Join forces with the world’s greatest business leaders, coaches and thinkers for an unparalleled two-day journey at the Chief Executive’s Leadership Conference. This is where you and your team step into a realm of extraordinary growth and strategic foresight, addressing today’s most pressing challenges and seizing emerging opportunities head-on.
Recalibrate, envision, and architect the future of your business with confidence, inspired by insights and strategies on the vital issues that matter most to your business’s future, including: sustaining innovation, pricing strategies, developing new products and services, navigating workplace evolution, enhancing team dynamics and leveraging AI.
Dive deep into a curated agenda that speaks directly to you and your team’s needs. Over these two days, you and your executive team will work “on” vs. “in” your business focusing on practical ideas and strategies to help you:
Upgrade your strategy to keep the engine of innovation running as markets and technologies evolve.
Adapt to changing expectations, fostering a culture that attracts and retains top talent.
Optimize your pricing to boost profitability without hindering growth.
Break the mold with insights on creating offerings that meet untapped customer needs.
Can’t attend in-person? Join us online.
The Arizona Grand in Phoenix, Arizona’s only AAA Four Diamond all-suite resort, offers an exceptional setting for the Leadership Conference. Its luxurious accommodations and state-of-the-art meeting spaces provide an ideal environment for strategic discussions and networking. Surrounded by stunning desert landscapes and close to Phoenix’s vibrant city center, the Arizona Grand combines natural beauty with convenience, making it the perfect location to inspire and connect executive leaders.
We have a room block at the Arizona Grand with a discounted rate of $249 + $20 resort fee per night. The deadline for receiving the special group rate is October 15. You can book directly through the hotel by calling 877-800-4888 and mentioning “Chief Executive Group’s Annual Fall Leadership Conference.”
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11:00 - 5:00 pm
Arizona Grand Golf Course
Enjoy the beautiful Arizona Grand Golf Course on the resort property. This award-winning Golf Digest Top 50 Course is a links course offering panoramic views of the surrounding desert landscape. You will have access to the practice facilities before a shotgun start at noon. Take advantage of the chance to get to know fellow attendees through a friendly scramble competition and various contests. Golfers of all capabilities are welcome. A $295 fee covers greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch and cocktail reception. Noon shotgun start.
9:00 - 5:00 pm
Excited about AI but need to know more, fast? Tried your hand at it already but want to sharpen your skills? Or are you a ChatGPT 4.0 power-user who wants to spread the gospel to the rest of the team and show them what they’re missing? Whichever you are, this full-day, hands-on workshop will help you leverage Generative AI to become far more productive, leaving you with new hours in your day. You’ll leave with specific tools for specific use cases and able to apply AI in your own routines and that of your teams. Learn how to use AI to create a job description, a marketing plan, a customizable sales outreach letter, to do financial variance analysis and—most important—a process for developing your own creativity and best practices you can use to tackle whatever comes your way. A $995 fee includes lunch, instructor and workbook. Participants must bring their own laptop and have a subscription to ChatGPT to get the most out of the day.
1:00 - 5:00 pm
We are in a period of rapid change. Customer needs, technologies, competitors, and internal capabilities require companies to review and update their strategies for the new realities. In this workshop, strategy experts Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison will show you a systematic approach to strategic planning to help you refine or redefine your business strategy and approach including:
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.
