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David Nour
CEO
The Nour Group, Inc.

Curve Benders: How Strategic Relationships Can Power Your Non-linear Growth in the Future of Work

In the future of how we’ll work, live, play, and give, 15 Forces will create dramatic headwind, tailwind, or turbulence in our lives and careers. Learning their relevance is no longer optional; it’s a necessity.

For most people, learning is linear – they learn, then they apply. We believe when it comes to relationships, a different lens is needed. Time and again, people enter our lives that dramatically alter our lives’ direction and destination. I call enablers of this adaptive and accelerated non-linear growth Curve Benders.

So, who are your Curve Benders, and how do you find them? More importantly, how do you become one in the lives of others? And how can the Curve Bending mindset unlock the next level of enterprise value creation and profitable growth?

Join bestselling author, senior leadership advisor, executive educator and coach David Nour as he shares key insights from his 11th book, Curve Benders, at the intersection of the future of work, strategic relationships, and non-linear growth.

Key Takeaways

Understand the 15 Forces that will impact the future of how we’ll work, live, play, and give.
Evaluate Your Personal Market Value and the key investments you must make to enhance it in 2021 and beyond.
Apply the Growth Grid to address your most complex innovation challenges and growth opportunities.
Get introduced to the Path to your Curve Benders and Curve Benders Roadmap (tools) to accelerate your professional relevancy amid constant disruptions.

BIO:

A senior leadership/board advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author, David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. The author of eleven books, including bestsellers Relationship Economics® (Wiley), and Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press), as well as the forthcoming Curve Benders (Wiley, 2021), Nour serves as a trusted advisor to global clients and coaches corporate leaders. He is an adjunct professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and was named to the Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professionals list. A Forbes Leadership contributor on the Future of Work, and an Inc. contributor on Relationship Economics, Nour’s unique insights have been featured in a variety of prominent publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Huffington Post Business, Entrepreneur, and Knowledge@Wharton. He’s also the host of the popular Curve Benders podcast.

Born in Iran, Nour immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager with $100, limited family ties and no fluency in English. He graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and went on to earn an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He resides in Atlanta, GA, with his family. Learn more at www.NourGroup.com.

Bertrand Rajon
Head of Executive Leadership
Nestlé

Innovative Leadership: Ecosystems and Disruption in 5 Lessons

As we advance along the journey of transforming our company, we realise that more factors are at play than one may have initially thought.

The playfield has indeed widened, more actors are to be taken into account and this adds a true complexity to our business.

In this keynote, Bertrand Rajon, Head of Executive Leadership Education at Nestlé, will review the shift that has happened between generating innovation and being innovative through the lens of leadership. Business ecosystems and disruption can only be handled successfully if we transform our leadership approach, specifically towards our teams.

Outcomes include:

Grow your ability to perceive early signals of transformation
Capture the spirit of ecosystems in the making and adjacent development
Disrupt your own business at the edge and build it as a spearhead
Create a root and wings leadership mindset in your company
Shift from innovation to innovative

BIO:

As a long-term Nestlé employee, Bertrand Rajon has covered various fields of activities ranging from business management to executive education. Over a span of more than 30 years, he has accumulated significant experience and became the refence person within his company when it comes to business acceleration, inner disruption and executive leadership development.

Erica Dhawan
Speaker and Author
Cotential Group

Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance

During this unprecedented time of change and uncertainty, we are collaborating faster and more often than ever before. We feel like we’re connected – but are we really? In this interactive keynote, collaboration expert Erica Dhawan teaches you the art and science of Digital Body Language, the key to
productivity and collaboration in the modern workplace. This virtual experience will help you replace the challenges of digital work and build a culture of maniacal clarity that fosters the highest performing teams and relationships.

Outcomes include:

Learn the digital body language signals and cues that you are broadcasting (even if you don’t intend to)
Show others you understand their feelings and hear their ideas — even in emails, conference calls, video meetings, and texts
Build your brand, find your voice and show presence anytime anywhere
Develop digital communication norms across teams
Grow trust and connection within and across teams, no matter the distance

BIO:

Erica Dhawan is the world’s foremost expert, author and speaker on digital body language and connectional intelligence. She teaches 21st-century collaboration skills and behaviors for a global, virtual, multi-generational and matrixed workplace. She is the CEO of Cotential, a training company and
the co-author of the bestselling book Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and the forthcoming Digital Body Language.

Jay Samit
Author and Disruption & Innovation Expert

Future Proofing You: Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity

Jay Samit, one of the world’s leading authorities or disruption and innovation, explains how to take control of your career and create opportunity in this uncertain, post-pandemic world.

Building upon the principles in his books Disrupt You! and Future Proofing You, Samit explains the 12 truths needed to succeed and how he used them to mentor a millennial from welfare to self-made millionaire in one year.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

How to identify an idea and fill a void in the market
How to build a virtual company or new division with little or no capital
Ways for your company to get a piece of a trillion-dollar opportunity bigger than mobile
How to harness the three primary fears of others to generate more sales

BIO:

International bestselling author Jay Samit is a dynamic entrepreneur and intrapreneur who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation. Described by Wired magazine as “having the coolest job in the industry,” he raises hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, advises Fortune 500 firms, transforms entire industries, revamps government institutions, and for three decades continues to be at the forefront of global trends.

