2017 CEO Talent Summit
Your people are your business, and there’s no greater challenge than finding, keeping, aligning and motivating the right ones. The 2017 CEO Talent Summit, co-hosted by Embraer, will give you a leg up on the competition.
Starting with a keynote from The Disney Institute’s Jeff James, one of world’s top leadership training centers, you’ll engage and learn with top executives from storied organizations like Walt Disney, Cisco, Embraer, Anheuser-Busch, AARP and others at this intimate, interactive retreat.
Limited to 100 participants, you’ll develop new contacts and relationships from across the spectrum of American business, and come away with real strategies you can put to work right away, creating a culture that engages employees, making them more innovative and productive.
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Featured Speakers
Agenda
Tuesday, October 24
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7:30 PM
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Wednesday, October 25
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7:30-8:20 AM
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Breakfast and Networking |
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8:20-8:30 AM
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Kickoff Talent Summit 2017 Wayne and Marshall Cooper | Chairman and CEO, Chief Executive Group |
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8:30-9:30 AM
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SPECIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Magic of the Kingdom: How Disney Does it
Jeff James |The Disney Institute
Walt Disney is one of the most successful, creative enterprises ever created, an innovation juggernaut that has shaped global culture for almost a century.
How do they do it? With a time-tested model for talent development that brings out the best in their leaders and employees—and delights their customers. This is your chance to meet Jeff James, leader of the world-renowned Disney Institute, as he shares the secrets and strategies behind Disney’s magic. You’ll leave with exciting ideas for unlocking the magic inside your organization. |
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9:30-10:15 AM |
View From the Top
Gary Spulak | Embraer
Spulak leads US operations for a $6 billion global aviation powerhouse. That means creating, developing and retaining a workforce of skilled tradesmen and creative technologists, a team capable of building some of the most sophisticated, complex machines in the world. So how does he do it? How is Embraer finding and attracting the right people? What’s working? What’s not? And what's his outlook for the years ahead?
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10:15-10:45 AM
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Networking Break |
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10:45-11:30 AM
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HIRE | Problem/Solution: Getting Employees in the Door
Terry Cooper | SAFT Batteries Michelle Kaufman, M.S. | Navy Federal Credit Union Finding the right people for your organization is just the start—now you’ve got to bring them aboard. Two longtime veterans of the Talent Wars share hard-won advice for C-Suite executives facing the most intractable hiring problems, such as attracting the “right” talent to the “wrong” locations, ramping up quickly for a new division, selling sought-after candidates on joining their companies, planning for future talent shortages and more. |
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11:30 AM-12:45 PM
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Concurrent Roundtables
In facilitated peer discussions, participants meet and share their experiences, insights
and ideas across a range of intriguing topics.
Leadership Disrupted Thought Leader: Ted Bililies | Managing Director, AlixPartners In today’s business environment, CEOs are facing increasing challenges; the pace of technology is constantly accelerating, employees and customers are more socially conscious, industries are facing disruption from digital transformation, and increased scrutiny on businesses has been compounded by growing transparency with social media. A CEO’s success is determined not only by their leadership style, but more importantly their ability to adapt the right leadership style for the disruption they face in their industries.
Stocking The Talent Pipeline Thought Leadership: Enterprise Florida Building the right workforce is about more than hiring. It’s about attracting and developing talent — and that’s more than the job of just business. Increasingly it means partnering a high-powered team of business leaders—very often CEOs—with economic development specialists to leverage all the assets of a region, from local schools to universities and more. It takes creativity, persistence and patience. It isn’t easy. But the payoff can be enormous. This interactive roundtable will:
Develop Your Employee Value Proposition to Attract and Retain Talent Thought Leadership: Dan Fries | Sibson Consulting Why do some companies attract significantly more than their fair share of talent, have lower levels of turnover and consistently deliver superior results? Winning companies like Google and Southwest Airlines view the recruitment, development and retention of talent as a key component of consistent innovation and differentiated competitive advantage. These companies have a formal Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that guides them and which they communicate to current and potential employees. |
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12:45-2:00 PM
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Lunch
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2:00-2:45 PM
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TRAIN | Skills: The Holy Grail Cissy Proctor | Florida Dept of Economic Opportunity
Maggie Laurenao | Embraer
Andrew Collins | Career Source Florida
Faced with rapid technological and market changes, companies—and communities — have found the requirements for their talent pools changing fast. Looking to skill and reskill their current and future workforces, they’re turning to apprenticeships, partnerships with educational institutions and even beefing upgrade school STEM programs. We’ll explore how one public-private partnership tackled the skills challenge to create a victory for the company and the community, and see what ideas you can adapt.
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2:45-3:45 PM
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ENGAGE | Creating a Culture of Engagement
Omar Soliman | College Hunks Hauling Junk
Right out of college, Omar Soliman joined with a high school buddy to launch a local moving service they cleverly named College Hunks Hauling Junk. Twelve years later, this award-winning company, headquartered in Tampa, Florida, has franchise operations in 35 states and Canada and a dedicated workforce that waxes eloquent about the company’s culture on the College Hunks website. Soliman, now 35, offers insights into how he built—and maintains—an engaged cross-country, cross-generational team of dedicated haulers (and explains why turning down the money he was offered on Shark Tank was the best thing he could have done).
