
Leading With Purpose At Scale
CEOs are combating constant change by building stronger leadership teams, improving alignment and creating organizations that can win in any environment. Here’s how.

CEOs are combating constant change by building stronger leadership teams, improving alignment and creating organizations that can win in any environment. Here’s how.

After years of sluggish activity, dealmaking is gaining momentum. From sourcing deals and closing valuation gaps to retaining talent and steering integration, experienced players share what works now.

A group of supply chain managers, operations leaders and COOs from mid-sized manufacturers sat down for a candid, off-the-record conversation about what’s really happening on the ground.

Expensive new obesity drugs are just the latest dilemma for companies trying to control health plan costs.

Your reflexive responses could be silencing the people you need to hear from most.

Nine cities and 14 events over four blurry months. With a moment to exhale, here are a handful of ideas that continue to stick with me.

The CEOs who thrive from here won’t be the ones who adopted AI most aggressively. They will be the ones who built organizations that could develop judgment, exercise it at speed and embed it into the systems making decisions around them. Five key questions about your organization—and yourself—will likely determine your future.

Against a backdrop of accelerating disruption across technology, geopolitics and talent markets, making ever-faster, high-stakes decisions with increasingly imperfect information is the norm. Here’s how six CEOs are adapting.

In a populist moment for America, standing your ground is the only strategy.
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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.