This keynote distills down 15 years of Cassandra’s Corporate M&A experience into the critical skills that will empower leaders to create and sustain growth through change.

The audience will leave with:
• A new perspective on the soft skills required to effectively lead through change.
• A practical framework to quantify your strengths and areas of growth when addressing, working and leading through change.
• An instantly-applicable action plan that empowers them to improve critical leadership behaviors to effectively lead change movements.

In this talk, Maria Konnikova combines her personal experience as a champion poker player with her original research into the psychology of human decision-making to explore how we can all learn to make better decisions in every aspect of our lives – from the negotiating table to our personal relationships. How can we think probabilistically, manage our emotions, evaluate risk, distinguish the noise of chance from the elements of control, learn when to go all in, and when to fold? Journey with Konnikova into some of the deepest crevices of the human mind, and emerge with a roadmap for how you can – immediately and practically – become a clearer thinker and more optimal decision maker in all areas of your life.

Typical seller productivity metrics tell a limited story. They allow managers to gauge performance using arbitrary targets, but they don’t reveal which success factors really drive individual performance. Join this session to learn how comparative performance metrics enable leaders to understand why top performers win.