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Opening Keynote Session: The Art of Leading Relationships (and Your Event!)

Date: Nov 18, 2024

Time: 9:00 AM

Location(s):

Hilton Palacio del Rio - Mezzanine, Salon del Rey

Category(s):

Conference General Events

Session Description

There is an art and a science to everything, and they need each other. Collecting feedback, analyzing data, calculating costs, measuring impact, and the science behind your event has advanced dramatically in the last decade. Artificial intelligence promises us that the next decade will not be any different. Art on the other hand is no less important and equally drives the success of your event. The art of your event focuses on the emotion, beauty, creativity, aesthetics, atmosphere, and the impression your event leaves on your audience. This can easily be overlooked in this new era of data, data, data.
Your ability to succeed in creating an event that is an artistic masterpiece is directly influenced by your ability to accomplish work successfully with and through others. The skills of communicating effectively, collaborating, working with diverse multi-generational teams, setting clear expectations, giving feedback, navigating differing opinions, addressing immaturity, managing egos, eliminating conflict, and holding others accountable can be the most important skills you will ever develop as an event leader. These are not skills that AI will ever be able to do for you. In this keynote speech you will learn the keys to success in each of these areas and how to build relationships strong enough to handle the pressures and tensions inherent in building and leading a dynamic, engaged, fast changing, high-performance, creative, collaborative team. This presentation is guaranteed to change the way you work, interact, solve problems, innovate, manage and lead your event!

After attending this presentation, leaders will be able to:

Use The 5 Levels of Maturity Framework to guide, coach and mentor others to greater levels of performance.
Manage egos, immaturity, games and improve teamwork.
Spend more time on the art of your event by increasing communication, collaboration and engagement.
Resolve conflict when it happens so it doesn’t slow down the pace of business.
Give feedback more consistently and more effectively to increase engagement.
Hold others accountable in a way that doesn’t damage trust and builds loyalty.
Build a culture of high trust and high performance that will drive creativity.

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Speaker Bio

Steve McClatchy is a keynote speaker and author of the award-winning New York Times Bestseller Decide: Work Smarter, Reduce Your Stress & Lead by Example.

For over 20 years, Steve has worked with the most prominent organizations in the world, including Google, Under Armour, Disney, John Deere, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Accenture, HP, Tiffany’s, Wells Fargo, Campbell’s Soup, and many teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.

He speaks frequently at Harvard, Wharton, and Chicago Booth. He has appeared on CNBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, WSJ TV, and NBC’s The Today Show and has been

quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, WebMD, Oprah Magazine Entrepreneur, and Investor’s Business Daily.