Jan 23-24, 2023
1st Annual Alaska Leadership Symposium
Leaders Worth Following:
Cultivating Effective Leadership in The Digital Age
Hosted by Business Improvement Group, Leaders Worth Following is a leadership symposium to help you gain clarity, think differently, and become a leader people want to follow.
This event is for anyone wanting to continue to develop their leadership skills. Leadership is for everyone, from top executives to the up-and-comers. We have put together content that will provide value for everyone who attends no matter your title, role, position, or location in the leadership journey.
Come take advantage of an opportunity to develop:
- Greater Self-Awareness: Learn your voice and understand what it’s like to be on the other side of your leadership.
- Better Alignment: Discover the sweet spots of those on your team, get better aligned, and reach higher levels of performance.
- Clear Communication: Communicate what you mean without people taking it the wrong way and getting offended. Understand the power of words and how to use them for positive transformation. Gain awareness on how what you say impacts your brand and reputation.
- Effective Delegation: Delegate more effectively to save time and increase productivity.
- Higher Performance: Confidently build high-performing teams with optimized capacity, rather than taking shots in the dark and hoping people do their jobs well.
- Quicker Decision Making: Learn how to listen better, ask helpful questions, and make more effective decisions quicker, while dealing with complex, constant, and rapid change.
- Retentive Resilience: Ability to successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
When
Monday – Tuesday
January 23-24, 2023
Where
Discovery Ballroom
Hotel Captain Cook
Anchorage, Alaska
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Symposium Schedule
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Welcome & Land Acknowledgement
9:15 am – 10:15 am
Keynote 1: Become a Leader Worth Following
with
Jeremie Kubicek
• Learn how to become a person people want to follow, not have to follow.
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Leadership Panel 1: Native Women’s Wilderness - Leading in the Wilderness and Our Native Land facilitated by Nikki Graham
• Facilitated discussion with three of Alaska’s own; learn about what Lexi, Amanda, and Elaina discovered about leadership on their trek to Mount Everest base camp
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch, Collaboration, and Vendor Time
12:40 pm – 2:30 pm
Breakout with Facilitated Discussion
• Choose one of five hot-topic discussions facilitated by community leaders in
the Discovery, Voyager, Endeavor, Quadrant, and Adventure rooms.
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Leading with the Power of Words
with Rocky & Cheryl
Detwiler
• Find out if you are creating the right atmosphere for liberating yourself and
those that you lead.
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Leadership Panel 2: An Entrepreneurial Leadership Journey with Karissa Breen
• Unpacking a leadership journey: from small-town Australia to Global Thought
Leader and Influencer.
4:30 pm
Social Hour
• Live music and drinks on the 10th floor Quarter Deck
• Yurapik Drummers and Dancers performing in the ballroom
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:15 am
Keynote 2: Talk Like a Leader: Finding Your "It Factor" with Anthony Huey
• This fast-paced, pragmatic and interactive keynote gives audience members practical and immediately implementable approaches to bringing the “it factor” to not only themselves, but their organization.
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Interactive Audience Workshop: Making Your Messages Memorable: Stand Up. Stand Out. And Stand Apart! facilitated by Anthony Huey
• Don’t miss what is often your only opportunity to connect and leave a lasting impression. This interactive workshop with the audience offers attendees battle-proven communications techniques to ensure they and their messages are remembered.
1:30 pm
Adjourn and Thank You
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch, Collaboration, and Vendor Time
• Take away lunch option available.
Keynote Speakers
We are excited to introduce and welcome a respectable panel of speakers who are preeminent in the industry. Please check out their bios and websites to learn more about each.
Jeremie Kubicek
Founder & Executive Chairman of GiANT Worldwide and bestselling author.
Jeremie Kubicek is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Leadership is Dead He is a powerful communicator, serial entrepreneur and content builder. He creates content used by some of the largest companies around the globe found in the other books he has authored: The 100X Leader, 5 Voices, 5 Gears and the National Bestseller, Making Your Leadership Come Alive and his new book, The Peace Index.
