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April 1, 2021

GROWTH SUMMIT

How to Exceed Your 2021 Revenue Goals

Available On-Demand until May 5, 2021

Profound business and societal changes have brought new challenges–and new opportunities–to mid-market companies. How do effective leaders build organizations primed for growth in today’s landscape?

Chief Executive is bringing you four business masters to help grow your business in 2021.

Bill Bartlett

Senior Vice President, Sandler Training



Jonathan Byrnes

Jonathan Byrnes

Author, Choose Your Customer: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive and Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink; Senior Lecturer, MIT

Kara Goldin

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hint Inc.


Verne Harnish

Verne Harnish

Founder, Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO); Founder and CEO, Scaling Up; Author, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

You’ll get solutions to your burning questions, such as:

How are winning companies pivoting for success post-Covid, adjusting to new norms and finding the shortest route to improving growth and profitability?

What is leadership’s role in creating disruption, driving growth and scaling through any economy?

WHY ATTEND

 During this exclusive event, we’ll help you and your executive team work smarter to capture opportunity. Access pragmatic content with tangible solutions to help you:

INCREASE YOUR PROFITS

Learn new sales techniques

Earn more from your most profitable customers

Compete—and win—against the digital giants

THE AGENDA

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Scale Faster: 4 Keys to Creating Exponential Growth

Building a successful business, like building a championship sports team, requires a process for creating and pivoting focus. And growing your business amid today’s unstable economic situation will require you to refresh your playbook.  Identify the four key decisions you need to make to scale your business forward with the bestselling author of Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, CEO of Scaling Up, and Founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Verne Harnish.

1:05 pm – 1:50 pm ET

Choose YOUR Customer: 3 Rules to Maximize Your Profits

Digital giants and other aggressive competitors are vacuuming up market share in every industry, leaving historical brands reeling in their wake. But as executives seek the answer on how to compete, they too often act on the obsolete assumption that all revenues are good, and all costs are bad. To create a winning strategy, companies must follow three rules: choose your customer, align your resources, and manage your organization. Do you know how to double your profit peaks and reduce your profit drains? Join us to unpack these three cornerstones to not just boost your profits in the near term but ensure years of sustained profitable growth.

Verne Harnish

Verne Harnish

Founder, Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO); Founder and CEO, Scaling Up; Author, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

Jonathan Byrnes

Jonathan Byrnes

Author, Choose Your Customer: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive and Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink; Senior Lecturer, MIT

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm ET

Disrupt Your Competition: 3 Steps to Supercharge Your Brand

As an independent company completely “made in America,” Hint Water is winning the battle with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo for domination of the booming bottled-water market. Since founding the company 15 years ago, Kara Goldin has relentlessly built Hint Water into a brand that outsiders estimate with revenues of about $150 million. Appearing on the shelves of major national retailers like Target, Costco, Walmart and Aldi, Goldin has also grown Hint’s e-commerce business and added sunscreen, deodorant, and other product lines. She’ll share her strategy—unique for a number of reasons—to help you supercharge your brand and outgrow your competition.

2:50 – 3:20 pm ET

Rethinking Your Sales Strategy: 5 Rules to Break Now

2020 may be remembered as the Year of Holding on to Clients. And now 2021 is emerging as the Year of the Hunt. How are you working with your sales team to target relevant opportunities and strategize new growth this year? Based on lessons gleaned from his firm’s training of more than 30,000 salespeople annually, Bill Bartlett will help you break the traditional rules of sales and avoid common sales problems in order to increase your win rates and revenue margins.

Kara Goldin

Founder and CEO, Hint Inc.

Bill Bartlett

Senior Vice President, Sandler Training

3:30 – 4:30 pm ET

From Theory to Practice: Peer-to-Peer Roundtables

What really works when the rubber meets the road? Take advantage of peer-to-peer roundtables to hear from other CEOs and executives on best practices learned, pitfalls to avoid, and what really works when you factor in the unique dynamics of different companies. In an informal working group, join your peers to evaluate speaker recommendations, and leave with an action plan to implement in the real world.

Get On-Demand Access

Ticket purchase provides access to the session video recordings until May 5, 2021.

Individual

Single pass
$495
$ 395
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SPONSORS

Roundtable

Strategic Planning Workshop

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:

  1. Lack of systematic approach (70%)
  2. Laundry lists without prioritization (68%)
  3. Decisions based on personalities rather than facts and information (65%)

 

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.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.

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Women in Leadership Seminar and Peer Discussion

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.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $495 will be added to your total.

Golf Outing

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.

To sign up, select this option in your registration form. Additional fee of $295 will be added to your total.