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CEO Retreat 2016
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Kingsmill Resort
1010 Kingsmill Road Williamsburg, VA 23185Refund Policy
Description
CEO ESSENTIALS! Connect*Learn*Grow
This year’s CEO Retreat program is all about the essentials. It is time for you to focus on the essentials to making you and your business do less, focus more, and grow. Our presenters bring experience and expertise on the topic. In main stage speeches and small group workshops, you will hear new ideas balanced with practical advice. And, you will have lots of ways to connect with the other experts – your peers.
Our Keynotes
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown is emerging as one of the most refreshing and transformative thought leaders and speakers on leadership, peak performance, and business growth. He is a NYT and WSJ best-selling author, founder and CEO of THIS Inc.—a leadership and strategy design agency in Silicon Valley—and one of the most popular bloggers for Harvard Business Review and LinkedIn’s Influencer Group. McKeown has trained at hundreds of events across the world including in the U.S., Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway and Singapore. Organizations, teams, and individuals have benefited from McKeown’s innovative perspective, which challenges conventional wisdom and defines how to break through to the next level of success and profitability.
McKeown has dedicated his career to discovering why some people break through to the next level—and others do not. He is distinguished for reviving the essence of what it means to create a life that truly matters.
Greg will help you apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy.
The 12 Week Year
Brian Moran has over thirty years of expertise as a CEO, corporate executive, entrepreneur, consultant and coach. His background as a corporate executive combined with his experience as an entrepreneur positions him with a unique skill set to help individuals and organizations grow and prosper. Brian’s corporate experience includes management and executive positions with UPS, PepsiCo, and Northern Automotive. As an entrepreneur he has personally launched and led successful businesses and been instrumental in the success of many others. In addition, he has consulted for dozens of world-class companies including Coldwell Banker, Mass Mutual, Medtronic, New York Life, and Tiffany & Co.
Brian is a recognized expert in the field of leadership and execution. His realization that most people don’t lack ideas but struggle with effective implementation led him to the development of The 12 Week Year. In addition to his books, Brian has been published in many of the leading business journals and magazines. He is a sought-after speaker, educating and inspiring thousands each year.
Brian will introduce the key concepts in his book The 12 Week Year which will help you discover how to develop clarity and focus on what matters most, and a healthy sense of urgency to get it done!
Crafting Contagious
Why do some things catch on while others fail? What makes online content go viral? And why do some products, ideas, and behaviors get more word of mouth than others? Professor Jonah Berger examines the behavioral science that underlies these questions. He examines how consumers make decisions, how ideas diffuse, and how social influence leads people to imitate (or avoid) what others are doing.
Berger is a Marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at Cornell Tech. He has published dozens of articles in top-tier academic journals, and popular accounts of his work frequently appear in popular outlets like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Science, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Wired, Business Week, The Atlantic, and The Economist. His research has also been featured in the New York TimesMagazine’s “Year in Ideas.” Berger has been recognized with a number of awards for both scholarship and teaching, including various early career awards and being named Wharton’s Iron Prof (an award for awesome faculty research).
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We connect CEOs of small and mid-sized Virginia companies through peer roundtables and exclusive learning events.