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John K.Coyle
Design Thinking & Innovation Expert
Olympic Medalist

Strengths 2.0: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths and Weaknesses

Consider the adage that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Is it time to change your approach? Through the metaphor of sport, learn how individuals and teams can use innovation approaches to identify and leverage their unique strengths (and design around weaknesses).

By attending this session, you will become empowered to:

· Achieve breakthrough performance by focusing on what you do best
· Decide what to delegate, quit or outsource, and plan to maximize team resources
· Create higher engagement and more effective collaboration with customers and colleagues

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John K, Coyle is one of the world’s leading experts in Design Thinking and Innovation. A highly sought-after speaker and lecturer, John is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Engineering – Product Design (Design Thinking) as well as a graduate of Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of business with an MBA in organizational behavior, marketing and entrepreneurship. A former head of innovation for a Fortune 500 wireless telecom, John has also been the SVP of innovation for a leading strategy consultancy.

John is a world-class athlete in two sports (cycling and speedskating) and an Olympic silver medalist, as well as an NBC Olympic Sports analyst, and a guest lecturer on Innovation at several leading universities (Kellogg, Marquette, CEDIM). John is a two-time TEDx speaker, and an award-winning author of two books including the recent (2018) best seller Design For Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths. John is also a leading speaker and writer in the field of “chronoception” – the neuroscience and psychology of how humans process time.

Lyssa Adkins
Agile & Leadership Coach
LyssaAdkins.com

Creating Your Organization’s Business Agility Strategy

Optimally, your organization’s business strategy and business agility strategy are completely coupled together, one seamlessly supporting the other. Practically, what many organizations experience today is a tug-of-war between their business strategy and this thing called “business agility.” Or, a lack of business agility strategy altogether, leaving the business strategy more susceptible, and even fragile, when unforeseen changes inevitably occur. Organizations that create more business agility capability have the chance to harness change for good, and even thrive. Yet, we are in the early days of business agility and not many organizations are reaping these benefits. We need a way to think about business agility, coupled with business strategy, so that we can live into the reality of harnessing change for good.

This session will expose you to a recently published body of work, Domains of Business Agility, which serves as a model for creating business agility strategy. Think of it as a skeleton, or a thinking tool. Used this way, the model allows leaders to answer the question, “How much business agility do we need in various parts of our organization as a seamless support to our overall business strategy?”

In this session, Lyssa Adkins, author of Coaching Agile Teams and Agile/Leadership Coach, leads you through the key steps for creating such a business agility/business strategy. We’ll explore a path from the beginning (“Why do we need agility and how much?”) through to the continuing process (“How can we reap the benefits of experiments to grow our agility capability?”). Throughout, Lyssa brings her expertise in organizational culture, change and coaching to help you think about how you would practically enact a similar strategy process in your own organization.

Takeaways

· A model of the domains of business agility to use as a thinking tool for creating business agility strategy.
· A process, a series of work sessions and conversations, to forge a powerful business agility/business strategy.
· Practical considerations for what is genuinely possible in your organization.

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Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She loves it when groups “sing.”

Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.

Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.

For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI’s competence-based coaching curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication.

Lyssa likes to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change, organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace, agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. She tends toward a balance of the provocative and practical, and likes to make sure she really listens to someone’s question before responding.

Lyssa holds an alphabet soup of certifications: Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), Project Management Professional (PMP), Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC) and Certified Integral Facilitator (IF). She is also a trained Co-Active Coach and Leader.

Doug Conant
Founder & CEO
ConantLeadership
Former CEO of Campbell’s

The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights

Based on his groundbreaking new book The Blueprint, Conant’s session blends stories of success and failure as he shows-and-tells how you can get unstuck, maximize your impact, and even change your life.

The Blueprint codifies a lifetime of leadership knowledge into an actionable process designed to work in the here-and-now. It is 40 years of unmatched leadership experience condensed into 6 small steps!

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Doug Conant is the only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times best-selling author, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and one of the 100 Most Influential Authors in the World.

A devoted leadership practitioner and teacher, Doug’s 45-year career has been defined by achieving high performance through an intentional commitment to studying, practicing, improving, and spreading the tenets of “leadership that works.”

He is Founder and CEO of ConantLeadership, former President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, former President of Nabisco Foods, and former Chairman of Avon Products. Doug is also Chairman of CECP—Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose, and proudly serves on the boards of The Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the National Organization on Disability, the Partnership for Public Service, and Hope College.

