The Math of Leadership and Choices

Did you know that there are 86,400 seconds in a day?
Did you know that you make 8,746 choices in an average day?

Do the math.

That is a choice every 9.8 seconds....does that number make you think?

Think about how effective each choice is....what is the impact of that choice?

Learn more at Leadercast 2012.  Visit http://www.leadercastwindsoressex.com/ for more information.

Ron Gaudet to Speak at Leadercast Windsor Essex

Ron Gaudet, B.A., B.Ed., Ec.D (F)

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Ron Gaudet is one of Canada’s leading economic development executives with more than twenty years of proven leadership in community economic development.  During his career, Mr. Gaudet has successfully overseen the development and implementation of three community-based strategic plans, which have contributed to the creation of more than 16,000 jobs.

As past President and CEO of the Greater Moncton Economic Development Commission, Ron lead Moncton’s transformation from a community experience business closures and mounting unemployment, to one boasting the fastest growing economy and population in Eastern Canada. These successes have resulted in Mr. Gaudet being a recipient of various awards including:

• “Canadian Economic Developer of the Year”
• “Canada’s Top 40 under 40”
• “Top 50 Atlantic Canadian CEO’s”

Mr. Gaudet assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer for the WindsorEssex Economic Development Corporation on February 1, 2010, and immediately initiated a series of consultations resulting in the roll out of his fourth-community based strategic plan on February 9, 2011.

Through public consultation and community partnerships, the Windsor-Essex Region is now focused on 9 sector groups and 10 regional objectives.  A region known for its manufacturing capabilities, particularly in the automotive sector, is now positioning itself as a global player in several other sectors.

Ron is an Executive Member of Southwest Economic Alliance (SWEA), and has consulted on several economic development initiatives throughout Canada and the U.S.  Ron holds a fellowship in Economic Development from the University of Waterloo and the Economic Developers Association of Canada.

WECGC

The Windsor Essex County Community Garden Collective is group of established and emerging community gardens in Windsor and Essex County who support and learn from each other, leverage resources and grow food for our community.  The group was established just this past October and meets monthly.  Currently they are discussing solutions to some common challenges, developing a food distribution map, and talking about how they can make the most impact with what they grow.

Leadercast Windsor Essex and Solution Linx Online Coaching are proud to announce that proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to this amazing Food Strategy to develop the earth, the minds and the hearts of Windsor Essex.

Local Speaker Featured at Leadercast Windsor Essex

Karen Behune Plunkett

Serial Entrepreneur & President of WeTech Alliance

Ms. Behune Plunkett has extensive experience in building business models in both the Private and the Not for Profit sectors. A serial entrepreneur who has owned and operated 6 business over the past few decades, including Walkerville Brewing Company, Plunkett’s and PinPoint Strategic Direction, she brings vision and passion to WEtech. Her strengths in team building, business development and mentoring are drawn from many years of active community Board and business involvement. Karen is currently the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Odette School of Business, as well as a Windsor Utilities Commissioner and the 2000 International Athena recipient. She looks forward to playing a pivotal role in establishing benefits for Windsor-Essex from sustainable growth through innovation and technology.

Andy Stanley at Leadercast 2012

Leadercast Speaker:  Andy Stanley

Focusing on Wise Choices

Andy Stanley is a sought-after leadership communicator, author, pastor, and the founder of North Point Ministries, Inc. (NPM). Since its inception in 1995, North Point Ministries has grown from one church to five in the Atlanta area and has helped plant over thirty strategic partner churches globally. Each Sunday, more than thirty thousand attend worship services at one of NPM'S five churches. In addition, every month, well over a million people from nearly every country in the world choose to tune in, download, and stream Stanley's teaching content via TV, radio, podcasts, and live streaming.

Stanley's books include The Next Generation Leader, Visioneering, Enemies of the Heart, and The Principle of the Path.

 

Why We Make Choices

Leadercast Speaker:  Sheena Iyengar

Focus:  the Psychology of Choice

Sheena S. Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division of the Columbia Business School. She has taught on a wide variety of topics at Columbia for MBA and Executive MBA students, including leadership, decision making, creativity, and globalization, earning an Innovation in the Teaching Curriculum award along the way. Dr. Iyengar was also recently selected by Columbia University's President's Office to teach at the Global Leadership Fellows Program at the World Economics Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Iyengar's innovative research on choice has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Security Education Program. In 2002, she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Social Scientists by the Executive Office of the President.

Throughout her career, her research has not only appeared in many respected academic journals but is also regularly cited in the media, including periodicals such as Fortune and Time magazines, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal,

on National Public Radio, and in popular books including Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz.

It is her passion for this subject matter that led Dr. Iyengar down the extraordinary path of writing The Art of Choosing. Whether mundane or life-altering, choices define us and shape our lives. In her book, Dr. Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose? Dr. Iyengar's award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound.



Choose to Do Something Greater than Yourself

Leadercast 2012 Speaker - Roland Fryer:
Bio:
Awarded the Mac Arthur Foundation Genius Award, Professor Roland Fryer has briskly established himself as an important player in the field of economics. Not only was Fryer named a "Rising Star" by Fortune magazine and featured in Esquire’s "Genius Issue," but also his own work has been profiled in

In addition to being Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Fryer is also the founder and CEO of The Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard, which was recently described by former President Clinton as one of three new initiatives most important to improving the global problems of health and poverty.

He was recently named one of Fortune Magazine's "40 under 40 Most Influential People in Business." In 2009, Time Magazine deemed him "one of the 100 most influential people in the world." He also maintains offices at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the DuBois Institute. In January 2008, at age 30, he became the youngest African-American to ever receive tenure at Harvard. The New York Times, Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. A collaborator on the bestselling book Freakonomics, Fryer is an economist illuminating the causes and consequences of economic disparity due to race and inequality in American society.
The New York Times

Recently, Roland Fryer has begun work on the Opportunity NYC Project, which will study how students in low-performing schools respond to financial incentives. ran an extensive profile of Fryer, entitled Toward a Unified Theory of Black America, in March of 2005. This portrait etched out the extensive struggles of Fryer's childhood, where he was exposed to drugs, crime and parental abandonment.