On-demand Events

It's undeniable that we're entering a new era of remote work. While many leaders seek to run business as usual, why settle for the usual when remote teams allow us to work even better? The research shows that employees are more productive and engaged when they have the freedom to work from anywhere. Which means leaders need the skills to lead from anywhere. In this meticulously researched, refreshingly practical talk, top business thought leader David Burkus provides managers with a complete guide to leading remotely, packed with everyday examples and illuminating insights. Burkus tackles the key inflection points and challenges that remote managers face from taking the team remote and adding new members, to communicating effectively and quickly, managing performance, keeping the team engaged, and even helping them strike the right balance between work and life. This talk provides everything you'll need to survive and thrive as the leader of a remote team-which is something all leaders will need to consider themselves from now on.

Recent studies revealed that over 70% of people don't notice nature on their daily commute. But businesses are run by people, and interaction with nature is an essential part of being human. We have developed a nature blind spot, and Jez believes it's a hugely overlooked cause of most of the challenges workforces face today. Never has a topic been more timely or relevant. In this highly engaging and fascinating presentation, Jez provides a striking insight into human behavior and why we do what we do, positioning change as a natural and opportunity to adapt and evolve. The world around us, and our lives within it, is ever-changing and constantly evolving. Yet change remains a significant cause of anxiety and disengagement in business. Jez shares his experience working with brands worldwide exploring how to improve the way we think, behave, and ultimately achieve. In his inimitable style he outlines eleven powerful and practical models for embracing change based on our innate relationship with nature to enhance performance, collaboration and culture. You'll learn: • The 11 practical models for embracing change as a tool to actively adapt, evolve and grow • Learn effective ways to develop new behaviors • Discover what ant colonies, chameleons and elephants can teach us about resilience and performance • Five principles to help you become the best you

Maybe current HR and leadership practices have never been all that impactful and relevant, but the challenges of today have certainly rendered them unfit - and that was even before the current crisis! Join Lucy Adams as she presents the case for how leaders and HR professionals can make sure they don't just go back to normal - but use the crisis to springboard into something better - a better normal! You'll learn: • How HR and leadership practices need to change fundamentally to keep pace with the needs of our organizations and our people • How the practices that we have seen during the crisis can be built upon to ensure that they create something better in the future • Practical examples of how progressive organizations are already implementing these new trends • How leaders and HR can become more agile, more responsive, and more credible by changing the way they work and deliver

It's no secret that today's leaders feel pulled in too many directions. In this talk, Dorie Clark - Harvard Business Review author and Duke University Fuqua School of Business executive education professor - will share concrete strategies to help you sharpen your strategic thinking and embrace a long-term perspective that pays future business and career dividends. Based on her new book, The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World, Clark shares unique principles and frameworks you can apply to your specific situation, as well as vivid stories from her own career and other professionals' experiences. Everyone is allotted the same 24 hours-but with the right strategies, you can leverage those hours in more efficient and powerful ways than you ever imagined. It's never an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and your career. You'll learn how to: • Create priorities with the future in mind • Understand what you're optimizing for • Make the right kind of tradeoffs • Achieve 'strategic patience' • Place little bets to identify promising leads and emergent possibilities

Grit is key to our success any time, but especially in the midst of uncertainty, challenge and change. Join Shannon Huffman Polson, founder and CEO of the Grit Institute and author of The Grit Factor. As one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the US Army and a veteran of corporate life as well, Polson shares stories and lessons from the cockpit of the most technologically advanced helicopter in the world that apply to the challenges you face today. Using her Commit-Learn-Launch framework as a backdrop, Polson draws on years of experience and research into grit and resilience, taking learners on a journey to plot their very own course for developing grit for themselves and their organizations, to be better equipped to lead with grit and passion, to overcome resistance, and to embrace the courage of full ownership. You'll learn: • How a leader's internal work on story and purpose forms the foundation for grit • The mindset development necessary to build grit and resilience • Using grit to take risks, and how leaders address fear and failure Learners will come away freshly energized, with tactical takeaways for succeeding no matter what comes your way in today's world.

