Leadercast is the largest one-day leadership event in the world. In 2019, Leadercast brings together experts in leadership and organizational health to help attendees master the art and science of developing and Leading Healthy Teams.
As leaders, we may wonder what defines a team’s success. Is it based solely on achievement, or is there more to the story? The best leaders know a successful team is made when focus, care, attention and development are directed to its members. Healthy teams yield effective collaboration, fulfilled employees, high organizational engagement and greater long-term success. Learn what it takes to ensure your team functions at its highest and healthiest.
This event will be telecast at the Forbes Road Conference Center: Friday, November 1st, 2019 beginning at 8:30am (registration opens at 8am.) In addition to the Leadership presentation, guests will enjoy networking, light breakfast, lunch catered by Kountry Kettle, and the opportunity to visit exhibitors (as well as to be an exhibitor during the event.)
A team that reaches the summit of a mountain is considered a success, but great leaders know the journey doesn’t end when you reach the top. Healthy teams don’t just reach their pinnacle, they stay there.
At Leadercast Live 2019, attendees will be energized by a daylong event led by some of the best minds in organizational health. From clinical researchers to major industry leaders, the Leadercast Live stage will be full of wisdom from experts sharing their knowledge of how to maintain a successful, healthy team.
Here’s a look at the nine speakers gracing Leadercast 2019
Gayle King
“When people don’t want the best for you, they are not the best for you.”
Gayle is a media titan, carving her way through the cutthroat media industry for more than 40 years. She is co-host of CBS This Morning and editor-at-large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine. Gayle previously hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. Before moving into print and radio, she worked for almost 25 years as a television news anchor.
Gayle has received three Emmys, was given the American Women in Radio & Television Gracie Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show in 2008, and, in 2010, was granted both the Individual Achievement Award for Host-Entertainment/Information and the New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Award. She currently resides in New York City with her daughter, Kirby, and son, Will.
Patrick Lencioni
“If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”
Patrick’s company, The Table Group, is dedicated to helping organizations improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement. He is author of 11 best-selling books with more than 5 million copies sold. His capstone book, The Advantage, is the preeminent source on organizational health. After 16 years in print, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a weekly fixture on national best-seller lists. Each year, Patrick address thousands of organizations, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, nonprofits, schools and churches.
He was named in Fortune as one of the “Ten New Gurus You Should Know,” and has been featured in USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek and Harvard Business Review. Patrick lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four sons.
Dr. Caroline Leaf
“How we think not only affects our own spirit, soul, and body but also people around us.” TWEET
Caroline holds a master’s and a Ph.D. in communication pathology and a bachelor’s in logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s, Caroline has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health and the formation of memory.
She currently teaches at academic, medical and neuroscience conferences, churches and to various audiences around the world to explain the power of the mind. Her YouTube videos, podcasts and TV episodes unravel the link between science and spirituality that takes place when one controls thoughts and emotions. Her content also helps people discover how to think and learn while finding their sense of purpose in life.
Marcus Samuelsson
“One thing I believe with all my soul: Don’t try to guess somebody’s ceiling.”
Marcus is the acclaimed chef behind many restaurants worldwide including Red Rooster Harlem, Red Rooster Shoreditch and Marcus B&P. He was the youngest person to ever receive a three-star review from The New York Times, and has won multiple James Beard Foundation Awards including “Best Chef: New York City.” Samuelsson was also crowned champion of television shows Top Chef Masters and Chopped All-Stars, and served as a mentor on ABC’s The Taste.
He is the author of multiple books, including The New York Times best-selling memoir Yes, Chef, the young adult version—Make It Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life—Marcus Off Duty: The Recipes cookbook, and his latest, The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem. Samuelsson’s new TV series titled No Passport Required with VOX/Eater and PBS debuted summer of 2018.
Juliet Funt
“Legacy is a story about you that is yet to be written, but for which you hold the pen.”