The former Independent Vice Chairman of Deloitte Consulting, Samit helped grow pre-IPO companies such as LinkedIn, been a Nasdaq company CEO, held senior management roles at EMI, Sony and Universal Studios, pioneered breakthrough advancements in mobile, ecommerce, digital distribution, and spatial reality that are used by billions of consumers every day. Called the “guru for the entire industry” by Variety, his list of partners and associates reads like a who’s who list of innovators, including: Bill Gates, President Bill Clinton, Pope John Paul II, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Reid Hoffman, David Geffen, Sir Richard Branson, and Paul Allen.

Samit’s previous book, Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation (MacMillan 2015), is currently published in twelve languages. He has also written for such publications as Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal.

A sought-after conference speaker and consultant, Samit provides disruptive solutions for such corporate clients as Adobe, American Express, AT&T, Best Buy, Coca-Cola, Disney, Ford, Google, GE, IBM, Intel, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, and Visa and dozens more.

Laine Joelson Cohen
Director, Citi Learning
Citi

Want to Drive Innovation? Take a Coach Approach!

Are you struggling to get your team to innovate? Is there a lack of new ideas on your team? Do you want
to increase autonomy and empowerment of your team? Taking a coach approach may be exactly what
you need.
This session will show you how to empower your team to solve problems and innovate, and it will help
you ensure diverse perspectives are being surfaced. We will explore specific tactics and questions you
can use to unlock others; whether in your own team, or with peers and clients.
This session will give you:

A simple coaching framework to get started
Powerful questions to unlock creativity and empower others
Tips for boosting your active listening skills
Time back in your day

BIO:

For over 25 years, Laine has worked at Citi, global Fortune 50 Financial Services Company, leading teams across a variety of businesses and functions. Laine is the North America Director of Leadership and Performance Solutions for Citi where she also runs Business Relationship Management.

Laine is also an Executive Coach and was named to Marshall Goldsmith “100 Coaches”. She speaks both at Citi and externally about leadership, coaching, and thriving in large complex organizations.

Interviewed in: The Coaching Habit Podcast, Work and Life Podcast, Inc Magazine

Laine holds an M.B.A. in Human Resources Management from the Zicklin School of Business – Baruch College and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Connecticut.

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Tiffani Bova
Global Growth and Innovation Evangelist
Salesforce

Growth is a Thinking Game

The one thing about growth is it is never one thing. Growth is a thinking game. To achieve it, we must find new and different ways to engage our employees and our customers and ignite a beginner’s mind that is open to new ideas and ways of doing things. The pandemic was a black swan event that put an end to business as usual. In a matter of hours, days and weeks, the impact of COVID-19 forced entrepreneurs, leaders and businesses of all sizes to reimagine the future and build a resilient response to the crisis—finding new ways to stay connected and work together to create and uncover opportunity, as well as solve challenges locally and globally while maintaining and elevating the experience for employees and customers.

In this keynote, Tiffani motivates attendees to get comfortable being uncomfortable, think forward, take action and find new, different and better ways to grow together now and in the next future. Key Takeaway:

Growth requires flexibility to change – even pandemic-sized change.
Growth is never just one thing.
Employees and customers must change too.

BIO:

Tiffani Bova is the chief growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Bova has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers and is a welcomed guest on Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar, MSNBC, and Yahoo Finance, among others. She also contributes her thinking to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Diginomica, Quora, Thrive, Rotman School of Management and Duke Dialogue Review. She is a change maker who’s thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have made her a frequent guest on a variety of industry-leading podcasts and live broadcasts.

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Ori Schibi
Trainer & Consultant
IIL

Distributed leadership for the new world

As the dust is starting to settle on the new ways we conduct business, and ourselves as a result of Covid – we continue to play catch up with the new reality, while new challenges continue to emerge. 

Covid has introduced a perfect storm with multiple sets of challenges that all hit at once and in the strongest possible way (social, external, organizational). Yet we are now facing another curve ball – the need to look at leadership skills on a spectrum – from “traditional” leadership as we know it, through virtual leadership – and the new type – the distributed leadership.  

Distributed leadership will emerge as a discipline to explore, develop and grow, along with the following primary and evolving needs:  

Accountability – at all levels  
Proactiveness – in communication and expectations management
Share, delegate and distribute some of the leadership-related actions and attributes 
Encourage, delegate, and foster the development of “local” leaders  Properly empower others to lead  
Share, delegate and distribute some of the leadership-related actions and attributes

This dynamic and interactive session takes participants through a series of concepts and idea that will help them improve their ability to engage and collaborate their virtual teams, while maintaining and even improving productivity and value-creation.  

Key Takeaways:

Realize new and emerging needs for effective leadership in the new world 
Apply key concepts of distributed leadership and effective communication in a virtual and a hybrid environment  
Proactively engage and empower stakeholders and team members to improve traction, results and accountability  
Reduce the amount of noise and redundancies in communication and overall – to enhance the ability to address and solve issues and problems effectively

BIO:

Ori Schibi, has over 25 years’ experience providing practical new ways of leading sustainable change through ambiguous conditions, managing projects and programs, and helping organizations maximize the benefits from agile. As a visionary thought leader, Ori introduces practical ideas in areas related to project sponsorship, PMO, connecting change initiatives to projects, and collaboration – within and across projects. Ori has been engaged in ensuring that agile rollouts take place in the context of the organizational change they introduce – to ensure alignment and success.

