Session Descriptions

Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air: Lead Through Change

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Successful transformations during disruptive change demand a defined set of behaviors from all levels of leadership. The power of connection is the new workplace currency. The currency of the transformational leader is transparency, vulnerability, and flexibility.

During this transformational period, the worst thing you can do is to sit back and wait until the technology stabilizes. The most important thing you can do is to move forward. The window of opportunity closes quickly. Only a hands-on, fully engaged and digitally-savvy leader can create the level of engagement needed to lead people through this AI revolution.

This event is a Living Lab where senior leaders can evaluate their own reactions and resistances to change, and map out a blueprint of actions and attitudes that will more likely help move their people effectively through any change process.

Learner Outcomes:

1. Practice the mindset ingredients of a transformational leader.
2. Be alert for mindset pitfalls during fast change and how to correct them in oneself and others.
3. Leave with a renewed sense of the possible.

• “The accounting and tax industries don’t exactly move at the pace of, say, a hotshot tech startup. But this traditionally conservative sector could use a dose of the “move fast and break things” mindset if it wants to appeal to modern consumers and retain talented employees.” Paul Madarasz, HubSync, 2024