VNHR & TWCCTW International Seminar: Courageous Leadership in the Age of AI – 11 Apr 2025
 
 
David Dye and Karin Hurt
 
 

Courageous Cultures:
Help Your Team Solve Problems Faster

Based on ground-breaking new research in innovation and problem-solving, you’ll learn what leaders like you are doing to build more creative and solutions-oriented teams. Teams who don’t just bring you more ideas, but practical ideas you can use to make work, work better.

Participants will learn:

  • Researched-based, practical techniques to create psychological safety and more confidence and competence sharing ideas.
  • How to create better clarity so the ideas you receive are remarkable and usable.
  • Techniques to respond to ideas (even if you can’t use them) in a way that inspires future innovation and problem solving.

We have keynote, half-day, and full-day programs based on this content, including our strategic team innovation challenge for team’s looking to apply the tools to current, strategic business challenges.

Presenter: 

Karin Hurt and David Dye, CEO and President of Let’s Grow Leaders, are known for practical tools and leadership development programs that stick.

They are the award-winning authors of six books including, Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates and Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict A former Verizon Wireless executive, Karin was named to Inc. Magazine’s list of great leadership speakers. David Dye is a former executive and elected official.

 

Scott Friedman

 

Celebrate! The Secret to Winning in the New Abnormal

“Celebrate!” helps organizations create happier, healthier, more connected workplaces. With lighthearted humor, engaging interaction, and the latest relevant research and examples, Scott illustrates how to create a culture of innovation and celebration.

Discover how turning on your “GPS”—Gratitude, Play and Surprise—will guide you and your organization toward increased productivity, better team performance and a happier, more profitable future.

Participants will learn to:

  • Create a culture of innovation and celebration.
  • Develop a “celebration mentality” based on gratitude, play, and surprise.
  • Create fun, innovative rituals which foster a more open and engaging workplace.
  • Build deeper connections with both employees and customers through the element of surprise.
  • Develop humility and self-accepting humour in building a connected culture.

Presenter:

Scott Friedman, CSP, 2004-05 President of the National Speakers Association (NSA), is the author of four books: A Celebration a Day! 365 Ways to a Happier, Healthier Workplace, Celebrate! Lessons Learned from the World’s Most Admired Organizations, Happily Ever Laughter: How to Engage Any Audience, and Using Humor for a Change. As a motivational humorist, Scott’s main area of expertise is employee innovation, customer experience, and using humor/celebration as a strategic tool.

 

Justin Cohen

 

LEAD THE FUTURE:
7 Steps to Winning in an AI World

We are undergoing the greatest transformation in the history of humankind, nothing less than a revolution in the way that we live and work. The best way to predict the future is to lead it! More than a presentation, get ready for an experience.

You will also discover to:

  • Use AI to boost innovation and growth.
  • Create a culture of continual learning that fosters agility. Develop a purpose driven team that embraces change.
  • Integrate proven AI functionality to raise performance.
  • Build a personal brand that sets you above a machine.
  • Capitalize on the human advantage, relationship building.
  • Keep motivated and protect your mental health through exponential change.

Presenter:

Besides being a global leader in human transformation, and a bestselling author, Dr. J, is also an internationally renowned expert on pitching. He’s coached people who have never pitched before to win some of the toughest multi-million-dollar deals. Entrepreneurs hire him when they must secure venture capital funding. Applying his methods, many of his clients have exponentially increased their sales. Dr. J has helped many people get over their fear of public speaking and progress into leadership with confidence and charisma.

 

Jean Marie DiGiovanna

 

How to Think Like a Renaissance Leader in the Age of AI

We are navigating one of the most transformative periods in history. In this age of AI and high-speed innovation, companies risk overlooking their most valuable asset: the human element. We are moving through what Jean Marie DiGiovanna aptly terms the “Next” Renaissance, where leading with compassion, curiosity, and courage has never been more critical. These times require Renaissance Leaders—individuals whose expertise runs both deep and wide, who cultivate curiosity, honor diversity, and innovate by leveraging collective brilliance. In this engaging talk, Jean Marie will lead you on a transformative journey to unleash your inner Renaissance Leader so you can lead courageously in this age of AI.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Lead boldly and authentically using the principles of Renaissance Leadership.
  • Leverage the #1 tool Renaissance Leaders use to open dialogue and maximize technology’s power.
  • Cultivate a Renaissance Leadership mindset to increase team engagement, collaboration, and innovation.