Most recently, he has been consulted as a thought-leader in virtual and distributed leadership, cultural sensitivity and effectively helping organizations move toward distributed workplaces.

Large to mid-sized organizations (including Telecoms, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Entertainment and Aerospace) have benefited from Ori’s innovative approach to value creation, efficiencies, collaboration, and focusing on customer satisfaction (including Disney, Marriott, Phillips, Pfizer and Amex). Ori also has extensive international public service experience at multiple level (all levels of government in Canada, NYS-DMV, Social Security Administration, and UNHCR).

Ori is the author of four books. He has developed a line of dynamic and innovative workshops and programs and has led sessions, delivered keynotes and taught thousands of participants in multiple settings. He is known for his unique, dynamic and capturing style, and for his high impact, real life; easy to understand examples

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Kaihan Krippendorff
CEO
Outthinker Strategy Network

Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Employees and Organizational Leaders

“Innovation” brings to mind the maverick entrepreneur who quits their job, at unimaginable odds, to build a business on their own. But this entrepreneurial story is a myth. As a successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO, Kaihan Krippendorff argues that intrapreneurs – employees who incubate new businesses within corporations – have had a far greater impact on the world. Nearly all of the most transformative innovations over the past three decades, from e-mail and the Internet to DNA sequencing and MRI scans, were introduced by employees who did not quit their jobs but instead took the challenge of innovating from within.

Drawing on five years of in-depth research of hundreds of successful innovators and Intrapreneurial Intensity, as well as insights from thought leaders, C-suite leaders, business unit leaders, and front-line employees, Kaihan will share exclusive insights from his book, Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs (Columbia University Press, 2019).

Kaihan will unveil the most critical internal focus areas for driving innovation and moving your organization forward into the future. He will share specific tools, frameworks and techniques used by successful innovators to manage and unlock the value of employees’ ideas to increase corporate innovation levels and deliver bottom-line results. Participants will have actionable next steps to transform their organization by testing and scaling fresh ideas that generate value and growth. They will leave feeling inspired and empowered, ready to take on the future.

In this inspiring keynote, you will learn about:

The IN-OVATE Framework
The seven barriers of internal innovation and how to overcome them
The six characteristics of Internal Innovators
The seven steps to build an agile innovation team
How to disrupt your competition without disrupting your business
What it takes to lead an innovative organization and drive transformation
How to shift your organizational mindset and culture
How to build a wave of internal support for growth, innovation and creativity by reinforcing the idea that innovation is possible, attainable, and ultimately actionable

BIO:

Kaihan Krippendorff has made a commitment to helping organizations and individuals thrive in today’s era of fast-paced disruptive technological change.

He began his career with McKinsey & Company before founding the growth strategy and innovation consulting firm Outthinker, whose growth strategies and innovations have generated over $2.5B in revenue for many of the world’s most recognizable companies including BNY Mellon, Citibank, L’Oréal, Microsoft, and Viacom. He is a best-selling author of five books, most recently the Edison Award nominated Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs.

Kaihan is a member of the prestigious Thinkers50 radar group – A global selection of the top 30 management thinkers in the world to look out for. Thinkers50 also recognized Kaihan as one of the 8 most influential innovation thought leaders in the world considering him for a Distinguished Achievement Award in Innovation – given to the person in the world that has contributed the most to the world’s understanding of innovation in the past two years.

Amidst his dizzying schedule of keynote speeches, consulting projects, ongoing research and writing, Kaihan still finds time to teach at business schools throughout the US and internationally (including NYU, FIU, and UA). Regularly featured in major business media outlets, Kaihan is an advisory board member of multiple national and international companies.

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Maria Rivera
Associate Director
New York University, The School of Professional Studies

The Reality of Extended Reality

This presentation provides an introduction to Extended Reality (XR), which includes Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). As the technology advances, organizations have found practical ways to apply XR with all kinds of objectives. In Talent Development for example, VR can eliminate risk and safety concerns, provide scalability, offer the opportunity to gain practical experience, remove time and travel costs, and more.

Attendees of this presentation will:

Gain an understanding of VR and AR
Learn what equipment is required to utilize VR and AR
Learn how organizations are applying VR tools

BIO:

Maria Rivera has over ten years of Management, Sales and Technology Training, Project Management, Web Development, Video Production, and Training & Development (asynchronous and synchronous) experience in Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and professional service organizations. She led strategic initiatives at The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute – Baruch College as the Associate Director and at CUNY School of Professional Studies/ACS Project as a Deputy Director. She is currently at NYU the School of Professional Studies as the Associate Director of the Management and Systems Graduate Degree Program and manages the Management and Technology Noncredit Portfolio. She is also a standing committee member of the NYU SPS Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Accessibility (IDBEA) Committee. She is a Training and Development Consultant for DigitalSummit.tv. Maria has produced a variety of blended digital media training solutions for various organizations/industries and has spoken at conferences including the Trenton Computer Festival regarding Virtual Reality/New Media. She is also the co-organizer of the XR Learning and Training Meetup.

