Conference Breakout Speakers  

Maximizing Your Leadership Strengths 

Jill Carter 

Principal, Carter Consulting; CPM Instructor 

Tired of focusing on your weaknesses? Using the breakthrough models of Dr. Donald Clifton and Marcus Buckingham’s Strengths Finder, Ms. Carter works with managers to identify leadership strengths, determine preferences and patterns of behavior, and chart courses of action. This workshop also addresses communication, planning and supervision skills for leaders of all kinds. 

Crucial Conversations: Being Our Best When It Matters Most 

Neil Staker  

Founder, PeopleSmart Solutions 

Organizational Behavior expert and Master Trainer, Neil Staker takes participants into the heart of communicating the most difficult and crucial messages. Mr. Staker introduces concepts and models for resolving failed promises, transforming bad behaviors, and strengthening relationships while solving problems.  

Negotiating with Integrity 

Ron Vandermyde 

President, Premier Management Associates 

Author Ron Vandermyde shares his decades of experience as a business negotiator in the realm of public and private sectors. Uniquely, Mr. Vandermyde addresses ethics and standards of decency in the shrewd and sometimes unscrupulous world of negotiations. Mr. Vandermyde will share council in how participants can maintain integrity while arriving at mutually beneficial agreements. 

Leadership In Project Management 

Dr. Brent Hansen 

Chair, Graduate School of Business, Argosy University 

Dr. Hansen shares valuable insight into structures and considerations in managing projects successfully. Dr. Hansen will answer questions related to project management  and help participants grasp the principles of effective leadership over this important and growing competency. 

Leading, Guiding and Directing 

Kurt Weiland, 

El Jefe Gordo, Jefferson Smith Training & Consulting 

Kurt Weiland shares three distinct styles of leadership and management. Mr. Weiland’s energetic and oft-times humorous look at leadership struggles will bring insight into participant’s own patterns of behavior and renew commitments to effective application of sound management principles.    

The High Cost of Bureaucratic Writing 

Kurt Weiland 

El Jefe Gordo, Jefferson Smith Training & Consulting 

Poor writing can kill and it has. Through historic examples of poor writing style, Mr. Weiland shares tragic tales and dire consequences that owe their fate to simple writing mistakes. Participants are sure to remember a few key tips to improve their written communication and avert tragic ends. 

TBA 

Dan Chase   

Training Manager, Utah Department of Human Resource Management

Emotional Intelligence has redefined what it means to be “smart” and what it takes to be an effective leader. Intellect and technical competence are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the key to leadership as well as career and interpersonal success. Dan Chase helps participants recognize the role Emotional Intelligence plays in leader/follower interactions, learn strategies to increase emotional intelligence, discover ways to deliver feedback using emotional intelligence, and employ the components of emotional intelligence in meeting challenges and overcoming difficult times.