Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
8:30am – 4:30pm
Alliant Energy Center
Madison, WI
Keynote featuring Lance Secretan,
Author of The Spark, the Flame and the Torch
6 Breakout Sessions on Inspiring Self, Inspiring Others and
Inspiring Organizations through Learning
Networking, Exhibitors….and more!
Presented by:
Sponsored by:
2012 ASTD-SCWC Learning Summit Agenda
Track 1
Inspire Self – Individual Contributors
Track 2
Inspire Others –Individual
Contributors, Influencers, and
Leaders
Track 3
Inspire Organizations – Influencers
and Leaders
Thursday February 23, 2012
Registration and Breakfast
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Event Kickoff
8:30 am – 9:00 am
10:15 am – 10:45 am
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Exhibits Open
9:00 am – 10:15 am
Inspire Self Breakout 1
Inspire Others Breakout 1
Inspire Organizations Breakout 1
Quickly Engaging
Learners’ Brains for
Lasting Results
Live Love Give
From Hired to Inspired
Deb DeNure
Sarah Gibson
Rebecca Doepke
Morning Break
Inspire Self Breakout 2
Inspire Others Breakout 2
Inspire Organizations Breakout 2
Resilience and Renewal:
Being Your Best so you
can Give Your Best
Make it Experiential! Workshop Design and
Facilitation Tools for
Amazing Trainings
Becoming a High Performance
Organization
Lori Gibson
Amy Climer
Daniel Schroeder, Ph.D.
Lunch Break
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Keynote and Workshop – Lance Secretan, author of The Spark, The Flame,
and The Torch
1:00 pm – 4:15 pm
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Every event participant receives a copy of Lance Secretan’s book
The Spark, The Flame, And The Torch
Keynote
Lance Secretan
Lance Secretan is simply one of the most spellbinding speakers in the world. He is one of North
America's most sought-after keynote speakers and has been voted one of the nation's top ten speakers,
and chosen by Successful Meetings magazine as one of the top 21 speakers entering the 21st century.
In this keynote based on Dr. Lance Secretan’s latest groundbreaking book, The Spark, the Flame and
the Torch: Inspire Self. Inspire Others. Inspire the World, he takes us on an invigorating, radical and
inspiring journey in which he challenges the very idea of a discipline called "leadership" and proposes,
instead, that we first learn how to become inspired (The Spark), so that we can inspire others (The
Flame) and create a legacy (The Torch).
Be warned! This is a provocative book. Get ready to be challenged! First Secretan takes
on many sacred cows - mission, vision and values statements, leadership theory, brand
management theory, motivation techniques, psychometric profiling, performance
management systems and coaching, to name a few - and then describes how alternatives
to these ideas have been successfully implemented by some of the greatest organizations
in the world.
Secretan shares wisdom gleaned from 35 years of research, teaching and working with great leaders
globally. His conclusions and recommendation will inspire, amaze, entertain and inform you. This is a
message that unlocks the answers to challenging questions in a crisp, insightful, challenging, and
fascinating way and defines a leadership path that will forever change your thinking - and change your
life.
He shows us how everyone can be an inspiring leader, create inspiring organizations and change the
world. He presents these ideas in his trademark style, enriched by dazzling multimedia, fascinating
stories and metaphors and an unique engagement with his audience. Dr. Secretan distills complex ideas
into simple, easy-to-implement concepts, processes, and exercises that explain how to inspire a team,
organization, or country - or your family and friends.
Breakout Sessions: Inspire Self
Quickly Engaging Learners’ Brains for Lasting Results
with Deb Denure
Multiple generations in the workforce combined with less time, less attention and more responsibilities
than ever mean more pressure on you to design learning that quickly engages and really lasts. When
participant groups are diverse and time is limited, take advantage of the best tool available – your
learners’ brains – to get the results you need.
This highly interactive session will explore the latest research on learning and the brain, showing you
how to apply what we know about thinking and learning styles to develop solutions that generate buzz
and achieve lasting outcomes. You’ll uncover the secrets for improving the efficiency of your learning
design and delivery by engaging the four thinking styles of the Whole Brain ® Model, leaving with a
proven approach you can immediately apply.