He is the New York Times bestselling co-author with Mette Norgaard of TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments. His second book The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights is available for pre-order now and hits booksellers March 4, 2020.

Finally, he is the ever-so-proud husband of Leigh and father to their three remarkable children. Find him at conantleadership.com and on Twitter @DougConant.

Craig Kielburger
Humanitarian, Activist & Social Entrepreneur
The WE Movement

2% of proceeds from Leadership and Innovation 2020 will be donated to WE Charity, an international charity and education partner.

Understanding Purpose in the New Economy

In this inspiring session, Craig discusses purpose and profit as the greatest human motivators, and explains how “WEconomy” is the definitive road map for bringing the power of both together—achieving purpose with profit in your career, company and changing the world.

Based on the new and revolutionary book he co-wrote, titled WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World, Craig will share how to unleash purpose within your career, company and life goals.

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Learn more about the story and mission of WE Charity

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Since beginning his life’s work at the young age of 12, Craig Kielburger has spent more than two decades dedicating himself to empowering others to create positive change in their own lives and the lives of others.

His powerful journey – beginning at his parents’ kitchen table and taking him around the world – has touched countless people and sparked the creation of the WE Movement, a globe-spanning organization that has given millions of people the tools they need to lift themselves from poverty.

Today, in addition to working as a leading social entrepreneur and bestselling author, Craig is an acclaimed speaker who travels the world sharing his unique story. He inspires a diverse range of groups viewers, helping them to find meaning and purpose in their work so they can make an even more significant impact.

Cassandra Worthy
Founder & CEO
We Are Change Enthusiasts LLC

Exploring the Underbelly of Exceptional Leadership: The Softer Skills Required to Effectively Lead Through Change

Rapid change is impacting nearly every industry vertical, re-shaping, re-forming, and ultimately disrupting ‘business as usual’. With this comes workforce strain, stress, and frustration. Today more than ever industry needs people who fully understand, embrace, and exemplify the softer skills of leadership. With energy that could light up an entire city grid, Cassandra Worthy captivates audiences with her stories and unique perspective on what it really means to effectively lead THROUGH change.

Attending leaders and top talent leave with:

· New perspective on the soft skills required to effectively lead through change (C.H.A.N.G.E Traits^®)
· A heightened self-awareness of their current leadership effectiveness and the guidance to take the right next step to improve
· Invigoration to more effectively lead through ANY change challenge they face

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Cassandra Worthy is Founder & CEO of We Are Change Enthusiasts LLC, one of the nation’s top leadership development firms specializing in navigating the emotional landscape of change, creating value through consulting, services & products, and training. Cassandra and her firm are on a mission to nurture the worlds’ resiliency and adaptiveness, enhance conscious innovation, and inspire conscious leadership through change.

Cassandra is a former Fortune 100 Innovation Leader, holding several leadership positions at both Procter & Gamble and The Duracell Co. She has spent nearly 15 years in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry leading organizations delivering innovation across some of the world’s most iconic brands. Through her corporate experiences, she has not only endured but THRIVED during major change challenges including acquisition and significant organizational restructure. This endurance was thanks to the creation and cultivation of her unique strategy of Change Enthusiasm^®. This strategy, now at the core of her leadership development firm, is taking the public and private sectors by storm.

Cassandra holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech as well as certification in the globally practiced and Mental Health Systems validated Emotional Intelligence assessment tools EQi-2.0 and EQ360.

Lance Olson
Director of Product Management
Microsoft

Real-World Use Cases for AI

In this session, we’ll look at the impact of several recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) including the areas of computer vision, language understanding, and reinforcement learning on our ability to more effectively carry out projects. We’ll also dive into real-world use cases where these breakthroughs are being applied to improve our ability to get things done through better communication and collaboration, information processing, and decision making.

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Lance Olson is a Director of Program Management working on Azure AI at Microsoft. In this role he works with organizations worldwide applying AI to achieve transformational change. In his 20+ years at Microsoft, Lance has been a part of many critical machine learning and data-oriented efforts serving customers that range from data scientists, developers, and database administrators to analysts and business decision makers. Lance was one of the founding members on the .NET team at Microsoft responsible for networking and data, and has worked extensively on Microsoft’s cloud services including Cognitive Services, Cognitive Search, Machine Learning, HDInsight, SQL Server, Power BI, and Excel.

