 YOUR INVITATION TO THE EVENT OF THE YEAR You’re invited to a one-of-a-kind event — a live webcast with world-renowned innovator, influencer and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson. As the founder of the Virgin Group, Branson should need no introduction. Conceived in 1970, the Virgin Group has gone on to grow successful businesses in many sectors, including mobile telephony, travel and transportation, financial services, leisure and entertainment, and health and wellness. In 2004, Sir Richard established Virgin Unite, the nonprofit foundation of the Virgin Group, which brings together people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world. Sir Richard will be interviewed by Jill Schlesinger, an Emmy-nominated and Gracie Award Winning Business Analyst for CBS News. What insights will you glean from one of the boldest thinkers in modern business? Join us on Tuesday 8th June at 5:30PM in SK and 6:30PM in MB to find out.  NON-MEMBER: $245 | OUR NETWORK: $145 *Prices quoted in USD. How can you strengthen your entrepreneurial company?
To find out how to improve the entrepreneurial systems in your business to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.  ‘‘Working on health works. It’s good for your people and for your bottom line.” McKinsey (2017) In partnership with The Growth Faculty, Wellspring Growth Systems is delighted to offer you a $50 discount to see Patrick Lencioni in a live virtual event this April: Patrick Lencioni - 4 Pillars of High-Performance Cultures. Teamwork and High-Performance Culture in the Post-Pandemic Environment: Our reliance on teams has hit a peak. But when teams fail, businesses stumble. Bring your team to a live virtual event with organizational health pioneer, best-selling author and in-demand speaker, Patrick Lencioni, and get access to over 20 years of research on organizational health and building a high-performance culture. New York Times best-selling author of The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team (plus 11 other books), Patrick Lencioni is the global pioneer of the organisational health movement. McKinsey research shows a healthy organisation delivers roughly 3x the returns to stakeholders than less healthy companies. And, companies that institute initiatives to improve health see tangible performance increases in as little as six months. Named "one of the most in demand speakers in America" by the Wall Street Journal, Patrick Lencioni will deliver a fast-paced, highly practical event teaching business leaders and their teams how to create a healthy organisation and high-performing culture that takes advantage of the talent within their teams. YOU WILL LEARN: Practical and highly entertaining, over 2.5 hours you’ll learn:
You will leave with immediately actionable frameworks and tools that have transformed thousands of businesses globally. YOU'LL BE BLOWN AWAY BY THE INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL VENUE Patrick Lencioni will present live in real-time via The Growth Faculty's bespoke virtual venue, now rated 9.5/10 by 1000s of business leaders. PAST DELEGATES OF PATRICK LENCIONI SAID... "Thought-provoking and challenged the status quo. Practical strategies to build high performing teams." Kate Massey, JCurve Solutions "Patrick Lencioni was a truly engaging and inspiring speaker." Yvonne Faulks, Grant Thornton Australia "Content was the best I've been exposed to..." Tom Keady, Colliers *** “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” Patrick Lencioni STANDARD RATE: $295 USD | WELLSPRING GROWTH SYSTEMS NETWORK: $245 USD Tuesday 27th April 2021, 7pm SK / 8pm MB How can you create a high performance culture? To find out how you can strengthen your culture to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. This report is complementary and involves no obligation. Complete sections 1 to 4 to check your high performance culture*. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. *Many of Patrick Lencioni’s best practices are included in our Agile Growth Checklist, as well as many others developed by world-renowned business leaders, researchers and professionals.
 ‘‘Working on health works. It’s good for your people and for your bottom line.” McKinsey (2017) In partnership with The Growth Faculty, Wellspring Growth Systems is delighted to offer you a $50 discount to see Patrick Lencioni in a live virtual event this April: Patrick Lencioni - 4 Pillars of High-Performance Cultures. New York Times best-selling author of The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team (plus 11 other books), Patrick Lencioni is the global pioneer of the organisational health movement. McKinsey research shows a healthy organisation delivers roughly 3x the returns to stakeholders than less healthy companies. And, companies that institute initiatives to improve health see tangible performance increases in as little as six months. Named "one of the most in demand speakers in America" by the Wall Street Journal, Patrick Lencioni will deliver a fast-paced, highly practical event teaching business leaders and their teams how to create a healthy organisation and high-performing culture that takes advantage of the talent within their teams. YOU WILL LEARN: Practical and highly entertaining, over 2.5 hours you’ll learn:
You will leave with immediately actionable frameworks and tools that have transformed thousands of businesses globally. YOU'LL BE BLOWN AWAY BY THE INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL VENUE Patrick Lencioni will present live in real-time via The Growth Faculty's bespoke virtual venue, now rated 9.5/10 by 1000s of business leaders. PAST DELEGATES OF PATRICK LENCIONI SAID... "Thought-provoking and challenged the status quo. Practical strategies to build high performing teams." Kate Massey, JCurve Solutions "Patrick Lencioni was a truly engaging and inspiring speaker." Yvonne Faulks, Grant Thornton Australia "Content was the best I've been exposed to..." Tom Keady, Colliers *** “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” Patrick Lencioni STANDARD RATE: $295 USD | WELLSPRING GROWTH SYSTEMS NETWORK: $245 USD Tuesday 27th April 2021, 7pm SK / 8pm MB How can you create a high performance culture? To find out how you can strengthen your culture to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. This report is complementary and involves no obligation. Complete sections 1 to 4 to check your high performance culture*. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. *Many of Patrick Lencioni’s best practices are included in our Agile Growth Checklist, as well as many others developed by world-renowned business leaders, researchers and professionals.
