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Leading Across Generations

The leaders who attract and retain top talent across generations are the ones who understand what drives each of them.

Description

Today’s workforce spans up to five generations, each shaped by different experiences, values, communication styles, and expectations. One thing is the same--every generation wants to be seen and contribute meaningfully. Effective leadership requires understanding people deeply enough to lead everyone to their varying definitions of success.

This full-day workshop equips leaders with the understanding and practical tools to attract, engage, and retain talent across every generation. Moving from self-awareness to organizational action, participants will examine their own generational assumptions, develop deeper curiosity about others’ lived experiences, and build management systems that allow everyone to do their best work.

Participants will explore how generational assumptions are formed and how they impact leadership decisions. Then, attendees will discuss adapting their communication and management practices to meet the needs of a diverse workforce.

Audience

Professionals of all levels who develop, retain and engage with a multigenerational workforce.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Identifying and challenging their own generational biases and assumptions
  • Building empathy and curiosity through shared generational experiences and perspectives
  • Adapting communication and feedback approaches to meet each generation where they are
  • Creating team agreements, accountability structures, and recognition systems that work across generations
  • Developing a personal action plan to strengthen leadership effectiveness with every generation represented on their team

Discovering Your Genius

Even the most capable teams can feel stuck, misaligned, or frustrated - why does work that should feel energizing sometimes feel draining instead?

Description

In today’s complex and fast-paced work environment, productivity challenges are rarely caused by a lack of intelligence or effort. More often, they stem from misunderstanding how work flows from idea to execution and how each person is uniquely wired to contribute to that process. When individuals spend too much time working outside of their natural strengths, frustration increases, collaboration weakens, and burnout follows.

This interactive program introduces The 6 Types of Working Genius®, a practical framework developed by The Table Group that helps professionals understand how they contribute best to getting work done. Participants will discover what types of work give them energy and fulfillment, where they may experience frustration, and how to collaborate more effectively - without restructuring roles or changing teams.

Unlike traditional personality assessments, Working Genius is designed as a productivity tool. It provides a simple, shared language that clarifies how work moves from idea to execution. Participants will explore how different strengths show up in meetings, projects, and cross-functional collaboration and how to regulate their own contributions to reduce friction and improve outcomes.

Through guided reflection, structured discussion, and real-world application, participants will learn how to apply the model immediately to improve alignment, increase momentum, and elevate team performance.

By the end of the session, professionals will leave equipped with a practical framework that enhances execution, strengthens collaboration, and promotes sustainable performance.

Audience

Professionals at all levels across industries who want to better understand how they contribute to work, improve collaboration across teams, and increase productivity without increasing burnout.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understanding their Working Genius®, Competencies, and Frustrations - and how each impacts energy, effectiveness, and burnout.
  • Using the Working Genius model to pinpoint where work gets stuck (Ideation, Activation, Implementation) and improve collaboration across roles and functions.
  • Reducing guilt and judgment by recognizing how different geniuses show up at work and how to better partner with others.
  • Regulating their genius in meetings and projects to reduce “turbulence,” strengthen handoffs, and keep work moving forward.
  • Designing more effective meetings aligned to the right type of work, with clear expectations, roles, and follow-through.
  • Creating practical commitments to apply immediately, improving results within their current role and team.

Leveraging AI with Critical Thinking

When critical thinking drives AI use, the results are more accurate, more useful, and more trustworthy.

Description

AI tools are only as effective as the thinking behind them. Without intentional critical thinking, AI can produce outputs that are vague, inaccurate, or misleading. This program gives participants the skills to use AI as a precision instrument, not just a shortcut.

Participants will learn to craft prompts that guide AI toward clear and relevant results, evaluate outputs with a discerning eye, and refine responses into decision-ready information.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Using prompt engineering intentionally to guide AI toward clear, relevant, and high-quality responses
  • Evaluating AI-generated outputs critically by checking for accuracy, identifying assumptions, and refining responses to remove error and express your/your brand’s voice
  • Strengthening analysis through iterative prompting by asking follow-up questions and exploring alternative perspectives to deepen insights
  • Understanding when and how to cite AI, including when disclosure is appropriate and how to judge the reliability of AI‑provided sources

Venue

Health United Building
1723 Cleneay Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45212 United States + Google Map

Ethical Decision Making and Responsible AI

Responsible AI use is not just a compliance issue — it is a leadership imperative.

