From The Experts (FTE)™

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Today’s high job turnover, hybrid work flows, and DEI community development, challenge the ability of teams to work together productively. To do so requires finding common ground and surfacing different opinions. How do you make sure you are hearing divergent points of view in your professional and personal lives? More importantly how can you practice and role model listening for better business outcomes? Carin Knoop, Executive Director at Harvard Business School, explores how practicing productive disagreement can draw the very best out of a diverse team taking maximum advantage of everyone’s ability to contribute. Carin will share insights and lead the group discussion on current ideas, models, and role playing that's working for organizations today.

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Internal combustion engines are on their way out, and with their departure comes threats and opportunities. Are you ready for a world without gas stations? The answer is more than just the product you sell. Automotive industry guest expert Steve Sharp, Executive in Residence - The Endeavor Institute, lays out this paradigm shift exploring how organizations might be be impacted by the disappearance of internal combustion engines. What strategic options are being considered by leaders positioning their business to adapt and thrive

Setting ambitious corporate sustainability goals and targets within your industry ecosystem is daunting at best. How do you influence the right players in your value stream to “come along with you for the ride” on a sustainability journey when you are heavily reliant on the strategies and timelines that other partners, like manufacturers and other suppliers across the lifecycle of our services, are willing to set? FTE guest expert Stephanie Dvorak, Director Sustainability Bristow Group, shares lessons learned from a vertical aircraft operator's perspective and leads a discussion on new ideas and experience from others leaders working through similar challenges.

To truly make an impact on carbon emissions with new technology projects, you must understand and communicate the realistic estimates of lifecycle carbon intensity & project economics. Finding that balance between over simplification and complex modeling is critical, particularly when seeking buy-in from multiple stakeholders. Guest expert Dr. Lynn Frostman, explores evaluating new clean technology project economics with lifecycle carbon intensity projections. What techniques do you use to rapidly assess a project’s potential and how do you effectively communicate the nuance when engaging both experts and non-experts?

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America’s industrial base, created and scaled in WWII and perfected in the Cold War, has served the country well in the eight decades since Pearl Harbor. But the world has changed – new business models, new global competitors, and new technologies are all challenging America’s ability to promote peace and security abroad and remain safe and prosperous at home.

Successful organizations in the commercial and government sector have used network thinking as the organizational principle to scale quickly, remain agile in the face of unpredictable futures, and operationalize an opportunistic mindset. FTE guest expert James "Hondo" Geurts, BENS Distinguished Fellow, frmr. Assistant Secretary of the Navy and US Air Force Colonel ret., explores the critical role of entrepreneurism and start-ups, business models that scale faster, and some tangible steps to make it easier for the government to take advantage of them.

In partnership with Endeavour Institute the FTE Energy Transition Channel present Nick Welch.

How can leaders navigate competing and potentially irreconcilable expectations around roles and responsibilities for themselves and their teams in this transition?Dedicated and talented professionals, some with decades contributing to amazing achievements, are confronted with a different take on their life’s education, training, and work. How should we as individuals and leaders respond and navigate this transitioning world in both our professional and personal lives to successfully create both a legacy and a future?Meet FTE guest expert Nick Welch, ESG Team Leader & Senior Consultant, Endeavor Management Consulting and explore how his method of guiding other leaders through this process may be useful to you and your business.

Purpose fuels our passion, grounds us in our mission, and energizes our existence. But is there a system you can use to determine your purpose?Meet Michael Bloxton, a self made telecom and finance real estate investor, and now CEO of Nebula Space Enterprise, Inc. By 2023 Nebula will be installing data centers in space, saving billions of gallons of water and reducing Earth’s global carbon emissions by 20%. Find out what inspired Bloxton to pursue such an incredible mission and explore how his model and approach may be useful to you and your business.

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Attracting and retaining the right talent in today's rapidly changing workforce is more important than ever and it has become more important to begin earlier with students. Innovative leaders are working together, further upstream, redesigning and integrating new approaches to career development including using research-based models like the RIASEC theory, to expose students to in-demand jobs and develop the interests of a future workforce. Results are revealing a pipeline of students that could more closely match organizational needs. FTE guest expert Ed Hidalgo, Chief Innovation and Engagement Officer at Cajon Valley Union School District, shares how the approach is expanding in schools and how this student centered model is beginning to touch the business community through smarter internships that could yield future employees. What engagement models, tools, and partnerships have you used to help workers and businesses find their right place together faster?

Groundbreaking digital innovations have powered rapid growth in open talent and entrepreneurship sectors; people are connecting with one another from around the world to make work happen. As changes fuel the “great resignation,” people are seeking out inclusive, flexible and fulfilling career opportunities which are only available to some. FTE guest expert Chris "Link" Duarte, CEO of Linking Dreams, explains how advocacy and “equality” initiatives are leaving some populations behind and what leaders can do to ensure equitable access and opportunities for all.

Independent Trader and Chartered Market Technician (CMT) Matt Nygaard shares some observations around the similarities and differences in risks, behaviors, and opportunities when applying his 27 years experience in the crypto space.