Keynote: Pushing The Envelope: Being The Best When It Counts

Using the aviation-based idea of an aircraft performance envelope as a metaphor, this elite fighter pilot and military leader will share inspiring personal stories and practical tools to ignite your team’s ability to reach beyond commonly-assumed limitations to achieve their maximum capabilities and maximum impact.

A former fighter squadron commander and mission-ready pilot in three operational fighter squadrons and the first woman to fly on the Air Force Thunderbirds, Nicole has the perfect message to inspire audiences with her unique story and to encourage us to push the envelope and to be the best when it counts in our lives. Nicole offers lessons on leadership, moments of self-doubt, mastering the role of a trustworthy team player, and embracing moments of personal and professional vulnerability. She weaves storytelling with breathtaking video from the cockpit of her jet as the Thunderbirds execute precision turns, rolls, and loops – all just 36” from one another at 400 mph and just 300 feet off the ground.

Nicole’s keynote helps audiences ignite their own indomitable spirit in order to succeed far beyond what they might dream. “Failure isn’t fatal,” she says, “it’s the price of entry if you want to achieve something great.”

Keynote: The Customer is the Hero: How the power of story can grow your business

The two most important characters in movies are the hero and the guide. The hero is the character that is facing a challenge, the guide is the character that helps the hero win. If you want to grow your business, stop selling. Stop thinking about selling products and instead invite customers into a story. It’s your job to invite customers into a story where their lives are better. In this session, you will learn a sales framework that will make the customer the hero of the story so you can play the role of guide in their lives and help your business grow.

Keynote: Business Made Simple

If you want to grow your business, every member of your team needs to be armed with tangible skills they can use every day to increase productivity and revenue. But developing your team is hard. Teaching them simple, repeatable skills they can use every day takes an enormous amount of time and effort. This keynote will teach practical business skills needed to become better leaders and decision-makers and add more economic value to your organization.  

Keynote: Around the World with K.T. McFarland: Today’s threats and tomorrow’s opportunities

As one of the country’s most insightful and articulate foreign policy experts, KT McFarland remains the go-to senior foreign policy expert for cable news networks, especially FOX News, and is now a best-selling author. McFarland feels the world is at a major inflection point with the return of great power politics, the rise of China, the resurgence of Russia, and the decline of postwar security and trade alliances and asks – Are we in a new cold war with Russia? Is China destined to become the dominant power in the 21^st century? Will the liberal world war be replaced by a bipolar world which pits America’s free market democracy against China’s authoritarian state capitalism? Are cyber, space, and trade the battlefields of the future? KT has held senior national security positions in four Administrations – Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and most recently as Dep National Security to President Trump. An inspirational and engaging public speaker, McFarland brings a unique, insider’s perspective to today’s and tomorrow’s headlines.

3:00 PM  Conference Concludes