Strengths ...and How to Use Them

Marcus first conquered the bestseller lists in 1999 with
Following up on his highly successful debut book, Marcus continued to drive the message that people's unique personal strengths are the key to unlocking their potential. As a co-author of

In addition to refining and reinforcing his message in subsequent books (The One Thing You Need to Know; Go Put Your Strengths to Work; The Truth About You; Find Your Strongest Life) and keynote addresses worldwide, he founded The Marcus Buckingham Company in 2007 to create tools and training that would help managers and organizations access the untapped potential of their people's strengths.
His latest project, First, Break All the Rules. While the title may imply an iconoclastic streak, his continuing plea for managers to break with tradition has nothing to do with rebellion; instead, he argues, rules must be broken and discarded because they stifle the originality and uniqueness — the strengths — that can enable all of us to achieve our highest performance. Now, Discover Your Strengths, he helped create StrengthsFinder, the personal assessment tool that gave millions of individuals a new vocabulary to positively describe their ingrained talents, adding the phrase "Top 5" to the lexicon of managers and business people around the world. (Marcus's Top 5, for the record: Futuristic, Context, Focus, Ideation, Intellection). StandOut, is a book and strengths assessment combination that uses a new research methodology to reveal your top two "strength roles" — your areas of comparative advantage. StandOut

Linger Longer

Linger Longer

Thanks to Lora Crestan and Solstice Group, participants at the Leadercast in Windsor-Essex will be able to Linger Longer and share their ideas, what they have learned and how they will implement the choices they make to create the best impact.

The Linger Longer will take place immediately after the Leadercast event...just across the hall.  Light refreshments will be served while ticket-holders have the opportunity to network and share.

"Many past participants have asked to have time to share the details of the day and connect with people they saw across the room but did not have time to connect with because they were so engrossed in the learning from the simulcast," says Lora Crestan, " this is the perfect opportunity to wind down and share, connect and reinforce your learning."

Quick points from each speaker session will be shared to facilitate discussions.  There will be votes for favourite speakers and more details about the 2013 Leadercast shared as well.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.  All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Windsor Essex Community Garden Collective.  Tickets available here. by PayPal, or send an email to lwe1@solutionlinx.com and we can invoice you for the tickets.

Get Past Your Team's Dysfunction with Patrick

Patrick Lencioni A best-selling author of nine books with nearly three million copies sold, he is also founder and president of The Table Group. Bio: Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, Inc., a specialized management-consulting firm focused on organizational health. Lencioni is the author of nine best-selling books with nearly 3 million copies sold. After several years in print, his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be a fixture on national best-seller lists. The Three Signs of a Miserable Job became an instant best-seller in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and BusinessWeek. And his latest work, Getting Naked, was released in February 2010.

The Wall Street Journal named Lencioni one of the most in-demand business speakers. He has been a keynote speaker on the same ticket with George Bush Sr., Jack Welch, Rudy Guiliani, and General Colin Powell. Lencioni's work has also been featured in numerous publications such as Businessweek, Fast Company, INC Magazine, USA Today, Fortune, Drucker Foundation’s Leader to Leader, and Harvard Business Review.

I loved the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - insightful and practical....learn more from Patrick at Leadercast 2012 in Windsor Ontario.  Buy your tickets today.  Early Bird pricing ends soon!has

John Maxwell On Stage

John Maxwell An internationally-respected leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold more than 19 million books.
Bio: John C. Maxwell is an internationally-renowned leadership expert, coach, and author who has sold over 20 million books. Dr. Maxwell founded EQUIP and the John Maxwell Company, organizations that have trained more than 5 million leaders in 153 countries. Every year he speaks to Fortune 100 companies, international government leaders, and organizations such as the United States Military Academy at West Point, the National Football League, and the United Nations. A

John Maxwell is a favourite on the stage - energetic and enlightening...a highlight - always.  See John at Leadercast with the Solution Linx Team.  Buy your tickets today!New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek best-selling author, Maxwell’s The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership has sold more than 2 million copies. Developing the Leader Within You and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader have each sold more than 1 million copies.

Join us at Leadercast on May 4th - experience the amazing energy and enlightenment John so willingly shares.

Burberry CEO LIVE

Angela Ahrendst
Chief Executive Officer, Burberry Bio: Since 2006, Angela has been Chief Executive Officer of Burberry, the global luxury company distinguished by its 155-year British heritage and iconic outerwear. Under the leadership of Angela and the executive team, the development of a pure brand strategy has driven the company's global growth, realized through international retail expansion and innovation in product design and digital marketing.

Over the past five years, the Group's revenues have more than doubled and Burberry is now widely regarded as one of the leading British brands in the world, with a thriving, connected corporate culture. Today, Burberry is ranked in the FTSE 50, with annual revenues of $2.5bn. In 2011, Burberry was named the 4th fastest-growing brand in the world by both Interbrand and WPP/BrandZ, and the 13th most innovative company globally by Fast Company magazine. It has been recognized in Interbrand’s Top 100 Global Brands for the past three consecutive years, and was this year named Retailer of the Year at the Oracle World Retail Awards. In 2008, with Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey, Angela established the Burberry Foundation, dedicated to helping young people realize their dreams and the power of their creativity through financial, mentoring and product support.

