Many C-suite learning executives have expressed great interest in learning more about what the future economic environment will look like – given the colossal debt burdens incurred to combat Covid-19.
To start off our event, a session taught by a celebrated economist & a truly great teacher. Dr. Jay Prag, co-author (with Peter E. Kennedy) of Macroeconomic Essentials and Microeconomics (MIT press) and Clinical Full Professor at Claremont Graduate University's Drucker School of Management, avoids "pulling any rabbits out of the hat." His discussion will masterfully take you to a level of understanding you would not have thought possible – Guaranteed! Learn about the likely "economic future that has already happened" & why continuously improving productivity & purposeful innovation are the only true exit paths to the shock ripping through the business world.
Competing on analytics is a "hot topic." But many organizations are stumbling with respect to assimilating today’s groundbreaking technologies (e.g., AI, IA, machine learning, data analytics) to make them more effective competitors. Why? This session with management guru Jim Champy clearly demonstrates why the missing link between today's ever-increasing numbers of breakthrough technologies, each marginally effective by themselves, requires a mission-critical process organizational structure. (We truly believe this session, alone, can possibly save you millions of dollars in result-less training & technology expenditures).
There's been a lot of talk about making organizations more agile & innovative. This presentation – by Amazon's Michael Arena PhD- moves you beyond all the talk. You'll learn a proven, tested methodology for making innovation & adaptability to post-crisis realities part of your company's DNA. Dr. Arena reveals four sets of connections using organizational network analysis – that have worked like a miracle drug in enabling companies to generate, share, & scale successful ideas that normally would've been condemned to the scrapheap because of dysfunctional people & internal politics.
Said Melissa Howell, Senior VP, Global HR, Kellogg Company of Dr. Arena's pioneering work: “{He} gives real insight into how mammoth companies such as GM are able to disrupt their strategy paradigm to thrive in a rapidly changing marketplace…"
As our once secure-world goes into a tailspin, L&D executives are under increasing pressure to support the overall goals of the business & that investments in training/learning deliver maximum value to the company. This panel discussion will explore how the best L&D organizations are meeting today's new ROI challenges & transforming their organizations' corporate battlefield capabilities.
The practice of mindfulness has gained the attention of L&D executives seeking new ways to achieve quantum leaps in knowledge worker productivity & improving workforce self-management skills. Why? Because in many of today's best-run organizations state-of-the-art methodologies for enhancing perception (or attention)… systematically enabling the removal of self-imposed boundaries… converting mindsets for the status quo into mindsets for capitalizing on opportunities (rather than problems)… & more have built teams of champions focused on making the right things happen.