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- Leadership as a Hero's Journey
- Succeed or Die
Eric Kaufmann and Susan Curtin present practical tools and deep insights gathered and refined from their journey as leaders, as coaches to leaders, and as writers and scholars. They offer real-world, real-time ideas and practices for leaders to make better decisions, achieve better results, and build stronger teams and communities.
Eric Kaufmann speaks with enthusiasm and humor on the journey of leadership, the summoning up of courage, and the call to accountability.
Eric provides relevant, specific insights, guidance and concrete paths to achieving results – greatness in personal and professional endeavors.
Susan Curtin shares her passion and commitment about mentoring and generational savvy.
Susan brings her experience and insight to bear in ways that drive empowerment, communication, and collaboration in leaders and their teams.
The keynotes leave audiences with clear maps to effective leadership, resilience, and personal mastery in the face of uncertainty and anxiety. Eric and Susan's blend of business, psychology, and reflective practices provides both a blue print and tool kit for the leader's journey to better decisions, relationships, and results.
Leadership as a Hero's Journey
Banding people together to pursue a driving vision while facing overwhelming odds, unpredictability, and unexpected monsters on every side is the lot of one who would lead. Leaders are called to act in the realm of risk, surprise, fear, and uncertainty. Leaders who understand and practice the Four Powers of the Sphinx will find the strength and resources to overcome trials and difficulty, to build high performing teams, and to march toward their resulting vision with confidence and clarity.
You will learn:
- The keys to cope with uncertainty and unpredictability
- How to connect change, lifelong learning and business results
- Four leadership paths to creating loyalty and community
- A map for tapping the power of vulnerability
- Practice proven methods for overcoming fear and anxiety
Succeed or Die: Infusing Life in Your Succession Plan
Succession Management goes beyond mere planning. Succession Management is the process of ensuring near and long term profitability, viability, and death-defying adaptability through finding and refining current and future leaders. It is the courage and ability to realize a culture and system that aligns and integrates multiple generations of leaders; it is breaking out of the box of your organizational comfort zone (in thinking, doing and relating); it is the creative tension between growth and safety that defines effective expeditions of organizational and leadership development.
You will learn:
- Which resources help employees manage their leadership careers
- Which special projects and assignments make a difference
- How to apply assessments and feedback in development plans
- Keys to reduce blame and increase accountability
- Telltale signs of potential causes for failure
Recent audiences:
- Meeting Professionals International - Global Certification in Meeting Management (MPI-CMM)
- Conference on Management and Executive Development Programs (CMED)
- American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
- National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO)
- The Executive Committee (TEC)
- Scripps Healthcare
- Society for Human Rerource Managers (SHRM)
- Society for Technology and Reporting (STAR)
- County City Manager's Association (CCMA)
- North County Personnel Association (NCPA)
- American Society of Women Accountants
- Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (PCMA)
- California Association of City Clerks
- International Coach Federation (ICF)
- National Association of Credit Managers (NACM)
- National Association of Juvenile Court Judges
- San Diego Urban League, Young Leadership
- San Diego Association for Psychological Type
- San Diego Women’s Network
- Sares Regis Group
- University of California San Diego