Description

As AI becomes embedded in everyday workplace decisions, leaders are increasingly responsible for ensuring that its use is fair, transparent, and aligned with organizational values. The stakes are real: bias, privacy risks, and lack of accountability can create serious legal, ethical, and reputational consequences.

This program equips participants with practical ethical frameworks to navigate complex AI-related decisions. Participants will leave with the tools and confidence to communicate clearly about AI and to protect both their people and their organizations.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Applying practical ethical frameworks to workplace situations where AI intersects with people, processes, and decision-making
  • Recognizing and addressing bias in AI tools by learning how to spot risks
  • Communicating transparently about AI use so employees and stakeholders understand when AI is used, its limitations, and how outputs are validated

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Leading Through AI Change

Technology evolves quickly, but successful adoption depends on people.

Description

Introducing AI into an organization is not just a technology challenge—it is a leadership and change management challenge. Even the most powerful tools will fall short if teams lack the awareness, motivation, and confidence to use them effectively. Leaders play a critical role in building understanding, alignment, and momentum as new technologies reshape how work gets done.

This program equips participants with practical strategies to increase buy-in, guide teams through change, and support successful AI adoption. Participants will also explore how AI can redesign work to make roles more engaging, efficient, and impactful.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Building alignment and buy-in using the ADKAR model for AI adoption
  • Understanding how AI can elevate task variety, autonomy, meaning, and feedback through intentional job design
  • Using data collection, pre/post measures, and social influence to make a compelling case for AI adoption and sustain momentum

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Supporting Human Performance Using AI

AI can sharpen a leader's thinking, but it is the leader's humanity that makes the difference.

Description

Effective leadership depends on the quality of human connection and no AI tool can replace the judgment, empathy, and accountability that great leaders bring to their people. But AI can make leaders better prepared, more self-aware, and more effective in the conversations that matter most.

This program explores how leaders can use AI as a thoughtful partner in coaching, feedback, and performance conversations, not to automate relationships, but to strengthen them. Participants will practice using AI to challenge their own assumptions, prepare for difficult discussions, and approach performance challenges with curiosity rather than judgment.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Improving the quality of feedback conversations by using AI to translate frustrations into clear observations that support employee growth
  • Shifting from judgment to curiosity by using AI to generate thoughtful questions and uncover underlying causes behind performance challenges
  • Applying practical guardrails for responsible AI use in leadership, ensuring AI supports human judgment, protects confidentiality, and strengthens rather than replaces human relationships

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Beyond Market Rate: Aligning Pay to the Value of Work

Compensation is more than a budget line item—it’s a strategic lever that shapes retention, performance, and trust. Yet many organizations still rely on market benchmarks as the primary driver of pay, even though market data is backward-looking and increasingly misaligned with how work is evolving.

Description

This interactive session equips senior HR leaders to move beyond job titles and “going rate” shortcuts and build a more strategic, data-driven approach to compensation. Participants will learn how to clarify their compensation philosophy, identify the skills that truly create value (including “hard-to-automate” capabilities like judgment and relationship-building), and translate internal role value into repeatable decision rules leaders can apply consistently.

Through practical examples and hands-on exercises, participants will pressure-test their reliance on benchmarks, reframe roles through a skills lens, and leave with a clear roadmap for implementing pay practices that are fair, defensible, and future-ready—turning complexity into clarity leaders can communicate with confidence.

Audience

Appropriate for senior HR leaders.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Recognizing the limitations and risks of benchmark-first pay decisions
  • Drafting a clear compensation philosophy aligned with strategic priorities
  • Building an internal value framework that reflects real role impact—not just job titles
  • Identifying value-creating skills (including capabilities that are often undervalued) and integrating them into pay decisions
  • Spotting common drivers of inequity and inconsistency
  • Translating internal value and skills into clear, repeatable pay decision rules
  • Creating a practical roadmap that uses market data as an input while strengthening culture, reinforcing trust, and positioning the organization for long-term success.

