Complexity. Risk. The downside of size. These are the challenges presented to businesses which successfully attain growth. The impact of a plunge in revenue hits harder, the loss of a key person leaves a deeper dent, a crisis in a key market knocks a cornerstone down.
The BLMCONFERENCE2017 conference theme, ‘The Resilient Leader’, will explore all this in an exciting context with high quality keynote presentations.
Resilient leaders act. Whatever the odds stacked against them, resilient leaders dig deep, adapt, regroup, keep going.
They are strong and fragile, harsh and sensitive, courageous and terrified, dead serious and able to poke fun at themselves – all at the same time. What makes them different is their belief in keeping it together. They bounce back and see that, yes, the dots have connected. And most importantly, they learn from every experience.
Resilience is not about skills or management – it is about the ability to stay the course, see things through, turn things around. Resilient leaders shoulder responsibility and take gut- wrenching decisions for the greater good.
Resilience is displayed over time and transforms itself into fascinating stories. BLM brings you three inspiring keynote speakers for a motivational morning that promises to be memorable.
Niki Soler – Non Executive Director, Yellow Liz Barbaro Sant – Director, Alberta Ronald A Attard – Managing Partner EY Moderated by Herman Grech
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Chris Moon is one of the most fortunate people to be alive that you’re likely to meet. He should be dead many times over and his exploits have been covered in a Discovery documentary with the cheerful title I Shouldn’t Be Alive.
Chris exists to help people do what they do better. He draws on his unique experiences to illustrate principles people can use in their daily lives. As well as a practical understanding of human performance in the most extreme situations and overcoming adversity his Masters Degree covered human behaviour and management theory, he's read several hundred books on achievement giving him an intellectual perspective, which he illustrates with his own humorous and uplifting anecdotes. He’s been speaking and delivering workshops obtaining top feedback scores for more than 10 years and adds the shared learning from this.
Chris is a former British Army Officer with three years operational experience who left to work for a charity clearing landmines. He survived being taken prisoner in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge (one of the most brutal terror groups in history) and negotiated his release and that of two colleagues from threatened execution.
In 1995 he was blown up in a supposedly safe area of a minefield in remote East Africa losing an arm and a leg. He survived initially because he treated himself. About fourteen hours after injury he arrived in South Africa where doctors said they’d never seen anyone live with such a small amount of blood.
He recovered three or four times faster than was expected, was out of hospital in less than two months and within a year of leaving hospital ran the London Marathon, raised significant sums to help disabled people in the developing world and successfully completed a full time Masters Degree.
Chris taught himself to run and is the world’s first amputee ultra distance runner. In 1997 he completed the gruelling Marathon De Sables. Since then he’s run the world’s toughest ultra- marathons, including the Badwater Death Valley 135 mile ultra and the West Highland Way 95 mile Race, while trialling a new running leg. He’s run numerous ultra-distance events and several one thousand mile events. When it comes to challenging the concept of limitation, adapting to change and overcoming adversity he literally walks the talk. Chris is a veteran adviser to the NHS on state-of-the-art prosthetics and has been involved with many charities in roles including President, Trustee and fundraiser.
Dr. Andrew Shatté is founder and President of Phoenix Life Academy, a training company that specializes in measuring and training for resilience.
He is in high demand as a speaker and has delivered over 1,000 keynote speeches and addresses to large corporate audiences over the last decade. He is faculty with the Institute for Management Studies where he speaks to large and diverse corporate audiences several times each year. He is a fellow with the Brookings Institution where he trains high-level executives from the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, the IRS, NASA, the CIA, and all branches of the military. He is faculty with One Day University, presenting on resilience, and is one of their most popular professors. He is the Chief Science Officer with meQuilibrium, an online stress management company. He was a highly decorated teacher from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychology – in 2003 was voted the best professor by students in the School of Arts and Sciences and in 2006 received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
A Ph.D. psychologist, Dr. Shatté received his training at the University of Pennsylvania. He and his colleagues were the first to develop the principles of resilience and apply them to the corporate sector. They identified and defined 7 factors of (human psychological) resilience, a test to measure these traits within individuals called the Resilience Factor Inventory (RFI) and the 7 skills to enhance them. Most notably Dr. Shatté has determined that resilience is the single greatest predictor of who will succeed and who will not, who will be happy and who will not in both their professional and personal lives. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Shatté conducted extensive research into the effects of thinking style on resilience, motivation and performance. He has devoted his 25-year career to understanding the psychological aspects of motivation and resilience and to developing programs to optimize human performance in various areas such as the workplace, health, academics, and sports.
Currently Dr. Shatté is a Research Professor in the Medical School of the University of Arizona. He is co-author of The Resilience Factor, published by Random House in 2002 and re-released in a new edition in 2010. He also co-authored meQuilibrium, a Random House book on resilience and stress.
Dr. Andrew Shatté is founder and President of Mindflex, LLC, a consulting and training organization that specializes in resilience, and a Research Professor in the College of Medicine at The University of Arizona. He is a highly-decorated speaker, prolifically published in peer-reviewed journals, & the author of two books on resilience, “The Resilience Factor” & “meQuilibrium”.
http://andrewshatte.com/
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At the tender age of six, Steve remembers tiptoeing down the wide hallway in his parents’ apartment just off Sliema’s Dingli Street, cardboard box in one hand and a bag of books in the other. He would sneak out in the morning and head to the top of the street to set up a book stand, foolishly thinking his mother did not know. Of course, she was always a stone’s throw away, keeping an eye on him.
Young Steve’s entrepreneurial flair dimmed a little in his late teens. Taking his father’s advice to get a job with a secure salary, Steve finished Junior College and joined HSBC Bank Malta for a few years. Here he learnt all he could about customer service, sales incentives and motivation. He moved on from the bank to pursue various paths – he ran a bar, sold life insurance and savings plans, and even worked as a night receptionist.
Steve landed a job in an online gaming company and during those six months also worked as letting agent online. He hit the jackpot with his second rental which landed him enough cash to leave the job and venture into business.
The first 12 months were challenging, but soon after Steve began to build his team. Admin support staff were brought on board, then one agent, then another and another. For the next 12 months he focused on building the foundations of the business and a second office opened four months later.
At the tender age of 30, Steve is the proud Chief Executive of Zanzi Homes and Quicklets with 11 offices and an “awesome” team of 130 energetic people.
Steve has a fiancée, Zanna, and a two-year-old daughter, India. He loves to challenge processes to make them simpler. He has a thing for sunsets and appreciating special moments in life. His dream is to tick off every single thing on his bucket list.
Steve is a devoted Jim Morrison fan and loves music from the 1970’s. He also has “extremely bad” road rage.