Rita J. King
EVP for Business Development
Science House

Applying Innovation to Processes

Innovation isn’t just a big idea or product. It can and should be applied to the processes that shape the way organizations function. In this session, Science House EVP for Business Development will share tips from years of experience working with companies around the world as they shift to a more agile mindset to increase speed to market and quality; and apply innovation to the processes and cultural elements that slow organizations down.

Key Takeaways

· Innovation and imagination are everywhere, and you can tap into them to improve processes.
· Company culture is similar to code, and it can be improved.
· Agility is a mindset shift, not just a methodology.

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Rita works with leadership teams around the world to help them achieve the impossible. She is a futurist, advisor, writer and entrepreneur. She has served as Innovator-in-Residence at IBM and futurist at NASA Langley’s think-tank.

Rita is currently a futurist at the Science and Entertainment Exchange of the National Academy of Sciences, for which she invents technologies, novel characters and story architecture. As a LinkedIn Influencer, she has over half a million followers. Features by her or about her work have appeared globally, from The New York Times to CNN, TIME, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., Entrepreneur, The Design Observer, the BBC, Le Figaro, Psychology Today and many more.

Rita is the creator of the Imagination Age (featured here in Forbes), a way to navigate between the Industrial Era, which is fading, but not gone, and the Intelligence Era, which is coming, but not here.

Chris Field
CEO & Founder
Mercy Project, Inc.

Disrupting for Good: Using Passion and Persistence to Create Lasting Change

Disrupting for Good is about challenging complacency and the status quo. It’s a challenge and a call to get comfortable with those truths that make us uncomfortable so that we can actually do something about them. Doing what we’ve always done will get us where we’ve always been. Disruptors dismantle accepted norms and forge unimagined futures. And this session shows anyone, anywhere exactly how to become a disruptor. It starts with inspiration and ends with a framework that is immediately actionable. Passion + Persistence = Lasting Change. That is the message of Disrupting for Good.

Key Takeaways

· Participants will understand the important role disruptors have played throughout history
· Participants will analyze their own lives, companies, and industry for the places in need of positive disruption
· Participants will walk through a MAP of disruption to create an immediately actionable plan for disrupting for good

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Chris Field has been disrupting the status quo most of his life. His most important disruption is Mercy Project, the non-profit he started to rescue children from human trafficking in Ghana, Africa. Its innovative approach has drawn international attention and earned the prestigious Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award. To date, Mercy Project has rescued more than 150 children, returned them to their families, and provided them with education that will transform their future for generations to come.

At 19-years-old he ran his first marathon, ran for mayor of his hometown (placing third out of five), and was hired to run a camp that hosted 600 inner-city kids each summer. If disruption was a stick of dynamite, his spark had officially been lit. Field has filled the years from age 19 to 37 with countless more disruptions. He ran another 20 marathons, started the #1 ranked marathon in Texas, wrote the most viral ice cream review ever, teaches a business class at Texas A&M University, set four Guinness World Records, and has coached 100 businesses on their use of social media. Field challenges complacency daily.

Field’s recent book Disrupting for Good was named a best seller on Amazon. He has given two TEDx talks and has been featured in the Houston Chronicle, Runner’s World Magazine, Country Living, and NPR Radio to name a few. His enduring message of disrupting for good has motivated and empowered countless audiences to find their uncomfortable truth and create a better one. Field lives in College Station, Texas with his wife Stacey and their four young children.

Jonathan Rodammer
Vice President, Clinique Global Brand Supply Chain
Estée Lauder Companies

Supply Chain and its Role in Branded Innovation

Project Managers, Supply Chain Planners, and Technical Leaders are often faced with trade-offs for cost, speed, or innovation without a clear strategy of how to choose. The years of pushing products to the mass market every few years are over as consumers continue to be more demanding of their products and the brands behind these products. Innovation is rarely a straight line and the business leaders of the future need to know how to pivot when a roadblock appears.

This session will introduce some basic strategies which are applicable to anyone who works in or with the supply chain at their company. You will learn how to develop a roadmap for supply chain capability, take strategic “time-outs” from your daily work to assess risks, with your team and to recover quickly, and to align on key points of achievement. Additionally, you will learn some of Jonathan’s strategies on how to keep our stakeholders informed, including sharing bad news, and how to continuously motivate teams during 2+ year programs.

