About The 2017 Leadership Conference
Join over 200 CEOs and key executives at the premier senior leadership conference in the United States. This is an opportunity to enhance your leadership skills and network with other senior leaders across industries.
Meet with other CEOs to discuss tactics and strategies to enable you and your organization to accelerate revenue growth and profitability. Now in its 19th year, the CEO Leadership Conference features best practice thought leaders as well as CEOs of a number of prominent Mid-Market companies across America.
With compelling speakers, engaging roundtables, and informative breakout sessions, you don’t want to miss the 2017 Leadership Summit November 2-3.
FEATURING
JIM COLLINS
Best-selling author and advisor to CEOs on strategy, sustainability and growth
Jim Collins’ research has literally re-defined much of the language of modern business today. More specifically, no one has come close to Collins in defining one of the most important question for all business leaders which is… “What makes the best companies truly stand out from their peers?”
At this conference Collins will unveil what his current research is suggesting for the companies & leaders striving to be the very best.
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The 2017 Leadership Conference featuring Jim Collins is now sold out
As with previous sell outs of this Conference, we will be keeping a waiting list in the event of any cancellations. To put your name on the waiting list simply click here or call JoEllen Belcher, Conference Manager at 785-832-0303.
Agenda
Thursday, November 2
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Informal Networking Breakfast |
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8:00 - 8:10 AM
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Conference Overview
Bob Grabill| Executive Chairman, CEN & SEN
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8:10 - 9:35 AM
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Featured Speaker: Jim Collins
Author of Good to Great, How Mighty FallCo-Author of both Great By Choice and Built to Last Management Educator, The Good to Great Project LLC. Jim Collins is the not only the foremost business author of this century but also a student and teacher of leadership and what makes great companies tick. Having invested a quarter century researching some of the most important business topics, he has authored or coauthored six books that have sold in total more than 10 million copies worldwide. They include Good to Great, the #1 bestseller, which examines why some companies and leaders make the leap to superior results as well as the enduring classic Built to Last, which explores how some leaders build companies that remain visionary for generations. More recent additions to the great Jim Collins collection include How the Mighty Fall, which delves into how once-great companies can self-destruct; and most recently, Great by Choice, which is about thriving in chaos—why some do, and others don't—and the leadership behaviors needed in a world beset by turbulence, uncertainty, and dramatic change. Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he conducts research and engages in Socratic dialogue with CEOs and senior-leadership teams. |
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9:35 - 10:00 AM
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Networking Break
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10:00 - 11:30 AM
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Jim Collins Presentation Continued and Q&A
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11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
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Networking Lunch
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1:00 - 2:25 PM
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Roundtable Discussion Sessions
In our professionally facilitated roundtables you will "unpack" with peer executives salient take-homes from Collins' talk.
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2:45 - 4:00 PM
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Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton
Featured Speaker: Lee Ellis
Leadership Consultant, Coach and Keynote Speaker
Founder/Owner of Leadership Freedom LLC and FreedomStar Media
Author of Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton and Engage with Honor: Building a Culture of Courageous Accountability Drawing from his five-year Vietnam POW experience and eighteen years of leadership consulting in large and small businesses, Lee shares strategic best practices for confronting the toughest leadership challenges which senior leaders face. Lee will help us walk away with a commitment to grow in the character and courage needed to actually make changes and lead at a higher level. Specifically Lee will discuss:
How to utilize courage as the bridge in understanding and overcoming the doubts and fears which all too often undermine success.
How to gain insight into your tilt on the balance between results & relationships and from this grow as a more effective leader.
The importance of connecting, communicating, and collaborating. These are not just essential leadership principles but in the POW camps these were literally a matter of life and death.
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4:00 - 4:15 PM
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Networking Break
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4:15 - 5:30 PM
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Amazing Experiences Start with Remaining Relevent
Featured Speaker: Ross Shafer
CEO of Ross Shafer Consultants, Inc.
Author of 8 business books on leadership, customer experience, and personal performance 6-time Emmy Award Winning Comedian and Writer "Market Relevance" is a moving target. Every organization must continually adapt (and adjust) to shifting customer habits and expectations. In this session Ross will discuss who succeeds, who fails, and why. You will hear inspiring case studies of customer-facing team members who have literally revolutionized industries by under-thinking innovation. Sound impossible? Wait until you hear Ross Shafer. Learning Objectives: How leaders and team members can generate and endless supply of innovative ideas How to use the 'Startup Mentality' to be ultimately responsible for personal, team, and company success
How to identify (and correct) the behaviors that cause customers to buy from your competition
How to get better performance & relationship building from your younger workforce
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6:00 - 7:00 PM
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Networking Reception
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Networking Dinner
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Friday, November 3
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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8:00 - 9:30 AM
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Featured Speaker: Brian Beaulieu President, ITR Economics Senior Economic Advisor, National Association of Wholesale-Distributors Senior Economist, Numerous Domestic and Foreign Trade Associations Author, Make Your Move and Prosperity in the Age of Decline
ITR has one of the highest forecast accuracy on economic predictions of any firm in the country. Brian will walk us through the short and long term economic predictions and how each sector and sub-sector will be affected.
Specifically Brian will discuss:
Look at why ITR is forecasting growth for the global economy in 2018 followed by a mild downturn in 2019
Present some longer term trends that will impact all of us not just for the next three years but for the next 10 years
Examine what business leaders can do to maximize the positive trends and protect their bottom line from the adverse trends
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9:30 - 9:45 AM
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Networking Break
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9:45 - 11:15 AM
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Featured Speaker: Roch Parayre Ph.D. Partner, Heidrick & Struggles Leadership ConsultingTeaching Fellow at The Wharton School Learning Objectives:
Understanding the various elements that make up strategic thinking and leadership
An awareness of the drive and drag factors that affect your organization’s performance
Ultimately, better decision making, more agile strategies and plans, and ability to navigate uncertainty
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11:15 AM
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Closing Remarks and Adjourn
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*Agenda subject to change
Event Venue
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Hotel Information Westin Denver International Airport Hotel 8300 Peña Blvd, Denver, CO 80249 Please click here to make your reservation or call 855-811-0228 with group code "Chief Executive Network Fall Leadership Conference" by October 4, 2017 to receive our premier rate of $225. |
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Contact Us
Have a question about the 2017 Leadership Conference?
Please contact JoEllen Belcher, Director of Membership Events at joellen@chiefexec.com or at 785-832-0303 x110.