Boards Emphasizing Experience And Skills Over First-Time Directors
Facing unprecedented challenges, companies are favoring directors with proven leadership experience. A few questions boards should be answering now.
Facing unprecedented challenges, companies are favoring directors with proven leadership experience. A few questions boards should be answering now.
How I turned a trampoline park nobody would finance into a multi-brand youth enrichment platform—and what I learned about leading at scale.
Private-company bonuses rise sharply with profitability. But new compensation data raises a bigger question for CEOs: Are you rewarding your senior leaders for the performance that matters most?
As chairman and CEO of one of the largest financial institutions in the country, Bruce Van Saun attributes his success to a developmental model that relies on both trust and accountability.
‘Leadership isn’t about having all the answers,’ says Gogo CEO Chris Moore. ‘It’s about making decisions people can continue to trust, especially when circumstances aren’t entirely within your control.’
Certain organizational capabilities are like good tires on slippery roads: They don’t stop the snow from falling, but they do substantially improve the odds of arriving.
The discipline that saves companies in distress can also drive stronger performance in healthy ones.
Why organizations too often fund the past instead of the future, and the four questions that can fix it.
JAG Physical Therapy CEO John Gallucci Jr. shares how he grew from one clinic to 185-plus without losing the personal touch, and why he grows leaders as deliberately as locations.
While distrust is often treated as a feeling to overcome, a better approach is to treat it as a symptom that needs to be traced back to its origins.
0
1:00 - 5:00 pm
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.