Angela was born and raised in a small town in Indiana. She acquired her Merchandising and Marketing degree from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, from where she also received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 2010. Angela is a member of the UK Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group, and features in Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, Fortune's Businesspeople of the Year and the Financial Times' Top 50 Women in World Business .

Learn from the best leaders in any industry - ready for you LIVE via satellite at Leadercast 2012.

Choices in Sports Leadership

Urban Meyer Former University of Florida Gators head football coach who won two BCS National Championships in six years.
Bio: Former University of Florida Gators head football coach Urban Meyer, who won two BCS National Championships in six years, currently serves as college football game and studio analyst for ESPN.
In his six seasons at Florida, Meyer guided the Gators to the aforementioned pair of national championships, two Southeastern Conference Championships, three SEC Eastern Division crowns and six-straight January bowl games, including three BCS bowl games. His .813 winning percentage (65-15) is the second-best in school history and his .750 winning percentage (36-12) in SEC play is within the top five in league history among head coaches who spent five or more years in the conference.

Meyer, who was named Sporting News and Sports Illustrated "Coach of the Decade" in December of 2009, was the first coach ever to win two BCS National Championships and he is one of only two coaches in the history of the SEC to win two outright National Titles.

Prior to his tenure at Florida, Meyer coached two seasons for the Utah Utes where he earned multiple National Coach of the Year honors in 2004 after leading Utah to a perfect 12-0 season, the school’s first in 75 years. With its post-season bid to the Fiesta Bowl, Utah made history by becoming the first school from a non-Bowl Championship Series conference to earn a berth in a BCS Bowl.
Meyer began his head coaching career at Bowling Green in 2001, where he led the Falcons to their highest national ranking in school history (No. 16 ESPN/USA Today and No. 20 Associated Press). Bowling Green spent five weeks in the national polls and finished third in the nation in scoring offense, averaging 40.8 points per game.
The Ashtabula, Ohio, native learned the coaching trade from the likes of Sonny Lubick, Lou Holtz, Earle Bruce and Bob Davie, as he apprenticed at Ohio State (1986-87), Illinois State (1988-89), Colorado State (1990-95) and Notre Dame (1996-2000) before getting the head job at Bowling Green.

Beyond his on-field accomplishments, Meyer has also championed efforts in community service. He spearheaded an effort to feed needy families during Thanksgiving, and initiated a mentor program for young at-risk males in the Gainesville community. A 13th-round pick in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft in 1982, Meyer played two years in the Atlanta Braves’ organization. He played as a defensive back at the University of Cincinnati before earning his degree in psychology in 1986. He went on to earn a master’s degree in sports administration from Ohio State in 1988. Meyer and his wife Shelley are the parents of two daughters, Nicole and Gigi, and a son, Nathan.

Sports leadership is about life leadership  - you learn the basics and then some here.  Join us a Leadercast in Windsor on May 4th - see how your choices can make an impact.

Soledad O'Brien Joins Leadercast 2012

Soledad O’Brien  
Host of CNN’s In America documentary series and author of The Next Big Story: My Journey through the Land of Possibilities
Bio: Soledad O’Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN/U.S. Since joining the network in 2003, O’Brien has reported breaking news from around the globe and has produced award-winning, record-breaking and critically acclaimed documentaries on the most important stories facing the world today. She also covers political news as part of CNN’s "Best Political Team on Television." In 2010, she wrote a critically-acclaimed memoir
O'Brien joined CNN as the co-anchor of the network's flagship morning program,
In 2011, Soledad won her first Emmy for
Soledad O’Brien is a graduate of Harvard University and currently lives with her husband and four children in Manhattan The Next Big Story: My Journey through the Land of Possibilities, which chronicles her biggest reporting moments and how her upbringing and background have influenced these experiences. American Morning, and distinguished herself by reporting from the scene on the transformational stories that broke on her watch. For CNN’s Katrina coverage, O’Brien’s reports on the storm’s impact included an in-depth interview with former FEMA chief Michael Brown. She also covered the Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, London terrorism attacks in July 2005, and in December 2004, she was among a handful of CNN anchors sent to Thailand to cover the disaster and aftermath of the tsunami. Crisis in Haiti (Anderson Cooper 360) in the category of Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form. O'Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the Southeast Asia tsunami. The National Association of Black Journalists named O’Brien the Journalist of the Year and Edward R Murrow Awards lauded her with the RTDNA/UNITY award for Latino in America in 2010.

See Soledad O'Brien at the Chick-fil-A Leadercast on May 4, 2012....visit our website for your tickets today.

Tim Tebow at Leadercast

Tim Tebow:   Denver Broncos quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Through My Eyes
Bio: Tim Tebow is one of the most accomplished players in college football history. A two-time winner of the NCAA National Football Championship with the University of Florida, Tebow is also the first-ever sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy. He then went on to become a two-time winner of the Maxwell Award for the nation’s top football player, while also winning the Davey O’Brien Award for the nation’s best college quarterback and the James E. Sullivan Award for the most outstanding amateur athlete in any sport. He is the founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation which was started to bring faith, hope, and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need, and in April 2010, Tebow was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. In 2011, Tebow authored Through My Eyes, an inspirational memoir that became a New York Times bestseller.

Join us at Leadercast on May 4, 2012 to see Tim Tebow speaking LIVE via satellite from Atlanta  - Make a choice.  Make an impact.