WhiteSpace at Work is a training and consulting firm that helps organizations, their leaders and their employees flip the norms of business in order to reclaim their creativity, productivity and engagement. As CEO, Juliet helps professionals learn the pivotal difference between activity and productivity. She teaches them a streamlined method for personal process improvement—leading to more creativity and engagement—and helps executives, managers and teams answer the critical question, “What thoughts deserve my full attention today?”
Incredibly intuitive, Juliet successfully blends highly customized content with a keen understanding of clients’ needs in her programs and consulting work. As a busy corporate speaker and consultant, business owner, wife and mother of three young boys, she practices the WhiteSpace concept she shares with her clients on a daily basis.
Andy Stanley
“Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.”
A captivating speaker and best-selling author, Andy is considered one of the most influential speakers in America. He is the author of 20-plus books, including Deep & Wide, When Work & Family Collide, Visioneering and Next Generation Leader. Though he is an Atlanta-based pastor of North Point Ministries, nearly 1.8 million of his messages, leadership videos and podcasts are accessed from North Point’s website each month.
Stanley’s personal passion for engaging with live audiences, made up of both church and organizational leaders, impacts nearly 185,000 people on a weekly basis. Andy and his wife, Sandra, have three grown children and live near Atlanta.
Ginger Hardage
“If organizations lack clear purpose or they keep changing it, employees will become confused with their own purpose and, in turn, they’ll end up confusing their customers.”
After an illustrious 25 years, Ginger recently retired as Senior Vice President of Culture and Communications at Southwest Airlines. While serving the nation’s largest airline, Ginger’s team constructed and sustained the organization’s legendary culture and communications enterprise. The enduring, world-famous culture landed Southwest on Fortune’s “Top 10 Most Admired Companies in the World” list for 22 consecutive years.
Now, Ginger helps other organizations harness the power of culture and brand identity through her company, Unstoppable Cultures. She resides in the Dallas area and, among other advisory roles, serves as a trustee on the boards of Ronald McDonald House Charities and the Arthur Page Society.
Craig Springer
“It doesn’t really matter what our workplace looks like. Respect should be at the core of it.”
Alpha USA runs on the simple idea of a great meal, a short talk and a meaningful discussion about life and faith over 10 weeks. As executive director, Craig oversees operations in more than 6,000 churches and 450 prisons throughout the country, and helps mobilize more than 50,000 volunteers and 350,000 participants in the U.S.,and more than 1.5 million globally. The key to Alpha is listening. It’s a judgment-free space where any point of view is respected, no one gets corrected and people can explore their thoughts together.
Craig has been a leader and pastor in influential churches in Chicago and Denver, one of which was named Outreach Magazine’s “Fastest Growing Church in America” in 2014. He lives in the Denver area and is a passionate hack at every mountain sport you can name. He has been married to his wife, Sarah, for 18 years, and has two children and one very spoiled beagle.
Carla Harris
“Remember, being valued and being rewarded are two different things.”
As vice chairman, managing director and senior advisor at Morgan Stanley, Carla is responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. In her 30-year career, Carla has had extensive experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial and health care sectors. In August 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council. Carla has been named to Fortune’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America,” U.S. Banker’s “Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance,” Black Enterprise’s “Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business,” and “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street,” Essence’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World,” Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and “15 Corporate Women at the Top,” and was named “Woman of the Year 2004” by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and in 2011 by the Yale Black Men’s Forum.
In her other life, Carla is a singer, and released her third gospel CD Unceasing Praise in 2011. She has performed five sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall. Carla is also the author of the books, Strategize to Win and of Expect to Win.
HOST: Tripp Crosby
Trip Crosby is known for bringing laughter and energy to the stage. Best known as the taller half of Tripp and Tyler, a world-famous YouTube sketch comedy duo, Tripp began his career behind the camera. He owns Green Tricycle Studios, the branded arm of Thruline Entertainment, which produces content for major brands such as Coke, Verizon and Cannon.
In 2014, Saatchi & Saatchi selected Tripp as a member of the Cannes International Film Festival New Director Showcase for his work on A Conference Call in Real Life. Tripp is currently developing his first feature film and works closely with the city of Atlanta to help foster the rapid growth of the content-creation business.