She is a member of the Association for Talent Development (NYC and Northern NJ), the Project Management Institute (PMI), and the National Speaker Association. She believes in the “Everyone wants to be Magnificent” philosophy and has enjoyed training hundreds of adult learners successfully over the years. Giving back to the community is something that she always makes time to do. She participates in HISPA.org’s Role Model Program and helped design an App Development Training Program for middle school and high school students. She has also spoken at AT&T’s HACEMOS Leadership conference, HISPA’s Youth Conferences, Trenton Computer Festivals, mLearning conference, and at the 2019 ACE Women’s Network Women of Color Conference at Vaughn College

She received her BA from Lehman College and her MA in Adult Education & Training from the University of Phoenix. She also recently earned a Data Visualization Certificate from NYUSPS.

VIDEO:

Birgit Maillefaud
HR & Business Executive

Leading Corporate Transformation – Navigating in Ever-Evolving Waters

Leading a corporate transformation project critical to a company’s future success is a challenge in itself – and even more so during a global health and economic crisis. Success will come from building and enabling a high performing team, keeping them focused and adapting to the continuously evolving environment. We will look at lessons learned from a compelling case: the creation of a new global headquarters for a Fortune 500 company, involving mass hiring and relocation, new ways of working and culture change.

Key Takeaways:

The power of a high-performing project team
Compassionate leadership – Building trust builds bridges when leading remote teams
Focusing on outcomes and smart communication makes a difference

BIO:

As a former VP of HR for Global Organization Transformation at Coty and Business & HR executive at P&G, Birgit combines both commercial perspective and broad-based HR experience in large corporations, with a recent focus on organization transformation in the digital era. Her belief is that building trust through compassionate leadership is the new currency for success. Birgit’s desire as a leader is to achieve results while helping people grow in a way that is meaningful to them.

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David Hutchens
Author & Consultant
The Storytelling Leader

Telling Stories that Inspire: Create Engagement and Belief so People will Act

In this active presentation, participants will encounter the deep and fascinating body of knowledge around organizational narrative. This isn’t about performance or building your “public speaking” skills. It is a recognition that story is a strategic act: Which stories should leaders tell? It begins with selection, because when you tell the right story at the right time the results can be transformational.

David Hutchens will introduce participants to storytelling through a lens of change management. They will discover the three stories they should be telling now in order to move the system and engage their team in a context of extreme uncertainty.

Attendees of this session will:

Explore how stories of continuity, novelty, and transition are needs that every organizational system has.
Hear specific examples of how other leaders and organizations are telling these stories.
Identify some of the “narrative assets” (the value-holding stories) that they can start telling right away!

BIO:

David Hutchens has been exploring the intersection of narrative, leadership, and complex systems change for more than 20 years. A bestselling author, business writer and learning designer, he creates solutions for Accenture, Harvard Business Review, L’Oreal, FedEx, The Coca-Cola Company, Wal-Mart, IBM, The US Olympic Committee, and many others. His partnerships include a recurring instructor position with the globally renowned INSEAD School of Business in Fontainebleau, France.

He speaks to organizations and leadership teams all around the world on the topic of storytelling as an organizational capacity. His new book is Story Sprint, due Spring 2021. It will be his tenth book. He is also the author of Circle of the 9 Muses: A Storytelling Field Guide for Innovators and Meaning Makers, (Wiley & Sons, 2015).

He created the innovative Leadership Story Deck — an innovative, card-based resource for developing narrative driven communications. The popular resource is now available on Amazon.com.

He is a founding partner of the international forum called Story the Future, which explores how narrative leads to deep system transformation in organizations and societies.

He has served as an executive speechwriter or ghostwriter for global thought leaders such as Stephen M.R. Covey, and the CEO of The Coca-Cola Company.

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Camella Barnes
VP, Strategic Initiatives and Execution
Goldman Sachs

Staying Human and Happy in a Virtual World

Let’s face it – while co-located, it is easier to connect with others. When dispersed, there needs to be a concerted effort towards team alignment and successful outcomes. A leader’s responsibility is to provide structure, guidance, and a framework. However, studies show that the way you measure a healthy and happy work environment isn’t the external governance guardrails, but it’s by the motivation employees feel. If we can create environments that ensure our remote employees are engaged, confident, and motivated, we will increase our ability to be competitive and deliver successful outcomes to our customers.

In this session, we will build a virtual house of team collaboration and discuss strategies and supporting statistics to help you and your teams stay human and happy in a virtual world.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Learn how to influence talent retention in spite of physical location separation
Understand the social and economic benefits of making employees feel valued
Practice activities that can be deployed to drive up retention & connectivity, while working remotely

BIO:

In her over 20 years of program management experience, Camella Barnes has been leading global teams and implementing large scale, new product offerings. Most recently, she led the implementation of Marcus Invest, a digital investment platform. Camella has also served as a founding member of launching Personal Loans, Apple Card, Derivatives Clearing Services, and various Prime Services products. Camella has a proven track record of turning a ‘north star’ idea into successful systemic solutions, developing high performing, award-winning teams, and creating products used by millions. She has helped build new organizations from zero to 1000+ people across multiple strategic locations while delighting customers and delivering business outcomes.