Key Takeaways

· Understand and Internalize Business Choices and its Impact on the Supply Chain
· Assess and Develop a Roadmap for Supply Chain Capability
· Align and Manage Stakeholder Engagement during a Program
· How to Manage Risk and Progress through Key Milestones
· Build Capability in your Team and How your Team Builds Capability in their Teams

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Jonathan serves as the Vice President, Clinique Global Brand Supply Chain leader at the Estée Lauder Companies. He is responsible for Demand Planning and Operations for the Clinique Brand in addition to leading the New Product Innovation team. As leader of the Clinique supply chain, Jonathan’s team delivers 5 units every second to a consumer worldwide, delivering over $2B of top line revenue per annum. Additionally, he has overseen the new product launch of the Revolutionary New Clinique iDTM system which delivers customizable benefits at scale for consumers worldwide.

Prior to joining Estée Lauder, Jonathan held the position of Director Commercial Operations, Demand, and S&OP within the Consumer Beauty Division at Coty Inc. He led the creation of the Coty Consumer Beauty Demand Forecasting and Business Planning processes during the merger with P&G Specialty Beauty business including team capability and work process development. Additionally, Jonathan led Commercial, Brand and Strategic Projects reporting to the President of the Consumer Beauty Division.

During his time at Procter & Gamble (P&G), Jonathan held various positions with responsibilities for New Initiative and Product Development, S&OP Operations Planning, Long-Range Inventory and Capacity Planning, FDA-regulated Manufacturing, and Customer Service within various channels including eCommerce. His experience includes leading large organizations, E2E supply planning, corporate restructuring, and commercial route to market expansion. During his time living in Asia, Jonathan successfully led the reorganization of the Supply Chain planning function for P&G’s Beauty Division, which included the consolidation of 15 different sites into two Planning Service Centers in China and Singapore, while delivering organization 30% productivity and improving customer service and inventory metrics.

Valarie King-Bailey
CEO
OnShore Technology Group

Business Transformation and the Future of Work through RPA

Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is a major disrupting technology. 62% of CEOs expect this technology to completely disrupt their business within the next 5 years, according to a PwC CEO Survey. The concept of ‘Digital Labor’ is seeping into the lexicon of executive business speech as they look to adapt their operating models to automate a broad spectrum of business processes on demand. As RPA ‘BOTS’ mimic the actions of humans, it follows that there will be displacement of human workers as a result. Therefore, with the increased adoption and criticality of the new processes with BOTS, there is a great imperative to develop and deploy robots that exceed the level of productivity and quality as humans are replace.

This presentation will focus on the current state of the market and the impact of RPA on business operation, workforce development, quality and compliance imperatives. Forward-thinking companies need to understand this disruptive technology and how it will impact today’s workforce. The presentation will explore how companies can unlock the full potential of automation using robotic process automation throughout the enterprise. A key discussion as to the impact of this technology on the current workforce and how to effectively communicate the coming changes is critical. This presentation will discuss how to ensure that your organization is disrupting and not DISRUPTED by technology changes as RPA demands a pivot for sustained operational efficiency and productivity.

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Valarie King-Bailey is the CEO of OnShore Technology Group, an independent Chicago-based consultancy founded in 2004 specializing in Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) services and solutions. She has over 34 years of international experience in the life sciences and technology industries. OnShore’s innovative software application, ValidationMaster™ is the first fully integrated Enterprise Validation Management System (EVMS) on the market. ValidationMaster™ was recognized by CIO Review Magazine as one of the top 20 most promising technologies for life sciences in 2016. In 2017, CV Magazine recognized ValidationMaster as the BEST IV&V Solution for 2017 and designated OnShore as the 2017 Best Software Testers. As a strategic partner with Microsoft, OnShore developed the FIRST and only U.S. FDA Validation Toolkit for their flagship Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system used by life sciences companies across the globe.

Prior to her tenure as CEO of OnShore Technology Group, Valarie has held executive positions for leading global companies such as QUMAS Limited (Ireland), EMC/Documentum, Abbott Laboratories, and U.S. Steel – South Works. During her tenure with QUMAS, an Irish-based software company, she served as Chief Marketing Officer where she was responsible for all global tactical and strategic marketing initiatives in addition to the development of their validation toolkit. She also made a significant impact at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago where she served as Director of Document Management and Quality Systems leading a $16MM division-wide validation initiative. As recognition for outstanding performance, Valarie received Abbott’s Chairman’s Award – the highest honor bestowed by Abbott on its employees by the CEO and Board of Directors. Remarkably, she received Abbott’s Chairman’s award for 2 consecutive years saving the company over $40MM in annual cost savings. In 2008, Valarie received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the U.W. College of Engineering in 2008 and in 2010, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.W. College of Engineering.

