Leadership & Navigation

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D.
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She/Her/Hers
Author, Speaker
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Jennifer B. Kahnweiler is a bestselling author and one of the leading speakers on introverts in the workplace. Her pioneering books, The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, The Genius of Opposites, and Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces have been translated into 18 languages. The Introverted Leader was named one of the top 5 business books by The Shanghai Daily.

Jennifer has partnered with leading organizations like Amazon, Merck, Kimberly Clark, NASA, Bosch, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. She has delivered her signature presentations from Singapore to Spain. She holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation, awarded to a small percentage of speakers, and serves as a mentor to many professional women.

A native New Yorker, Jennifer calls Atlanta, GA home.

 

 

 

SESSIONS:
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 9:00am to 10:30am
Cammie Dunaway
author, board member, CEO advisor
Dunaway Company
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Throughout her career as an executive for Frito Lay, Yahoo!, Nintendo and KidZania, Cammie has earned a stellar reputation as a brand-builder and inspirational leader.

Hoping to share what she has learned, she recently wrote the book, “Fit Matters”. In it she addresses practical ways to explore, “what could happen for all of us, and for the world, if more people actually LOVED their jobs?”

Cammie currently serves on the boards of Red Robin, Nordstrom FSB and Go Health. She’s been featured in numerous publications and is a frequent speaker at companies and universities. Her MBA is from Harvard Business School. 

SESSIONS:
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 9:00am to 10:30am
Randy G. Pennington
president
Pennington Performance Group
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Randy Pennington helps leaders deliver positive results in a world of accelerating uncertainty and change. His clients include many of world’s best-managed companies, associations, government agencies, and universities. Additionally, Randy serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.

Randy is author of three books: Make Change WorkResults Rule!; and On My Honor, I Will . His ideas have been featured in leading media outlets including CNN, PBS, Fox News, ABC Radio Network, the BBC, Fast Company, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to CIO.com and the Huffington Post.

SESSIONS:
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 9:00am to 10:30am
Timothy Kight
founder and president
Focus 3
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Tim Kight is Founder and President of Focus 3, a firm whose mission is to help companies around the world align the power of leadership, culture, and behavior to achieve next level results. A dynamic communicator, Tim focuses on the critical factors that distinguish great organizations from average organizations. He delivers a powerful message on the mindset & skills at the heart of individual & organizational performance. Most recently, Tim has worked closely with Urban Meyer and the Ohio State football team as leadership coach. His work with Ohio State has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN. Mr. Kight is the author of several high impact training programs: The R Factor, Lead Now, and The Power of Culture.
SESSIONS:
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Ann Herrmann-Nehdi
CEO
Herrmann International
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Herrmann International CEO Ann Herrmann-Nehdi helps organizations around the world increase thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, innovation and results. The co-author of The Whole Brain Business Book, Second Edition, she has been featured in Chief Executive Magazine, CLO Magazine, Inc., Investor’s Business Daily and O The Oprah Magazine, among others. In addition to keynotes and presentations, her TEDx Talks, The One Thing You Need to Know About Your Brain That Will Change Your Life and Think Like Your Future Depends On It, Because it Does, have influenced the way people around the globe approach their work and their lives.
 
SESSIONS:
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Sylvie di Giusto
speaker
Executive Image Consulting
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“People Packaging is what I do”… says Sylvie di Giusto who helps individuals and organizations to explore how people make up their minds very quickly about them, their leadership potential, or their company, and either open the door or slam it shut. Twenty years of corporate experience and her ability to empower people to influence the success of own career has led to her launching Executive Image Consulting, based in New York City. It’s where she uses her extensive corporate expertise as a keynote speaker, corporate trainer and image consultant for professionals, politicians, and companies who place great importance on themselves. Sylvie speaks to audiences around the world about the importance of “First Impressions… and everything beyond”. She is the Author of “The Image of Leadership,” the Co-Owner of the “Studio for Image Professionals” and the Creator of “How You Impress.”

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Madeline Schmidt
principal
Monarch Training & Consulting
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For almost 20 years, Madeline Schmidt has inspired and transformed people and companies, helping them achieve their full potential through organizational development, learning, coaching, leadership development, performance, and culture change.

Madeline has had the benefit of working in the “inside,” as the Head of Talent & Leadership Development for growth companies in a variety of industries such as sales, e-commerce, real estate and development, hospitality, and financial services. She has developed and coached thousands of individuals, high potentials, emerging leaders, and executives in leveraging their current strengths, building new strengths, shifting mindsets and approaches to achieve personal and professional goals, and uncovering blind spots that get in the way of growth and success.

Known for her passion, insights, and ability to shift mindsets, Madeline recently followed her dream to start her own company, Monarch Training & Consulting, to create more opportunities to help people and companies unlock their potential.  She specializes in Leadership Development (including Coaching and 360 feedback), Organizational Culture and Employee Engagement, Learning & Development, and Women’s Leadership Initiatives.

Madeline has an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, received several local and national awards for her talent development and culture change work and is a certified facilitator / practitioner in a variety of globally recognized leadership training programs such as: DISC, Predictive Index, Situational Leadership II, Situational Frontline Leadership, Situational Self Leadership, Catalyst, and AchieveGlobal.

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Sheri Jeavons
president
Power Presentations, Inc.
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When Sheri founded Power Presentations in 1993, she had two goals in mind. The first was to empower business professionals to look and sound dynamic while communicating in any situation. The second was to deliver training that professionals would leave saying, “That was the best training I’ve ever attended. Ever.” Since then, Power Presentations has successfully trained more than 22,000 professionals from a variety of Fortune 500 Companies and industry leaders such as FedEx, Bayer, Goodyear, Marathon Petroleum and NASA.

Sheri is the author of Tips for your Talk® and Master your Virtual Communications: A Webinars that Wow® Training Guide.

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D.
Personal Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Author, Speaker
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Jennifer B. Kahnweiler is a bestselling author and one of the leading speakers on introverts in the workplace. Her pioneering books, The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, The Genius of Opposites, and Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces have been translated into 18 languages. The Introverted Leader was named one of the top 5 business books by The Shanghai Daily.

Jennifer has partnered with leading organizations like Amazon, Merck, Kimberly Clark, NASA, Bosch, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. She has delivered her signature presentations from Singapore to Spain. She holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation, awarded to a small percentage of speakers, and serves as a mentor to many professional women.

A native New Yorker, Jennifer calls Atlanta, GA home.

 

 

 

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Randy G. Pennington
president
Pennington Performance Group
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Randy Pennington helps leaders deliver positive results in a world of accelerating uncertainty and change. His clients include many of world’s best-managed companies, associations, government agencies, and universities. Additionally, Randy serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.

Randy is author of three books: Make Change WorkResults Rule!; and On My Honor, I Will . His ideas have been featured in leading media outlets including CNN, PBS, Fox News, ABC Radio Network, the BBC, Fast Company, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to CIO.com and the Huffington Post.

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm