thought leadership
With more than three decades
of experience leading
teams and organizations,
Julian Chapman, the presenter
of the SuperSession, “For Your Own
Good: Persuasion for Fun and Profit,” has
helped both small and large organizations
achieve extraordinary results. He joined
Forrest & Company Limited in 2002 and
became president in 2014 after he retired
from his “second” career as a member of
the Canadian Armed Forces at the rank
of Brigadier-General. Today, he travels extensively
to help Forrest’s clients design
systems based on the Forrest methodology
that helps them achieve their goals.
Chapman is one of the world’s select few
Master Trainers for Effective Intelligence
– a system for learning how to choose the
best thing to do (intelligence) and to make
sure it gets done (effectiveness).
Known as a pioneer of thinking in
the workplace, Chapman’s thoughts on
organizational development and accountability
have been published in numerous
magazines, periodicals and newspapers,
including HR Reporter Magazine and The
Bottom Line. He holds a Bachelor of Arts
from the University of Toronto and is a
graduate of the Canadian Army Command
and Staff College, the Canadian Forces
College and the U.S. Army War College.
After attending Chapman’s
SuperSession, you will be able to put your
wealth of technical expertise to work for
your organization by learning some powerful
techniques of persuasion to achieve
the requisite buy-in from your colleagues
to implement your plans. Before your next
effort to convince someone to choose your
option above all others, learn a robust and
easy-to-use, eight-step persuasion and
influence process first developed by the
Dutch tech giant, Philips. You will be empowered
with eight steps of persuasion and
influence and you will learn the best way
to use your thinking at each step. You will
also be able to identify powerful prompting
questions to help explore each step to your
specific challenge or solution.
Attend “For Your Own Good: Persuasion for
Fun and Profit” on February 1 at 10:00 a.m.
With a childhood diagnosis
of ADD, there is no
one better qualified than
Curt Steinhorst to lead
the “Thriving in the Age of Distraction”
SuperSession. As a business owner, entrepreneur
and founder of FocusWise, he has
made it his mission to help the workforce
overcome the ubiquitous digital distractions
we all face every day. After devoting years
to the study of the impact of technology on
human behaviour, he now empowers professionals
across the world to work smarter in
the era of digital distraction.
As a sought-after speaker, Steinhorst has
spoken to prestigious audiences across the
globe, including Nationwide, McDonalds,
Wells Fargo, Wyndham Hotels, J.P. Morgan,
Marriott and General Motors. Widely
regarded as a leading voice on strategic communications
in the age of distraction, he is a
certified speaker at the Centre for Kinetics
and he speaks more than 90 times a year. He
has served as speaking coach and speechwriter
for TED Talk presenters, NHL Hall
of famers, Olympic gold medalists and TV
personalities.
Steinhorst discovered his gift for capturing
the attention of large audiences at
an early age. As a student, he was elected
president of his 10,000-member class at
Texas A&M University, where he graduated
Magna Cum Laude.
With the constant bombardment of advertisements,
emails, texts and disruptive
notifications, you know how hard it can be to
attend to tasks at hand. During Steinhorst’s
SuperSession, he will describe what our attention
spans are up against. For instance,
today, without any barriers to connectivity
and communications, we are asked to process
four times the information that people
processed in 1986, with less time to think
and process. The constant bombardment
of information has altered the way people
work, engage, communicate and relate to
one another. Steinhorst will help you understand
how lack of focus affects your
workplace and its leaders. You will also take
away strategies to help your workforce win
the battle against digital distractions.
Attend “Thriving in the Age of Distraction”
on February 1 at 3:00 p.m.
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