The cost for this session is $95. Room: Suwannee 19/20

This program has been approved for 3 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

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Presenter: Kathryn Davanzo SPHR
Room: Wekiwa 9/10

Harris Rosen President & COO Rosen Hotels & Resorts Inc.

What CEO's Expect from HR Most CEO's are focused on increasing revenues and profit. They are highly competitive and measure everything in either dollars or numbers. If HR professionals are to become business leaders, we need to think big and act fast; driven by the need to produce results and continually strive to improve our businesses. This session will look at our perspective, our thinking and our language so it aligns with the approach taken by senior business executives. A textbook self-made multi-millionaire and the President and CEO of Rosen Hotels and Resorts, Inc., Harris Rosen will discuss his humble beginnings and how he formed and developed a hospitality empire.  Recently named the eighth most powerful person in Central Florida, Harris will share his views on the importance of people in his business and what he expects from his Human Resources executive and staff.  Get an insight into what he is doing now to insure that his organization retains key talent. This program has been approved for 1 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

The Masters Series is a unique educational experience that provides you with comprehensive learning opportunities. Not just for senior level professionals, these in-depth workshops are led by the best of the best and will help you make the most of your conference experience.  We invite conference attendees at all levels to attend these informative sessions that focus on topics important to your career and profession.

Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation   Success and failure do not work at all the way most people think they do.   Psychologist, author, and educator Dr. Richard Farson will cast new light on the subject of success and failure in this session, based on his highly praised book of the same title.   When ingrained attitudes about success and failure change, the meaning of every act of management changes too. This is especially true in the effort to stimulate innovation. Fostering innovation requires encouraging risk taking, accepting failure, and treating success and failure similarly, as steps to further achievement. Relying on conventional, outmoded ideas about these fundamental concepts stands in the way of a manager's ability to innovate, compete, and stay ahead of the curve. Learn Dr. Farson’s key principles: how failure is a part of innovation and how managers should encourage employees to take risks and make the right kinds of mistakes, from which growth emerges.

Dr. Tom Morris

True Success: The Art of Achievement In challenging and uncertain times, people need ideas they can trust - ideas that have stood the test of time and that can help us achieve success in even the most demanding situations. From Plato and Aristotle to the present day, the wisest people who have ever thought about success and excellence have left us bits and pieces of powerful advice for attaining true success in our work and in our lives in even the most turbulent of times. Tom has been able to put all these important insights together as a simple, complete framework of seven universal conditions for achieving deeply satisfying, sustainable excellence in all that we do. These conditions of success have never been more important that they are today. In a high energy, entertaining session, Tom will reveal some of the most fundamental ethical roots of personal and institutional greatness that far too often are overlooked, and that together give us our most reliable basis for moving forward. This talk leaves people with wind in their sails and ideas they can use.

The Masters Series is a unique educational experience that provides you with comprehensive learning opportunities. Not just for senior level professionals, these in-depth workshops are led by the best of the best and will help you make the most of your conference experience.  We invite conference attendees at all levels to attend these informative sessions that focus on topics important to your career and profession.

I Should Be Burned Out by Now . . . So How Come I'm Not?   Peg Neuhauser has worked for over twenty years as a management and organizational consultant specializing in the areas of conflict management, organizational culture, and avoiding burnout.   Everyone’s work life has been affected by this era of uncertainty. The world we are living in today operates at a much faster pace than a decade ago. In addition to the increased speed, there is great uncertainty triggered by economic and world events.  This interactive and entertaining presentation will focus on how to cope with one of the most serious dangers of the high speed, uncertain world of work — burnout.   Neuhauser will offer attendees dozens of practical tips about how people are surviving and even thriving in this era of uncertainty.

One lunch ticket for Thursday is included with your paid registration. Click here to purchase additional lunch tickets.

Bonnie St. John

The Ubër Secrets of Top Performers Bonnie St. John shares with audiences three secrets she has found that world-class performers know and most people do not know.   1. Why hard work, talent, and connections are not what separates stars from superstars—and what does. 2. The most important way to put the stress of being a super-star or super-achiever into perspective and not let it affect your decision making or performance. 3. Why the concept of work-life balance is seriously flawed and can make your life worse, not better…especially if you are a top performer. Bonnie draws on examples from CEOs of multibillion dollar companies, elected officials, television stars and producers, international sports champions, and more.   Bonnie has the unique position of having competed with and worked with world-class people from sports, politics, academics, as well as business. As an author she has interviewed people in-depth from her own experiences in the White House, Olympics, Oxford, Harvard, and Wall Street, as well as superstars in entertainment and the arts. Her particular focus is on top performers who maximize their quality of life rather than being self-destructive in pursuit of being the best.

The Masters Series is a unique educational experience that provides you with comprehensive learning opportunities. Not just for senior level professionals, these in-depth workshops are led by the best of the best and will help you make the most of your conference experience.  We invite conference attendees at all levels to attend these informative sessions that focus on topics important to your career and profession.

The Leadership Kaleidoscope   Drawing from his substantial experience as founder and professor of management at the Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, John Clemens uses thought-provoking clips of great films to teach unforgettable lessons.  In this “no-lecturing-allowed” session, participants will view contemporary as well as classic films such as Apollo 13, Babe, Erin Brokovitch, Dead Poets Society, Sister Act, 12 Angry Men and The Bridge on the River Kwai to critique their own behavior in real-life situations.  Participants will use these cinematic "moments of truth" to engage in discussion about tough issues, enabling them to emerge as stronger and more effective leaders.