Camella’s secret sauce towards influencing business success is a mix of communication and investment in people. She focuses on management routines which showcase successes, solve blockers, and drive accountability – all in support of the overarching strategic Objectives and Key Results through agile delivery and continuous improvement. By inspiring and acknowledging talent and making people feel valued, she builds happier teams. Camella knows firsthand that happier teams outperform unhappy teams by 3 times, and she looks forward to sharing her success in creating and empowering successful virtual teams with the audience.

Richard Kasperowski
High-Performance Teams Expert

High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and EI

Want awesome teams that build great products? Great teams don’t happen by accident. And they don’t have to take a long time to build.

In this session, Richard lays out the case for Continuous / Extreme Teaming. Join in a flight of fun learning activity-sets that will give you a taste of team awesomeness and how to start when you go back to work.

Richard builds on the work of Jim and Michele McCarthy, Google, Bruce Tuckman, Gamasutra, Standish Group, Peter Drucker, and Melvin Conway. His learning activity-sets activities are short games, using elements from improvisational theater, The Core Protocols, Extreme Programming, and more.

Who should attend? Anyone who wants to create a great team and build great products. You’ll leave having embodied the essential elements of accelerated continuous team-building and maintenance.

For those who want to get the most out of the session and activities, Richard suggests that you get a copy of his book, The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, read with a marker pen, and come with questions about who, when, and where to use a protocol.

BIO:

Richard Kasperowski is an author, teacher, speaker, and coach focused on team building high-performance teams. Richard is the author two books: High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, as well as the forthcoming book High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence. He leads clients in building and maintaining high-performance teams that get great results using the Core Protocols, Agile, and Open Space Technology. Richard created and teaches the course Agile Software Development at Harvard University. Learn more and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at www.kasperowski.com.

Dr. Linda Hill
Professor
Harvard Business School

Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

Dr. Linda Hill presented this session at IPM Day 2018.

What does it take to build an organization that can innovate in today’s global economy and embrace new technologies? What kind of leadership is needed? How can you select and develop the kind of leadership talent needed? These are questions Linda Hill has been researching along with among others, the former SVP of Technology for Pixar. She will share examples from her book of leaders who have learned how to cultivate “collective genius” and provide a framework for creating organizations in which people are willing and able to innovate.

BIO:

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership. Hill is the co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, co-founder of Paradox Strategies, and co-creator of the Innovation Quotient. She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015.

Hill’s research focuses on implementing global strategies and leading innovation; building innovative organizations and ecosystems; developing leaders for innovation; and the role of the board in governing innovation. She is the author of highly-regarded books and articles on leadership, including her latest book Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press 2014). Collective Genius was named by Business Insider as one of “The 20 Best Business Books” in 2014 and received the Gold Medal for Leadership, Axiom Business Book Award. In 2015, Hill, along with her co-authors, received the first Warren Bennis Prize for the Harvard Business Review article “Collective Genius,” based on the book. Hill is also the co-author of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader, noted by the Wall Street Journal as one of the “Five Business Books to Read for your Career in 2011” and author of Becoming a Manager: How New Mangers Master the Challenges of Leadership (2nd edition). Her books are available in multiple languages. Hill has authored or co-authored numerous Harvard Business Review articles, including “Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Leaders,” “Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets,” and “Are You a High Potential?” She is a contributor to the HBS Press Pocket Mentor series Managing Up, Hiring, Becoming a New Manager, and Negotiating Outcomes.

Hill has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents’ Organization Presidents’ Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program, and Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation. She was course-head during the development of the new Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course.

Dr. Diane Hamilton
CEO, Author, and Business Behavior & Culture Expert
Tonerra

How to Build Curiosity: The Key to Improving Engagement, Innovation, and Productivity

Dr. Diane Hamilton presented this session at IPM Day 2019

Employees can be more innovative, engaged and productive by improving their natural curiosity, but they must be trained to do so and be rewarded for their efforts. Harvard Business Review found that while 83 percent of C-suite executives believe they encourage curiosity, only 52 percent of employees feel they are rewarded for their curiosity—and are therefore less likely to provide innovative ideas to the organization. HR professionals and leaders can benefit from recent groundbreaking research discoveries regarding what affects curiosity. Once organizations recognize and overcome the four factors that hold people back from being curious, they can develop training and development plans to unleash it.

BIO:

Dr. Diane Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of Tonerra, and Co-Founder of DIMA Innovations, which are consulting and media-based businesses. She is a nationally syndicated radio host, keynote speaker, and the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business. She has authored multiple books which are required in universities around the world, including Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential, and The Power of Perception: Eliminating Boundaries to Create Successful Global Leaders. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® assessment, which is the first and only assessment that determines the factors that inhibit curiosity and the Perception Power Index, which determines the factors that impact the perception process. Her groundbreaking work helps organizations improve innovation, engagement, and productivity. Thinkers50 Radar chose her as one of the top minds in management and leadership. Her work has been endorsed by some of the most respected names in leadership.

Ainat Beniaminovitz, MD FACC
Cardiologist
Columbia Doctors

The Future of Medicine

This session focuses on the innovations in medicine and how this industry (much like humanity) is evolving. New technology in the computing arena, the biosensor realm and genetics, and the world of “omics” is converging to deliver much more precise care. Although still in its infancy, the worlds are intersecting and advancing at warp speed.

