Leadercast Hits Windsor Essex

World-renowned Leaders to Speak at St. Clair Centre for the Arts

 [Windsor, Ontario]—Community business leaders can access the knowledge and experience of world-renowned leaders by attending Chick-fil-A Leadercast at St. Clair Centre for the Arts in Windsor on May 4, 2012. 

Chick-fil-A Leadercast is a one-day leader development event broadcast LIVE from Atlanta, Ga. to hundreds of sites throughout the world, including here in Windsor  Speakers for this year’s event include:

• Soledad O’Brien, Anchor and special correspondent for CNN
• Tim Tebow, NFL quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner and best-selling author
• Patrick Lencioni, Best-selling author of ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” and latest book “Get Naked” along with being the president of The Table Group
• John Maxwell, Leadership expert & best-selling author of “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, “Leadership 101” and more.
• Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry, named “2010 European Business Leader of the Future”
• Roland Fryer, Professor of economics at Harvard University and CEO of the Education Innovation Laboratory  (one of the 40 under 40 most influential people in Business)
• Urban Meyer, ESPN analyst and former head football coach for the University of Florida
• Andy Stanley, Best-selling leadership author and communicator focused on developing visionary learders
• Sheena Iyengar, Author of “The Art of Choosing“ and world-renowned expert of choice, Professor  at Columbia School of Business for MBA and Executive MBA
• Marcus Buckingham, recently declared #8 of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World, a best-selling author and business leader.
• Local Speakers  will be announced in early 2012

Last year, 85,000 leaders from 17 countries attended Chick-fil-A Leadercast. In its 12th year, this full day, experiential conference is predicted to reach its largest audience to date.

 “It is one of the single most consolidated sources of leadership that I know of,” said Paul Urbanowki, senior manager at AT&T. “But it goes beyond that. I think this conference, although very focused on leadership, transcends the topic and really shows you how to lead in life.”

This year’s program will focus on the power of choice. The diverse group of internationally-acclaimed authors, leadership experts and practitioners will share insights to help leaders empower and equip others at work, at home and in the community through his or her choices.  Along with the St. Clair Alumni Association, new sponsors have joined with Solution Linx Online Coaching to bring the Chick-fil-A Leadercast to Windsor including Leadership Windsor-Essex, Windsor Business and Wheeler’s Printing and Copying.  A portion of ticket sales will be donated to local food security initiatives.

“We’re really good at getting messages aimed at very specific, targeted audiences. But we aren’t always very good at reaching out across the culture,” said Malcolm Gladwell best-selling author of “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” and “Outliers: The Story of Success.” “I think this is one of the few organizations that does that...that really appeals to me.”

For more information about Chick-fil-A Leadercast, visit http://www.leadercastwindsoressex.com/.  For local ticketing information, call (519) 735-6820 or visit http://www.leadercastwindsoressex.com/.

Chick-fil-A Bio

It all started in 1946, when Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Georgia. Credited with inventing Chick-fil-A's boneless breast of chicken sandwich, Mr. Cathy founded Chick-fil-A, Inc. in the early 1960s and pioneered the establishment of restaurants in shopping malls with the opening of the first Chick-fil-A Restaurant at a mall in suburban Atlanta in 1967. Since then, Chick-fil-A has steadily grown to become the second largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the United States, with over 1,500 locations in 39 states and Washington, D.C. In 2010, annual sales were over $3.5 billion. Chick-fil-A is still privately held and family owned with 43 consecutive years of positive sales.  They focus on making the story of each community better, providing value beyond the single transaction.

***  press release copy sent out November 21st to all area papers & media