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A fireside chat with Lourenco Goncalves, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland-Cliffs
Bhargava is not your garden-variety industrialist. The 70-year-old former monk ran a family plastics factory in Indiana for a while but then, about a quarter-century ago, invented energy “shots” — those two-ounce cans of caffeine, taurine and vitamins that people buy at convenience-store checkouts for mental clarity and focus, or just to get through the day without nodding off. Bhargava’s 5-hour Energy brand still manufactures its own shots, and larger energy drinks, but with the first $1 billion in proceeds from inventing the energy-shot category Bhargava has pivoted to becoming a different kind of industrialist: continuously creative, serially innovative, earnestly philanthropic, who wants to solve the world’s problems with technologies, devices and systems that he helps design, market and deploy. Join us for this extraordinary session, with plenty of lessons to unleash more creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit in your organization.
Founder and CEO, 5-hour Energy
Manoj Bhargava’s entrepreneurial breakthroughs stem from a homegrown innovation culture that’s focused on tackling tough challenges without being held captive to old thinking, downsides and impossibilities. In this exclusive tour of his R&D skunkworks, we’ll see how he’s scaling that mindset to build the next generation of manufacturing excellence, where unprecedented speed and agility are the result of an engineering and product focus unlike any you’ve seen before.
From their audacious assault on full vertical integration to solve supply chain problems to their psychological development program to build the next generation of young “can-do” engineers, you’ll see—in person—how Bhargava’s team is able to do the near impossible, like designing and bringing entirely new, complex medical manufacturing facilities online in just 6 months. You’ll have the opportunity to explore the pilot plant where his groundbreaking medical and water devices are built and understand the thinking behind it, witness firsthand how R&D is revved up within their factories while maintaining operational efficiency and see how they find new ways to assess and tackle problems that stall and stump other organizations. It’s unlike any other facility in America, and it’ll challenge you and your team to “think different” about how you approach your future.
Tour At Capacity
We’ll go inside one of metro Detroit’s newest, most exciting factories, for a look at how one of the top 100 automotive suppliers in the world is bringing their just-launched facility to life. It’s a live, in-person case study of ramping up a new factory to supply some of the most difficult and exacting customers at a time of tremendous change and disruption in the mobility industry.
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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.