Key Takeaways:

How medicine is evolving in its ability to diagnose and treat diseases more precisely
How artificial intelligence is being used to uncover ailments before our current technology can even identify their existence
What are “Omics” and how are they advancing healthcare
The biosensors revolution & what it means to the future of healthcare diagnosis and delivery

BIO:

Ainat Beniaminovitz is a board-certified cardiologist practicing in NY as part of Columbia Doctors and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia. After training at the College of Physicians and surgeons at Columbia University, she completed her residency and fellowship at Columbia and stayed on to be an attending in heart failure and cardiac transplantation where she published extensively including lead author in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Her focus later shifted to preventive cardiology and her passion is maximizing the use of new technology to further advance precision diagnostics and management. After all, as we first learned as kids, not every shoe fits every Cinderella (nor should it)!

Steven Pae
Executive Director
Ascend

The Future of Leadership: Introducing a new leadership model that embraces power skills, diversity and inclusion and community service

Power Skills (EQ) are so important in a numbers and technology-driven world. Where technology, automation and AI has infiltrated all aspects of our personal and professional lives, power skills continue to not only be our differentiator but essential for us to learn, grow and connect.

This session will focus on specific power skills of awareness, empathy and relationships which power our new leadership model, combined with diversity and inclusion presence. These skills can be put into practice in the professional, non-profit and educational space to allow the individual to move beyond the numbers and succeed in whatever we pursue. We will explore how these skills have become even more important during the pandemic, and the new future of work and learning.

Key Takeaways:

How Power Skills (EQ) have become more important and necessary in the new pandemic world and will continue to be necessary post pandemic.
Why Power Skills will be needed throughout your career even more than ever due to the future of work
Being a leader is not just about being diversity and inclusion aware, but now also conversant and opinionated
Community service and giving back builds your power skills and diversity and inclusion leadership skills

BIO:

Steven Pae is a technology executive with deep industry experience in financial services, digital banking and fintech. Steven has senior global positions in both Technology, Digital Product Development and Operations with business, financial and management responsibilities across multiple product lines including digital banking, lending, leasing, equities, foreign exchange, and derivatives.

Recently Steven was Senior Vice President for Marcus by Goldman Sachs in the Consumer Banking. In this role Steven is responsible for consumer lending technology for Marcus.

Prior, Steven was Senior Vice President and CIO and COO of Business Capital Division for CIT Group responsible for technology and operations for the capital businesses across CIT including Equipment Finance, DirectCapital, Lender Finance, and Commercial Services. In addition, Steven was responsible for digital strategy for the commercial businesses in Technology and Operations.

Prior to joining CIT, Steven was Executive Directory and Global Head of Product Development for Electronic Trading at Morgan Stanley. Earlier, Steven was Managing Director and Global Head of Electronic Trading at Bank of America. Prior, Steven was Vice President and Head of Trading Technology at Goldman Sachs.

Steven is an Adjunct Professor at New York University and a National Board Member of Ascend, the largest non-profit Pan-Asian Professional Network.

Steven received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from New York University Stern Business School.

Leigh M. Stevens, MBA
Senior Program Manager
Prime 8 Consulting

Mindfulness as Catalyst for Innovation

What is the connection between mindfulness and innovation? How can practicing mindfulness strengthen your capacity as a leader and spark innovation? As a leader if you’re looking to help shift people’s mindset and challenge repetitive mental models either within yourself and/or within your team, view this presentation to learn more. Leigh will share research and the science behind the impact of mindfulness and the interconnectedness with innovation. Included in the presentation is instruction in some techniques that can be incorporated into a daily routine which can shift the trajectory of what happens next!

Take-aways:

Scientific research to share with your team  
Live instruction on mindfulness techniques
Mindfulness practices you can apply at work and at home

BIO:

Leigh’s sense of adventure and 25-year career in technology and consulting led her to drive significant change programs against the backdrop of major organizational transformation – digital and cultural – with geographically dispersed teams, across all organizational levels. Highlights of her career so far include the 8 years she worked for Microsoft, across the globe, and serving on the PMI Global Executive Council.

Leigh went on to explore mindfulness and meditation and became a certified Meditation Teacher through davidji’s 500-hour Masters of Wisdom & Meditation training. Being more present, calm, with an increased level of consciousness and energy to serve others, lead from a place of gratitude and make better choices are some of the many gifts she’s received from a consistent meditation practice.

Working as a consultant since 2019, she continues to thrive in sharing her business expertise combined with her passion for mindfulness and meditation

Xavier Joly
Global Head of Human Resources
Bayer Crop Science

The Moment of Truth: Using Authentic Leadership to Make a Difference

As a leader in a VUCA world, one needs to be aware of their own emotions and the emotions of others in order to make a difference in their team and organization. This requires an Authentic Leadership Mindset, where the leader shows self-awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses, has a sense of purpose, and the ability to truly be themselves in a professional environment. One impactful tool to bring out this vulnerability is Grateful Leadership, where the leader applies the power of acknowledgment to build trust and accountability in their team.

