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Major Initiatives Launched at 2020 Virtual Inspire Summit

FCCS unveiled a host of strategic initiatives at its October 30 Virtual Inspire Summit, an event designed to energize and inform the more than 200 participants from Farm Credit, agricultural cooperatives, vendors and partners who learned about:

• Updated Name: FCCS, a modern take that encompasses our rich and successful history
• Refreshed Logo: Drawing from the Farm Credit BioStar, our Bioleaf icon indicates new ways of thinking and serving a broader audience.
• New Tagline: Forward. Thinking. This is what FCCS consultants do every day, and what we support our clients to do as they strive toward future success.
• Inaugural Podcast: “Forward. Thinking. Powered by FCCS” will inform and inspire through interviews with leading experts. The first episode aired during the event featured Ryan Avery’s inspiring message about developing a goal achievement mindset that enables him to attempt and break numerous world records to benefit community issues. Find more of the Forward Thinking podcast episodes at fccsconsulting.com/podcast.
• The Accelerate Center, a new approach to serving our clients with integrated experiential and virtual education and development opportunities from across our service lines. Learn more about the Accelerate Center at fccsconsulting.com/accelerate.
• Accelerator of the Year Award: Recognizing individuals who have changed the game in 2020, enabling their organizations to thrive amid the disruption. Click here to nominate an Accelerator of the Year.

The Summit offered highly interactive general sessions along with breakout sessions diving into a variety of relevant topics including individual values, leadership lessons from Gettysburg, developing a world record-setting mindset, and more. The final general session featured a improvisational comedy performance with the CSZ troupe that tweaked COVID while highlighting communication skills, followed by small-group breakout sessions that enabled more interaction and concluded by reinforcing through humor that none of us are perfect, and as we tend not to judge others too harshly for not being perfect, we should give ourselves that same grace.

Careful planning and thoughtful content development, along with full use of webinar tools, created a welcome program. One participant said,

“It was one of the best virtual conferences I’ve participated in this year. It was fun, engaging and ran seamlessly.”

And with Zoom fatigue rampant, we were gratified to hear from another,

“This has by far been my favorite virtual conference this year. You grabbed my attention and kept it...I got done with the conference and was telling everyone in my office about it.”

Inspire was enhanced further with the donation by FCCS of sufficient funds to Feeding America for 250,000 meals, equivalent to 100 meals for each registered attendee.

For more information about upcoming FCCS events, visit fccsconsulting.com/conferences.