Ms. King- Bailey holds an M.B.A. in Information Systems from Keller Graduate School of Management (1985) and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1982). She is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, National Girls Collaborative Project for STEM education, Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS), and a U.W. College of Civil Engineering Advisory Board Member.

Denis Vukosav
Vice President
State Street

Using Design Thinking to Drive Innovation

A new kind of leadership and thinking is required if innovation is the goal. The Design Thinking approach allows us to address a wide range of complex challenges, using a human-centered perspective towards solving a problem. The Design Thinking creative methods enable organizational change, combining what is desirable from a user point of view with what is economically viable and technologically feasible to create a better future for customers.

However, Design Thinking is not another process, delivery framework or set of steps that needs to be followed; it requires a change of individual mindset and organizational culture.

By sharing personal experience, Denis Vukosav will provide insights on how to encourage change and use Design Thinking to successfully drive innovation in an organization. Additionally, some of the key Design Thinking challenges on the innovation journey will be discussed and ways to resolve them will be suggested.

Key Takeaways

· Assess the benefits of the Design Thinking approach
· Recognize the challenges of innovation and ways to overcome them
· Identify leadership styles required for managing Design Thinking organizations

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Denis Vukosav is a speaker and author recognized as one of the most prominent voices advocating for creativity and innovation in project management. As the Vice President at State Street, Mr. Vukosav leads the U.S. and EMEA program for the company’s key client. Prior to joining State Street, Denis Vukosav worked for 15 years as a PMO Head and Program Manager in Finance, Card Payments and Airlines industries. Experienced in Design Thinking, Agile & Waterfall delivery, Mr. Vukosav has a master’s degree in organizational management, he has been a 2009 Kerzner International Project Manager of the Year finalist and has been a PMP certification holder since 2009.

Mary-Louise Angoujard
Founder and Managing Director
Rapporta

1. The Powerful Link between Mindfulness and Physical Presence

Mindfulness is characterized by nonjudgemental awareness of oneself in relation to the environment; it involves openness, curiosity and general acceptance toward other people. Mindful leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings, rather than react to them – which means they are able to consciously choose the best response to a given situation. They are more purposeful in how they approach different situations, and they are also able to be more flexible in how they respond. The more consistently leaders bring a mindful presence to their day to day activities, the greater the trust they inspire, the greater their influence becomes, the better their decisions are and the more effectively they lead. Mindfulness has been proven to be hugely beneficial to positive experiences, well-being and influence. When we are mindful, this affects self-confidence, body language and presence in a positive way.

Key Takeaways

· Strategies for improving mindfulness and state management
· Specific pitfalls to avoid in body language
· 5 tips for improved presence and impact at work
· 5 tips for vocal impact

2. Helpful Ideas for Your Journey to True Diversity & Inclusion

Globally, organizations are committing to Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) at higher rates than ever, with 87% of respondents indicating that D&I is a stated value or priority for their organization. However, for many organisations, the commitment does not extend past a statement in their annual report and allowing diversity groups the time and space to meet. Many business leaders surveyed still acknowledge that being a member of a Minority group is a barrier to employee progression.

While there is solid research year on year to show that greater diversity and inclusion leads to improved business performance, many companies are still catching up. In this session, we will acknowledge the difference between Diversity and Inclusion at work and explore what leading companies are doing to enhance both. We will also acknowledge the continuing role of unconscious bias and explore strategies for minimising its impact.

Key Takeaways

· What good D&I looks like
· What one thing makes the most difference in getting a D&I strategy embedded in the culture
· 5 additional examples of the most successful D&I strategies
· What you can do to improve your organisation’s D&I environment no matter your role

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Mary-Louise Angoujard has over 20 years’ experience as an executive coach, professional trainer and speaker. She founded Rapporta in 2001 to help leaders and future leaders understand and use the power of focus, communication and presence to achieve their objectives. As a preferred learning consultant to large, multinational organisations, Mary-Louise has successfully coached and trained high potential managers, Directors and C-Suite executives.

