Tuesday, August 27 l Grand Saguaro Ballroom

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Leadership Keynote

Keynote Time: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

In a highly competitive world, you need to learn how to overcome adversity to win. Greatness comes from learning that nothing can stop you and when you can move through anything in your path, then success is inevitable. The confidence that comes from those wins allows you to reach levels of success you never dreamed possible, and it is leadership’s role to teach and push their teams to feel this way.

Fighter pilots learn how to master tackling risks in uncertain (and dangerous) environments to achieve success. Colonel McSally translates battle-tested peak performance and risk-management methodologies to equip your teams to innovate, collaborate, and execute with confidence.

Teams must also adopt an agility mindset and tools to succeed in an ever-changing complex world. When you are light on your feet, leaning forward and ready to adapt, challenges turn into opportunities to 10x your growth. Colonel McSally shares her step-by-step approach to developing a true agility mindset in your team to beat out the competition and win.

Learning Objectives

1. Evaluate mentality needed to overcome adversity and achieve your goals.

2. Investigate how leaders prepare their teams to make success inevitable.

3. Outline battle-tested peak performance and risk-management methodologies to improve your team’s tenacity to work to achieve organization’s goals and vision.

4. Identify best practices in creating the tools to success for any role within any organization.

Inspirational Keynote

Keynote Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

In this intimate and personal address, Damon shares his cautionary tale and message of hope in a brutally honest presentation. Damon takes his audience on an emotional journey from his great success as a starting quarterback at a Division One school, to the pitfalls of a career-ending injury and an insatiable meth habit.

Damon will share his nightmare life of meth-addicted crime and receiving the maximum punishment (life) during this Inspirational Keynote. His survival stories throughout a span of seven years in a Texas maximum security prison and the lessons he learned while incarcerated, are riveting. Join Damon as he takes you on an exploration of what it means to change the environment around you for the better despite the pressures you face.

Learning Objectives

1. Discover how accidents and addiction can alter a person’s life.

2. Identify key steps necessary to change your life path and overcome adversity.

3. Evaluate ways your organization can look within to create better outcomes and increase productivity.

4. Adopt a results-oriented attitude to exceeding expectations within your day-to-day life