It is often said that there are only two certainties in this world: death and taxes. Dane Jensen would argue that there's a third: pressure. Pressure is an inevitable part of the human journey - of navigating work and family, pursuing goals, encountering setbacks, and growing. Dane has spent his career understanding pressure - what creates it, why it can lead to breakdowns, and what we can learn from those who channel pressure to breakthroughs. His research at the intersection of elite sport, academia, business, and Government has produced a straightforward equation for understanding pressure, and a series of habits that high performers use to perform and find joy under pressure. You'll learn: • The three components of the ‘pressure equation': every high-pressure situation comes from a combination of three factors. Understanding these factors is the first step to harnessing the power of pressure. Once you can diagnose the root causes of pressure, you can begin to act. • How to nail your peak pressure moments: in peak pressure moments like big presentations, exams, interviews or performances, our bodies are wired in ways that can sabotage us. We tense up, get tunnel vision, and miss key information. You'll discover three habits you can build to escape the traps of biology and perform to your peak when it matters most. • How to thrive over the long haul: the pressure of enduring a pandemic, tackling a major, multi-year project, or balancing work with young children is different than nailing a big sales call. People who understand how to perform under peak pressure and stay motivated through the long haul are unstoppable. Learning and mastering these skills will allow you to not only take advantage of the key moments that can define your career, but also to find joy along the journey of a high-pressure life.

When COVID-19 hit, businesses had to respond almost instantaneously - shifting employees to remote work, repairing broken supply chains, keeping pace with dramatically fluctuating customer demand. They were forced to adapt to a confluence of multiple disruptions inextricably linked to a longer term, ongoing digital disruption. Professor Jerry Kane's research shows that companies that use disruption as an opportunity for innovation emerge from it stronger. Companies that merely attempt to "weather the storm" until things go back to normal (or the next normal), on the other hand, miss an opportunity to thrive. Kane argues that transformation is not a one-and-done event, but a continuous process of adapting to a volatile and uncertain environment. Drawing on five years of research into digital disruption-including a series of more than 50 interviews with business leaders conducted during the COVID-19 crisis-Kane offers a framework for understanding disruption and tools for navigating it. Technology is not an end in itself, but enables the capabilities essential for surviving an uncertain future: nimbleness, scalability, stability, and optionality. You'll learn: • The differences between acute and chronic disruption, and why it matters • The characteristics of leaders that were able to help their organization navigate the severe disruption of COVID-19 • The digital technologies that did (and didn't) help their organization navigate disruption • Leadership lessons we should take away from the acute disruption that is COVID-19.

As life as we know it will continue to be uncertain for the next 18 months, how will you adapt accordingly to make the best decisions for your company, family, and self? How will we move forward as a society as information continues to change? National Security Analyst Juliette Kayyem will discuss preparedness and resilience pertaining to COVID-19 and help the audience assess how to accurately judge their responses as organizations, community members and individuals. In this presentation, Kayyem will reflect on what we can learn from 2020 and what it can teach us about becoming resilient organizations, teams and individuals. From over 20 years of working in the field, Kayyem will provide an overview of this global pandemic within a crisis management framework, and how to strategize within this period of adaptive recovery. With most disasters, societies are able to transition from response to recovery, however we are still recovering with the enemy among us. Adaptive recovery requires adaptation daily, and the need to settle a battle rhythm as we move forward.

Featuring a keynote by Shane Snow, an award-winning journalist, explorer, and entrepreneur, and the author of three books-including the #1 business bestseller Dream Teams. He speaks globally about innovation and teamwork, has performed comedy on Broadway, and been in the running for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism.

Featuring a keynote by Natalie Nixon, PhD, a creativity strategist and President of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC. Nixon is the author of The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work (Berrett-Koehler). She received her PhD from the University of Westminster in design management; her MS from Jefferson University in Global Textile Marketing; and her BA (cum laude) from Vassar College in anthropology and Africana Studies.

Featuring at keynote from Dr. Heidi Grant, a social psychologist who researches, writes, and speaks about the science of motivation. She is the Global Director of Research & Development for the Neuroleadership Institute, Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University, and author of the best-selling books: No One Understands You and What To Do About It, Succeed: How We Can All Reach Our Goals, Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing The World for Success and Influence, and The 8 Motivational Challenges.

Featuring a keynote from Tasha Eurich, organizational psychologist and author of Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life.

Featuring a keynote from Jay Conger, Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna Collage.

Featuring a keynote from Vanessa Van Edwards, Lead Investigator at Science of People and bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.