Dr. Gleb Tsipursky explains why we often make disastrous decisions—and how to make smarter ones.
You'll Learn:
1) The biggest decision-making mistake people make
2) Three handy debiasing techniques
3) Five questions to guide everyday decisions
About Gleb
Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky protects leaders from disasters by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. A cognitive neuroscientist and behavioral economist, Dr. Tsipursky writes for Inc., Time, and CNBC. A best-selling author, his new book, available on Amazon and in book stores everywhere, is Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.
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Tim Campos discusses how he doubled Facebook’s productivity—and how to double your own.
You'll Learn:
1) The secret to how Tim doubled Facebook's productivity
2) The biggest mistake people make with their calendars
3) The two kinds of time professionals have
About Tim
Tim Campos doubled productivity for Facebook while he was Chief Information Officer between 2010 and 2016. Now, Tim runs Woven. Woven is a digital calendar that helps people get the most out of their time while studying the analytics behind how we’re using our time.
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David Wood shares his process for making difficult conversations more manageable.
You'll Learn:
1) What makes difficult conversations so difficult
2) The four-step blueprint for tackling difficult conversations
3) The simplest way to receive more quality feedback
About David
After life as a consulting actuary to Fortune 100 Companies, David built the world's largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for "life coaching."
He wants every human to play the best game they possibly can in work AND life and to have zero-regrets when they die. David coaches both high performing leaders, and soon-to-be-released prison inmates, to higher levels of Truth, Daring and Caring.
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Susan Fowler explains what we get wrong about motivation and how to make the shifts to master it.
You'll Learn:
1) Major misconceptions about motivation
2) The three keys to mastering your motivation
3) An overlooked leadership practice to improve engagement
About Susan
Susan Fowler is dedicated to helping others master their motivation and achieve their highest aspirations. A sought-after speaker, consultant, and motivation coach, she has shared her message on optimal motivation and thriving together in all fifty states and over forty countries. Susan is the bestselling author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work... and What Does, and coauthor of Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard. Her latest book, Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your Goals, released last June. Susan is also a professor in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program at the University of San Diego.
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Professional poker player Alec Torelli shares his tips for making wise decisions during high-stakes situations.
You'll Learn:
1) How to keep emotions from overtaking logic
2) When to go with your gut
3) How to better read people and situations
About Alec:
Alec Torelli is a professional high stakes poker player turned digital entrepreneur and keynote speaker, who shares how the lessons he learned from poker can be applied to life and business.
Alec is the founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker training platform, and after spending the last 14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks in which he dissects the anatomy of decision making to help others hone the way they make choices.
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Lee Hartley Carter discusses why facts alone won’t persuade others—and what does.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why you need more than just facts
2) The foundations of compelling persuasion
3)How to craft your master narrative
About Lee
Lee Hartley Carter is president of maslansky + partners, a language strategy firm based on the single idea that "It's not what you say, it's what they hear." As a television news personality and researcher, she doesn't rely on traditional polling for her unique insights into U.S. politics; rather, she analyzes voters' emotional responses to help understand and empathize with them on a more visceral level. The reaction matters, but the "why" behind it matters more. It was this approach that allowed her to accurately predict the results of the 2016 presidential election and primaries.
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Matt Tenney discusses how mindfulness vastly improves the way we lead and relate with others.
You’ll Learn:
1) How an emphasis on goals hurts your leadership
2) A monastic practice that improves engagement
3) Why mindfulness is the ultimate success habit
About Matt
Matt Tenney is a social entrepreneur and the author of Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom. He is also an international keynote speaker, a trainer, and a consultant with the prestigious Perth Leadership Institute, whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies. He works with companies, associations, universities, and non-profits to develop highly effective leaders who achieve lasting success by focusing on serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them. Matt envisions a world where the vast majority of people realize that effectively serving others is the key to true greatness. When he’s not traveling for speaking engagements, he can often be found in Nashville, TN.
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Gregg Clunis discusses the small leaps you can take to make massive changes in career and life.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why self-help is often inadequate
2) Just what you can achieve with one tiny leap
3) What to do when motivation fails you
About Gregg
Gregg Clunis is the host, author, and creator of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, a podcast turned book and community whose goal is to help people become better versions of themselves in practical ways. A maker and entrepreneur, Gregg explores the reality behind personal development—that all big changes come from the small decisions we make every day. Using scientific and psychological research, he shows the hidden factors that drive our behavior and shares habit-forming and goal-oriented tools.
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Dr. Janice Presser discusses how to build better teams using the science of teaming.
You'll learn:
1) The 10 ways people contribute to a team
2) Three questions to resolve team friction
3) Two strategies for managing up
About Janice:
Dr. Janice Presser spent her formative years researching how people team together, and found answers in systems theory and physics. Having written her first line of code in high school, she was positioned to architect a system to measure how people work together and develop the underlying theory and practice of Teaming Science. The author of seven books on teaming, she consults to executives and is currently working on the question of how spatial technology will impact human relationships in the future..
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Todd Davis explains why people are bad at managing—and what to do about it.
You'll Learn:
1) Where most managers fail
2) How to overcome the fear of feedback
3) A productivity hack to keep your week from spiraling
About Todd
Todd Davis has been with FranklinCovey for more than two decades and serves as the chief people officer. As the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work, Todd has delivered keynote presentations and speeches around the globe, including at the renowned World Business Forum. Todd has been featured in Inc. magazine, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review. He and his family reside in Holladay, Utah.
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