Exclusive topics designed for Austin Business Community Owners and Business Executives

If the below speaker content is of interest or could assist you or your leadership journey, please join us at one of our morning speaker workshop sessions.

Please contact Ed  to reserve your seat at our next meeting as part of our 2024 and 2025 Speaker Series, the calendar of events is listed further below on the page.

There is no cost in being our guest, so come, meet what could be your advisory board that will make a difference and change your business and life forever.

2024 Speaker Series for CEO, Business Owner Group CE4943 in Austin

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Our speaker workshops enable members to connect and gain insights from authors, content experts from around the country. Sessions last up to 3 hours with a group size of less than 20. My personal goal is that each attendee takes away one idea that is thought provoking.

My coaching clients share four traits:

• They need to change.
• They are wise enough to want to change.
• They are energetic enough to change.
• They want to be the best human being they can be.

Member and Guest goal

Walking away with at least one nugget will change the way you think, change your behavior for the better or change the way you do business. We will make you a better leader, making better decisions and increase your profitability and life balance.

• 2024 & 2025 Speaker Series

  January 17, 2024

  Sean Flaherty “The Momentum Framework: A Paradign-Shifting Business Model”

  The Momentum Framework: A paradigm-shifting framework of contextual models that connect the intangible business fundamentals like customer trust and loyalty to the profitability of your business, while powerfully aligning your team.

  Join fellow leaders to understand how The Momentum Framework will give you a measurable pathway to profit through systematically and purposefully building a culture through the language of Trust, Loyalty, and Advocacy.

• February 14

  Matt Garrett “The Art and Science of Getting the Most of Your Money”

  In this highly personalized workshop, Matt Garrett teaches you how to get off the financial treadmill and build real wealth. His unique and interactive approach helps members get answers to many financial questions that have been weighing on their minds. The following are some of the questions Matt helps answer:

  • What questions should I be asking my financial advisor?
  • Do I need a living trust?
  • How will my estate be taxed?
  • How do I minimize my liability exposure?
  • How should my assets be allocated?
  • Should I be using my credit card or debit card?
  • Should I be budgeting and tracking my expenses?
• April 15

  Vistage Executive Summit – Unleash Potential in Austin

  Elevate your leadership and connect with the pulse of Austin’s economy at the Vistage Executive Summit. Engage with us for a day of transformative insights and exclusive networking opportunities. Here’s what’s in store:

  • Insightful Keynotes: Gain a deeper understanding of local economic trends and tackle the issues that matter most to your business. Elevate your leadership skills to master the challenges of tomorrow.
  • Specialized Learning Sessions: Participate in expert-led workshops designed to provide solutions to the challenges keeping you awake at night. Benefit from actionable strategies that will propel your business forward.
  • Valuable Peer Connections: Network with a community of accomplished executives. Share experiences, exchange perspectives, and build lasting relationships in a dynamic face-to-face environment.

  Don’t miss out on this opportunity to transform your leadership journey. Secure your spot at the forefront of executive innovation.

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• May 15

  Katherine Jefferys “navigating the Generational Shift: Recruiting, engaging and Retaining Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z”

  There is a huge generational shift taking place in the world. Some find this exhilarating while others are left scratching their heads not only wondering what happened but also trying frantically to figure out how to stay relevant. Millennials and Gen Z have upset the status quo that has existed for over half a century and organizations need to learn a new way of recruitment, retention, and engagement. This seminar will help you understand how we got here and offer practical steps to apply in your own organization. We will also look at the reactions of the generations to covid-19, remote working, stressors they are experiencing and what they need to hear/receive most from their managers.

• July 17

  David Rosell “Failure is NOT an Option: Creating Certainty in Uncertain Times”

  This presentation will prepare members for financial independence during their retirement by educating them about the potentially devastating risks inherent in the second half of their financial journey and giving them the tools to prepare for those risks. Members will leave with realistic, smart strategies to empower them as they prepare for their retirement years. 

  “David Rosell’s guide to retirement planning shows you not only how to get your finances in order, but also how to bring meaning and purpose to these very special years.” – Ken Blanchard, Co-author of The One Minute Manager®

  “David Rosell provides a step-by-step guide to retiring in comfort and never worrying about money again.”- Brian Tracy, Author of Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

• August 21

  Corinne Hancock Scott “Thriving in Chaos”

  Understanding and clarity on how your thoughts, actions and language influence others, and impact your ability to lead and thrive in chaos.

  • A tested framework to prepare your company, your team and yourself to thrive in chaos, no matter the environment
  • Tools and exercises you can immediately use to engage and inspire both yourself and your team regardless of situation.

  Corinne Hancock was on the front lines, building teams in high-pressure, stressful situations around the globe as the Director of Clinics for Project CURE, and as a State Department contracted leadership coach. She brought together multi-generational, multi-cultural teams to train leaders, open clinics and deliver medical care in some of the most remote locations on the planet. Corinne truly knows how to THRIVE in CHAOS!

