roberts as we discuss:

• The collective power of a dynamic approach to well-being
• What it means to care (for yourself, your employees, and your organization)
• How to create a culture of active care and well-being

Break

Location: Foyer

Breakfast

Location: Midway West

Healthier Habits: Eating on the Go

Location: Pegram

Optional wellness session for people to stop into hosted by Eric Finley with Nutriformance

Opening Remarks

Location: Regency Ballroom

Please be seated by 8:45 for opening words.

Your Power to Influence: Wonder, Caring, and Adaptation in Action 

Location: Regency Ballroom

In this engaging and interactive session you will be inspired to be a more curious and caring influencer. Participants will: Watch persuasion in action and analyze it as a group, reflect on their individual leadership approach, and learn a new mental model of persuasion with actionable takeways to implement!

Wellness Break

Location: Foyer

Use this time as an extended break or come learn more about nutrition with the mini wellness session listed below!

Nutritional Myth Busters

Location: Pegram

Join us for a time to reflect on the benefits of GRATITUDE…learn a method to build our GRATITIDE…and then we will exercise our GRATITIDE.

The Neuroscience of Leadership: Harness the Untapped Power of the Brain

Location: Regency Ballroom

Over the past decade, neuroscience has revealed new insights into human nature and behavior, and the implications are surprisingly relevant for organizational leaders. This webinar dives into the latest research on leading with the brain in mind. Empowered with insights based on scientific research, participants will learn why many leadership efforts and organizational change initiatives are unsuccessful, and why human behavior doesn’t always work the way leaders think it does. Participants will discover the critical conditions that can either support or derail leadership intentions, along with strategies to lead effectively and drive sustainable change.

Lunch

Location: Midway West

So you say you are looking to increase engagement, IMPOSSIBLE, without a culture of respect...

Location: Regency Ballroom

Like you, we believe that people learn from each other. But, to do that they must respect each other's values. That's why we think it is important to establish a foundation for collaboration based on a culture of respect. Also like you, we believe that simply teaching people the theories relating to communication, dealing with change, embracing healthy conflict while effectively addressing unhealthy conflict, and engagement won't get the job done. I don't believe it is the job of the L&OD organization to make people work more productively or to make managers better leaders. I believe that happens (or not) organically, at the team level.

The Ntrinsx system is designed to be quick, easy, and inexpensive to deploy, yet surprisingly accurate. We use simple techniques to keep the tenets of respect top of mind, making Ntrinsx a natural "language" that promotes a culture of respect. The integrated learning modules are designed to help people relate to and respect others' individual perspectives, experiences, and strengths so they can learn from each other. Our TeamTalk tool is designed to instigate meaningful conversations among team members resulting in microlearning that does not strain budgets and does not require a lot of planning. We offer free accounts for members to use with their families because I can't think of a better way to contextualize the learning, which they can then apply to other work and life situations.

Join me over lunch to experience Ntrinsx firsthand in a lively conversation about how to meet the challenges and leverage the opportunities in today's work-life environment.

I’m Blue/Orange/Green/Gold. Let’s talk about that.

Everyone Wants to Work Here! Helping Leaders Amplify Performance

Location: Regency Ballroom

Leaders like you need a more strategic approach to productivity to attract the best talent, energize your team, and be the leader in your market. This workshop will debunk old-fashioned “time-management” advice and provide a new perspective, more relevant for leaders in the 21st century: Attention Management. This approach will allow them to:

• Capitalize on the wisdom in the organization
• Help staff to find their “flow,” and unleash their collective genius
• Empower leaders to bring their full range of talents and experience to the organization, and be the visionary thinkers that their leadership positions demand.
• Understand how their behaviors and their organization’s culture may actually be undermining their team’s ability to bring their “A-game” to their work every day.

The objectives are achieved through a combination of engaging, interactive presentation, peer-to-peer connection, and facilitated group discussion, plus specific action steps you need to immediately implement the concepts presented.

Break

Location: Foyer

THE MUSIC OF BUSINESS: Creative problem solving, curiosity, collaboration and agility from the dangerous world of jazz music

Location: Regency Ballroom

The mysterious and dangerous world of jazz is a caldron of spontaneous creativity. And in times of radical change and uncertainty, it serves as the perfect model for modern leadership.

Professional jazz guitarist and prolific entrepreneur Josh Linkner connects the dots between jazz and business, helping to unlock the secrets of some of the world’s most creative geniuses. Using live jazz as a metaphor for collaborative innovation, this session is entertaining, inspiring, and directly applicable to the daily challenges we face in business.

A fusion of live musical performance and keynote presentation, the session’s finale includes audience members “joining the band” to compose and perform a song in real-time to the delight of the audience. Cameras will flash as the entire group is dazzled by their colleagues' improvisation and spontaneous invention.

Closing Remarks

Location: Regency Ballroom

Joe Boyer