Meet our Keynote Speakers

Why Leaders Fail and 7 Prescriptions to Success

Presented by: Mary Kelly

This insightful and engaging one-hour session uncovers the key factors behind leadership success and failure. Based on extensive data and research gathered from over 100,000 employees across 70 industries, this presentation exposes essential qualities that define great leaders. We will explore the seven critical areas that distinguish successful leaders. Discover how honing these qualities can elevate your leadership effectiveness and drive organizational success.

Mary is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, and she served 21 years on active duty as an intelligence and a logistics officer, mostly in Asia. She earned a PhD in economics, and she taught at the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, and in the graduate school for Colorado State University.

Author of 15 business and leadership books including The Five Minute Leadership Guide, 15 Ways to Grow Your Business in Every Economy, Money Smart, Why Leaders Fail and the 7 Prescriptions for Success, 5-Minutes Per Week, and 52 Weeks to Building a Better Business, and Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy, Mary is usually found around dogs and wine.

Plan to hear Mary Kelly deliver her keynote address on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

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Building an Effective Multi-Generational Workplace

Presented by: Jeff Butler

Delve into the dynamics of managing four generations in today's workplace. In this session, Jeff Butler explores actionable strategies to effectively manage cross-generational challenges and leverage the diversity of your multi-generational workforce as a competitive advantage.

Jeff Butler is an author and workplace strategist who explores human behavior within the working world. His experience spans over 40 industries in 4 continents on how different cultures and employees interact with each other. He studies common threads of behavior in industries such as IT professionals, underground utility workers, police officers to clothing retail chains. In addition, Jeff has also worked with companies like Google, Amazon, John Deere and Coldwell Banker. As a researcher and practitioner, he also runs a consulting company and a tech company, TrinityFix where he is able to test his ideas in different workplace environments. His ideas have made it to TEDx twice, appeared in dozens of media outlets including two books on human behavior:- The Authentic Workplace and The Key To The New You . Currently, he lives in Dallas, Texas as an out of place Californian.

Don't miss Jeff Butler's keynote presentation on Wednesday, October 9.