World-renowned chef and entrepreneur Andrew Zimmern shares his deeply personal journey with addiction and sobriety and how he found his calling to tell stories through food and travel adventures. Balancing personal and professional moments of adversity, Zimmern offers an inspiring story of hope, perseverance, and how to become a better leader through resilience. From navigating uncertainty to "co-regulating before operationalizing" to learning how to "act your way into right thinking," Zimmern's message is a blend of personal experience and his own prescription for resiliency and success.

We typically associate success with speed and smarts. But in today's hypercompetitive world, even those gifts aren't enough. Collaboration expert Erica Dhawan argues that the game changer is a thoroughly modern skill called Connectional Intelligence (CxQ). As radical a concept as emotional intelligence was in the 90s, Connectional Intelligence is turning people into superconnectors who accelerate innovation, break down silos and foster breakthrough impact.

This dynamic, engaging, high-energy, fast-paced session will help participants understand the practice of using Connectional Intelligence as the key to purposeful collaboration, resilience and business success. Attendees will shift the notion of collaboration from more meetings and emails to productive engagement that improves speed and quality of service, increases subject matter expertise and specialist sharing across silos, reduces cross-team dysfunction and delay, and eliminates duplicative work. Attendees will learn new insights and tools to accelerate the connected power of teams, become more agile and innovative, and drive breakthrough ideas and outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

• Discover new ways to lead, inspire, and communicate with diverse teams through uncertainty.
• Learn how to keep cross-team collaborations aligned, build trust and foster motivation.
• Gain specific actions to inspire teamwork, innovation, resilience, revitalization and results-driven progress.
• Learn behaviors to understand and build trust and connection, no matter the distance.

Marci Rossell is a world-renowned economist and financial expert who electrifies audiences nationwide, speaking candidly on the nexus of economics, politics, culture and the media. She honed her animated style serving as the popular, lively chief economist for CNBC, where she became a household name and a must-watch source of financial news. The former co-host of the well-known "pre-market" morning news and talk show Squawk Box, Rossell is revered for taking complex economic issues, often dull in the button-down business press, and making them relevant to people's lives, families and careers.

Red Shoes Living—standing out for embracing the positive at work and in your life—is the most relevant and life-changing business message for our time. As an internationally recognized speaker, Lonnie Mayne shares the simple framework of Red Shoes Living with audiences around the world. The foundation of his success is the Red Shoes Living concept that centers on getting the best version out of employees by focusing on five key Red Shoes pillars. These pillars encourage employees to stand out in the work they do and in the life they live. Whether it’s business or personal Red Shoes Living is a way of life. In a world that is increasingly noisy and negative, the Red Shoes philosophy has become a symbol for making a positive impact in the world of business.