If you lead people,
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As NLDD's steward and national chair, Michael Krumpak opens the day and sets the stage — a candid look at what it takes to develop teams from smart to legendary, and why that work matters now more than ever.

Your strategy is sound and your people are capable, yet execution keeps stalling. The cause is a hidden force most leaders never measure: conative friction, the cost of work built around the wrong wiring. This fast, interactive session shows you what it is, lets you feel it in 60 seconds, and hands you a three-part framework to close the gap and lift performance.

Leadership today often feels harder than it did just a few years ago. Priorities shift constantly, demands continue to rise, and many leaders find themselves spending more time navigating complexity than making meaningful progress. In this session, Kevin Judge explores the hidden friction that quietly slows results, drains momentum, and creates unnecessary pressure for leaders and teams. Participants will leave with a practical lens for recognizing where friction may be showing up and what to pay attention to before it becomes a larger problem.

In today’s business landscape, leaders are being asked to make faster, higher-stakes decisions than ever before—while navigating unprecedented levels of uncertainty, complexity, and information overload. Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how organizations analyze data, predict outcomes, and drive operational efficiency. But as AI becomes more embedded in the workplace, one critical question emerges: What role will human judgment, intuition, and leadership play in the future of decision-making? This session explores the evolving relationship between AI and human performance, and why the most successful leaders of the future will not simply rely on technology—they will learn how to strategically partner with it. We will explore the human elements that technology cannot replace: critical thinking, emotional intelligence, ethical judgment, creativity, and purpose-driven leadership. Ultimately, this talk challenges leaders to rethink what high performance truly means in the future—not replacing human intelligence with AI, but elevating human potential through smarter, more intentional decision-making.

Every leader is under pressure to adopt AI quickly. The danger is automating the human parts of the job by accident, and losing the trust, presence and judgment that people actually follow. Used well, AI does the reverse. It clears the busywork so leaders can spend more of themselves on their people, which is exactly the work that holds a team together when everything else is shifting. This is the question facing every leader this year, whether they have named it yet or not.

The difference we make as a leader is directly correlated to how much our actions & intentions demonstrate that we care passionately about: 1) Those we work with, 2) The people we have the good fortune to empower, develop and lead, 3) The impact of our leadership. As leaders, what can we accomplish when we lead with a mindset and a commitment to care for those we work with every day?

In today's rapidly changing workplace, many leaders are focused on managing change while overlooking its impact on people. As burnout, disengagement, and uncertainty continue to rise, leaders need practical tools to keep teams connected, motivated, and resilient. Todd Bertsch shares a proven framework for recognizing early warning signs, reigniting engagement, and helping people choose growth over comfort during times of disruption.

Leadership has always carried pressure, but in times of rapid change and increasing complexity, many leaders quietly find themselves overwhelmed, isolated, and uncertain. This presentation explores the human side of leadership that often goes unspoken: decision fatigue, complexity overload, and the weight leaders carry behind the scenes. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of adaptive leadership, clearer perspective, and practical ways to create space for better thinking and decision-making.

In times of uncertainty, leaders are being called to lead differently—not by doing more, but by leading more consciously. This interactive session explores how heart-led leadership, grounded in emotional intelligence and mindfulness, enables women to navigate change with clarity, courage, and compassion. Participants will gain practical tools to regulate stress, strengthen connection, and lead their teams through change with renewed trust and purpose.

Most leaders are trained to manage people, but few are taught how to develop them. This presentation introduces the Dynamic Leadership approach, which applies proven teaching principles to leadership. Participants will learn how the five pillars of Dynamic Teaching—Purpose, Pace, Participation, Precision, and Performance—can increase engagement, accelerate learning, improve accountability, and build high-performing teams that drive stronger organizational results.

Disruption does not only test strategy; it exposes the human architecture beneath leadership. This presentation introduces the QOMVIP™ Human Potential Intelligence framework, helping leaders recognize reactive patterns, regulate pressure, expand perception, and make clearer decisions in uncertain moments. Participants will explore how identity architecture, emotional regulation, discernment, and leadership presence become strategic capacities when disruption challenges trust, performance, and human connection.

Organizations don't slow down because people don't care—they slow down because problems are misidentified, decisions are delayed, and leaders solve issues their teams should own. This program helps executives strengthen problem-solving and decision-making across the organization. Using a practical 8-step framework, leaders learn to identify the right problems, make confident decisions, and develop teams that solve issues at the source—not solely at the top.

Everyone influences others. This session will help you understand the power of your influence. Based on Matthew Renz’s best-selling book, your audience will learn how to grow their influence, so that they can have a greater impact on people. After all, leadership is influence.

When engagement fades, performance follows. Then quiet quitting becomes the norm. This training reveals how leaders can implement high-impact engagement strategies. Through real-world case studies and actionable strategies, the audience will learn how to reduce turnover, retain top performers, and design a high-performance culture that drives results.

Most change efforts don’t stall because the strategy is flawed — they stall because leaders treat resistance as defiance instead of what it usually is: grief. When the ground shifts, people lose routines, identity, status, and certainty. This session gives leaders a practical, humane way to guide people on their grief journeys and forward into what’s next.

In disruptive times, organizations cannot move faster than the level of trust their people experience. As artificial intelligence transforms how work gets done, leaders must build the human conditions that allow people, teams, and organizations to adapt. Drawing on research from The Win-Win Workplace, this session explores how trust, manager effectiveness, talent development, and employee engagement drive performance through uncertainty and change. Participants will leave with practical strategies for leading with humanity while building resilient, high-performing organizations.