Using DISC Assessments to Improve Executive Alignment and Team Performance
Start the year by strengthening how your leadership team makes decisions, communicates, resolves friction and executes your 2026 strategy.
Identify how each leader’s DISC profile influences decision-making, conflict and communication.
Learn strategies to adapt across styles to strengthen alignment and trust.
Visualize your team’s collective “wheel” to uncover where dynamics accelerate—or slow—execution.
Define concrete next steps to improve collaboration, clarity and decision velocity in 2026.
The start of the year is when leadership alignment matters most. Even the best strategic plans fail if the executive team isn’t fully aligned on how decisions get made and conflicts get resolved.
This hands-on workshop will help you identify the behavioral dynamics that shape your team’s effectiveness—how you communicate, how you make decisions and how you execute together.
Using the DISC framework, you’ll learn how to translate behavioral insight into better executive decision-making and faster, more effective execution across every function.
This session will equip you with practical tools to build trust, clarity and accountability at the top of your organization, based on guidance from coaches who’ve worked with hundreds of leadership teams.
1:00 – 2:00 PM
A practical overview of the four DISC styles—Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness—and how they shape communication, decision-making and leadership behavior under pressure.
Coach, Chief Executive Coaching
2:00 – 2:45 PM
Small-group discussions facilitated by former CEOs and DISC experts. Participants will join others who share their dominant style (D, I, S, or C) to explore:
Coach, Chief Executive Coaching
Coach, Chief Executive Coaching; Former CEO, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Australia & NZ
Coach, Chief Executive Coaching; Founder and Former CEO, Cardfunder; Co-Founder and Former CEO, Moviestop
Coach, Chief Executive Coaching
2:45 – 3:30 PM
See how your team’s collective DISC makeup looks in practice. Through real examples, learn what balanced and unbalanced teams look like, where miscommunication tends to happen and how to use this insight to improve alignment and performance.
Coach, Chief Executive Coaching
DISC is a straightforward framework that helps teams understand how people prefer to communicate, make decisions and work under pressure. Rather than labeling personality, it gives your team a shared language for how each person shows up at work.
The four styles represent different ways people contribute to the team.
Moves quickly, drives decisions, keeps the team focused on outcomes
Builds energy, encourages collaboration, strengthens relationships
Brings stability, supports follow-through, keeps the team grounded
Raises the bar on quality, asks the right questions, protects accuracy
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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.