Invest In Your Future

Regardless of position, we are all leaders, each with the responsibility of making critical decisions every day. What are the next steps for your organization in gaining a competitive advantage? Which individuals will you call upon when building an effective team? What components are needed to execute organizational excellence and increase the bottom line everyday?
Now, at this powerful one-time event, you and your team will gather new insights from the world's top decision makers and team builders, and you'll learn the new skill sets for engineering organizations destined for greatness. You'll develop the skills to make critical decisions, create productivity, increase profitability and achieve exceptional results!

Leadership in the New Workplace: Building Organizations to Excel is an exceptional program featuring an unparalleled opportunity to learn powerful decision making tools and gain crucial skills from five of the world's most proven leaders. Join us for this powerful Luminary Series event where you'll hear from former U.S. Secretary of State, The Honorable Madeleine Albright, legendary organizational leader and long time Chairman and CEO of GE, Jack Welch, revolutionary sales trendsetter, Brian Tracy, Author of the New York Times Best-Selling book, Executive Intelligence and world renowned business relationship expert, Justin Menkes, as well as best selling business author and organizational thought leader, Pat Lencioni, author of three New York Times best-sellers including The 5 Day functions of a Team and The Five Temptations of Leader.

These unrivaled leaders in the business community will guide you to new, cutting edge processes and the proven principles of effective decision making, powerful team building and exponential growth. This essential business gathering will change the way you maintain focus and drive the engine of measurable accomplishment within your organization. June 21, 2006 is one day that will generate positive change for your entire team!

How your incredible day will unfold:

Session One - Justin Menkes

Being a leader requires crucial skills and Executive Intelligence. Justin Menkes, acclaimed author and the leading expert in the field of managerial assessment, shows you how to spot those skills in others, and how to develop them in yourself. His research will lead you and your team to the discovery of Executive Intelligence and he will present his assessment on how to quantifiably measure it within your organization. Menkes has received numerous international honors for his expertise, and is widely known for authoring the Wall Street Journal best-seller, Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have, as well as being a contributing editor for Chief Executive Magazine and The Harvard Business Review. Everyone can achieve Executive Intelligence, and Justin Menkes will show you how.

• Discover the executive intelligence within you
• Assess management effectiveness in yourself and others
• Develop lasting leadership ability

Session Two - Madeline Albright (special inter-active session)

During this incredible day, you'll learn valuable new principles for team building and critical decision making from America's first female Secretary of State, the Honorable Madeline Albright. You'll have an unprecedented opportunity for a direct question and answer segment with Madeleine Albright who faced incredible challenges, and using her years of diplomatic experience, incredible strength of will, bright and creative mind, along with flawless people skills, was able to forge powerful coalitions to work for enduring peace. As a member of the President Clinton's Cabinet, Albright served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997, and as Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. During this special interactive segment, you'll have to opportunity to pose your most pressing questions directly to The Honorable Madeline Albright!

• Build effective teams
• Make critical decisions with confidence
• Lead with vision and strength

Session Three - Pat Lencioni

A leader's success hinges on a few simple behaviors -behaviors that are often painfully difficult to master. Based on the model in his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Pat Lencioni captures the common pitfalls that all leaders face and suggests practical ways to overcome them. Patrick Lencioni is the founder and president of The Table Group, Inc., a specialized management-consulting firm focused on executive team development and organizational health. He is also author of several other New York Times best-sellers including, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Lencioni is a leading authority on the topic of organizational health, teamwork, change and corporate culture. He serves on numerous advisory boards and currently sits on the National Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. From Lencioni, you will learn the top pitfalls of leadership and proven ways to avoid them and strengthen your team.

• Learn the five temptations of a leader
• Spot and fix the five dysfunctions of many teams
• Avoid leadership pitfalls and gain strength from failure

Session Four - Jack Welch (special interactive segment)

Take advantage of this once-in-a lifetime opportunity to learn from one of the most respected business leaders in the world, former Chairman and CEO of GE, Jack Welch. While leading GE, Welch increased its market capitalization by $400 billion dollars making it the world's most valuable corporation. Learn new principles from his honest, be-the-best style of management and relentless focus on people, teamwork and profits which helped establish him as the most admired business leader in the world. Since retiring Welch has written two New York Times Best Sellers. In 2001 Welch wrote Jack: Straight from the Gut, followed by Winning in 2003. Now is your exclusive opportunity to learn new philosophies from this business icon!

• Win!
• Increase productivity and profitability
• Pick the best players for your team

Session Five - Brian Tracy

One of the most respected authors on personal and business success in the world, Brian Tracy's dynamic style will inform and inspire you toward peak performance. As founder and CEO of Brian Tracy International, his counsel has been sought by executive management in the development of several FORTUNE 500 corporations including IBM, McDonnell Douglas and The Million Dollar Round Table. A world-wide, best-selling author, he has written over 30 books including business and sales standards such as Maximum Achievement, Advanced Selling Strategies, and The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success. Regardless of what part of an organization you work in, Brian Tracy will tell you that everyone is in sales and teach you proven principles and new techniques that lead to increased sales, higher productivity and the control of your own destiny!

• Generate record sales
• Control your own destiny
• Reach your maximum potential

You will come away from this event with a profound new confidence in your ability to make crucial decisions. You'll learn how to implement Executive Intelligence, and how to select individuals who will help drive your organization's future. Our group of leaders has a powerful history of putting together dynamic teams and making vital decisions with ground-breaking results. They'll show you how to make the critical calls and bring everyone together to accomplish extraordinary goals. In the tug-of-war of today's business world, the strength of your leadership and the passion of your team will propel your organization into the forefront of your industry!

Learning Objectives for Leadership in the New Workplace:

Develop Core Leadership Skill Sets
This program will help you develop a core set of skills that all leaders, managers and team members must have to build stronger organizations every day.

Build Key Relationship Foundations for Stronger Teamwork
One of the key roles everyone faces in business is managing relationships. During this program, you will learn principles that will help you strengthen the foundation of those relationships and extend them into the future.

Learn Critical Methods for Making Crucial Decisions in Times of Chaos
Whether you are a leader, a manager, or a team member, times of crisis call for decisive action. During this full day event, you will learn new insights into the critical decision making processes throughout your organization from world renowned leaders.

Strengthen Principles for Building Vision within Your Organization
The incredible presenters of this program will show you how to clarify focus, and develop a unique vision for yourself, your team or your organization.

Discover and Quantify Executive Intelligence
Learn how to uncover and quantify executive intelligence in yourself and in others within your organization.