Meet the speakers who will challenge you to turn roadblocks into opportunities.

Do you dare to be a Disruptor? To challenge traditional business assumptions with your vision? Joe Pine will unveil a series of questions and frameworks that will drive companies to view what they do differently and understand their role in today's highly-competitive, global market. In this engaging session, Joe Pine will illustrate how to create the kind of value that customers truly desire. Through his insightful and demonstrated methods, you will:

• Understand changes in the business world that you, as a leader, must address
• Learn that leaders don’t ‘respond’ to competitors – they disrupt them
• Embrace new marketing and strategic frameworks that can drive disruption
• Discover how your organization can build its own competitive advantage

Joe Pine is co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. Joe is the co-author of the bestseller The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage and Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want.

Who leads the charge for change? Change expert Seth Kahan presents a new view of communication that says change does not flow top-down or bottom-up, but inside out. Seth realigns the direction of innovation, presenting a new, inclusive model that moves from telling people what to do, to a collaborative construction of shared understanding: the Community. With Seth’s bigger-picture innovative strategies you will discover:

• New ways to bring people together to create ideas, plans and execution strategies
• What “communities” are and why they are better than “teams”
• How communities accelerate the evolution and implementation of Big Ideas
• The role of the leader in building, maintaining and disbanding communities

The author of Building Beehives: A Handbook for Creating Communities that Generate Returns, Seth Kahan is a world-class authority on change leadership, helping visionaries get traction, buy-in, and engagement for large-scale change.

What does it mean to produce something “truly innovative?” It means creating something that is not only new, but provides new value. And most importantly, disrupts the existing value chain.  And while innovation can be created within any business model, it must be driven by leaders who build high-performing teams focused on maximizing both what’s feasible now and what’s possible for the future. True innovation, then, can be achieved through a method that involves the right people, the right skills and the right process. You will:

• Gain an understanding of innovation - what it is, and is not; how to produce it and most importantly, how to avoid the myths of innovation
• Discover how to break the habit of falling back on traditional methods of adding value
• Learn a new process to rapidly identify and leverage true innovation
• Acquire methods for competing today, while preparing for tomorrow
• Discover how to identify and build ‘disruptive’ new business models
• Learn how to help your organization justify investments in innovation

David Nour is a social networking strategist and one of the foremost thought leaders on the quantifiable value of business relationships. David and his team solve global client challenges with intracompany, as well as externally focused, Strategic Relationship Planning. David is the author of Relationship Economics: Transform Your Most Valuable Business Contacts Into Personal and Professional Success.

All leadership starts from within. Within you. Being a leader is about how you drive yourself. Matthew Kelly will help you develop a personal strategic plan, fast-track your personal goals and redefine the outcomes. This session culminates the learning of the entire symposium into an actionable personal strategy for success. Armed with the understanding that leadership starts with a personal strategic plan, you can teach your team members to adopt their own personal strategies and understand how that translates into successful corporate planning. With Matthew’s guidance, you will:

• Identify your strengths, weaknesses, goals, and critical success factors
• Learn how to apply traditional and innovative strategic planning exercises to your personal and professional life
• Evolve into a more productive leader and learn to manage others