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No matter where President Trump’s tariffs end up, here’s what you can do to keep your profits in place—and build some useful muscle for your organization.
No matter where President Trump’s tariffs end up, here’s what you can do to keep your profits in place—and build some useful muscle for your organization.
In every volatile moment lies opportunity. Great leaders know how to turn it into momentum.
Interest rates have deals stuck in purgatory. Tariffs are eating up executive bandwidth. And $3 trillion in dry powder sits atop the PE industry, looking for a home. Life is not easy as a PE portco CEO.
When leaders become angry, it’s a symptom of a larger problem in the organization.
Fred Smith didn’t just build FedEx—he built a model for modern leadership. His legacy offers a blueprint for CEOs navigating complexity, scale and transformation.
With a 95 percent commercialization rate across more than 1,350 patents, innovation hub Nottingham Spirk is the most important R&D center you’ve likely never heard of. Here’s how they do it.
Seven essential lessons, learned in the most dangerous places on earth. ‘Leadership isn’t about managing outcomes. It’s about owning consequences.’
Whether it’s earnings calls, media interviews, board presentations or company-wide meetings, CEOs often encounter high-pressure speaking opportunities. These tools can help you use your voice more confidently.
Standing out for board roles requires more than a stellar résumé. Veteran director Tate Pursell shares how to make your LinkedIn profile work for you.
Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff led the cloud computing revolution. Now he wants to bring business into an entirely new era of augmented humans, unlimited digital workforces and nothing less than the ‘most exciting transformation in the history of technology.’ But first, there’s work to do.
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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.