Leadership symposium will help executives prepare for tomorrow's opportunities
Leadership symposium will help executives prepare for tomorrow's opportunities
Executives seeking to revitalize their leadership skills and recharge their batteries might want to participate in the Produce Marketing Association's 2009 Leadership Symposium, which will be held Jan. 14-16 in Dallas.
Offered by PMA's Foundation for Industry Talent, the Leadership Symposium offers high-level leadership training in an intimate, collegial atmosphere. Perennially PMA's highest-rated leadership education event, the symposium is designed for chief executive officers, presidents, company executives, vice presidents, and directors of produce, merchandising, category management and perishables.
Offered only to and for the produce and floral industries, the three-day symposium is also PMA's most exclusive leadership education event. Registration is limited to the first 100 registrants to facilitate the unique high-connection environment for which the symposium has become known.
This year's agenda features four expert speakers addressing a range of timely management topics. Businessman and author Rod Beckstr?m, author of The Starfish & the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, will show attendees how to bring a fresh approach to their companies' structures to level the playing field and increase competitiveness. Media management commentator Polly LaBarre will draw from her book Mavericks at Work to teach participants how to create an empowering, imaginative and passionate business culture to succeed in today's increasingly global marketplace.
Addressing the coming talent crunch, attendees will learn how to leverage the individual strengths of an increasingly multi-generational talent pool from Cam Marston, consultant and author of Motivating the 'What's in it for me?' Workforce: Managing Across the Generational Divide. Tony Jeary, CEO coach, will help participants discover practical techniques for transforming ideas into high-impact results. His latest book, Strategic Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of Life, will be published early next year.
"The Leadership Symposium is a must attend for me. After the lull of the holiday season, it wakes the creative juices and re-focuses my goals," Fritz Stelter, repeat symposium attendee, event task force co-chairman, and executive vice president of Field Fresh Foods Inc. in Gardena, CA, said in a press release. "The speaker format is a one of a kind and refreshing -- to be able to challenge a speaker's content not only gives more insight from industry leaders, it puts the speaker on his toes knowing he must answer to the group."
Previous attendees' testimonials demonstrate the high return on investment the Leadership Symposium offers. In addition to its powerful leadership agenda, the Leadership Symposium offers numerous relationship-building opportunities. Those include a welcoming reception and dinner the first evening, a "dine-around" dinner the second evening sponsored by Grimmway Farms in Bakersfield, CA, and a farewell reception the final evening that is sponsored by The Mixtec Group in Pasadena, CA.
"The PMA Leadership Symposium is one, if not the only, produce-specific programs that concisely focuses on participants on leadership and growth of the individual," 2008 symposium attendee Blair Richardson of FreshSense in Parlier, CA, said in the release.
Registration fees for PMA's Leadership Symposium include three-night hotel accommodations as well as transportation to and from the airport. For more information or to register on-line, visit www.pma.com/leadership.
Offered by PMA's Foundation for Industry Talent, the Leadership Symposium offers high-level leadership training in an intimate, collegial atmosphere. Perennially PMA's highest-rated leadership education event, the symposium is designed for chief executive officers, presidents, company executives, vice presidents, and directors of produce, merchandising, category management and perishables.
Offered only to and for the produce and floral industries, the three-day symposium is also PMA's most exclusive leadership education event. Registration is limited to the first 100 registrants to facilitate the unique high-connection environment for which the symposium has become known.
This year's agenda features four expert speakers addressing a range of timely management topics. Businessman and author Rod Beckstr?m, author of The Starfish & the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, will show attendees how to bring a fresh approach to their companies' structures to level the playing field and increase competitiveness. Media management commentator Polly LaBarre will draw from her book Mavericks at Work to teach participants how to create an empowering, imaginative and passionate business culture to succeed in today's increasingly global marketplace.
Addressing the coming talent crunch, attendees will learn how to leverage the individual strengths of an increasingly multi-generational talent pool from Cam Marston, consultant and author of Motivating the 'What's in it for me?' Workforce: Managing Across the Generational Divide. Tony Jeary, CEO coach, will help participants discover practical techniques for transforming ideas into high-impact results. His latest book, Strategic Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of Life, will be published early next year.
"The Leadership Symposium is a must attend for me. After the lull of the holiday season, it wakes the creative juices and re-focuses my goals," Fritz Stelter, repeat symposium attendee, event task force co-chairman, and executive vice president of Field Fresh Foods Inc. in Gardena, CA, said in a press release. "The speaker format is a one of a kind and refreshing -- to be able to challenge a speaker's content not only gives more insight from industry leaders, it puts the speaker on his toes knowing he must answer to the group."
Previous attendees' testimonials demonstrate the high return on investment the Leadership Symposium offers. In addition to its powerful leadership agenda, the Leadership Symposium offers numerous relationship-building opportunities. Those include a welcoming reception and dinner the first evening, a "dine-around" dinner the second evening sponsored by Grimmway Farms in Bakersfield, CA, and a farewell reception the final evening that is sponsored by The Mixtec Group in Pasadena, CA.
"The PMA Leadership Symposium is one, if not the only, produce-specific programs that concisely focuses on participants on leadership and growth of the individual," 2008 symposium attendee Blair Richardson of FreshSense in Parlier, CA, said in the release.
Registration fees for PMA's Leadership Symposium include three-night hotel accommodations as well as transportation to and from the airport. For more information or to register on-line, visit www.pma.com/leadership.
