Informed Decisions: Leadership Conversations and Q&A with Randall Craig (Video)

💥Beyond Numbers: Business Leadership for CFOs Part 2 Finishing up our recommendations to CFOs who are career planning, or succession planning. As always, the meta program here is learning how to think like a leader, and the concepts discussed are applicable to senior leaders in any role.    Topics include: ↳ How to get the experiences to be an expert and influential CFO ↳ Opportunities for collab...

This session is for CFOs planning their next career moves, however the career strategy tips discussed here are applicable to any senior leader looking to reflect on their next career move, or succession planning for their organization.    Topics include: ↳ The lifecycle of CFO: Average CFO tenure, and what can a CFO expect from their career ↳ Managing the CEO/CFO relationship ↳ Removing barriers t...

💥Leadership Retreats: Mistakes to Avoid Part 2💥   Learn from the mistakes of others and have your most productive leadership retreats yet. Stand on the shoulders of our best leadership retreat suggestions.    Topics include: ↳ Using an internal facilitator vs an external facilitator ↳ What leaders need to change about their perspective on leadership retreats? ↳ The impact of alcohol on retreat s...

💥Leadership Retreats: Mistakes to Avoid Part 1   For a deeper dive into how to plan and structure your executive offsites and team development for max impact, we are sharing here the recording of our very popular opening-the-kimono knowledge share Q&A session on leadership retreats mistakes to avoid.    Topics include: ↳ Corporate Values: Being strategic to highlight and reinforce desired cor...

💥Who's Running Your Company: Achieving High Employee Engagement Part 2   Closing out this important topic on the core leadership skill of engaging our employees. We are all moving at high speed; let’s take this half hour to try to get into the heads of our employees to help them do their best for you and your organization, and vice versa.    Topics include: ↳ How does an eager, motivated, capable...

💥Who's Running Your Company?: Achieving High Employee Engagement Part 1   Understanding how to develop a loyal, diligent, and high-performing team is a key leadership skill… and yet, all the stats point to the same thing: Employees have become disengaged from their work in record numbers. If this is true at your shop… who’s running your company??    Topics include: ↳ Is 100% employee engagement e...

💥Succession Planning: Future-Proofing Your Organization: Part 2   In part 2 on this topic, we close up talking about the tight connection between employee engagement and succession planning, as well as personal brand development of key employees as part of succession strategies.    Topics include: ↳ How long does it take to bring someone up to the executive level? ↳ When boards succession plans:...

💥Succession Planning: Future-Proofing Your Organization: Part 1   Even if an AI bot is your planned successor, any succession plan is better than no succession plan. Succession planning should not be scary; it’s good for business. In this two-parter, we share key considerations for successful succession planning.    Topics include: ↳ Normalizing succession planning when leaders may feel replaceab...

💥Member Value, Non-Dues Revenue, and New Association Business Models: Part 3   This part 3 wraps up our conversation for association and nonprofit staff by tackling the tensions that exist in the industry: saturated markets, attitudes towards sponsorships, the new member vs long-time member experience gap, and more.    Topics include: ↳ Associations often offer perks to new members, but what abou...

💥Member Value, Non-Dues Revenue, and New Association Business Models: Part 2   In this part 2 we reach deep to ask the existential question: Is transformation in the association space really possible? What would it take to see a new business model? And are there really new ways to drive non-dues revenue?    Topics include: ↳ Is transformation possible for association given the current culture? ↳...

💥Member Value, Non-Dues Revenue, and New Association Business Models: Part 1   This one is for our clients and colleagues in the association and not for profit space, but the conversation around value to clients and being brave enough to change the status quo remains relevant across industries. There was so much to talk about this became 3 episodes!    Topics include: ↳ Why don’t we see more sign...

💥Digital vs Transformation: A Leadership Discussion Part 2💥   Closing up our conversation and Q&A on digital transformation with more perspective, strategy, and practical tactics.   Topics include: ↳ Planning vs Action i.e. speed of decision making: How important is a robust planning and research phase vs speed to implementation or speed to market? ↳ Does “digital transformation” have to be...