The session will model these tools, giving you a firsthand experience of Whole Brain ® learning in
action. After participating in this session, you will be able to:
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Design and develop content that engages the thinking and learning styles of your participants
Apply a Whole Brain® Teaching and Learning approach to increase your efficiency and deliver
results in less time
Use proven brain-based methods and tools to accelerate and sustain learning outcomes
Increase your business impact and relevance by designing and delivering learning that lasts
Resilience and Renewal: Being Your Best So You Can Give Your Best
with Lori Gibson
When was the last time you spent time on YOU? Our days are scheduled from morning 'til night with
work, family, volunteer time, household chores...the list goes on and it gets awfully full! Add to that
the fact that we are doing all of this in times of change and challenge around us. Building our capacity
for resilience and self-renewal is a core competency, especially for people who are in professions like
training and development, where your job involves helping others succeed. It's tough to help others
when we are not caring for ourselves first!
In this interactive session, we will focus on the following:
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Understanding the concept of resilience
Knowing how paying attention to the four dimensions of human nature helps us stay resilient
and focused on continuous self-renewal (physical, spiritual, social/emotional, intellectual)
Leaving the session re-energized! What's important to each individual is different - each
participant will leave with a personal action plan for self-renewal focused on helping them be
their best so they can continue to assist others in their training and development roles
Breakout Sessions: Inspire Others
Live, Love, Give
with Sarah Gibson
Live with impact. Love learning. Give to others.
How do we live in a more meaningful way within the context of our work as learning and development
professionals? This session will explore how experiential learning centered on organizational service
programs can make your learning come alive and leave a lasting impact.
Specifically, we’ll discuss:
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the relationship between corporate service giving and employee engagement
how experiential learning can heighten learning and retention
the impact of tying corporate giving to learning
For this session, please bring 3 items to donate to the River Food Pantry.
Make it Experiential! Workshop Design and Facilitation Tools for Amazing Trainings
with Amy Climer
What is it that sets apart good training from great training? What sets apart good facilitators from great
ones? Research shows that experiential teaching results in greater learning and engagement by
participants. In this workshop learn the tools and techniques needed to design and deliver top-notch
trainings that will keep participants excited, focused, and eager to learn more. We’ll focus on
understanding experiential education theory and strategies, as well as design and facilitation
techniques to make your trainings top-notch.
Participants will:
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Understand the theory of experiential education and its relevance to program design
Learn experiential tools and techniques they can use with any audience
Be able to identify when to use which tools to make trainings flow well
Breakout Sessions: Inspire Organizations
From Hired to Inspired…Is Everyone Onboard?
with Rebecca Doepke
Many organizations still put new hires through information overload, form filling marathons, and an
accelerated training program to get them up to speed and on the job fast. This “sink or swim”
approach coupled with the fact that studies in general reveal 96% of employees are still undecided
about their employment decision on day one is not exactly a solid foundation for success.
While this statistic is an alarming one, your organization can take steps to excite and motivate
employees from the moment they’ve been hired. In this thought provoking session, you will learn
strategies to inspire employees before day one on the job and at every stage of their employment
journey. Discover onboarding strategies to socially acclimate your new hires into the organization,
prepare them for success, and integrate them into your culture. Take away several strategies including
3 things you can implement when you return to your office.
This engaging presentation will explore:
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The employee journey – why it’s a must have.
5 key components to a successful on-boarding program.
How to create your brand of training.
Keeping employees inspired beyond on-boarding.
Becoming a High Performance Organization
with Daniel Schroeder, Ph.D.
This presentation explores the concepts of people, processes, and adaptation as critical elements for
building a high performance workplace. Key questions that must be answered include:
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Why does this organization exist?
What kind of culture do we want?
How do we do our work?
With what kind of people do we wish to work?
Organizational culture is highlighted as an important situational variable that influences all members of
an organization in varying degrees. Leaders must have a sound understanding of this variable in order
to construct a work environment of maximum performance and fulfillment for organizational members.
Within this session, we will explore:
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The High Performance Organization Checklist
An Organizational Systems Model
An Organizational Performance Model
A Scorecard of Organizational Success
A Scorecard of HR Effectiveness
Critical Questions for High Performance Organization