Presenters: Dane Deutsch & Lee Ellis
Target Audience: CEO, Presidents, COO, CFO, Senior Leaders/Managers

Session Description: This session is for the courageous – those who are willing to go eyeball to eyeball with their biggest challenge in leadership – themselves.  Participants will understand better how to lead and manage themselves in order to better lead and manage others.   We will begin with a serious discussion of character in leadership (Good, Bad, and Ugly); your stories will make it lively.  Next we’ll look at levels of leadership; participants will learn what makes up each level and how to move higher.  Most of the morning will involve unpacking the Leadership Freedom DNA assessment that participants will take online prior to the conference.  Here, you will learn your strengths for leadership and how you get in your own way at times.   We’ll explore differences and how good leadership comes from a variety of talents and styles.  Of course the best leaders use this same concept to manage each individual uniquely and that will be part of our discussion. Using the results of the previous sessions, each participant will outline a personal leadership development plan and debrief it with a peer.  Participants go home armed with a solid action plan based on their leadership DNA for moving up to the next level.

Objectives: Participants will:
1. Engage in a serious discussion about their leadership
2. Understand their unique leadership DNA
3. Gain insights into how to manage others with similar and different talents
4. Leave with action steps for a personal leadership development plan
Agenda Outline:
1. Leadership Character – Good, Bad, and Ugly
2. The Five Levels of Leadership – Where are you?
3. Unpacking Your Leadership DNA
4. Relating to others with different DNA behaviors
5. Leaders Go First: Launching your leadership development plan
Deliverables:
1. Serious reflections on how personal character impacts leadership influence
2. Identify current leadership level and what is needed to move up to the next level
3. Leadership Freedom DNA assessment and report identifying natural leadership strengths and struggles
4. Personal leadership development plan with peer coaching support

Special Note (take a moment to read the fine print):
For ultimate success in this session, all participants are strongly encouraged to purchase and complete the Leadership Freedom online assessment prior to the conference. The Leadership Freedom online assessment is a comprehensive behavioral tool that will help you understand and develop your natural leadership talents. Estimated cost of the assessment is $20.00. An email with more information including directions will be sent to all registered attendees.

Presenters: Kay VanDerLeest & Jeannine Edwards

Session Description: Join the ConnectWise team and HTG members for this interactive session focused on automation: drive and streamline process across your entire organization. HTG members will present business case scenarios where utilizing ConnectWise across their business has given them visibility into their business and positively affected the bottom line. These conversations will be had against a backdrop of deep dive ConnectWise training. You’ll leave with the ability to lead your team to implement these best practices today. It is truly a don't miss!

Presenters: Gazelles, Inc. courtesy of CompTIA

Session Description: Walk away from this CompTIA workshop with easy to use tools to run your business rather than letting it run you! Spend the day with a Gazelles trainer developing business plans, goals and metrics for your company – the work gets done right there, that day, with the expert.

Deliverables:
• long term business decisions that will help drive your day-to-day activity
• a defined Brand Promise that cuts to the heart of what makes your company great
• an annual AND a quarterly success plan specific to your company
• key performance indicators (KPI) for measuring plan progress
• an Action Plan to maintain your momentum

Special Note (take a moment to read the fine print):
*There is a $35 fee to attend this workshop and you must be a CompTIA member. Take advantage of the special CompTIA membership pricing available to HTG members.

*This workshop is also limited to ONE PERSON PER COMPANY. We are relying on the honor system and expecting HTG members to do the right thing. The reason for this is to allow all HTG members a fair chance to attend this session. Registration reports will be monitored daily. If more than one person from a member company is registered for the session, then reassignment will take place.

Stop Hallucinating! How To Turn Vision Into Execution!
Presenters:

Objectives: Participants will:
1. Articulate their own vision, including exit strategy
2. Understand how strategy drives execution
3. Create short and long term actions to support vision
4. Understand the fundamentals of mergers & acquisitions to support growth and/or exit strategies.

Agenda Outline:
1. Creating your vision, including exit strategy
2. Critical and honest assessment of your business performance today
3. Identifying and bridging gaps between today’s performance and your vision
4. Case studies of companies that drove performance improvement via this plan
5. Mergers & Acquisitions: the fundamentals to support growth and/or your personal exit strategy.

Deliverables:
1. Understand the importance of having a strategy and how to create your own vision
2. Methodology for full self assessment of your business performance today
3. Practical steps to identifying gaps between performance and vision and prioritizing actions to bridge those gaps
4. Knowledge of the fundamentals of Mergers & Acquisitions to fuel your non-organic growth as well as support your exit strategy.

Session Description: What is your ultimate vision for your company, and how are you going to execute to get there? Don’t come to this workshop unless you are prepared to deal with both of these critical questions! Learn how to create a strategic vision that translates into practical actions to improve your performance and enable you to reach your future goals. Participants will walk away with clarity about creating their vision, understanding of how that strategy intersects with execution to drive results, and the key elements of Mergers & Acquisitions to support future exit strategies. S-L will share its methodology of analyzing a company’s current performance (including using the Index Benchmark), understanding the gap between current performance, Best in Class and desired state, and show you how to create short and long term actions that give you a clear path to performance improvement. You’ll see case studies of actual companies and be asked to make your own commitment to applying this approach to your own company when you return home from the Summit!