Breakout Sessions
The Mid-Market Convention is designed to have experts leading discussions of the other experts in the room. It is not a typical “speakers address an audience” environment. In fact, there are no presentations and lectures. Everything is interactive.
Panels and workshops are configured differently to deliver ideas and tools with short and long-term application and impact.
Panels allow 1/3 of the time for panelists to present their ideas, 1/3 of the time for open discussion and debate across the room, and 1/3 of the time to create a shared vision to present to the world with specific actionable ideas to report.
Workshops are facilitated sessions in which CEOs and experts in the room help each other strengthen knowledge and skills. Knowledge and ideas are shared with the community via notes, slides, and takeaways.
Artificial Intelligence: Leveraging AI will be paramount to future success
How can you leverage AI to gain a sustainable competitive advantage?
This session will explore how to:
- Identify potential business applications to transform your organization.
- Create opportunities to collaborate with like-minded CEOs and experts.
- Augment business performance by integrating key AI management insights.
- Provide our members with special resources to utilize AI
CEOC Angel Investor Network: Find innovation; mentor entrepreneurs
Connecting you to investment opportunities in early-stage ventures.
This session will explore how to:
- Create opportunities for our members who want to find investment.
- opportunities in early-stage ventures.
- Provide our members with special resources to find innovative entrepreneurs.
- Collaborate with like-minded investors.
CEOC Board Connection Network: Find a board seat
Connections are the key to finding a board seat; What is your target and position statement?
This session will address:
- Understanding the different types of boards (public, private, advisory).
- Mapping out your approach to stepping through different levels of boards to your ultimate target.
- Strengthening your personal brand based on your target including positioning and messaging.
CEOC Cancer Connection: Access when you need it most
To provide resources for CEOC members, their families, and their employees who are impacted by cancer, that will enable them to:
- Enhance their ability to understand their situation,
- Find and access the right doctors,
- Receive state of the art treatments and
- Deal with the potential results.
CEOC Mental Health Connection: Access when you need it most
To provide resources for CEOC members, their families, and their employees who are impacted by mental health issues, that will enable them to:
- Enhance their ability to understand their situation,
- Find and access the right doctors,
- Receive state of the art treatments and
- Deal with the potential results.
CEOC Merger and Acquisition Network: Find & integrate M&A opportunities
How to source, evaluate, fund, and integrate acquisitions
The session will explore:
- Major challenges to M&A success
- Identifying and assessing opportunities
- Access to Capital
- Onboarding the acquisitions
- Preventing culture clashes
- Ensuring alignment
- Resources for success
Cultural Alignment: Improve efficiency and profit margins
Aligning leadership behavior produces tangible and quantifiable results.
This session will explore:
- Identifying areas where the team is not aligned to the vision with a proven methodology to align the organization.
- Enhancing insight into the level of execution strength and the extent to which the organization is reinforcing the conditions for a performance culture.
- A plan that will achieve sustainable performance improvement with significant ROI.
Customer Centricity: Focus on your customer; Really accelerate growth
How can companies gain a competitive advantage by refocusing on the customer?
Dimensions to be addressed include:
- Understanding what Customer Centricity is and what it isn’t
- Building stronger customer relationships
- Understanding and anticipating their behaviors
- Applying Customer Centricity to government
Data ROI and your knowledge GAP
How can you leverage data to gain a sustainable competitive advantage?
This session will explore:
- A path to maximize your ROI of your data investment.
- An evaluation of the maturity of your data environment.
- Areas where the company can better use its data to fuel growth and profitability.
- Insight into the extent to which your organization is using data to drive strategy and guidance to use it more effectively.
- Actioning data – how to make the data work for you
Digital Transformation: Unlock the full value of your technology
How can the Mid-Market work together to close the digital divide?
This session will explore:
- A Mid-Market Digital Transformation roadmap
- Do your employees have the tools they need to do their work
- Cyber Security
- The hidden ROI of technology
- Resources for success
Equity and Opportunity: ROI of Enlightened Self Interest
How to make equal opportunity in our companies a way of life not just a slogan.
This session will explore:
- Programs to help mid-market companies include more women in C-suite and on boards.
- Partnering with small economically disadvantaged businesses: Access + Scale = Sales.
- Building a pipeline of diversified talent.
- Identifying resources to get you there.
Healthcare: Provide better healthcare; reduce your costs.
By combining the resources of the Mid-Market, we can develop mid-market initiatives and strategies that can improve healthcare for you, your family and your employees while reducing your healthcare costs.
This session will explore:
- Association plans: Is it time and is it doable?
- The CEOC Mid-Market bundling program to create a more cost-effective health insurance program
- Creative alternatives and options
- Preventative care initiatives
Talent Management: Recruit, develop, and retain your people
How can you best acquire, develop, and keep talent?
This session will explore:
- Your company Employer Value Proposition and applicant journey
- What it takes to be a “best place to work for millennials”
- Creative channels to find talent
- Developing stars
- Motivating talent
- Protecting your trade secrets