 For those who weren’t able to make it to the Gravitas Impact Global Interactive Leadership Summit on February 25th, I thought I’d share a brief summary of some of the key things we learned from the presenters and discussed in our CEO peer break-out groups.
The summit started with futurist Anne Ward providing guidance for leadership teams on spotting and analysing trends, followed by Keith Cupp, CEO of Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches, on the new 7 Attributes of Agile Growth monograph and the key characteristics of great CEOs, and then Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and The Advice Trap, on how to tackle “hard change” (as opposed to “easy change”). Futurist Anne Ward encouraged the CEOs and leadership team members in attendance to identify emerging trends by using solid data, in order to accurately inform decision-making. One example she shared was Dominoes Pizza. With their data driven approach, they’ve driven the value of the company from $3 per share, ten years ago, to over $300 per share. Speed of delivery had been Dominoes’ primary competitive advantage for many years...until competition caught up and customer preferences changed. Through the use of data, their executive team discovered that their customers really yearned for great tasting pizza. Their leadership team and product development team leaned into their data to identify what their customers liked, what tastes were emerging, and then to test and experiment with different offerings. One challenge for executive teams is bias. It’s easy, as individual leaders or as a team, to fall prey to omission bias (the tendency to avoid data or action), confirmation bias (the tendency to make data interpretations that confirm our beliefs) or loss aversion bias (the tendency to avoid loss rather than create gain, thereby avoiding change and taking risks). One key insight is that the resulting health and strength of the organization will be limited by the clarity of mind of the weakest leader on the leadership team. Our very own Keith Cupp, CEO of Gravitas Impact, provided an overview of the latest Gravitas Impact monograph, titled "The 7 Attributes of Agile Growth." This is the flagship monograph that provides an overview of our growth framework by the same name. When we build a company, we can wing it, or we can implement a proven framework. The 7 Attributes of Agile Growth, which I think of as an evolution of, and improvement on, the Scaling Up system, is a framework that’s comprehensive, works regardless of industry, and is flexible and scalable – from startup to billion dollar companies. The 7 Attributes of Agile Growth monograph provides an overview of the 7 areas every executive team needs to work on and be aligned on together: Leadership, Talent, Strategy, Execution, Customer, Systems and Profit. My colleagues and I, certified in the 7 Attributes, facilitate, coach and advise leadership teams through building a plan collaboratively, using our version of a one page strategic plan. We then work with the team on a monthly and quarterly basis to assess progress and apply any one of the 42 tools in the framework to solve problems and make key decisions for the future. Keith also shared his insights on the three recurring leadership characteristics that he’s found in his research over the years by studying great business thought leaders like Adam Grant, Patrick Lencioni and Jim Collins. Those three leadership characteristics are: ambition, humility and confidence. With the humility to be curious and put others first, and the discipline of thought and action to move things forward, these CEOs learn, discover and execute with excellence. And with the support of a strong CEO and executive team coach, they can also develop great confidence to lead and grow others and their organization. The key take-away: the CEO is either the primary enabler or the bottleneck to greatness. Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of The Coaching Habit, a best selling book I use to complement LIz Wiseman’s Multipliers (recall she spoke at the June 2020 leadership summit). He shared some insightful tactics for tackling Hard Change as opposed to Easy Change. Easy change is a change where we identify where we are now and where we want to be, we learn something and/or do something, we practice and we make the change happen. It’s pretty straight forward and usually successful. Hard Change is a change that doesn’t come so easily to a person. It’s not about doing something differently, it’s about becoming someone different. It’s a fundamental rewiring of how we approach life. What’s also interesting is that a change that is hard for one person may be easy for another, and vice versa. It’s not about the change per say, but about how substantial of a change it will be for a particular person. One key insight is that we all struggle with Hard Change because not changing serves us in some way… even though we may not realize it. A way around this is to identify out loud or in writing the reasons to not to take on the change (in addition to the reasons to do it). This exercise will uncover our resistance to the change - the comfort, status, power, etc. that keeps us stuck. Then we can consciously evaluate whether those benefits of not changing really outweigh the benefits of changing. And if not, we can choose to be ok with not keeping the benefits of the status quo so that we can move forward with