Key Takeaways:

How to be yourself in a professional environment
How to engage itself in a grateful leadership journey
How to leverage and flip the VUCA environment

BIO:

Xavier Joly is the Head of Human Resources for Vegetable Seeds and Environmental Science, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Xavier joined Bayer in May 2014 as Global HR Business Partner for Environmental Science – Emerging Countries, later becoming Global HR Business Partner for Environmental Science. In between his roles with Environmental Science, he was the Global HR Business Partner for Bayer Radiology. Xavier started his professional career in the automotive industry within the Volvo Group, initially in the Supply Chain function before moving into Human Resources. He took on some challenging and exciting assignments in different countries such as Sweden, Belgium, USA, France and Germany where he has developed critical core competencies and strong expertise in human resources, change management, talent management and leadership development. Xavier enjoys spending time with his wife Sarah and his 2 boys, Luther and Adam. The whole family loves traveling and experiencing new cultures and is thrilled to be back in the USA. It will be their 5th experience of living abroad after Gothenburg, Sweden; Brussels, Belgium; Hagerstown, MD, USA; and Berlin, Germany.

Stacey Johnson
Head of Leadership & Culture Academy
Kraft Heinz

Unifying Leadership Expectations and Organizational Culture.

Join us on this inspiring journey, as Stacey Johnson, Head of Kraft Heinz’s Leadership & Culture Academy, details the path to redefining and launching the new Kraft Heinz Leadership Principles. In addition, you’ll hear how the leadership principles are guiding the Company’s strategic learning & development agenda. During this session, Stacey will share reflections on this success story in the making, specifically touching on:

Co-creating leadership principles by involving stakeholders and culture carriers
Leveraging leadership principles to create and design learning programs for impact
Launching and embedding the new principles throughout the organization during a period of business transformation and disruption

BIO:

Stacey is an experienced team leader and L&D professional who is focused on developing inspiring, inclusive & innovative leaders. In her current role as the Head of Leadership & Culture Academy at Kraft Heinz, Stacey is obsessed with equipping leaders and managers with the skills, knowledge and resources needed to develop others, create inclusive environments, and engage employees. Stacey and her team are responsible for the global development of leadership programs, including Manager Excellence, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging as well as the Kraft Heinz Culture Curriculum. Prior to joining Kraft Heinz in 2016, Stacey spent a decade at Teach For America, the national non-profit dedicated to mobilizing as many of our nation’s most promising leaders to grow the movement for educational equity.

Dr. Jill M. Siler
Superintendent & Author of Thrive Through The Five
Gunter ISD

Thrive Through the Five: Leading through Challenging Times

Mark Anthony famously said, “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Well, I absolutely love what I do as a school leader – and I have never worked harder! The truth is there is a small percentage of our work (and life) that is really hard, and this has become even more pronounced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This session will dig into some internal strategies to help us be our best, as well as some external strategies to help us lead in the best way during difficult seasons. From personal stories of trial and triumph, to lessons learned in leading through challenging seasons like financial crisis and the global pandemic, I will share “5 Tips to Thrive” in every season of life. We owe it to ourselves and everyone around us to not just survive challenging times, but to truly thrive!

Each of the “5 Tips to Thrive” will be framed in stories around school leadership but will also have strong connections to other industries. I will also share a little bit about my first crisis as a first-time superintendent as we were on the brink of bankruptcy (ended up losing 20% of our staff) – and how I led through that using these concepts.

BIO:

Dr. Jill Siler has been serving as the Superintendent of Gunter ISD, a growing school district an hour north of Dallas, since 2012. Jill grew up in Rochester & Buffalo, NY and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh where she was a collegiate swimmer. She moved to Austin in 1996 and began serving as a high school World Geography teacher and swim coach at John B. Connally High School in Pflugerville ISD. Jill earned her Master’s from Texas State University and began her administrative career in Marble Falls ISD where she served as the Assistant Principal for Instruction. In 2004, Jill went to Lake Travis ISD where she served as a campus and district leader for 8 years. During that time, she completed her doctorate at the University of Texas.

In her first months as a superintendent, Jill faced financial crisis along with many other challenges that leadership brings. In 2015, her school board was named a TASA Honor Board as one of the top 5 school boards in the state and one of her campuses was named a 2017 National Blue-Ribbon School. Jill is the Chair of the Future-Ready Superintendent Leadership Network (FRSLN) Design Team through the Texas Association of school Administrators (TASA) where innovative leaders from across the state gather to learn, share and grow together.

Jill has a passion for helping others reach their goals and is the leader of TASA’s Aspiring Superintendent Academy, and a frequent speaker at Texas’ First-Time Superintendent Academy as well as other leadership and education conferences. Her writing can be found on her website, jillmsiler.com where the initial blog inspiring her book, Thrive Through the Five was featured in the November 2019 edition of AASA School Administrator, the national school leadership organization’s publication.

Omar L. Harris
Founder & Managing Partner
Intent Consulting

The End of the Boss – 7 Rules of the Modern Leader

A boss is not necessarily a leader. A boss can be someone who has authority but still lacks influence. A boss can self-centred, directive, defensive, and more. Leaders, on the other hand, inspire others, encourage their team, are vulnerable, and take responsibility. In this talk, Omar outlines the case to move away from ego-driven behaviors and toward humility driven servant leadership characteristics.

