Securing the Future: Think Now Think Next
Featured Speakers
Dr. Bob Johansen, Author, Leaders Make the Future
Dr. Bob Johansen will lead an interactive experience focused ten years ahead. What leadership skills will be most important—given the external future forces? What can you do to learn new leadership skills for the future and improve your own readiness? All participants will receive a copy of Bob’s latest book Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain Age. This experience will include a self-rating process for you to use and take home with you. Dr. Johansen is Distinguished Fellow at Institute for the Future, a 41-year old think tank in Palo Alto, CA. He works with a wide range of organizations, including corporations like P&G, Hallmark, Kraft Foods and nonprofits like United Cerebral Palsy, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, and InterAct for Change.
Jan Masaoka, Director & Editor-in-Chief, Blue Avocado
Jan Masaoka will help you find the right prescription for sustaining the immediate future of your organization. This is a time of great risk, intense and agonizing pressure, and necessity for change. Never is a nonprofit's work more important, and some things might actually be easier to do now. Jan’s give-and-take presentation will allow you the chance to interact, ask questions, think deeply and not only survive but prevail. Jan is director and editor-in-chief of Blue Avocado, an online nonprofit magazine with over 48,000 subscribers. For the past 10 years, Jan has written the Board Café for nonprofit board members. She has been recognized nationally as one of the “50 Most Influential People” in the nonprofit sector was named “Nonprofit Executive of the Year” in 2003.
Ellen van der Horst, President & CEO, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
Ellen van der Horst has led the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the nation’s fifth largest chamber of commerce, as president and CEO since 2006. With the mission of establishing Cincinnati USA as one of the world’s favorite American business centers, Ellen has personally become involved in many of this region’s most critical initiatives. Currently, Ellen co-chairs Agenda 360, the initiative designed to transform our region into a leader for talent, jobs and economic opportunity by 2020. Additionally, she is working to position Cincinnati USA as an attractive region for young, creative professionals to live, work and play. For her outstanding career accomplishments, Ellen has been recognized as a YWCA Career Women of Achievement and was inducted into the Academy of Career Women of Achievement. In 2008 by both Cincy Business Magazine and Cincinnati Magazine named her one of our region’s most powerful leaders.