the hard change. Michael also shared some interesting tools for defining what he calls a “worthy goal”. A worthy goal maximizes our level of motivation and complements the reduction in resistance we’ve accomplished with the previous exercise. Bungay Stanier will have a new book coming out early next year going into detail on tackling Hard Change. I’ll be watching out for it! Our next Gravitas Impact Global Interactive Leadership Summit will be June 17th. Pencil it in your calendar! It’s sure to be another excellent learning experience for CEOs and their leadership team members. How can you improve your leadership? To find out how you can improve your leadership to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist . This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. This report is complementary and involves no obligation. Complete section 1 and 2 to check your leadership processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth.  I invite you (and your executive team or senior leadership team) to join me at the February 2021 Gravitas Impact Global Leadership Summit. This virtual summit is going to be a high-value event with concrete, actionable takeaways - particularly since many of us slowed our learning rhythms throughout 2020. IMPORTANT NOTE: I know you are exhausted from virtual meetings, so I want you to know that this is NOT a “typical" Zoom lecture series format! Building atop highly rated Spring and Fall 2020 Summits, the February 2021 Gravitas Impact Leadership Virtual Summit is an opportunity for you and all of my coaching clients to come together for a premium learning experience via a half-day series of keynotes and practical, interactive breakout sessions. You’ll learn in three key areas:
Join us for this half-day of learning on February 25, 2021 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm CST for only $295 per seat. Featured keynotes are:
At the end of the Summit, I’ll be hosting an exclusive breakout session for my clients and contacts who attend. We’ll dive even deeper into the learning and share our takeaways.
This is absolutely an event you and your senior team should attend! Click here for more information and to register:  ‘‘My goal was to distill my life’s work on great companies into a single ‘map'.’’ Jim Collins BE EQUIPPED WITH THE ROADMAP TO GREATNESS HEAR FROM GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADER, JIM COLLINS As a part of the Wellspring Growth Systems network, you can save $50 on tickets. Register here. See best-selling author of Good to Great, JIM COLLINS at his live global virtual event: Jim Collins - The Roadmap To Greatness on Wednesday 17 February 2021 All New Findings & World-Changing Insights Coinciding with the release of his new book, BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). business leaders and their teams will be among the first to receive Jim Collins’ highly anticipated business-changing framework, “The Map”. A one-page framework, The Map distills 30 years of Jim’s revolutionary Good to Great® concepts into a single roadmap to build an extraordinary organisation; one that sustains high performance, leads and shapes its industry and remains great for generations. SECURE YOUR 'FRONT ROW' SEAT IN THIS IMMERSIVE EVENT One of only five business authors in history to sell more than 10 million copies worldwide, Jim has authored six best-selling books, but his appearances are rare. This live virtual event provides direct access to Jim for 2.5 hours of deep learning, allowing time for Q & A on how Jim’s extraordinary guide to business success can be implemented into your company in 2021. YOU WILL LEARN: Drawing on three decades of rigorous research, Jim will equip you with:
Align your leadership team with the most significant thought leader of our time. YOU'LL LOVE THE INNOVATIVE VIRTUAL VENUE Jim Collins will present live in real-time via The Growth Faculty's bespoke virtual venue. Developed for Jim’s Good to Great® event this year, over 4000 business leaders rated the virtual venue experience as 9.5/10. TAKE A SNEAK PEEK HERE PAST DELEGATES OF JIM COLLINS SAID...
TAKE YOUR BUSINESS FROM GOOD TO GREAT.  STANDARD RATE: $295 | OUR NETWORK: $245 Wednesday 17 February 2021, 10am to 1pm CST  As a CEO, have your culture building activities slowed to a crawl since March? Did you feel uncertain about their value and effectiveness even before the pandemic? Or does culture seem like something you should finally start working on?
I'm honored that Innovation Place has invited me to deliver this engaging webinar with other CEOs to address these questions. You will learn and apply: - The real value of a strong culture - Why culture building is the CEO's job - How to quickly define your culture so people will buy in - How to strengthen your culture, in person or at a distance Register here: https://bit.ly/innovationplace1 I will work LIVE in the webinar with CEO Greg Sutton on TinyEye Therapy Services' culture. You will leave with key culture building tools and guidance on how to use them with YOUR leadership team and company! All CEOs are encouraged to bring their curiosity, concerns and questions. I will also stay on immediately after the webinar to address any additional questions. Time: Wed, Nov 18 at 10am CST Via Zoom: a meeting link will be provided to registrants Register here: https://bit.ly/innovationplace1 I hope you join us! |
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