She regularly designs and delivers highly impactful and engaging training programmes and workshops focused on the topics of Women’s Leadership Development, Leadership Communication, Personal Brand & Impact, Presentation Skills, Selling Skills Inclusion & Diversity and Unconscious Bias.

With a BA in Communication and an international business background, Mary-Louise is a Master Coach, a certified NLP Practitioner and a body language expert. She speaks at business events and has been a guest expert for ITV News, CNN Today and Learning Now TV. She has been a guest speaker at the Women’s International Network Annual Conference and for the Learning and Performance Institute.

Her clients include executives in leading companies in retail, hospitality, banking and finance, professional services, IT and other industries.

Judith W. Umlas
Author of Grateful Leadership and Sr. Vice President
International Institute for Learning (IIL)

Grateful Leadership, Driver of Innovation

In the research done to make the dramatic connection between Grateful Leadership and Innovation, it was discovered that a critical component of the ability to innovate is “psychological safety.” When failure is not criticized or punished, but accepted, people feel free to be creative, and that will spawn innovation. People experience this when they work in a climate of appreciation and gratitude, which will be created when you employ the model of Grateful Leadership.

By attending this session, you will have the opportunity to:

· Review case studies demonstrating how Grateful Leadership produces psychological safety, which leads to innovation
· View real-life examples of the power of Grateful Leadership and Acknowledgment leading to innovation
· Identify the 7 principles of Acknowledgment and the 5 C’s of Grateful Leadership that will help you create a climate of appreciation
· Discover how you can acknowledge peers and direct reports to improve team dynamics and create an environment in which people feel the freedom to fail…and to innovate!

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Judith W. Umlas is Sr. Vice President, International Institute for Learning, Inc. and author of the ground-breaking book The Power of Acknowledgement which has been credited with changing workplaces and lives by making use of the 7 Principles of Acknowledgment she developed.

Her book on Grateful Leadership: Using the Power of Acknowledgment to Engage All Your People and Achieve Superior Results was published by McGraw-Hill Professional in association with IIL in early 2013 and You’re Totally Awesome! The Power of Acknowledgment for Kids was published in late 2013 by IIL Publishing. In 2016, Judith founded the Center for Grateful Leadership—a growing, global community of practitioners and contributors to this leadership model/initiative.

Judith delivers inspiring, motivational and transformational keynote addresses on Grateful Leadership and The Power of Acknowledgment all over the world. She also leads webinars and teaches full day virtual and traditional courses to organizations such as Volvo, the U.S. Army, Prudential, JMP Engineering, the World Bank, Fannie Mae, IBM, AT&T, Google, Amway, the New York Police Department and many others. She has trained tens of thousands of people through her leading edge, highly interactive and engaging courses and keynotes – with outstanding and long-lasting results. Grateful Leadership and The Power of Acknowledgment are Judith’s passion, mission and purpose!

Peter Chadwick
Consultant, Coach & Training Instructor
Island Hoppers Ltd.

Leadership for Transcultural Innovation

Innovation, in response to mankind’s 21st century needs, is powered by individuals, teams and organisations dispersed across cultural frontiers. The potential power of harnessing the best skills globally is immense, but this power can only become a reality if cultural differences are perceived as a source of energy and obstacles to cooperation are overcome.

So, as leaders on this cross-cultural terrain, how should we adapt to ensure the best leverage of our collective global talents? What pragmatic enablers are within easy reach to assist on the journey to global collective technological intelligence?

Key Takeaways

· Identify your personal leadership style
· Clarify how cultural expectations for leadership styles differ globally and how you fit in
· Take a step back to understand the megatrend for leaders skilled in fostering collective technological intelligence
· Come away with three practical enablers for transcultural innovation that you can use today

BIO:

The common thread throughout Peter Chadwick’s career has been innovation.

As a young engineer, the hours flowed by unnoticed as he dreamt up designs for products and tooling. As his professional journey progressed, he became skilled in collective innovation, leading larger and larger design teams, and working internationally.

Eventually, the Engineer turned Project Manager and the opportunity to foster transcultural innovation, from concept to production, widened in both project size and international scope.

In parallel to the technological strand, a decade ago, Peter added a second strand to the thread by qualifying as a Coach, specialized in cross-cultural competence. Building on his research and in-the-field experience, he continued to innovate in the domain of transcultural cooperation, co-authoring two books on the subject.

