Marcus Buckingham
Best-Selling Author and Senior Consultant, The Gallup Organization

Session: Opening General Session - Obtaining Outstanding Leadership and Management Practices

As quoted by the December 19, 2005 issue of Business Week magazine, "Marcus Buckingham excels at helping executives tap their strengths and think creatively." He has inspired executives to discover ways to lead versus manage.

As a senior consultant with The Gallup Organization and co-author of best-sellers First, Break All The Rules, Now, Discover Your Strengths and his newest book, The One Thing You Need to Know, Marcus shares profound and accessible ways for us to identify our talents, build them into strengths and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance and gain the edge over our rivals in the marketplace.

In today's competitive labor market, it is important to know how to leverage our strengths and receive powerful results on three levels: our own development, our own success as a manager and the success of our organization. In order to excel in a chosen field and to find lasting satisfaction, we need to become an expert at finding and describing, applying and practicing and refining our strengths.

Attend this session and discover how Marcus takes key points from these books, combined with his research, and shows us how we can learn from the world's best managers and leaders.

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Margaret Hensle
Director of Leadership Training
The Marcus Buckingham Company
Session: Workshop Opening General Session - Unleash Your Potential

As a senior leader at AT&T, Lucent and Avaya, Margaret Hensle successfully navigated teams through dramatic organizational and technological change. Today, Margaret combines extensive experience in organizational dynamics with highly regarded leadership training to become one of the industry's most effective leadership coaches. As the principle and founder of Verite Coaching and Consulting, she demonstrates her fierce passion for removing the barriers to outstanding performance by unleashing the unique strengths of individuals. She is dedicated to helping leaders, teams and organizations conquer their biggest challenges and find an easier, more effective path to meaningful success.

At this opening event, Margaret will lead an interactive session dealing with how leaders can effectively remove the barriers to stronger performance. You will leave the program with ideas to implement quickly with your own teams.

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