Speakers (Birdfeeders)

Admiral Jim Stockdale was a prisoner of war for eight years during Vietnam, an experience he and his wife chronicled in the book In Love and War. After reading the book, Jim asked Admiral Stockdale about how he got through the experience. Admiral Stockdale said, “I never wavered in my faith, not only that I would get out, but that I would turn those years in the camp into the defining event of my life, that in retrospect I would not trade.”

Years later in his research, Jim noted that the Good to Great leaders had the same unwavering faith and the ability to confront the brutal facts of reality.

In this conversation, Jim challenges you to ask yourself:

1. How can you engage with those around you and embrace the idea that you can prevail?
2. What are the brutal facts you must confront head on about the current reality?

When Professor (and friend) Rao Unnava invited Artie Isaac to teach his course on Consumer Behavior, he taught Artie this model — a transformational view of decision-making strategy.

During this 60-minute session, Artie will describe this favorite marketing model, the Theory of Reasoned Action, developed by Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen in 1967. More on the model is here — but Artie promises to make it easier to digest.

Here is a link to the materials we will use:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qoa0o98hg7nthfj/AAC0ITjZ5Vv-en41jZ3aK_vua?dl=0

What differentiates companies that grow from start-ups to great companies in the most uncertain and chaotic environments from less successful companies in the same environment? Jim uses the story of two teams racing to the South Pole to illustrate how the choices you make impact results. You can let conditions determine your pace and progress, or exert self-control and fanatic discipline in a world out of control to continue to advance to your goal.

In this conversation, Jim challenges you to ask yourself:

1. What is the big hairy audacious goal towards which you are marching, the thing that defines what it means to prevail?
2. What does it mean to be “20-mile marching” right now?
3. How can you keep your people calm and on task on your 20 mile march?

During this 60-minute session, Artie Isaac will guide you through the Green Box, a checklist to prepare your business and your family for your untimely death.

This is a thoughtful exercise for anyone and everyone — and might be timely. This information is sobering and invaluable.

The late Jerry B. Harvey was a favorite Vistage speaker. His Abilene Paradox teaches that much dysfunction results not from our ability to manage conflict, but our inability to manage agreement. Dr. Harvey kindly created a 20-minute video, which we will watch and discuss.

This is a life-changing lesson on organizational dynamics. It is a classic for any Vistage member.

During this 60-minute session, Artie Isaac will guide you through the Green Box, a checklist to prepare your business and your family for your untimely death.

This is a thoughtful exercise for anyone and everyone — and might be timely. This information is sobering and invaluable.

During this 50-minute session, Artie Isaac (and any attendees) will ask Ted Inbusch all sorts of questions about retirement planning:

• How do I invest myself and my time, as well as my money? 
• What do I have to know in order to know whether I can retire?
• What are the biggest retirement planning mistakes you have seen?
• And more.

Ted Inbusch is enjoying an extraordinary and varied career in corporate and personal finance. See his career highlights at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-inbusch-apma-3b8691/

The event photograph shows Ted and Artie after rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The backup photograph was this rocking chair representing retirement and death. “Not the mood we are trying to strike,” said Ted.

When Professor (and friend) Rao Unnava invited Artie Isaac to teach his course on Consumer Behavior, he taught Artie this model — a transformational view of decision-making strategy.

During this 60-minute session, Artie will describe this favorite marketing model, the Theory of Reasoned Action, developed by Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen in 1967. More on the model is here — but Artie promises to make it easier to digest.

Here is a link to the materials we will use:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qoa0o98hg7nthfj/AAC0ITjZ5Vv-en41jZ3aK_vua?dl=0

What differentiates companies that grow from start-ups to great companies in the most uncertain and chaotic environments from less successful companies in the same environment? Jim uses the story of two teams racing to the South Pole to illustrate how the choices you make impact results. You can let conditions determine your pace and progress, or exert self-control and fanatic discipline in a world out of control to continue to advance to your goal.

In this conversation, Jim challenges you to ask yourself:

1. What is the big hairy audacious goal towards which you are marching, the thing that defines what it means to prevail?
2. What does it mean to be “20-mile marching” right now?
3. How can you keep your people calm and on task on your 20 mile march?

• The power of writing your tomorrow story
• Building a successful retirement life portfolio
• Planning so there’s no regret after selling a business
• The You Pivot™ Program

Elisa K. Spain is an Executive Life Coach, writer, and creator of the You Pivot™ Program. She helps C-Suite executives plan the next version of themselves for a new career or a retirement portfolio.

More About Elisa K. Spain

Elisa’s Sunday Stories

Elisa on LinkedIn

In this engaging, interactive, and entertaining presentation, you will dramatically improve your ability to become a hybrid work leader using evidence-based cognitive science techniques.

Many leaders rely on traditional office-centric collaboration and management styles in managing hybrid teams. Yet research conclusively demonstrates that, instead of incrementally improving on the old-school office-centric approach, the best outcomes in managing hybrid teams comes from adopting a flexible hybrid-first work model. This results in much higher retention, productivity, engagement, innovation, collaboration, cost savings, and risk mitigation. A hybrid-first model involves best practices adapted specifically to hybrid work contexts. Such best practices include asynchronous brainstorming, remote coworking, virtual water coolers, weekly performance evaluations, addressing proximity bias, and a culture of “Excellence from Anywhere.” This training offers case studies and best practices that you need to most effectively manage hybrid staff.

Through adopting the methods from this training, your team will excel in retention, productivity, innovation, collaboration, cost savings, and risk management, thus enabling you to become a hybrid leader in our increasingly-disrupted future of work.

More on Dr. Gleb Tsipursky: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/glebtsipursky/

This is a presentation I have given 100+ times to Vistage groups throughout the United States, and a couple times in Canada and England. While developing this presentation, I received the 2013 Vistage Innovation Speaker Of The Year Award.

As described for chairs on MyVistage…

In this highly interactive presentation, Artie Isaac encourages the powers of ingenuity, creativity and collaboration in each Vistage member and within their organizations. Key issues covered include:

• Collaboration skills training
• Brainstorming techniques
• Stimulating personal creativity
• Managing creative people
• Roadblocks to creative thinking

Artie approaches problem-solving from a practical, hands-on perspective, providing Vistage members with specific methods for inducing greater creativity and productivity within their lives and organizations. Beyond explaining the concepts, Artie offers techniques for immediate implementation. The session will include active brainstorming on an issue of interest or concern to the members.

Value To Members

Members take away brainstorming and creative planning tools that can be used in daily problem solving in business and beyond. Members will have methods for inducing a creative state of mind, the knowledge of when and how to benefit from creative thinking, and new skills that encourage others within their organizations by stimulating the creative process.

Think talk is cheap?  When Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan died in 1933, The New York Times ran two front page articles, describing the rabbi, known as the Chofetz Chaim, as one of the 36 sages for whom G-d did not destroy the world. (You should have such an obituary.) 

Come learn the rules of ethical speech codified by the Chofetz Chaim. This is not religious; this is practical living in a peaceful community, even today.

According to the Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM), it costs over $4,000 and takes 42 days to fill an open position, on average. This number increases with the pay range, roles, and responsibilities

In this diverse and inclusive world, he has learned how to encourage those that are different from him and wants you to do the same.

Up month? Down month? What’s a manager to do?

What the manager must not do is just as important: do not overreact!

During this 60-minute session, Mike Carr will give you a spreadsheet that can help you not overreact to natural variation in your performance.

Mike will give you the spreadsheet, show you how it works, and explain how control limits can guide your understanding of recent results — and help you forecast future results.

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