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Working Smarter with AI

As AI accelerates across industries, professionals need more than basic prompting skills—they need a working understanding of how AI systems function, how data shapes their output, and how intelligent workflows can transform operations.

Description

This program provides a practical and modern foundation in applied AI, blending non-technical explanations with hands-on demonstrations and real-world use cases.

Participants explore a range of applied capabilities, including how to identify the right tasks for AI, when to deploy agentic workflows, and how to structure work so humans and AI systems complement one another effectively. The session covers how to leverage data for advanced analysis, how to design intelligent processes that scale, and how to recgonize the jagged edge of AI intelligence—where systems perfrom exceptionally well and where they fall in predictable ways. These topics are introduced through practical exercises and demonstrations that help participants build confidence using AI in real workflows. From automating routine tasks to augmenting complex analystical work, the session illustrates how AI can not only radically increase productivity, but also create new opportunities across diverse roles.

By connecting how AI generates its output, how data shapes its quality, and how intelligent workflows come together, participants gain cohesive understanding of the best approach to deploy AI responsibly, efficiently, and at scale within their organizations.

Audience

Individual contributors and managers who do not have a technical expertise and want to explore ways to adopt AI in their day-to-day work.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understand modern AI and how it fits into today’s tech stacks
  • Evaluate how data structure, quality, and format impact AI performance.
  • Identify tasks suitable for AI, anticipate the “jagged edge” of intelligence, and avoid misuse.
  • Gain hands-on skills in designing intelligent workflows that blend human oversight with automation.
  • Build the confidence and judgment to use AI effectively in real, everyday workflows.

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Strategic AI for Business

The rise of Generative AI is reshaping not only how organizations operate, but how they think, compete, and innovate in an environment defined by rapid technological change.

Description

The session begins with a practical, holistic overview of prompting and context engineering—the core disciplines that allow today’s leading generative AI systems to support work across every level of an organization. Participants will learn how to work effectively with the best Generative AI tools on the market, understanding both the art and science behind high-quality outputs.

From there, the focus expands to leadership in the modern enterprise: how AI is altering competitive dynamics, how innovation pipelines must evolve, and how managers can guide individuals, teams, and cross-functional groups through transformation. The program blends research-driven insights with real-world examples, illustrating how organizations create value with AI, how teams integrate AI into workflows, and how to shape culture, accountability, and decision-making in an era of intelligent agents.

Audience

Professionals in any industry who want to explore and gain knowledge about artificial intelligence.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Master prompting and context engineering to work effectively with today’s top AI systems.
  • Evaluate emerging AI trends and separate true breakthroughs from short-lived hype.
  • Understand how AI reshapes competitive advantage, business models, and long-term strategy.
  • Learn why individual AI productivity gains don’t always scale and how organizations can close the gap.
  • Grasp disruptive innovation in the AI era and identify inflection points for organizational adaptation.
  • Analyze practical frameworks for leading individuals, teams, and cross-functional groups as they adopt AI tools and automations.
  • Apply techniques for AI-driven experimentation, rapid iteration, and data-informed innovation.

Influencing and Persuading for Results

When ideas are met with hesitation, influence bridges the gap between being heard and making things happen.

Description

In today’s dynamic work environment, success depends on engaging others, building trust, and moving forward together. Influence is the ability to guide people through credibility and integrity, while persuasion turns ideas into cooperation by connecting logic and emotion to shared values.

This one-day program equips you to influence and persuade ethically and effectively. You’ll learn how to strengthen relationships, communicate with purpose, and navigate resistance with confidence, enabling collaboration and meaningful results.

Audience

Employees at all levels who need to effectively influence others up, down, and over in order to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Build credibility and trust that encourages others to listen and follow.
  • Adjust your approach to influence different audiences and situations.
  • Listen to understand, not just to respond, so you can address real needs.
  • Present ideas in ways that motivate action and support.
  • Handle resistance constructively, transforming disagreement into progress.