Presenter:

Jean Marie DiGiovanna, CPCC, is an international keynote speaker, leadership educator, certified executive coach, and best-selling author with over 25 years of experience. Utilizing her body of work on Renaissance Leadership, she helps leaders shift the way they think, lead, and communicate, creating a culture of increased trust, collaboration, and innovation. She is a master of experiential learning with a unique ability to ask the questions no one is asking and deeply listen for what’s not being said. Her work has been published in SE Asia, India, Egypt, and the US, and she is the author of the Amazon bestseller, “Stop Talking Start Asking: 27 Questions to Shift the Culture of Your Organization.” Her LinkedIn Learning course, “Communication Skills for Modern Management,” was ranked one of the top four most-watched courses by tech professionals in 2023 and the most in-demand skill in 2024.

 

Brad Montgomery

 

The Jaw-Dropping, Undeniable Power of Encouragement

The power of encouragement is a business game- changer. Strategically deploying encouragement, caring, and acknowledgement improves your bottom line.

Harvard calls it “…the key to every educational and business outcome.” You can’t afford to overlook this easy, free, and proven performance-booster. Plus there is a magical side effect — encouraging others also helps us personally to feel less overwhelmed, more positive, and perform better. (Oh…and his clients love that Brad is funny.)

Organizational Benefits:

  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Engagement
  • Performance

Personal Benefits:

  • Reduced Stress
  • Increased Performance
  • Increased Happiness

Presenter:

Brad, a Brown University grad, is a Certified Speaking Professional — the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association. He is also a member of the Speakers Hall of Fame, an elite group of 150 inductees worldwide.

Brad has captivated audiences across all 50 states and four continents. His clientele boasts major names like Microsoft, Verizon, the FBI, (Yes, that FBI) the CIA (yup, that CIA), and the IRS (where he cleverly withheld 30% of his best ideas).

 

Debra Fine

 

Cultivating Connections in AI: Putting the “Chat" Back in ChatGPT

Technologies now handle tasks traditionally performed by humans. In this competitive business environment, fostering strong personal relationships has become more essential than ever. The ability to communicate effectively with others is a learned skill, not an innate personality trait. Developing this skill strengthens connections within organizations and with external partners, boosts visibility, and helps build meaningful networks in the broader community. It leaves a lasting, positive impression that goes well beyond a simple exchange of contact information.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Gain conversation tools that enhance leadership skills
  • Avoid sending contradictory or confusing signals about yourself
  • Prevent the most common conversation blunders that create a negative impression
  • Master introductions and remember names
  • Demonstrate that you’re a positive and self-confident professional while experiencing more ease at business conferences, networking occasions, receptions and meetings.

Presenter:

A former engineer and 25+ year member of the National Speakers Association presenting programs to hundreds of audiences around the world to clients that include General Electric, Google, Deloitte, Hyatt Hotels and United Airlines. Fine is the author of the bestselling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills—and Leave a Positive Impression translated and published in over 2 dozen countries including Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, France and Spain.

 

Harold Payne

 

Music Speaks Louder Than Words

Harold’s featured presentations are heartfelt, humorous, interactive and entertaining. His unique talent is capturing the essence of an occasion and spontaneously translating it into music.

He will celebrate, summarize and reinforce your themes and topics to create a crowning moment that will be remembered long after your event.

Your audience will experience:

Recap songs

Harold creates a song to recap a speaker’s message immediately following a talk or summarizes the events throughout your conference. A memorable takeaway for all attendees.

Presenter:

Harold Payne is a Multi-platinum songwriter, Tedx speaker and master improviser, who has written songs for such diverse artists as Rod Stewart, Patti Labelle, Carlos Santana as well as longtime collaborator, Bobby Womack; And literally from Peter Paul & Mary to Snoop Dogg.

He has also created customized songs for Regis Philbin, Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Kyle Cease (at the Dolby Theater) & the National Speakers Association conference.

 

Jana Stanfield

 

Don’t Wait, Recalibrate!

When stress is more usual than occasional, it’s time to give your energy management skills a tune up.

Jana Stanfield knows about the importance of playing in tune, and staying in tune, from a career as a world class musician, speaker, and facilitator.

In this upbeat, humorous, interactive session, you’ll laugh while learning the fastest and easiest ways to:

  • Reset your mindset to restore your resilience
  • Renew your recalibration skills for life
  • Recalibrate on the job, at home and on the go

Presenter:

“We cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that we can do.” -Jana Stanfield

Health is “tuned up” and that you can “play in tune” with others is not just a skillset but a necessity for a lifelong musician who is also the cofounder, with Scott Friedman, of Together We Can Change The World.

Being able to teach these skills, and practice them daily, is essential when Together We Can Change brings teams of volunteers to Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, or the Philippines.

Jana’s international presentations are filled with hope, humor and music that is best described as “Heavy MEN-tal” or “psychotherapy you can dance to.”

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