A December workshop with Edgar Papke

December is fast approaching and bringing us, along with the holiday season, speaker Edgar Papke with his extended workshop on Innovation by Design.  Ask yourself the question: How do I design and live a life of success and fulfillment? For the past three decades, Edgar Papke has coached leaders to design & manifest lives of professional…

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Professional development requires your active participation

Leaders are Readers Do you subscribe to HBR (Harvard Business Review)?  If you don’t, you should. Deborah Rowland penned an article titled: Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders, and it’s worth ten minutes of your time. The take away?  “Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the TYPE of leadership that we need.” As a Vistage Chair, this…

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Ignite Brilliance in Your Leadership: AmyK Vistage Workshop

Leadership isn’t about position, title or authority. The most effective leader seeks to influence. Influence requires communication. Communication requires a conversation.  Are you reaching your potential as a leader? Are you inspiring your people?My Vistage workshop on Tuesday, August 7th will help you unlock your brilliance – your natural superpowers and gifts.Our workshop leader is Amyk Hutchens – she’s…

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Rapid Learning for Leaders: Edgar Papke on Aligning Culture

I’m hosting three private CEO and executive workshops in June. In this rapid-learning session, you’ll hear from Vistage speaker and organizational psychologist, Edgar Papke. Papke will show us how to efficiently design and shape an aligned culture of innovation. Papke will also help understand how to generate desired results through alignment.  The True Alignment model is the result of bringing…

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How do I build my brand on LinkedIn?

Decide Today. How you and your employees appear, connect, search and engage on LinkedIn is critical to increasing your sales pipeline and personalizing your marketing campaigns. Do you and your employees believe that? Does your sales force lead from a growth mindset? Are they aligned with your marketing folks? Have they honed the skills necessary…

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Selecting Seattle CEOs for 2nd Peer Advisory Board

The most effective CEOs work on (NOT in) the business. These CEOs understand and value strategic solitude and deep thought. These CEOs constantly gather insight from new and unfiltered sources. You won’t find these CEOs on the tactical treadmill to nowhere. These CEOs don’t get caught in an echo chamber. These CEOs are not lonely and isolated. These…

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10 REASONS to Test-drive a Vistage Peer Group

I invite you to an opportunity to experience a CEO peer advisory group in action and hear from a world-class speaker. On Thursday, November 3, I’m hosting an invitation-only breakfast meeting to allow CEOs and business owners the opportunity test drive a Vistage group meeting. We’ll tackle a real issue that someone in the room is facing. Then, as a group of…

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Leading is BEING–Not Doing. What’s Your Reality?

Leadership is about BEING – not DOING. Yep, putting your feet on your desk and looking out your window is leading. You must make time to pause reflectively. You must make time to contemplate. You must make time to go deep. You must maintain your awareness of self and the values (and the “intolerables”) that guide you. Warren Bennis,…

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