How to Develop the Mindset of a Strategist: Getting to the Table Earlier and With More Personal Power -- with James E. Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA

What are you doing to achieve more influence and input on strategy and key decisions? Do you really have the mindset to get your boss to listen? This dynamic and highly interactive session is about these two questions and more. Jim Lukaszewski will help you look inside yourself to see what you need to become a more effective strategist. He will discuss techniques, strategies, and personal tools for getting important matters before important people, being more influential within your organization, selling ideas, and helping management stay focused. The goal: to learn how to get your invitation to the table earlier and how have real impact once you have arrived.

About the Speaker:

Jim E. Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA advises, coaches, and counsels the men and women who run very large corporations and organizations through extraordinary problems and critical high-profile circumstances. As an internationally-recognized speaker on crisis management, ethics, media relations, public affairs, and reputation preservation and restoration, James is an expert in managing and reducing contention, counteracting tough, touchy, sensitive corporate communications issues. His broad-based experience ranges from media-initiated investigations to product recalls and plant closings, from criminal litigation to takeovers.

Jim has personally counseled, coached, and guided thousands of executives in organizations large and small from many cultures representing government; the military and defense industry; the agriculture, banking, computer, financial, food processing, health care, insurance, paper, real estate development, and telecommunications industries; cooperatives; trade and professional associations; and non-profit agencies. 

Jim is an accredited member of the International Association of Business Communicators (ABC) and the Public Relations Society of America (APR), as well as a member of the PRSA’s College of Fellows (Fellow PRSA); Board of Ethics & Professional Standards; the Corporate and Public Affairs/Government Sections; and the New York City and Westchester/Fairfield Chapters. He is a member of the International Churchill Society, ASIS International, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

INDICATE YOUR FOOD CHOICE FOR LUNCH:
When you register, please indicate in the "Comments" section which meal you would prefer:

• Champagne Chicken Breast: Sautéed breast of chicken with homemade champagne sauce; entrée includes potato and vegetable
• Pasta Primavera:  Penne pasta with sautéed vegetables tossed in a garlic white wine sauce

Thank you!

NOTE:
Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. The program will conclude by 1:30 p.m.