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3:45-4:00 PM
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Networking Break
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4:00-4:30 PM
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FIND |10 Key Recruiting Trends
Tony Lee | Vice President of Editorial, SHRM
As we head into 2018, CEOs must accept that this digital, collaborative world requires new, innovative recruitment strategies. In this pivotal session, Tony Lee will discuss the top 10 trends of recruitment for 2018 and how you can swiftly and successfully integrate them into your business.
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4:30-5:20 PM
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INTERACTIVE | The 100 Best Talent Ideas
We'll break into small brainstorming groups and put the 500+ years of collective insight and business in the room to work on your most difficult problems, unearthing hard-won tips, techniques and trade secrets you can put to work immediately.
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5:20-6:30 PM
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Reception
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6:30-8:30 PM |
Dinner
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Thursday, October 26
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7:30-8:20 AM
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Breakfast and Roundtables
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8:30-9:15 AM
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ENGAGE| The Workplace of the Future
Gale Moutrey |
Vice President of Global communications, Steelcase
Do open, flexible spaces work better than private offices? Can offices function when everyone is working remotely? What encourages the most productivity, innovation and teamwork? No one studies the workplace more closely than Steelcase—here’s what their research has to say about how the workplace impacts work and what’s to come in the years ahead.
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9:15-10:00 AM
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ENGAGE | Taking Advantage of the Intergenerational Workforce
Lori Trawinski, Ph.D., CFP |
AARP Public Policy Institute
Susan Jacobs | Newport News Shipbuilding
Millennials are now a force to be reckoned with. Baby boomers are sticking around in greater numbers than expected. And Gen X is caught somewhere in the middle. In this panel, an expert on generational differences and a top executive test the bounds of theory and practice to explore collaborative efforts, the lessons the generations can teach each other, and the ways in which the company benefits in the bargain.
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10:00-10:15 AM
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Networking Break
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10:15-10:45 AM
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FIND | Inside Talent's Tech Revolution
Jill Larsen | Cisco
Larsen is in charge of making sure this $48 billion tech titan hires and retains right people to compete in one of the world's most competitive industries. To do it, she's led a digital transformation of the company's talent acquisition team over the last four years, from technology to brand and social media strategies. She'll share her insights from the front lines of recruiting's technology revolution, discuss why she thinks cloud-based systems are the future of HR and explain how you can take advantage of these tectonic shifts, no matter how big or small your organization. |
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10:45-11:35 AM
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RETAIN | The Ultimate Challenge
Sandro Bassili | Anheuser-Busch
Brigette McInnis-Day | SAP
While we’ve seen the problems companies have faced finding, hiring, and training the right talent, the real trick is getting a return on that investment by retaining them. Toward that end, companies have experimented with new feedback mechanisms and approaches to performance management, creative compensation structures, and new approaches to succession planning. This discussion, between two executives who have wrestled with retention, brings the Summit full circle.
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11:35 AM-2:15 PM
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Lunch and Bus Trip to Embraer |
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2:15-3:30 PM
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Embraer Tour
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3:30-5:00 PM
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Bus Ride to Airport then back to Hotel, Adjourn
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*Agenda subject to change.
2016 CEO Talent Summit
The CEO, Chairman and President of Proctor & Gamble discussed the importance of CEO and leadership team in creating and sustaining competitive advantage through talent management.
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Talent Summit attendees have the opportunity to network with their peers and industry experts to develop solutions for key talent challenges.
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Michael Arena, Head of Global Talent at General Motors, shared tactics on how to develop a more entrepreneurial workforce. |
Leverage your peers' experiences to determine what strategies suit your talent challenges best.
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President and CEO of Watt Global Media, Greg Watt, shared his "Results Only Work Environment" strategy and how it can engage companies' multi-generational workforce.
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Roundtable Sessions provide an intimate space for executives to discuss specific talent topics and challenges.
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Event Venues
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Embraer Melbourne Tour While at the Embraer Engineering & Technology Center, attendees will visit the mixed reality lab. By combining the rich, visual information of the real world and the flexibility offered by computer-generated images, the mixed reality lab allows Embraer engineers to create digital prototypes and evaluate their designs. This R&D center features a variety of cutting-edge technologies used by Embraer engineers to validate and test the solutions that will be commonplace in future aviation designs. Attendees will also tour the production line, capable of producing the entry-level Phenom 100, light Phenom 300, mid-light Legacy 450 and midsize Legacy 500 business jets. Here, the team receives the main aircraft components from its sister divisions in Brazil and Portugal, as well as components from suppliers around the globe, to complete the final assembly process. The visit will be capped off at the Customer Center, where customers from around the world come to design their aircraft, selecting colors, materials, paint and options. The facility is also home to the delivery suites for all U.S. assembled Embraer Executive Jets. |
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Hotel Information Waldorf Astoria Orlando 14200 Bonnet Creek Resort Lane Orlando, FL 32821 Please click here to make your reservation, or call the Waldorf Astoria's reservation team at 1-888-353-2009 and use the group code WCEO. A block of rooms at a discounted rate has been created for attendees of the 2017 Talent Summit. General sessions, breakfasts, and roundtable discussions will be held in the hotel, which serves as the primary location during the 2017 Talent Summit. |
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