Annual Conference : Keynote Speakers

Don Bryant
Principal
Tropic Isles Elementary School

Dr. Dawn Allicock
Director
St. Johns County Health Department

For schools, school districts, and businesses embarking on the journey to performance excellence, red lights come from citizens/customers, national and state requirements, and employees. As leaders, we must use continuous improvement tools to determine which lights are signals to turn right, or pause, and which lights we should run through at full speed on our way to system-wide educational/organizational reform.

The performance excellence journey leads to the destination of organizational success, but the journey must outlive any leader and must be embedded at a leadership system level to ensure long-term success. You must never give up just because you encounter a red light. Reaching the destination is always worth the trip.

Let’s face it and "keep it real." Far too many of us and our organizations want the thrill of victory Performance Excellence but few of us and our organizations are willing to pay the price to get there. That’s right, very few are willing to pay the price to get there! Then how do leaders create the right environments and facilitate performance excellence? This keynote presentation will address why organizations are falling short, why organizations are not creating and maintaining traction and why we so easily revert to excuses and "looking up" when the going gets tough along the path to "performance excellence." This presentation will identify the pitfalls and will offer concrete alternative actions. It is all about "keeping it real."

Drawing on his 30+ years of experience in the entrepreneurial and marketing fields, Malcolm Out Loud offers powerful and easy-to-implement advice on how to "Smash The Competition–the right way". He offers a straightforward and effective take on avoiding the 4 human ailments: the pitfalls that hold individuals and organizations back from greatness.

Gain knowledge from Malcolm’s and assessment tools and step–by–step action plans on how to cure these ailments and increase productivity, focus and ultimately, success in business and in life.

In today’s competitive and challenging marketplace, the effort to meet the needs of business and job seekers is a marathon, not a sprint. For Florida to increase business competitiveness and advance in the global economy, it must meet the talent needs of both its businesses and its workforce and create an atmosphere that supports industries that hold the promise of economic growth and diversity. Attendees will learn how greater alignment of state workforce and economic development is advancing efforts to bolster talent creation and grow business in Florida. Learn how to engage to ensure the success of your business, organization or agency, and see how you can play a part in the long-term sustainability of the industries that will help to shape Florida’s workforce and economy as the State transitions into a new economy.