Jeremie is the Co-Founder of GiANT, a company that certifies coaches and consultants that serve companies and their employees.
Jeremie has started over 20 companies while living in Oklahoma City, Moscow, Atlanta and London.
His insights have been featured on MSNBC, INC magazine, Entrepreneur, and inside many of the largest companies in the world. He has lived worldwide and uses his works in over 115 countries. He has been named consistently by INC magazine as a top 100 speaker. He is co-founder of GiANT, Six Summers, Culture Wins, and billion. He also provides sports performance expertise to the University of Oklahoma football team.
Rocky & Cheryl Detwiler
Leading Power of Words Experts, Health & Fitness Coaches, Transformational Leaders, Authors,
Husband & Wife Duo
Rocky & Cheryl Detwiler are the duo with the right words to lift lives and spur success. They power life transformation in others with their enthusiasm, inner strength and absolute belief in the power of words. Rocky & Cheryl connect with your audience and inspire them to reach the next level personally and professionally. Their workshops are fun team-building events where attendees leave ready to make real changes in their lives. Rocky and Cheryl teach leaders to be leaders worth following and show them how to empower their workforce to increase everyone’s productivity.
Rocky’s success was born from the ashes of his own collapse, following betrayal, suicidal depression and complete financial loss as the victim of a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. After living in a tree house for a year, Rocky’s redemptive journey from tree house to triumph was a result of his mind mastery, entrepreneurial spirit, stirring power words and goal-setting strategies that became the basis for their book, The Samson Effect.
Anthony Huey
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) by The National Speakers Association & President of Reputation Management, LLC
Anthony Huey, CSP®, is a highly rated international speaker who offers session attendees pragmatic communications tools, tips and techniques they can use immediately. Anthony has presented more than 3,000 paid communications workshops, seminars and speeches in his career, and was named a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) by The National Speakers Association, an honor awarded to less than 12% of its speakers worldwide.
Anthony’s 25-year career includes tenures as a news reporter and senior editor, crisis management specialist, media relations consultant and executive speech coach. He owns Reputation Management, LLC, one of the nation’s leading communications training and crisis consulting companies.
His past client work includes a wide variety of advertising, public relations and communications initiatives for hundreds of trade associations, municipalities and companies, including Nike, Victoria’s Secret, Eli Lilly, Nationwide Insurance, The Kroger Company, Procter & Gamble, and many more.
Anthony holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from The Ohio State University
Karissa Breen
Karissa Breen is a serial entrepreneur focused on the technology space.
Karissa Breen, or KB as she’s better known, is a serial entrepreneur focused on the technology space. KB holds numerous board positions, from an Australian Technology College, a VP of Communications position for a global media company, through to several human capital enterprises focused on the security industry.
As an ex-tech, KB saw fundamental issues with the way in which cybersecurity was trying to engage with people inside the industry, but more importantly, to external audiences. Having worked on the frontlines of both executive communications and cybersecurity, she founded KBI to help global enterprises better frame and develop their engagement strategies. Whether marketing, internal communications, or media, KBI is 100% focused on helping tech companies communicate better.
Our Partners
We wouldn’t be able to host this Symposium without help from our amazing partners.
Our Partners
We wouldn’t be able to host this Symposium without help from our amazing partners.
Our Partners
We wouldn’t be able to host this Symposium without help from our amazing partners.
Register Now
A limited number of seats are available at $599. Register today at EventBrite.
Pricing
The Symposium has a variety of ticket and sponsorship packages to promote your business. See below to learn more about the best option for you and your team! All tickets include:
One Seat at an Attendee Table
- Exposure to best-in-class leadership development.
- Up to 8 PDU/CEU hours.
- Opportunity to network with peers.
- All symposium meals & refreshments.
- Seats can be gifted as marketing & promotion.
- *plus associated fees
Entire Attendee Table (10 Seats)
- Exposure to best-in-class leadership development.
