MEGA SESSION: Reality-Based Leadership™: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace and Turn Excuses Into Results

MEGA SESSION: Reality-Based Leadership?: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace and Turn Excuses Into Results
These are challenging times for our businesses. In leadership, we must become willing to admit that the ways in which we have taught leaders to lead over the years is simply not working. These times are calling for a new type of leader, one who can bring peace, sanity and results back to the workplace! In this session, Wakeman teaches the key principles of her new wave of Reality-Based LeadershipTM that you can apply to your work place and in your coaching opportunities. You will be able to re-evaluate the work leaders have done to date in your company so that you can transform your tools, programs, and philosophies into ones that actually work and that leaders will actually use.
Cy Wakeman

Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by 20 years of experience, Wakeman’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike, can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of innovation simply by ditching the drama.
Deemed “the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace,” Wakeman has helped companies such as Google, Facebook, NASA, Pfizer, Bank of America, and United Healthcare learn to harness energy wasted in workplace drama and reinvest that effort into achieving profound business results.
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- Cy Wakeman, president, Cy Wakeman, Inc.
- David Rock, D. Prof., director, NeuroLeadership Institute
- Fiona Laird, senior vice president, Human Resources, Unilever
- Jack Smalley, SPHR, director, HR Learning and Development, Express Employment Professionals
- Jennifer Millman, talent acquisition manager, Vology
- Randy G. Pennington, CSP, CPAE, president, Pennington Performance Group
- Sheila L. Margolis, president, Workplace Culture Institute
- Stacey Carroll, SPHR, co-founder, Soariti Talent