💥Digital vs Transformation: A Leadership Discussion Part 1💥 This session is for anyone who feels their organization may have outgrown their current tech stack. Let's answer the questions: Is the prospective digital change really strategic? Is it really transformative? And what management practices need to be updated? Topics include: ↳ Understanding the difference between having a ‘strategy’ and...

Rounding out this three-part series on leadership retreat success strategies. This part 3 dives into addressing more challenges you may encounter without the proper forethought, communication, and expectation setting. Topics include: ↳ Addressing the financial optics in tight economic times ↳ The impact of a work-from-home and hybrid team on leadership retreat planning; and  ↳ When employees see a...

💥Powerful Leadership Retreats Part 2💥 Getting into some leadership retreat whoopsie scenarios in part 2 of this topic. WWRRD: What would Randall and Ronja do?? Topics include: ↳ Managing poor attitudes and conflict going into a leadership retreat. ↳ When the most senior leadership doesn't think they need to change; and ↳ When leaders don't have 100% confidence in team members who are at the retr...

💥Powerful Leadership Retreats Part 1💥 Sharing here the recording of our original live session on what goes into organizing a truly impactful retreats that propel your organization to the next level of growth. We covered so much we got three episodes out of it!  Topics include: ↳ What challenges can a leadership retreat solve (and what problems can it not solve)? ↳ Moving from alignment to implem...

💥Hiring a Keynote Speaker: 10 Great Questions to Ask Part 2💥 You’re on your way to being expert at sourcing the right fit speakers for your retreats and events after this!  Topics include: ↳ If all professional speakers get the same certifications and learning, is it the same quality across the board? ↳ Creative negotiations in lieu of speaker rates? , and ↳ What's it like working with TOP speak...

💥Hiring a Keynote Speaker: 10 Great Questions to Ask, Part 1 When clients knock on our door to speak, we make sure it’s a good fit for both sides. In this episode we shed light on the business of speaking, and share the questions you should ask any speaker you are considering. ↳ The speaker selection process ↳ How to identify real quality speakers, and ↳ Speaker budget vs budget speakers: Do you...

💥Building Your Business with Partnerships Part 3💥 We had so much to talk about we got three episodes out of it. Getting into the details here…  Topics include: ↳ Reasonable partnership contracts clauses ↳ Doe the 50/50 partnership work? , and ↳ Developing our ability to identify and secure strategic partnerships…

💥Building Your Business with Partnerships, Part 2 Diving deeper in part 2 on sustaining strategic partnerships. Topics include: ↳ Managing brand transfer: Absorbing the reputation of our partners ↳ Due diligence: What to be aware of, and ↳ Partner Disputes: Who decides, and how to avoid a deadlock…

Partnerships are tremendously valuable in your business growth strategy – let’s talk about it. Topics include: ↳ How to focus your partnership strategy ↳ Best practices for partnership agreements/contacts ↳ Most partnership dissolve for the same reasons… why do companies keep falling into the same trap?

💥2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 2💥 We continue in Part 2 of our AI conversation with Q&A.  Topics include: ↳ What happens when your leaders or middle managers are resistant to adopting AI? ↳ Why are people preoccupied with AI errors (i.e. hallucinations) when human error is more frequent?, and  ↳ What will be the human-only skills that will be valuable in the workplace in the near future?

💥2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 1💥 We’ll leave the compilation of how-to generative AI demos and ‘hacks' to the talented Youtube creators – This session is about how leaders should be thinking about AI, and how we see can be strategic about using it to shape the future of our organizations.

Continuing with the second part of our discussion on proactive, forward-thinking human resource management. Topics include: ↳ Building out your HR capabilities: Where to prioritize? ↳ Tackling the pervasiveness of underperformance and disengagement ↳ For growing companies, is the solution better HR or leadership coaching?

People strategy, strategic planning, succession planning, and career paths – it’s never been more complicated to find the right people in the right seats. Topics include: ↳ Managing people strategy for AI-forward organizations ↳ Who really shapes the culture? ↳ When HR is decentralized…