Participants will learn the following:

Why the Boss archetype is leading to a global employee engagement crisis
Why influence is far more powerful than authority in getting things done
How building trust enhances influence
What servant leaders accomplish

BIO:

Omar L. Harris (Charlotte, NC, born in Pittsburgh, PA) is a Business and Servant Leadership Thought-Leader, Award-Winning Bestselling Author of 4 books (including The Servant Leader’s Manifesto, 2020 and Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams), Intent Consulting Founder, and Former GM (GSK and Allergan). With 20+ years of global pharmaceutical executive experience building teams, Omar’s worked on four continents (U.S., Middle East, Asia and Latin America) for Pfizer, Merck, Schering Plough and more. As a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, Motivational Speaker and Entrepreneur, Harris is passionate about leading teams, high-performance coaching and inspiring future leaders of today and tomorrow to adopt the servant leader mindset and stop toxic leadership behaviors. Harris is also the Co-Author of “From Authors to Entrepreneurs F.A.T.E.: The Personal Side of Indie Publishing” (2015) and Author of “One Blood” fiction book (2011, pen name, Qwantu Amaru). His work has been featured on the Love Ideas Summit, Black News Channel, Thrive Global, CEO World Magazine, South Charlotte Weekly, Fast Leader Show Podcast, Young Upstarts, The Rebel Road Podcast, Human Capital Innovations (HCI) Podcast, VoiceAmerica: Finding Your Frequency and more. As fun facts, Omar speaks 5 languages, plays 7 instruments, and started his first company at the age of 7.

Toby Newman
The Neverending Learner

Deciphering a Learning Mindset: How It Supports an Innovative Company

Having a learning mindset in today’s environment is essential. With technology growing at an exponential rate, it is harder than ever for companies and individuals within companies to keep ahead of the curve (the fight to keep your skills, and hence your products up-to-date and relevant). This idea is very prevalent in certain communities such as technical ones, and not much so in leadership communities but it is the leaders that set the tone for the company. In this talk, Toby Newman will explore how leaders can drive success and innovation through a learning mindset.

To have a true learning mindset, you have the responsibility to share back your new insights within an organization. This is where good leaders become great ones. This is where innovation really gets going. As leaders you have an extra responsibility as you set the tone and environment for this sharing to happen.

We will talk about the importance of these practices:

- Educate on the importance of keeping ahead of the curve for individuals – provide research (World Economic Forum) on changes of skills.
- Encourage the benefits of self-awareness and roll out practices to do it.
- Demonstrate that learning is a priority by putting learning at the top of agendas (take the first 5 mins to share learning)
- Emphasize the practice of skills and a psychologically safe environment to do it in.

BIO:

Toby Newman has been working in the Learning and Development industry for almost 20 years and is passionate about improving the learning experience for all of us. He works for and with companies to provide guidance and support to implement a learning mindset which is the foundation of a great learning experience. Toby has had the honour to guest on a number of podcasts to talk about many topics around L&D and he is currently writing a collaborative book on the importance of the learning experience. Toby is also proud to have been asked to give a TEDx Talk.

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION 2021 Online Conference

CONNECT. LEARN. GROW.

In today’s new reality, continual learning, resilience, agility and strategic relationships have never been more important to individual and team success.

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WHY ATTEND

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

David Nour

Curve Benders: How Strategic Relationships Can Power Your Non-linear Growth in the Future of Work

Bertrand Rajon

Innovative Leadership: Ecosystems and Disruption in 5 Lessons

Tiffani Bova

Growth is a Thinking Game

Erica Dhawan

Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance

Kaihan Krippendorff

Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Employees and Organizational Leaders

Jay Samit

Future Proofing You: Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity

Amy Gershen

Welcome Message

SPEAKERS

SPEAKERS

David Hutchens

Telling Stories that Inspire: Create Engagement and Belief so People will Act

Omar L. Harris

The End of the Boss: 7 Rules of the Modern Leader

Dr. Jill M. Siler

Thrive Through the Five: Leading through Challenging Times

Laine Joelson Cohen

Want to Drive Innovation? Take a Coach Approach!

Maria Rivera

The Reality of Extended Reality

Birgit Maillefaud

Leading Corporate Transformation – Navigating in Ever-Evolving Waters

Toby Newman

Deciphering a Learning Mindset: How It Supports an Innovative Company

Stacey Johnson

Unifying Leadership Expectations and Organizational Culture

Xavier Joly

The Moment of Truth: Using Authentic Leadership to Make a Difference

Steven Pae

The Future of Leadership: Introducing a new leadership model that embraces power skills, diversity and inclusion and community service

Ainat Beniaminovitz, MD FACC

The Future of Medicine

Ori Schibi

Distributed leadership for the new world

Leigh M. Stevens, MBA

Mindfulness as Catalyst for Innovation

Camella Barnes

Staying Human and Happy in a Virtual World

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Dr. Diane Hamilton

How to Build Curiosity: The Key to Improving Engagement, Innovation, and Productivity

Dr. Linda Hill

Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

Richard Kasperowski

High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and EI

POINT OF VIEW

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The L Project

Reversing the Curse

2 FREE ON-DEMAND COURSES

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Leading Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams

Facilitating Effective Meetings

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