HEIDE ABELLI: Skillsoft's Live Events
offer an exceptional opportunity for learners
to engage with cutting-edge thought leaders
in business, leadership, strategy,
and innovation through live and interactive presentations.
In 2019, over 20,000 learners across the globe
tuned in to gain unique insights from thought leaders,
including Mike Roberto, Erica Dhawan, Daniel Pink,
Stew Friedman, Cal Newport, and Dan Coyle.
During an event, attendees can send us their thoughts
and questions for real-time interaction with our subject
matter experts.
Considered a powerful learning tool,
and leveraged by fortune 500 companies and the Global 2000,
Live Events inspire individuals and leaders,
bring teams together to spur innovation,
and catapult companies forward.
For every Skillsoft Live Event, we
provide helpful discussion and facilitation guides,
and share how organizations can promote
the events to create memorable milestones
in the annual learning calendar.
Now in its 12th year, I'm pleased to announce
the 2020 Skillsoft Live Event program lineup.
On February 25, we kick off our series
with Vanessa Van Edwards, best selling author of Captivate--
The Science of Succeeding With People.
A human behavior hacker, Van Edwards blends
powerful research with stories to impart shortcuts, systems,
and secrets for taking charge of your interactions at work,
at home, or in any social situation.
Tune in to learn how to work a room, how to read faces,
and how to talk to literally anyone.
Ranked as one of the top management educators
by the Financial Times, Jay Conger,
professor of leadership studies at Claremont McKenna College,
and author of The High Potential's Advantage,
joins us on March 11.
In this session on the necessary art of persuasion,
Conger will share how you can apply
the four critical dimensions of persuasion,
as well as the techniques, tools, and insights
that one can deploy to get others to turn
your ideas into reality.
On April 23, we are thrilled to have organizational
psychologist Tasha Eurich, New York Times best-selling author
of Insight--
The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us,
How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More
Than We Think.
Ranked by Thinkers 50 as one of the top-30 emerging
management thinkers, Eurich reveals
that future-ready leadership is highly learnable
when leaders make the decision to improve
their self-awareness.
Learners will walk away with an understanding
of the two categories of self-awareness
and how they influence one's effectiveness, happiness,
and change agility.
Live from our Perspectives Conference on May 13
is Heidi Grant.
Grant is a social psychologist and Associate Director
of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University.
Author of five books including Reinforcements--
How to Get People to Help You, Grant
argues that we should embrace a get better mindset, one
where we always perceive ourselves
as having more to learn.
Attendees have an exclusive opportunity
to learn how mindsets influence persistence, creativity,
engagement, resilience, and performance, as well
as strategies for changing your own mindset.
On September 15, innovation strategist and lecturer
in social innovation and design thinking at the University
of Pennsylvania, Natalie Nixon joins us
for a session based on her forthcoming book,
The Creativity Leap--
Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition
at Work.
Nixon argues that creativity is the engine for innovation,
but too many people associate creativity
solely with the arts.
Nixon shares that a creativity leap
is needed to bridge the gap that exists
between the churn of work and the highly sought-after prize
called innovation.
We wrap up the 2020 live event series on November 10
with Shane Snow, an award-winning journalist,
explorer, and entrepreneur, and author of three books,
including Dream Teams and Smart Cuts.
Snow invites us to rethink conventional wisdom
to spur your team to think differently
about their current challenges, get your group
to work more innovatively, and leverage
a framework for breakthrough problem solving.
Live Events are included as part of the Skillsoft Leadership
Development Program, and are now also available for customers
of our Business, Expert, Advanced, and Essential
solutions.
Skillsoft's live events ignite powerful dialogue and learning
across organizations and serve as a catalyst for real growth
and change.
Ideas sparked by business thought leaders and influencers
foster new ways of working together,
spur innovation, increase productivity and effectiveness,
and enable leaders to better prepare their teams
for success in the digital age.
Skillsoft Live Events-- where learning comes alive.