Whether it's a problem with poor quality, employee challenges, declining customer satisfaction, or a strained relationship, if you cannot talk honestly you can expect poor results. When we fail at crucial conversation, every aspect of our lives can be affected. The most basic human need—beyond basic survival instincts—is the need to be heard and understood. Leadership at all levels is accomplished through influence which begins with effective communication. This interactive session will sharpen your empathic listening skills and help you improve personal and professional relationships.

• Improve communication
• Enhance listening skills

Open Book Management (OBM) is a lot more than you may think. You may wonder if it something that you can do … and will it work. Yes it can!

OBM is a unique methodology and approach to running a company. It is based on a simple, yet powerful belief, “When employees think, act and feel like owners….everybody wins.” This thoroughly tested operating system (as explained in Jack Stack’s bestselling book, The Great Game of Business) teaches your people the fundamentals of business, involves them at levels they may never have been involved before, holds them accountable and provides them a stake in the outcome.

• In this session, you will be involved in exploring the following topics:
• Know & Teach the Rules
• Assessing your organization’s financial literacy level.
• Using financial training bites to engage your team
• Establishing a Critical Number 
• Provide a Stake in the Outcome including Bonus Plan design in OBM and MiniGames as incentives

Discussing real time events in light of the best-selling book LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.

With the stroke of a pen on a grand jury indictment, the Enron Task Force destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs world-wide--only to be reversed three years later by a unanimous Supreme Court because Andersen's conduct was not criminal and the prosecutors had persuaded the judge to take criminal intent out of the jury instructions. They then turned their sights to Merrill Lynch and sent four Merrill Lynch executives to prison on an indictment that criminalized innocent business conduct while they hid the evidence that showed the defendants were innocent. Stay tuned . . . there's more.

Experience a motivating and informational session for professionals to learn effective no-cost to low-cost strategies to boost credibility and project comfortable confidence to colleagues, clients, and prospective clients. These Professional Presence practices will project on the outside the quality of your knowledge, skills, and experience and the quality of your services by the way you look, speak and behave. From introvert to extrovert, these uncomplicated strategies will make a positive difference in your career!

You will: 

• Learn to apply body language skills to project your knowledge and credibility.
• Discover the top five insider tips about clothing choices that says "I mean business."

Healthcare premiums have spiraled out of control – continually rising with no relief in sight. During this challenging period, employers have needed to shift all or part of these costs to employees. The fact that wages are stagnant or rising slowly, puts great pressure on the company's workforce. The Dilemma Companies Face: How to Address this Imbalance. This is where CFOs, Controllers, and Finance can play a major role - by helping to cut back costs and thus narrow the gap between employee premiums and compensation. In this session, Anthony Carlozo of Trion will present the benchmarks, levers employers can pull, and demonstrate various case studies to illustrate the impact of some of the techniques he will discuss.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the state of the market and benchmarks
• Learn the cost containment strategies available to the marketplace
• Talk through real life case studies of several strategies

The emergence of digital disruption, artificial intelligence and FinTech is upon us! What are you actively doing to drive impact in your organization in this business environment?  

Today’s CFO must be agile in their business, ambitious with their goals, and effective in how they manage their teams through the changing business environment. They need to fully incorporate financial technologies available to them in order to drive impact on their business and beat the competition.

In this session, John McLeod, VP Marketing at VersaPay, will take you on a journey through how companies have successfully capitalized on the FinTech boom, adopted automation into their corporate strategy, transitioned financial operations to a digital platform to effectively transact with customers, and demonstrated leadership in their industry.

• Objective 1: How today's CFO must be progressive and agile by incorporating financial technologies into their business practices in order to be an industry leader.
• Objective 2: Learn how companies have capitalized on the FinTech boom by automating their corporate strategy and transitioning financial operations on to a digital platform to more effectively interact with their customers.

With big changes at the Fed, with our tax laws and increasing global tensions, understanding the prospects for both the UW and world economy has never been more important. Join us as Jim Glassman, Chief Economist for JP Morgan Chase gives us insight into what to expect from the coming year. The discussion will include thoughts on the market, interest rates and factors that impact all of us in both our business and personal lives.