Group 2734: 2020-2021 Remaining Meetings and Speakers
10/14/20 - Executive Session
10/17/20 - Retreat
11/11/20 - Executive Session
12/9/20 - Executive Session
2021 Meeting and Speaker Schedule
1/13/21 - Speaker Bob Kulhan “Virtual Leadership: How Do You Show Up?”
Program Description
The method in which we communicate has changed drastically. We hit pause on our in-person meetings and replaced them with virtual engagements. Whether we are leading a meeting with our internal team or we are pitching and presenting to an external client, the way we package and present ourselves has become even more important now than ever before. The casual lead-in chats are replaced by scheduled meetings, and in virtual sessions, we are always “on”. To add to the adversity, we only have the time “on screen” to affect our audience and we have limited ways to gauge our audience’s reaction to our message. This “Ride the Bike” style Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) is a high-energy, experiential learning program that is rooted in behavioral science, dynamic discussions, and real-world applicability. From a participant’s perspective, Business Improv programs are very dynamic experiences. Each participant learns every exercise en masse (concurrent learning), which strengthens muscle memory (unconscious competency) and core decision-making. Further, our approach creates a psychologically safe environment wherein no one is “singled out” as an example and each participant has the opportunity to learn from doing (procedural learning), rather than learn from watching (declarative learning). Attendees will walk out of this session with Business Improv tools and techniques that they can apply immediately!
Value To Members
Business Improv programs are based in high-energy experiential learning exercises that are pinned down by the behavioral sciences linking directly to real-world applications. You will walk out with tools & techniques which you can apply immediately to drive performance for increased profits.
Virtual Presence (Showing Up) – Cultivating a greater sense of self-awareness; maintaining accountability to oneself within virtual settings; understanding of how energy + attitude + simple framing of language can influence others positively within virtual communication
Virtual Relationship Building – Strengthening empathetic communication and connection by developing an aptitude for better adaptive communication and collaboration in a virtual world
Virtual Collaboration – Developing the skill set for overcoming barriers to communication, while creating collaborative and creative environments for adaptive problem solving in virtual arenas
Influence – Defining what makes a message sticky and the messenger memorable
Transferability & Sustainability – Defining the techniques that can be applied immediately and authentically in the next virtual engagements
Biography
Bob Kulhan is an adjunct professor at Duke Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School and the Founder & CEO of Business Improv® – a 21-year-old consultancy that links improv to business through the behavioral sciences and real-world application. Kulhan is a master improviser, and for 26 years Bob has performed and taught improvisation internationally, at the highest levels. His teaching and performing credits include Chicago's famed Second City (main stage (understudy), core faculty & master artist), Improv Olympic (resident company/faculty), Baby Wants Candy (2005 Ensemble of the Year Award), Columbia College, London TheaterSports, The Banff Centre, The Australian Graduate School of Management, and Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Based out of Chicago, LA & New York City, Business Improv is a world-class leader in developing experiential On-Site, Virtual Instructor-Lead Training (VILT) & Digital asynchronous learning programs for businesses. Kulhan has tailored Business Improv programs around the globe for a number of blue-chip companies and organizations including AstraZeneca, Glaxo Smith Kline, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, Booz Allen Hamilton, Pricewaterhouse Cooper, Marathon Oil, Colgate-Palmolive, Raytheon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the New York Red Bulls. Kulhan specializes in working with Boards of Directors, C-Suites, Executives, Senior Leadership, and High Potential executives and teams. Specifically for C-Suite and Senior Executive Leadership, Kulhan and Business Improv has created original programs for the US Department of Defense (Vanguard Program), Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, The Spaceship Company (TSC), Danaher, Vanguard, Structure Tone, Aetna, Amgen, Procter & Gamble R&D University (Band V), and Takada (VBU), and the US Naval Academy, to name a few. Bob has published white papers and his writing has been featured in a number of publications including Inc, Entrepreneur.com and Training Magazine. Bob is also the author of ‘GETTING TO YES AND: The Art of Business Improv’, by Stanford University Press, January 2017.
2/10/21 - Speaker Linda Schwefel “Insights into Leadership Development, Managing Relationships and High Performance Teams”
Program Description
Linda Schwefel teaches how the Insights Discovery System, developed in 1988 and now experienced by more than five million people, can be applied to improving leadership effectiveness, developing better managers, improving teams and increasing sales performance. This program is also excellent for spouse retreatS. Using personal preference data collected in advance of the session, Linda Schwefel will help Vistage members to identify their own personal communications style using the Insights Discovery Profile.
This session begins with an introduction of Jungian psychology, starting with perception, and key exercises that enable CEOs, leaders, managers to realize that most of their work environment is a function of their perception. Participants will then experience an increase in awareness of their own conscious and less conscious states, and begin to differentiate between the behaviors associated with both. Each participant will then receive a 22-page individual Insights Discovery Profile created from online responses gathered in advance of the session. Participants then engage actively with each other to put their knowledge of self, combined with their new understanding of others, through various personal and workplace scenarios.
