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Jon brings his vast experience leading large national, and international, operations while monitoring and setting large $1 billion+ budgets for his divisions and organizations in both military and nonprofit settings. Following his time in the United States Air Force, Jon became CEO of Endeavors, a national service organization with over 2,000 employees that served more than 70,000 clients in his last year of service.
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Aaron served as CEO and in executive leadership for a large system of schools. Through his extensive background in education and leadership, he holds a profound understanding of organizational dynamics and development and is positioned uniquely to guide CEOs in enhancing their leadership skills, strategic thinking, and operational efficiency.
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Bruce has over 25 years of experience leading companies in the manufacturing and technology sectors. During his time as CEO, he increased sales from $250,000 to over $10.5 million using alliances, short-run production, and guerilla marketing tactics. He also led two successful acquisitions as well as launching a new patented product.
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Jack has over 25 years of experience as a CEO in a diverse industry group ranging from early stage, privately held entities as well as large, public companies. He is a Big 4 CPA and MBA with extensive experience in investment as well as business development.
He brings a robust array of skillsets regarding staff selection, recruitment, and organizational psychology gained whilst leading one of the largest recruitment consultancies in the world.
Jack has been instrumental in successfully securing highly lucrative exits facilitating several successful exits including via IPO, raising over $1.5 billion, as well as multiple M&A deals, and working with private equity groups on privately held sales.
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John has vast experience as a CEO and executive where he came into a family-owned manufacturing company and transitioned the company’s culture into a collaborative team environment. During his tenure he successfully grew revenue by 38%, increased EBITDA from 3% to 11% and led the company through a successful sale process.
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Scott’s vast history as a COO and management consulting partner in organizational operations spans more than three decades and across four continents. Through his experience Scott has overseen a wide variety of disciplines including talent development, operational execution, product innovation, strategy, business development, relationship management and project delivery results achievement.
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Bill has more than a decade of executive leadership experience within an international organization, including a final stint as CEO, growing profitability and market share during volatile economic shifts, ownership changes, and mergers. Following his executive leadership, Bill has more than 20,000 hours of coaching experience, helping guide executive teams on building their capabilities to better deal with their next set of challenges.
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Jeff has been a senior executive, member of the C-Suite and CEO for more than 25 years. Throughout his career he has worked for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. He’s overseen launching companies out of research and development phases to leading them through strategic exits. His experience allows him a unique perspective and expertise on strategy, investment management, asset management, and business development.
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Following a 20-year career as a non-family executive a family-owned business, Mark is now an accomplished trainer and consultant. Mark’s work focuses primarily on strategy and succession, working with several multi-generational family business owners as they plan and then carry out generational transfer of leadership and often ownership.
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Tadashi has more than a decade of experience serving in senior executive and C-Suite roles. Through his career he has developed cross-functional expertise in operations, marketing, customer success, sales, and more. Through his unique analytical and strategic skills, he’s successfully launched SaaS applications and built new capabilities, processes, and organizations at established companies and start-ups alike.
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Michael has served in the C-Suite for more than 20 years and has held CEO, COO, and CFO positions providing him a well-versed overview of operational management. Throughout his career he has overseen technological development, recruitment pushes, strong profit growth through both new business models and new acquisitions, and large-scale sales growth going from a couple states to a national level.
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Josh has more than 15 years of experience in the role of CEO and now serves as a board director. During his stints as CEO, he saw exponential growth in revenue, built out leadership teams, oversaw the establishment of ESOP, implemented rigorous operation plans, and grew business relationships and partnerships.
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Russ served as a founder and CEO for nearly 20 years. Prior to becoming a CEO, he held a Vice President role within a Fortune 500 company. Through his unique combination of entrepreneurship expertise and traditional corporate leadership, he can guide CEOs and their teams to identify new growth opportunities and quickly solve their most pressing challenges.
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Greg was a senior executive and CEO for more than 30 years. His experience saw him dramatically expand sourcing and supplier network, lead a successful business divestiture, redesign a production model to expand capacity, double sales to $65 million, oversee 950,000 square feet in facilities, and introduce processes like a one-page strategic plan, cashflow modeling, integrated pipeline, and sales forecasting.
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Debra’s career has led her through executive positions ranging from marketing and operations to president and CEO. She currently serves on the board for public and private companies, sitting on governance, innovation, audit, and compensation committees. Her experience provides a global perspective of building and managing profitable international businesses.
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Robin has over 25 years of C-Suite experience, including extensive international experience and over half of which he served as CEO, where he turned the company from loss to profitable in the first two years of his tenure. Throughout the rest of his time, he oversaw dramatic increases at the company growing revenue from $297 million to $920 million and increasing profits 14% CAGR, while also opening two new international offices. And for the past 8 years, Robin has been coaching and consulting clients.
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Brian has led mid-sized manufacturing and technology companies, with experience leading through an IPO. In the roles of CEO and CFO, he has developed business intelligence systems, processes, analysis and provided capital structure for companies to continue to disrupt traditional business models and provide industry leadership and growth.
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Sheryl is an experienced CEO with a focus and expertise on operations, technology, human resources and finance. She’s served at local, state-wide, and national non-profits during her career. Throughout her tenure, she has been able to connect with employees and stakeholders alike by connecting the dots of purpose, strategy and tactics.
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Juergen served 10 years as a country manager and another 16 years as CEO during his successful career within a global financial organization, where he served in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Germany, and Australia. Through his leadership experience he has formed high-performance diverse leadership teams, achieved record financials and profitability, and developed successful, trusted business relationships and partnerships. Following his time as CEO, Juergen has spent the past few years as an executive coach and trusted advisor, focusing on aligning leadership teams and helping his clients create win-win relationships with their clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
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Bart served as CEO for nearly 30 years. During his tenure, where he led the company’s IPO, he oversaw the company’s strategic direction, global expansion, and technological innovation while strengthening financial oversight, executing sound governance and launching the companies DEI and ESG initiatives.
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John is an accomplished CEO with over 40 years of experience in retail. He is an innovative, motivational, former CEO with a consistent history of quickly increasing profitability, often in turnaround situations, through teamwork, customer service strategies and creative solutions. He started in retail on the ground floor, and rose to store manager, regional manager (where he turned around underperforming stores and regions) and eventually became the CEO. During his time as CEO of a European chain, the store count rose from 112 to 491 – including expansion into 3 countries – while sales rose from $75M to over $900M. He has a proven track record of forming successful teams while developing people. John is also experienced in building relationships between companies and negotiating domestic and international acquisitions.
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Mark has served as an executive and CEO for more than a decade. Mark has the unique understanding and commitment to get new business up and running successfully while restoring or developing a culture for success. Through his experiences he has enhanced global business development and licensing, executed innovation, secured financing and investment, and built strong business relationships and partnerships.
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Lindsey’s passion for people and organizational development is shown in her development and delivery of leadership programs, workshops, group training, and one-to-one coaching. From training a group of 80+ United States Army Colonels in emotional intelligence to delivering a Dynamic Communications keynote to 300 hospitality conference attendees on the big stage, down to one-to-one coaching, Lindsey engages people, bringing folks naturally to a state of trust and eagerness to engage, to learn and to develop.
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Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.