Lead with emotional intelligence

Tempo Milwaukee will host its third annual leadership event, "Redefining Leadership: What Highly Effective Leaders Do," on Thursday, Oct. 16 at the Pfister Hotel from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m.

Nationally known speaker Bill Benjamin, chief executive officer of the Institute of Health and Human Potential, will be the keynote for the event and will focus on the topic of leading with emotional intelligence.

"This event will be great for CEOs, top-level or mid-level managers," said Tracy Johnson, executive director of Tempo Milwaukee. "Anyone who is really managing people will walk away with tons of applicable information."

According to Johnson, emotional intelligence is a learned skill, and Benjamin has notoriously delivered in programs so people in businesses of all sizes can take back the information and use it immediately.

"This is what people in businesses are looking for. You know, it’s the IQ that gets people hired, but it’s the EQ (emotional intelligence), or lack of, that can get people fired," Johnson said.

The second half of the program will feature a panel discussion of local CEOs who have developed the skills of emotional intelligence in their management teams, and learn how the tools have changed their corporate culture and productivity levels.

The discussion will be led by Karen Vernal, president of Vernal Management, Milwaukee, and will include: Sue Ela, senior vice president, Aurora Health Care; Mary Meehan, president, Alverno University, Milwaukee; Paul Borowski, executive director and chief strategic officer, American Society Quality, Milwaukee; Peggy Coakley, CEO, Coakley Bros. Co., Cudahy; and Jill Morin, CEO, Kahler Slater Architects, Milwaukee. The cost of the program is $125 for individual members, and $150 for individual non-members, or $1,000 for a table of eight. For more information, contact Johnson at TEMPO Milwaukee at (414) 905-0117.