Value To Members
They then learn how to leverage this knowledge to:
• Better lead their organizations
• Better manage stress and improve personal wellness
• Quickly develop their emerging managers
• Improve team performance
• Increase sales
• Improve their personal relationships
Biography
Linda Schwefel, Managing Partner of Discover Yourself, brings over 20 years of training, keynote speaking, coaching, and professional selling experience to her role as speaker, facilitator and Vistage presenter. She has been a Sales Manager, and Top Salesperson with Xerox, where she was the Marketing Representative of the Year Nationwide for her first year. Linda later worked as an Account Manager for Versyss Corporation (OEM for IBM), where she was ranked 2nd nationally out of 700 Sales Representatives 5 years in a row. Today she delivers keynotes, teaches and coaches using the Insights Discovery System. Linda delivers an engaging and informative session. She lives in Excelsior, MN with her husband Scott, who is also a Vistage speaker.
3/3/21 - TBD
4/12/21 - Executive Session (Half day)
5/12/21 - Speaker Todd Musselman “The Vital Choice – The Victim vs. The Ownership Mindset”
Program Description
Todd’s focus for the workshop is on creating a mindset of personal ownership to optimize each individual's leadership skills, capabilities and results. Todd utilizes the victim/owner distinction to demonstrate the profound difference between operating in the victim mindset (reacting to circumstances) vs. the ownership mindset (creating your circumstances) and the effect each mindset has on one's overall performance as a leader. Using a series of distinctions, the presentation clearly defines and differentiates these mindsets, and demonstrates how to choose into the ownership mindset more consistently to produce lasting results both personally and professionally. Examples of these distinctions include: “Have to” (victim) vs. “Want to” (owner), “Pleasing” (victim) vs. “Serving” (owner), “Interested (victim) vs. “Committed” (owner). In addition, the workshop provides steps to further develop each individual’s leadership qualities in six critical areas: trust, integrity, effective communication, acknowledgement/empowerment, accountability and collaboration.. Using a dynamic combination of stories, humor and experiential exercises, Todd provides a fun, inspiring and highly interactive workshop that will leave each participant with the tools and the mindset to create powerful results in their lives.
Value To Members
The primary value that each member will receive from Todd’s workshop is a greater awareness of how they are showing up as leaders both at work and at home. Are they consistently coming from the victim mindset or the ownership mindset? The training will clearly illuminate their dominant mindset and the effect it has on their leadership and overall performance. By gaining this awareness, each individual can then choose out of the limiting mindset (victim) and into the empowering mindset (owner) more intentionally. The workshop provides tangible strategies and action steps that demonstrate how to choose into the ownership mindset more consistently and by doing so greatly enhance their leadership capabilities. In addition, each participant will walk away with tools that enable them to create greater value through their conversations at work and at home. The workshop has as much value to members in their personal life as it does in their role as a leader of their organization.
Biography
https://vimeo.com/114826228, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qSLAvRGXCA&feature=youtu.be
Todd Musselman is the owner of Timberline Leadership. Founded in 2009, Timberline’s mission is to be an agent of positive transformation for individuals, teams and organizations. Todd is a powerful and effective leader who combines his background as a business owner, director of sales, and sales representative to produce strong, measurable results in the fields of cultural change, sales training, motivational speaking and executive/life coaching. As an organizational/leadership trainer, Todd brings over 25 years of experience working in his family owned business. As part owner of the company, Todd served in many different capacities. His primary role was that of director of sales. Todd was charged with managing 55 independent sales representatives across the US and Canada. In addition, as a sales representative, Todd successfully created and maintained an account base of over 350 retail businesses. Further, Todd played an integral role in personnel management, product development, marketing/sales strategy, cultural initiatives and board governance. Given his background, Todd is particularly adept in creating results in the area of sales, leadership development and cultural transformation. Todd graduated from Colorado State University in 1986 with a BA in Sociology.
6/9/21 - Speaker Harvey Goldberg “Leadership at 12 O’Clock High”
Program Description
The classic movie “ 12 O'Clock High,” is probably the most influential movie used in management training. This surprising fact is a consequence of the movie's remarkable portrayal of leadership styles. Leadership can be a difficult topic to fully grasp in a meeting room environment. This highly interactive, “showing rather than telling” presentation, explores leadership in a unique way. The movie is used as a case study. The group will closely observe segments of the movie and analyze the behavior of two key characters.
The presentation focuses on differing leadership behavioral emphases. The group will critically evaluate two commanders with very different styles, then discuss the effectiveness of the leadership behaviors demonstrated, and experience how an effective leader adapts leadership emphasis to meet specific situations.
Trained by David Hutton (Rightbrain World), Harvey Goldberg delivers this experiential presentation to illustrate behaviors to inform and educate the "Right Brain" emotional, creative side of participants through movie segments.
Value to members
This program will enable members to:
Evaluate their own natural leadership behavior
Improve their understanding of adaptive leadership behaviors
Develop specific action plans to expand their range of leadership behaviors
Biography
Harvey Goldberg is a thought provoker. He doesn't believe everything he thinks. He is more interested in thinking about and questioning what he believes. From Harvey's perspective, this is the key to growth, continuous improvement and achieving peak performance results. Harvey has more than 30 years of experience in company ownership and management and more than 4000 hours of direct coaching of CEO's and business owners Currently, he is an advisor to an extremely diverse set of companies and nonprofits, including the Washington Humane Society. Teaching principles he has learned and successfully executed in fueling the growth of his own companies is one of Harvey's greatest gifts. Helping business owners grow and maximize their business and personal potential is his life's work and passion. A former Vistage member, Harvey became a Vistage Chair after selling his business.
7/14/21 - Executive Session
8/11/21 - TBD
9/10/21 - Speaker Retreat TBD
10/13/21 - Executive Session
11/10/21 - Executive Session
12/8/21 - Executive Session