He founded Island Hoppers in 2010 with the aim of enabling enjoyment and success in international and transcultural endeavors through coaching, training and consulting support.

Brandon Fargis
President
Fargis Consulting Group

Leading Minds, Fueling Innovation: Leadership in an Increasingly Neurodiverse World

Neurodiversity is a biological fact—the normal diversity of the human brain—and data suggests up to 1 in 4 individuals are Neurodivergent beyond that of a societal “norm,” commonly labelled as ADHD/ADD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Anxiety Disorders, among others.

Some of the greatest innovators of our time were and are Neurodiverse; however, many of today’s organizational cultures and leadership methods are not supportive of the employment, retention, and development of Neurodiverse talent. This means that many brilliant, innovative minds are inadvertently being kept from the table of innovation, slowing the pace of progress.

In an increasingly Neurodiverse world, how can top leaders and organizations ensure that ALL minds have a seat at the table of innovation? Join this session to learn about the world of Neurodiversity and how you can lead mind-first toward supporting innovation and well-being in your people, products, and customers!

Key Takeaways

· The history of Neurodiversity and its influence in the world.
· Reasons organizations should act now to ensure a competitive edge.
· What it means to lead mind-first and how it empowers a healthier workforce, a more inclusive culture, and more innovative products.

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Brandon is a technologist, innovator, mentor, and self-professed troublemaker at the helm of anything with sails.

As a native North Carolinian who grew up working on family farms, he never envisioned himself as a future leader. This changed after a local textile company provided the funding for a technology lab at his small-town school. He was hooked and hasn’t looked back.

After being recruited out of college by a top technology company, he began building his executive credentials at several of the top software and technology companies in the world. Along the way he was a key player at a software start-up and developed what he calls a “knack for scaling growth and transformation” that he teaches, “cannot truly occur without a people-first approach to leadership.” This background has fed his leadership philosophy and served as the bedrock of his professional success.

As an MBA candidate with degrees in CIS and Psychology, and an array of professional certifications in project management and agile methodologies, Brandon now works with organizations to conduct ground-up transformations and strategic organizational change.

As an advocate for Diversity, Inclusion and Equality he also speaks regularly about Neurodiversity and how allowing ALL minds at the table of innovation is vital to fueling innovation.

Tianhui Michael Li
Founder and President
The Data Incubator

Building and Scaling a Data Science Culture

As your data and AI teams scale from one to thousands of employees, you will encounter roadblocks along the way. From handling messy data to productionization and customer adoption, these obstacles can delay or even derail otherwise strong teams. Drawing on experiences gleaned from hundreds of clients, Michael Li presents a framework that successful companies have embraced to build and scale their data teams. The talk goes over how organizations progress along three maturity curves: Analytical, Operational, and Organizational.

As enterprises strive to move along each of these maturity curves, they must solve various organizational challenges and develop new capabilities and skills in order to become data-driven organizations. We will provide key takeaways for managers and executives for each step of the maturity curves.

BIO:

Michael Li is the founder and president of The Data Incubator, a data science training and placement firm. Michael bootstrapped the company and navigated it to a successful sale to the Pragmatic Institute. Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Morgan, and D.E. Shaw. He is a regular contributor to Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, Wired, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, Tech Target and O’Reilly. Michael was a postdoc at Cornell Tech, a PhD at Princeton, and a Marshall Scholar in Cambridge.

Molly Tschang
Founder and CEO
Abella Consulting

Say It Skillfully™: Tough Conversations with Great Results

Do you avoid difficult conversations? Have you failed to say what needs to be said, simply because you didn’t have the right words?

This session will show you how to speak your mind in a positive and productive manner, even under challenging circumstances. We will explore specific scenarios in which Molly offers the exact words you can use—and explains the words—so you start to see patterns emerge and are able to skillfully resolve what used to be difficult interactions.

When you hold back, you become part of the problem. When you learn how to express your perceptions, you become part of the solution.

Key Takeaways

This session will give you:

· The words you need to be open, honest and direct
· Frameworks to help you to build confidence and poise
· Skills to help you support those around in a positive and uplifting manner

BIO:

Molly Tschang helps senior management build powerful chemistry to lead together and commit to each other’s success. She equips her clients’ organizations with the practical skills to Win As One…which companies often never even try to do. Molly is Founder and CEO of Abella Consulting, a New York-based leadership development and business advisory consultancy, and hosts the “Say It Skillfully” radio show on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel and video series on LinkedIn.

