The uncertainties we face often obscure the best, most exciting opportunities available to us. Seeing beyond such uncertainties requires a very different approach to project management and implementation. Dr. Pearson's workshop will teach you how to: (1) develop and analyze multiple project scenarios; (2) craft nimble strategies with just the right amount of flexibility; (3) implement those strategies using an options approach; and (4) make real-time adjustments through dynamic monitoring.

Fortune Magazine estimates that 70% of all strategies fail. Failure often occurs because of ineffective planning methods for turning strategies into executable projects. This session offers a breakthrough planning approach for clearly aligning projects with strategic intent to boost your odds of project success. You will learn a common language and a step-by-step process for designing successful projects, programs, and change initiatives.

This interactive program will take you through an effective and immediately useful education that instills personal accountability in the work environment. When the learning is applied and the three tools are used, personal accountability will result in less time spent managing and more time coaching and mentoring. You will take an Accountability Assessment on-line that starts your learning journey and receive feedback on the results at the session.

In this session you will learn 7 skills to change your thinking for greater resilience. You will receive a personal profile of your strengths and weaknesses across the 7 inner strengths that make up resilience. This will direct your learning in the session as you practice the resilience skills. This skill set has been used successfully by thousands of corporate managers to improve performance, positively impact the bottom line, relieve stress, and to ease tensions between work and home.

This dynamic, highly-interactive and informative program will help you learn specific principles and methods to build and rebuild trust, and concrete strategies that will help you engage employees, improve performance and successfully navigate change. Trust is the foundation of effective relationships which make both individuals and businesses successful and it can be damaged and eroded in many unintended ways.

The bulk of our frustrations comes from our dealings with people. If we are to succeed in the organization, we must work effectively with subordinates, peers, superiors, and often with boards, owners, investors, bankers, clients, and many others. During this session we will examine the principles of human influence (principles we have all been using throughout our lives) and learn how to apply them to the task of managing people. Specific techniques and tools for applying these principles will be presented, along with a variety of examples.

This dynamic, highly-interactive program brings da Vinci's genius to life through fascinating biographical and historical information, setting the stage for an introduction to seven principles for thinking "a la Leonardo." Participants will learn how to cultivate creativity every day, balance analysis with imagination, sustain continuous learning, embrace ambiguity and uncertainty, apply "systems thinking" to problem solving, and nurture creativity and innovation in the workplace.

This program will provide participants with increased understanding of how to better utilize financial measures in making business decisions. The course will introduce valuation concepts that provide the basis for decision making in both financial and corporate environments. The course will be broken down into three parts with short lectures introducing each part followed by short cases that will be solved in small groups of participants that will apply the concepts covered in the lecture.

A profile of "Coaching for Behavioral Change" will be presented and participants will learn the latest techniques for encouraging feedback to develop others (and to develop themselves). The concept of empowerment will be analyzed from a practical, real-world perspective. Participants will learn how to apply key concepts, and the latest research on feedback and follow-up will be used to show how leaders can coach in a way that produces guaranteed results for both individuals and teams.

Collaboration has never been more important than it is in today's challenging business environment. Collaboration increases engagement, innovation, productivity, and organizational competitiveness. But collaboration doesn't happen without great leadership. Collaborative leaders must understand how to create an environment in which people choose to participate and contribute. Inspiring, interactive and energizing, this session will give you the insight and skills to build collaborative relationships within your team and throughout the organization.