OC June Chapter Learning Event: Leadership as a Hero’s Journey – Four Virtues for Transforming Uncertainty and Anxiety into Results

Pre-registration is now closed, but we welcome walkins at the door!

Leaders grapple with uncertainty on the one hand and accountability on the other. While teams look to leaders for assurance and guidance, leaders feel compelled to cover up their concerns about consistent uncertainty and ambiguity.

The Hero’s journey embraces obstacles and uncertainty, and builds engaged teams on the march toward the Prize. Resilience, courage, discipline, and perspective can be learned, and can be used to produce both powerful and empowering results.

Eric will share with you the four part process to enrich your management and leadership activities by adding to your effectiveness, efficiency, and the desire for others to follow your lead.

The learning objectives of this session:

• Apply a four step process to managing ambiguity and anxiety.
• Develop a plan for addressing fear in leadership.
• Analyze and minimize the barriers to addressing uncertainty in leadership.

About the Presenter: Eric Kaufmann guides leaders to better decisions and superior results. Kaufmann is a native of Israel, who lived in South Africa, before gaining two decades of experience in sales and management at companies such as Lanier/3M and Corning Clinical Laboratories. He Kaufmann’s work brings executives and their teams to clarify their strategy, goals, and vision; assess and enhance management teams; and identify and eliminate obstacles to collaboration, trust, and productivity. Ultimately, his contribution leads to better judgment, and improved team engagement.

In 1999 he launched a leadership consulting firm that guides and instructs individuals and teams in senior management of established and growing companies such as Sony, T-Mobile, Verizon, Novartis, Genentech, and SunPower, Union Bank, and Alcon. Kaufmann’s roles as executive coach, management consultant, and keynote speaker are shaped by real-world business experience, as well as varied life experiences and perspectives. Kaufmann is a clinical hypnotherapist, master scuba diving instructor, and lifelong practitioner of Zen meditation.

His quest for clarifying his lenses of perception, deepening his insight, and widening his capacity to care, influences and deepens his coaching and consulting work. His professional affiliations include serving on several community boards, teaching at San Diego State University and Cal State San Marcos, speaking for Vistage International, and membership with the Institute of Management Consultants and National Speakers Association.

Speaker Links:

• Eric Kaufmann’s Speaker Video: http://bit.ly/1JnLgjd
• Leadership as Hero’s Journey on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1K0aBkb

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME & SCHEDULE for 2015:

10:45 AM  Registration, Doors Open Informal Networking

11:05 AM  Welcome & Structured Networking Activity

11:45 AM  Lunch

12:00 PM  Keynote Speaker

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About Registration:

Earlybird registration ends at 5 p.m. on the Monday before the meeting.

For evening meetings: Pre-registration closes at noon on the day of the meeting, but walkins are welcome.

For lunch meetings: Pre-registration closes at noon on the day before the meeting, but walkins are welcome.

Cancellation/refund deadline is noon on the Monday before the meeting. No shows will be charged in full.