- Up to 8 PDU/CEU hours.
- Opportunity to network with peers.
- All symposium meals & refreshments.
- Seats can be gifted as marketing & promotion.
- *plus associated fees
Vendor Table (3 Seats)
- Placed around the perimeter of the ballroom.
- Seats up to (3) people.
- Setup merchandise, marketing information, and POS.
- Networking during breaks, lunch, and networking slots.
- *plus associated fees
Sponsor Packages
Secure an entire table and preferred seating in the ballroom for your team by sponsoring the event!
Gold Sponsor
- Second choice (after Platinum Sponsors) of 1 attendee & 1 vendor table or 2 attendee tables.
- Your logo on slide materials.
- Sponsorship mentions throughout both days of the Symposium.
- Named sponsor & business introduction for one of three Leadership Panel sessions.
- *First come, first serve basis.
- *plus associated fees
Platinum Sponsor
- First choice of 2 attendee tables & 1 vendor table or 3 attendee tables.
- Your logo on slide materials.
- Sponsorship mentions throughout both days of the Symposium.
- Named sponsor & business introduction for one of two Keynotes.
- *First come, first serve basis.
- *plus associated fees
Silver Sponsor
- Third choice (after Platinum & Gold Sponsors) of 1 attendee or 1 vendor table.
- Your logo on slide materials.
- Sponsorship mentions throughout both days of the Symposium.
- Named sponsor & business introduction for Social Hour & meals.
- *First come, first serve basis.
- *plus associated fees
Frequently Asked Questions
A leadership symposium to help you gain clarity, think differently, and become a leader people want to follow.
January 23rd, 2022 (Full Day)
January 24th, 2022 (Half Day)
The symposium will be held in the Discover Ballroom at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska.
- Meals
- Refreshments
- Door Prizes
- Swag
- Opportunities to win books & merch.
The target audience is for anyone wanting to continue to develop their leadership skills. Leadership is for everyone, from top executives to the up-and-comers. We have put together content that will provide value for everyone who attends no matter your title, role, position, or location in the leadership journey.
- The C-Suite – Dealing with challenges associated with leading rapid change and remote workforces and providing compelling vision and strategy while operating in complex digital ecosystems. Needing to lead by influence over position.
- Directors, Mid-level Management, Supervisors – Dealing with challenges associated with 360°accountability and communicating up and down in the organization. Having to manage but needing to get buy-in and commitment. Need to lead by influence over position. Need to improve your skills in leading and developing teams.
- Sales and Marketing Personnel – Challenged with leading negotiations, building trust, understanding how to be interested before interesting, and learning how to build relationship before opportunity. Need to communicate more effectively, protect the brand and reputation, and develop a clear and consistent message.
- Business Owners and Entrepreneurs – Struggling with learning how to mature a growing organization and how to better lead and communicate business partnerships and clientele. Challenged with the Sales and Marketing problems listed above and leading and building teams.
- Aspiring and up-and-coming Leaders – Challenged with getting to the next level, learning the language of leadership, gaining self-awareness and others awareness. Need to spend time with coaches, mentors, and other leaders that can help you up to the next level. Learning to influence and lead from any level in an organization.
- Project Managers and Credential Holders – Challenged with being a project leader vs. merely a manger and having to lead cross-functional initiatives while having minimal authority over resources and decisions. Need to lead by influence and motivation to get to deliverables. Need to keep up your professional certifications through PDUs.
Our Leadership Symposium provides:
- An opportunity to learn from some of the trending leadership and communication coaches in the world.
- An opportunity to contribute to discussions and Q&A.
- An opportunity to collaborate, network, mentor, and learn with colleagues and peers.
- An opportunity to gain awareness, find opportunities, and network your brand.
- An opportunity to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) and/or Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
- An opportunity to breakaway from the grind for a day and half to charge your leadership batteries, boost morale, gain clarity, think differently, and become a leader that people want to follow.