The Wisconsin chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth will host noted author Rita McGrath as its keynote speaker at its annual Growth, Leadership and Human Capital Conference.
The conference will be held on Monday, Sept. 15, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at The Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin Ave. in Milwaukee. It will provide insight and advice on corporate growth, recruiting and retention and leadership and talent development from local and national experts, as well as robust networking with about 400 attendees.
McGrath is an expert on strategy in uncertain and volatile environments and a Columbia Business School professor.
“As the pace of change in the economy becomes ever faster, competitive advantages that companies used to be able to extend for years, if not decades, don’t last,” McGrath said. “These kinds of fast-moving, highly competitive environments make growing a business challenging, and place new demands on leaders. Indeed, if a product or service can be copied, matched or made irrelevant quickly, one of the few sources of advantage left is through the creation of capabilities, in which your people develop a pipeline of new advantages to replace those that have eroded. In my talk, I’ll outline the elements of a new playbook for strategy, in which taken for granted assumptions about change, business exits, resource allocation, innovation and leadership will all be challenged.”
Bestselling author Doug Tatum, behavioral app developer Guy Halftek, Montage Talent CEO and interviewing technology expert Kurt Heikkinen and human resources executive Susan Schmitt of Rockwell Automation will also speak at the conference.
At the inaugural GLHC Conference in 2013, a sold out crowd heard business management expert Ram Charan’s keynote address about growing revenues in global markets.
“The response to the GLHC Conference from the business community has been tremendous,” said Tom Walton, ACG president and managing director of Hanley, Hammill, Thomas. “As we move into the second year of the conference, our goal is to provide the leadership of Wisconsin-based companies new perspectives on the short and long-term challenges that they face in driving organizational growth and success. ACG Wisconsin is excited to bring an exceptional line-up of speakers to Milwaukee that will spark change in the way business owners and executives think about talent development.”
For more information or to register for the conference, visit www.acg.org/wisconsin.
