Invest In Your Future

True Success is about having an edge on excellence.What gives some individuals and organizations the edge on becoming the best, while others struggle to succeed? What crucial focus gives an organization the ability to make the powerful leap from keeping up with the competition to leading their industry?

The Excellence Edge is more than just implementing a better strategy. It is the conscious decision by individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve something far more productive, profitable and rewarding! It is about practicing excellence - everyday. This program will provide you and your organization with the important skill sets that you need to build, practice and sustain excellence.

The Excellence Edge: New Strategies for Creating Extraordinary Results is an unparalleled opportunity to take advantage of powerful insights from three of the world's most influential minds on the topic of implementing excellence, driving innovation, and building teamwork. Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard and Marcus Buckingham will present the principles and processes that will help you execute more effectively, efficiently and passionately. You'll learn powerful, new strategies for executing excellence and the innovation that drives the dynamic transformation of individuals and organizations. Don't miss this incredible opportunity for positive change!

Excellence is a choice. On April 26th, you can kick start your own process by spending a day with the best of the best. Presented by America's Leading Colleges and Universities and produced by the Luminary Series, The Excellence Edge: New Strategies for Creating Extraordinary Results is one day that will change how you and your organization capitalize on potential, and create a passion for excellence!

How This Amazing One-Day Event Will Help You Prepare For Your Future:

Learn Crucial Focus
Recognize the crucial factors that have been proven to transform individuals and groups from average to excellent. Learn how to gain and sustain the edge.

Increase Productivity and Profitability
Develop a strategy to capitalize on your team member's talents and strengths and turn your organization's potential into productivity and profitability.

Clarify your purpose
Define your purpose by emphasizing the importance of focus and clarity. Help your organization zero in on its vision for the future.

Find out why some organizations may be looking the wrong way
Discover why attaining greatness may hinge on doing what other companies are not. Learn why breaking the rules of conventional business wisdom can lead to great success.

Thrive on Chaos
Construct a plan that will help you successfully navigate a chaotic economic world and a disruptive business age.

Execute with Passion
Classify the steps that will help your organization develop and sustain a passion for excellence through discipline and laser-like focus on the things that really matter.

 The Speakers

Tom Peters has spent the majority of his life dissecting and studying economic successes and failures. He's found that everything takes a back seat to innovation and has authored many of the most widely read business books on the subject in the world, including In Search of Excellence, A Passion for Excellence, Thriving on Chaos, Liberation Management, and now Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age. FORTUNE® Magazine likens Tom Peters with Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and H.L. Mencken. The 2004 Bloomsbury Press book Movers and Shakers said that "Tom has probably done more than anyone else to shift the debate on management from the confines of the boardroom and academia..."

Few leadership figures have impacted the day-to-day management of people and organizations more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate people in business today. Ken Blanchard is the only author to have four books on Business Week's Top 15 best-seller list at one time (The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, and Everyone's a Coach in 1996). Dr. Blanchard has written many other best-sellers including Gung Ho!, and High Five! As Chairman of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a full-service management consulting and training company, his principles have helped businesses around the world improve customer service, raise employee morale and boost the bottom line.

During his 17 years with The Gallup Organization, Marcus Buckingham helped lead research on the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces. That research led to a unique understanding of how to 'engage' today's workforce. It was also the basis for two bestselling books: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Best Managers Do Differently and Now, Discover Your Strengths. His latest book, The One Thing You Need to Know offers solid insights into innovative thinking, and real leadership, the hallmarks of his expertise. Buckingham is considered one of the world's leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing. Buckingham was appointed as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management.