• OCTOBER 16

  Dave Nelsen “Ten Leadership and Life Lessons from Steve Jobs (The Lost Interview)

  • Join 15-year Vistage alumnus and Vistage Speaker of the Year Dave Nelsen in parsing the lost interview and extracting the profound leadership and life lessons of Steve Jobs. And then put these game-changing ideas and philosophies to work in your business (and life) starting tomorrow.
  • NOTE: Unlike any other Vistage talk save for perhaps David Hutton’s “Leadership at 12-O’Clock High,” this session involves 30-40 minutes of video viewing combined with 2+ hours of wide-ranging and thought-provoking group discussion. It’s inspiring and mesmerizing, and guaranteed to be entirely unique.
• November 13

  Randy Nelson “The Second Decision: The Qualified Entrepreneur”

  • Randy will highlight the “Entrepreneur Qual Card” created in his book. The qual card is a checklist of knowledge requirements needed by every entrepreneur, built around the top 10 reasons why businesses fail or underperform.
  • He will walk the participants through a one-page worksheet during the workshop portion, asking them probing and sometimes provocative questions that culminate with each member walking away with their own one-page leadership decision sheet  that can be used well into the future as a reference document. 
  • He will focus on increasing the participant’s self-awareness and he will help the Leader make “The Second Decision”; to become a “Qualified Entrepreneur, and to choose their role for the next 3-5 years”.
• 2024 – March 20th, June 19th, September 18th and December 11th are our All Day Executive Sessions for Members only.

• January 15, 2025

  SUZANNE FRINDT “ACCELERATE YOUR LEADERSHIP”

  In this program for members, authors and Vistage Chairs Suzanne Mayo Frindt and Dwight Frindt have drawn from their book Accelerate: High Leverage Leadership for Today’s World and their 30 years of work with clients through their organization, 2130 Partners, to bring the “best of” to participants through this interactive workshop. Our world is rapidly reshaping in many amazing ways. In this evolving new reality, successful leadership will have a very different nature than traditional approaches. As we go forward, those who lead will be the ones taking advantage of the creativity and productivity gains available by focusing on the human, collaborative dimension, while laggards will suffer in the face of unrelenting change.

  Value To Members & Guests

  This material is for leaders who have a commitment to productivity gains in the human dimension – for themselves and others. Participants can experience a paradigm shift in the way they view productive leadership and gain practical applications of new ways of being to put in place immediately.

• February 19, 2025

  GREG BUSTIN “ACCOUNTABILITY: THE KEY TO DRIVING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE CULTURE”

  Accountability is one of the most important factors in determining the success of an individual, a team and an entire organization. It’s also one of the most universally misunderstood and misapplied concepts in business, making it one of the biggest challenges leaders face. A 10-year study by Greg Bustin of more than 10,000 CEOs and key executives worldwide confirms that “lack of accountability” is the single greatest barrier to achieving consistently high levels of organizational performance.

  Value to Members & Guests

  • A new way to think about and approach accountability
  • Insights into their organization’s overall performance strengths and weaknesses
  • More than 35 best practices to improve execution
  • A counter-intuitive approach for addressing accountability with an under-performer
• May 21, 2025

  DR. EVE MECEDA “UNLOCKING THE POWER OF HABITS: HOW TO START, STOP, SUSTAIN, OR CHANGE ALMOST ANYTHING”

  What if there were reliable ways to increase our good habits and reduce our bad habits?

  In this highly interactive session, we unpack the four components of any habit – and leverage this understanding to create a simple, powerful, and sustainable framework for habit change.  The focus is on specific, practical tools that we can use every day to build habits that enhance our success, efficiency, and happiness – or to reduce/eliminate habits that don’t serve us well.

  Once we understand how to apply these tools to our own habits, we are then in a position to share these powerful systems with the most important people in our professional and personal lives, similarly helping them to increase their own performance and lead more awesome lives.

  Value To Members & Guests

  Participants will leave the session with a deep understanding of the mechanics of habit change – and with specific tools to ensure that they can effectively implement these tools in their own lives.  They will also be well-equipped to share these tools with others, so that the most important people in their professional and personal lives can enact these changes as well.

• July 16, 2025

  KEN GOLDE “THE F.A.S.T. WAY: DEFINING YOUR FEELINGS, ACTIONS, SPEECH, & THOUGHTS TO CREATE THE FUTURE YOU DESIRE”

  “The F.A.S.T. Way: is an exploration into how external events, other people, circumstances and situations create thoughts and feelings within you, which come out through you in words, actions, and how you physically appear to others without your intent or awareness, often driving your life in directions that you do not desire.

  Business owners and executives will learn how to identify the internal, invisible patterns of thought and behavior that interfere with decision making and limit their own success, then take control of that engine, developing a moment-by-moment intentionality in their feelings, actions, speech and thoughts to aligns their communication with how others receive them, emerging as stronger leaders with more skills to reach their peak performance.

  Value To Members & Guests

  Through the process of identifying and breaking through personal, pattern behaviors that interfere with their leadership, Vistage members and their guests will have gained powerful tools to strengthen their confidence, effectiveness and bottom line results with their customers, colleagues and employees, and other stakeholders.

• August 20, 2025

  Pending

• October 15, 2025

  PATRICK UNGASHICK “THE GROWTH MYTH”

  What makes one business more desirable than another to a prospective buyer? Why is selling a business or passing a business to a family member often so difficult and costly? How does a CEO or owner know if the decisions he or she is making today are helping or hurting the potential for a successful exit?

  In this workshop, Patrick Ungashick addresses “The Growth Myth,” which is the erroneous belief that if company leaders can succeed in growing the business, they will then be successful at exiting the business. The heart of the myth is that owners and CEOs often confuse growth with value; for example, decisions and actions that grow a privately held business at times fail to increase value. Without value that is transferable to a buyer or successor, it may be difficult or impossible to exit successfully.

  Value To Members & Guests

  • Understanding of three ways to maximize total business value at exit
  • A prioritized checklist for taking action in each of the Seven Elements of Transferable Value™
  • Transferable Value™ benchmarks against similar businesses and Vistage members
• November 12, 2025

  Pending

• 2025 – March 19th, June 18th, September 17th and December 10th are our All Day Executive Sessions for Members only.