SPEAKERS
Shift Your Brilliance: Leading Amidst Change and Uncertainty
Business change moves at the speed of light. To keep pace, individuals within an organization must raise the bar on their performance and reset their mindset. The leadership skills of yesterday will not carry the day in today’s continually evolving economy.
As the business climate changes in the midst of gender parity, #MeToo, pay equity, and diversity and inclusion we too must change and embrace what Simon T. Bailey calls the “Vuja de Moment.” This is the opposite of déjà vu and is an invitation to disrupt what is comfortable and convenient to embrace what needs to emerge to remain relevant, innovative, and competitive.
Collaborative problem-solving triumphs over traditional top-down directives. Solution-oriented individuals are forward-looking in their thinking. Forward-looking thinking must permeate throughout the corporate culture. You must shift and embrace new methodologies to survive, compete and thrive through the ever-changing demographic, technological, and regulatory marketplace changes that affect businesses today.
No one is immune to these predictable changes. The traditional winning formulas of yesterday will not hold up to the technological solutions that will continue to automate “traditional” business processes.
Simon T. Bailey will teach you to:
- Stay relevant and ensure your company stays competitive in the marketplace
- Guide even the most tenured employees to reposition themselves and revitalize their role
- Perform a mindset reset to break through the existing paradigm
- Maintain clarity and confidence during transition and uncertainty
- Give participants actionable tools to take ownership and develop the vision needed to be a leader for the future
Simon T. Bailey
CEO, Simon T. Bailey International, Inc. & Author
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Sustainable Inclusion = Maximized Business Success
Historically, corporations have viewed inclusive workplaces through the lens of legal compliance, social justice, or standard employee protocols. The dramatic economic disruption resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic, and the unprecedented level of protests linked to racial injustice, places greater pressure on diversity & inclusion initiatives to deliver meaningful cultural change and positive business results.
Research has discovered that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams as it relates to the development of innovative solutions. We also know that companies with greater gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in their leadership ranks, economically outperform organizations with the least amount of diversity.
Eric Ellis, President and CEO of Integrity Development Corporation will present his Inclusion model that focuses on developing sustainable organizational inclusion, in order to maximize business success. This model has been developed as an outgrowth of three decades of service to organizations across many different industries. Eric believes that for Inclusion initiatives to succeed, they must be linked to satisfying the fairness needs of employees and the business needs of institutions.
Presentation Objectives:
- Provide practical tips for how companies can respond to current culture challenges
- Define Sustainable Inclusion
- Identify the 3 CORE business areas that are maximized through sustainable Inclusion
- Provide tips for gaining executive buy-in to inclusion
Eric Ellis
President & CEO, Organization Integrity Development Corp.
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Prosperity Ahead — Or Not?
By “connecting the dots” of the world economy, renowned economist, White House advisor, and best-selling author Todd Buchholz will inspire you and help you develop a timely vision for the economy, the financial markets, and the impact of the COVID recovery on FEMA members. Participants will:
- Discover how demographics, technology, and globalization are reshaping the economy and our future
- Pinpoint the signs of stock market rallies, the warning signs of slumps, and the signals that financial markets are sending to consumer product companies
- Identify the political pressures on trade, debt, and interest rates from the U.S. to the E.U. to China
Todd Buchholz
Economist, White House Advisor & Author
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Tactical Crisis Communications: Knowing What to Say and When to Say It
A crisis of any kind can upend business operations and/or damage a brand reputation at a moment’s notice, requiring you to act fast to effectively communicate. It's more important than ever not only to have a plan in place to respond to these crises, but also to train your team in appropriate techniques, authentic responses, and strategic engagement to steer the conversation. And as social media decreases response time, it’s critical to send messages via the proper channels to reach internal and external stakeholders.
Award-Winning Business Communication Strategist, Shakira M. Brown, will share essential communication best practices to help instill trust and mitigate reputation damage at the onset of a crisis with external and internal stakeholders. Whether you’re looking to bolster your reputation or better respond to situations at any time without notice with limited resources, you’ll learn the value in transparency and quick response. Plus, discover which crisis response tools to use and when to use them.
Learning Objectives:
- Establish protocols before crisis communication is necessary
- Craft messages that display authenticity and foster trust
- Demonstrate dependability through all forms of communications
- Employ video communication techniques to drive messages with empathy
- Respond to any digital backlash
Shakira M. Brown
CEO and Award-Winning Branding & Business Communication Professional Speaker
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Navigating What’s Next in a Post Covid-19 Reality
No one predicted that a global pandemic in 2020 would upend the entire way we work and live. What WAS predicted by futurists was a remote work reality, an automated reality and a new way of leading in the future of work.
The best way to predict the future is to focus on the now and look at patterns to look at ‘what’s next’. There is no going back to ’normal’ there is only preparing for and creating the future.
In this session, you will learn:
- A look into the future and ’next normal’ of work including hybrid work set ups
- Case studies of companies who are shifting to ‘virtual’ workplace as their new normal
- A model on how leaders and teams can change and adapt quickly to ongoing disruption and change
- The top 5 skills needed by leaders and teams to increase agility and adaptability
- How to leverage technology to maximize team communication and performance
- How to use the PREDICT model to navigate what’s next for your business and industry
Cheryl Cran
Founder, NextMapping & CEO, Synthesis at Work Inc.
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