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Get a leg up on today's leadership challenges with a targeted, expert conversation featuring two of the top minds in leadership psychology and talent development: Ted Bililies, managing director & chief talent officer for AlixPartners and Johnny Taylor, Jr. the CEO of SHRM.

Accountants are being asked to pair their financial expertise with data analytics skills, along with soft skills such as leadership. How can you best prepare yourself and your finance team for these new demands?

As a CEO, you impact your employees, organization, and industry every day. But what if there was a way to extend that impact and drive change in your community and beyond? With a private foundation, no matter the size, you can start making a difference today.

Gain insights on engaging your sales team, enhancing your sales compensation program and applying technologies to streamline processes and improve your sales team’s performance coming out of the pandemic.

Leading and structuring organizations to make the most of their teams has never been so complex or carried such high stakes. What steps are you taking to help your company win the great talent reckoning?

As we slowly return to ‘normal,’ the challenges for leaders attempting to navigate unprecedented change are many and varied. From maintaining productivity and innovation in the hybrid world to scaling growth in the digital age, to meeting the ongoing challenge of execution. Join us as we provide actionable insights on these and other pressing topics, sharing how you can avoid hidden pitfalls and successfully take your organization to the next level of success.

Being an effective CEO today is harder than ever before. Faced with constant change, growing uncertainty and unforeseen disruptions, leaders must fight to see their business from every perspective so they can make the best decisions and maximize their leadership influence.

Covid brought out a pace of change no one would have imagined one year ago. The pandemic has impacted many companies’ business models and digital transformation roadmaps. Objectives have shifted, new risks have emerged, and consumer habits are now constantly pivoting to take advantage of the latest technology. In Corporate Board Member and RSM’s recent survey of public company directors, 84% said the primary objective their organizations are trying to address with digital technologies is to improve the customer experience.

Though M&A activity was severely curtailed during the first half of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the third quarter had a significant rebound and expectations are high for a strong close to the year. But what are the longer-term implications for the types of deals, as well as the way in which mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures will be planned and executed in 2021 and beyond? What are the business and societal trends that will have the greatest impact? And are they accelerants or obstacles?

Many agree that companies that plan to revert back to pre-COVID business models and sales processes will be on the losing end in 2021. But what will it take to win in the post-pandemic environment? To answer this question, executives must be willing to rethink their sales model based on consumer behaviors, how consumers interact with companies moving forward and where smart companies are making investments to grow their sales funnel.