Pre-Convention Workshop

Disruption:  Constructing (or Reconstructing) your Expertise Empire

Special Guest Appearance by NSA Hall of Fame® member Alan Weiss, the recognized global expert on solo consulting, and a long-time friend of CAPS.

2020 has allowed most speakers time to reflect, review and update their material, and now we’re learning how to market in a virtual world.  Today we’ll challenge you to identify how to set yourself apart in these turbulent times with three powerful guests.

You’ll learn how to leverage disruption to create value with the one and only Alan Weiss; how to have your intellectual property stand out amidst the crowd in books and blogs with Harvey Schachter of the Globe and Mail; and Shannon Waller of Strategic Coach will take you through the art of naming to set your unique insights apart in the market.

Sunday, December 6th, 2020
10:45 am – 2:00 pm ET

 

Hosted by: Ravi Tangri, CSP

 

Meet your Presenters!

Alan Weiss – Creating Volatility and Disruption for You and Your Clients: Going on the offensive for your business and personal success

Some of the greatest companies and innovations have arisen during tough times. They all shared common traits: the creation of new approaches, intellectual capital, and disruption of traditional thinking. “Speaking” is a task. It might be what you do, but it’s intrinsically of no value. What you CREATE is of value, and that had better be more than a speech.

 

Shannon Waller – The Power of Naming: How to package your unique value creation

You have incredibly useful content that creates enormous value for your audience, but is it named? Have you packaged the unique way in which you create value? In this thought-provoking session, you'll learn the ins and outs of packaging and naming and leave with a new appreciation for what you've created and how to elevate your impact.

 

 Harvey Schacter - How to Create Value and Stand Out in the Marketplace

Harvey Schacter reads over 100 business books a year and follows over 300 blogs.  He knows how what stands out in the marketplace, how to create value for the time your reader invests and how to get published and publicized.  He’ll focus on all of these areas – and more as he outlines what he sees as the keys to success in a very busy marketplace.

 

PRESENTER BIOS:

Alan Weiss is the only non-journalist in history to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Press Institute. He has authored 64 books which appear in 15 languages. His clients have included Mercedes-Benz, Merck, Hewlett-Packard, New York Times, and over 200 others. He is one of two people in history to both be elected into the Professional Speaker Hall of Fame® and made a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants. His latest is Fearless Leadership (Francis and Taylor, 2020). He has served on the Board of Governors of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and the Media.

Alan has coached executives and entrepreneurs in nearly 60 countries. He is interviewed and quoted frequently in the media. Success Magazine cited him in an editorial devoted to his work as “a worldwide expert in executive education.” The New York Post called him “one of the most highly regarded independent consultants in America.” He is married for 51 years to his high school sweetheart, Maria.

 

Harvey Schachter is a writer, specializing in management and business issues. He writes two columns for the Globe and Mail – Managing on Saturdays and Power Points on Thursdays. Harvey also writes The Leader’s Bookshelf column for Canadian Government Executive, and a regular column and features for Kingston Life magazine. He has written for a variety of publications and organizations over the years.

Harvey was editor of the 2004 book Memos to the Prime Minister: What Canada Can Be in the 21st Century, a series of essays by 30 prominent Canadians who he brought together, and co-author that same year of Employee Ownership, with Carol Beatty, then head of the Industrial Relations Centre at Queen’s University.

He was the ghostwriter on The Three Pillars of Public Management by Ole Ingstrup and Paul Crookall, and editor of  Getting Clients, Keeping Clients by Dan Richards.

A McGill commerce graduate, Harvey spent more than 15 years in a variety of positions at The Kingston Whig-Standard, including editor and planning and promotions manager. He won two National Newspaper Awards for his commentary and a national Owl Award for a marketing program he created at the newspaper. He lives in Kingston, and is an avid student and instructor of Taoist Tai Chi® arts.

 

Shannon Waller is a passionate expert on entrepreneurial teams. With Strategic Coach® since 1991, she’s the creator of The Entrepreneurial Team® Program, a parallel program for team members of Coach clients that focuses on fostering a winning Entrepreneurial Attitude in its participants. A key decision-maker at Strategic Coach and a recognized entrepreneurial team expert, Shannon is a sought-after speaker, presenter, and coach. She’s a Kolbe Certified* Consultant, and the 2015 recipient of the Kolbe Professional Award for individual leadership in building conative excellence. She also co-authored the bestselling book Unique Ability® 2.0: Discovery, is author of The Team Success Handbook and, most recently, wrote Multiplication By Subtraction.