
Leading In The Age Of AI Agents
A human-AI workforce doesn’t eliminate the need for strong leadership—it transforms it. Here’s how to build a powerful partnership on your blended team.

A human-AI workforce doesn’t eliminate the need for strong leadership—it transforms it. Here’s how to build a powerful partnership on your blended team.

Through behavioral science, data-driven creativity and a culture that champions female leadership, Tim Berney and his team prove that modeling desired behavior can move markets—and the leaders who shape them.

As leadership visibility and social influence become core business skills, a dedicated executive communicator turns a leader’s ideas and judgment into trusted, high impact messaging across every audience—even in an age of AI.

Most American companies still treat currency as a finance issue. Treasury hedges it. Accounting reports it. Leadership moves on. That separation no longer works.

Changing your mindset can’t change the situation, but it can drastically change the outcome. A helpful framework.

After a shaky start to the year, CEO optimism is buoyed by steady demand and hopes for greater policy clarity. ‘I’m hoping for split government and gridlock.’

CEO Lars Petersen shares how Fujifilm took advantage of technological competencies to pivot and build one of the largest biopharma manufacturing facilities in the U.S.

When results wobble, elite teams don’t grit their teeth—they rely on conditions built long before game day. CEOs should do the same, designing fundamentals, strategy and team environment so peak performance holds when pressure spikes.

The rapidly spreading autonomous agentic AI system highlights how agent-based technologies are advancing faster than controls. Here’s what boards can do now.

When work swallows everything, it’s not a badge of honor—it’s a warning. In this week’s episode of Corporate Competitor Podcast, SailPoint CEO Mark McClain explains why regular life audits and firm boundaries are essential if leaders want intense seasons to fuel performance instead of permanent burnout.
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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.