Chapter Meeting – June 2021: “The Neuroscience of Leadership: Lead with Impact!”

Abstract:

Take responsibility for your impact, results and reputation as a project manager. This session will help participants create awareness of the one thing that will help them improve results in their business and personal roles. It will help them begin to solve the challenges they face every day and to more successfully achieve their goals. The Neuroscience of Effective Leadership has less to do with skill, education and intelligence, and more to do with the ability to think clearly under pressure, manage and motivate people effectively, and to change your approach as necessary. It has to do with your emotional intelligence! This class provides leaders with the skills to recognize how emotions drive behaviors, the difficulty in managing one’s own emotions, and the emotions of those around them. Tools to manage interpretation of information and appropriate levels of reactions are reviewed. Leaders become more aware of their unconscious behaviors and learn to effectively manage emotions to make conscious decisions for future behaviors.

Learning Objectives:

1. Match your impact with your intentions.
2. Create the conditions for sustainable team performance.
3. Improve your decision making.
4. Learn how your higher brain functions are neutralized reducing your effectiveness. Recognize the cycle of how emotions drive behaviors and build habits.
5. Gain tools to build awareness of how you behave in moments of tension and the impact of that behavior on achieving our goals.
6. Learn techniques to interrupt those behavior patterns for better outcomes. (Full Class)

Speaker: Spencer Horn – Keynote Speaker

About the Speaker: 

Businesses internationally look to Spencer as an enthusiastic, insightful source for counsel and advice on developing productive and focused corporate cultures. Spencer is able to draw upon his 29 years of executive experience to reenergize seasoned and emerging professionals and increase organizational effectiveness. He inspires change, to develop: a powerful culture, effective communication, high performing teams and engagement. 

Spencer is the President of Altium Leadership. He has previously been the CEO of a leadership development company and Vice President of a NASDAQ company, which developed IMAX theaters in tourist destinations. There he worked with major organizations such as IMAX Corp., National Geographic Television, Radio City Productions, Disney Films and more. He has been speaking professionally since 2009. He has been speaking and presenting at PMI chapter development conferences since 2010 and has been a regular speaker at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting (LIM) North America Conference, since 2014. He is consistently one of the highest rated speakers for the yearlong, PMI Leadership Institute Master Class (LIMC) since 2015.

He is a co-author of the "Speakers on Life"​ anthology "The Power of the Platform" along with Jack Canfield, Les Brown, Brian Tracy and more.

He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in economics from the University of Utah. He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) with the National Speakers Association, a designation which less than 17% of speakers worldwide achieve. He is a Certified Team Performance Coach (CTPC) and facilitator through Team Coaching International and a certified Professional Dynametric Programs trainer and administrator through PDP Global. Spencer has been married to his amazing wife, Jana, for more than 35 years. She is his partner and COO of Altium Leadership. Together they have five beautiful children and five grandchildren.

Meeting Agenda

5:30 - 6:00 PM   Networking, Gather and Information Exchange

6:00 - 6:20 PM   NCPMI Business Announcements

6:20 - 7:20 PM   Featured Presentation: “The Neuroscience of Leadership: Lead with Impact!”

7:20 - 7:30 PM   Q&A 

7:30 – 8:00 PM  Networking