Molly is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches initiative, selected from among 12,000 applicants, and has held executive leadership positions at Cisco Systems and U.S. Filter, where she led the integration of over 80 acquisitions globally. She serves on the boards of several privately-held companies and the Cornell Engineering College Council and is a CornellTech guest lecturer on teams and leadership. An advocate of social enterprise, Molly also served as the Executive Director for NetHope and provides pro bono strategic advisory services to Community Solutions (homelessness) and Three Dot Dash® (youth mentoring).

Elizabeth Frederick
Operations Officer & Senior Advisor
Criteria for Success

Nurturing an Innovative Team

Do you have an innovative team? Unfortunately, for many leaders, their initial answer may be “no.” For some reason, they aren’t getting the levels of innovation they want from their team and it can be difficult to figure out why this is happening.

This talk introduces the 3 actions you must take if you are looking to nurture an innovative team:

Embrace diversity within your team
Leverage cross-functional working groups
Avoid hierarchies and bottlenecks

VIDEO:

BIO:

Elizabeth Frederick is the Operations Officer and Senior Advisor at Criteria for Success, Inc., a sales growth and management consulting firm in New York City. For over a decade, she has worked with dozens of clients to improve their sales and management processes, enabling them to effectively grow sales.

Jamie Zelermyer
President, New York Women in Film and Television

Leadership Short Story (Segment)

Abstract:

New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) advocates for equality in the moving image industry and supports women in every stage of their careers. As the preeminent entertainment industry association for women in New York, NYWIFT energizes women by illuminating their achievements, presenting training and professional development programs, awarding scholarships and grants, and providing access to a supportive community of peers.

Jamie Zelermyer is President of NYWIFT, a nonprofit 501c3 public charity, and has been a producer and production executive for over 20 years. She has worked with Sony, Focus Features, and alongside Meryl Streep at the NYWIFT Writers Lab. Learn more at https://www.nywift.org/.

Produced by d.b.Roderick

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION 2020 ONLINE CONFERENCE

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION 2020 ONLINE CONFERENCE

Inspire. Trust. Achieve.

Inspire. Trust. Achieve.

GET AN EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK

GET AN EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK

WHAT TO EXPECT

WHAT TO EXPECT

For Individuals

For Teams and Organizations

IIL dedicates the Leadership & Innovation 2020 Online Conference to the memory and legacy of Clayton Christensen.

IIL dedicates the Leadership & Innovation 2020 Online Conference to the memory and legacy of Clayton Christensen.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

WELCOME MESSAGE: J. LEROY WARD

JOHN K. COYLE

Strengths 2.0: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths and Weaknesses

LYSSA ADKINS

Creating Your Organization’s Business Agility Strategy

DOUG CONANT

The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights

CASSANDRA WORTHY

Exploring the Underbelly of Exceptional Leadership: The Softer Skills Required to Effectively Lead Through Change

CRAIG KIELBURGER

Understanding Purpose in the New Economy

SPEAKERS

SPEAKERS

LANCE OLSON

Real-World Use Cases for AI

RITA J. KING

Applying Innovation to Processes

CHRIS FIELD

Disrupting for Good: Using Passion and Persistence to Create Lasting Change

Jonathan Rodammer

Supply Chain and its Role in Branded Innovation

Valarie King-Bailey

Business Transformation and the Future of Work through RPA

Denis Vukosav

Using Design Thinking to Drive Innovation

Mary-Louise Angoujard

1. The Powerful Link between Mindfulness and Physical Presence 2. Helpful Ideas for Your Journey to True Diversity & Inclusion

Judith W. Umlas

Grateful Leadership, Driver of Innovation

Peter Chadwick

Leadership for Transcultural Innovation

Brandon Fargis

Leading Minds, Fueling Innovation: Leadership in an Increasingly Neurodiverse World

Tianhui Michael Li

Building and Scaling a Data Science Culture

Molly Tschang

Say It Skillfully™: Tough Conversations with Great Results

Elizabeth Frederick

Nurturing an Innovative Team

Jamie Zelermyer

Leadership Short Story (Segment)

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1. The Powerful Link between Mindfulness and Physical Presence
2. Helpful Ideas for Your Journey to True Diversity & Inclusion