Jack P. Flaherty Speaking Topics

• Leadership Development, Culture, and Peak Performance: BETTER DECISIONS = BETTER OUTCOMES: The 7 Principles of Critical Decision-Making

  THE SITUATION:

  Decision-making is one of the most integral functions of both our professional and personal lives. However, it is a skill set that has historically received little attention, and that trend continues today. Many of today’s leaders, young and old, lack the training, mentorship, and tenure to develop the strong decision-making skills necessary to achieve consistently positive outcomes that enable personal and professional success.

  SESSION OBJECTIVES:

  This intensive keynote highlights the critical aspects of decision-making and incorporates real-world stories and use cases to help your audience understand how to effectively navigate the complex challenges of today’s corporate world. Decision-making, engineered to be connected, contextual, and continuous, alleviates uncertainty and improves our ability to establish clarity and confidence in what were once opaque considerations. Possessing strength in this competency has the ability to become a key differentiator for your organization and workforce.

  Leveraging The Decision Switch framework and 7 Principles of Successful Decision-Making, this session will cover:

  • Triage First: Increase Your Productivity by Assessing and Prioritizing Before Taking Action.
  • Follow Your North Star: Defining a Clear Objective Serves to Align All Subsequent Decisions.
  • Collaborate with Others: The Power of Numbers in Achieving Your Goals
  • Recognize Cognitive Bias: Eliminating Mental Blinders Creates More Productive Outcomes.
  • Establish a Champion: Visionary Leaders Able to Provide Credibility and Influence Others.
  • Manage Fallout: Integrity and Legacy Start with Awareness, Empathy, and: Helping Others.
  • Practice Self-Reflection: An Acute Sense of Self-Awareness Empowers Personal Growth.

  YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • A foundational understanding of the 7 Principles of Successful Decision-Making, a framework they can leverage to consistently make difficult choices that produce greater results and desired outcomes.
  • Knowledge on how to prioritize decisions and when to champion the decision-making process, and therefore better abled to make time-sensitive decisions that align with your organization's objectives
  • Tools that will assist in their ability to confidently lead others in making complex decisions, in a manner that builds collaborative and empathetic relationships.
  • Three personalized commitments that attendees will be able to use in their adoption of a decisive and agile mindset, able to quickly assess, prioritize and consistently make productive decisions.

• Leadership Development, Business Optimization, and Peak Performance: MASTERING THE DECISION SWITCH: Stop hoping and start knowing you made the right decision

  THE SITUATION:

  Every important decision we make has the potential to impact numerous stakeholders, and not just yourself. We must recognize that our decisions are influenced by emotion and instinct, particularly fear and self-preservation. Each is a hardwired human survival response, often causing us to make knee-jerk choices based on self-doubt and how we will be perceived as a result of our actions. Conversely, when these counterproductive responses are kept in check and we allow ourselves to focus on an objective, we are far more likely to make decisions that bring us closer to the outcome we seek to achieve.

  In many ways, today’s employees are rewarded for making safe and conservative choices, and not for supporting their personal ambitions or an organization’s ethical, strategic, and growth objectives. Today’s leaders and workforce are at risk of not achieving what’s truly possible, as a result of having an inadequate personal compass or approach to help them navigate the difficult decisions we often face on a daily basis.

  SESSION OBJECTIVES:

  The objective of this session is to deliver an engaging, informative, and provocative discussion which will instill confidence and clarity in your audience by teaching them a proven framework for making effective decisions at the speed their role requires. The knowledge imparted will not only aid in cultivating high-performing leaders, but also in fostering more collaborative cultures that are decisive and agile. This transformative keynote instills confidence and clarity in your audience by teaching them a proven framework for making effective decisions at the speed their role requires

  Leveraging The Decision Switch framework and 7 Principles of Successful Decision-Making, this session will cover:

  • Define It • Triage First: Recognize when you have been prompted by a critical decision. Gather and assess the information available, so you can prioritize and develop a plan towards making the right decision so you can achieve the more optimal outcome.
  • Understand It • North Star & Collaboration: Understand the importance of identifying knowledge gaps, obstacles, and other risks, which will then enable you to take the proactive steps to gain consensus and set yourself up for success.
  • Own It • Champion & Role Definition: Establishing ownership of a decision’s success requires keeping all vested parties focused, holding stakeholders accountable, and influencing others to achieve a well-informed decision and successful outcome.
  • Flip the Switch • Confidently Move Forward: Knowing you have asked the right questions and assessed the relevant information, which allows them to confidently move forward after a decision has been made and frees up the mind space typically consumed by anxiety and self doubt.

  YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • A greater understanding on how to successfully work within and navigate today’s fast-paced business world, particularly where there is little room for errors, uncertainty, or delays
  • An improved ability to confidently make decisions with speed, so they can achieve consistently positive outcomes.
  • A greater appreciation of organizational culture, the value of alignment, and necessity of objective thinking, required to make the most optimal decisions and enable organizations to consistently achieve their goals and objectives.
  • Three personalized commitments that the attendees will use to cultivate a decisive and agile mindset, able to quickly assess, prioritize and consistently make productive decisions.

Digital Disruption, Leadership Development, and Peak Performance: Successfully Ride the Wave of Technology Innovation & Digital Disruption!

THE SITUATION:

We are currently in the midst of a decades-long digital transformational journey, which following Moore’s Law, the transition is increasing at an exponential pace. Sitting at the edge of a proverbial cliff, the projected changes pose a significant threat to the structure and composition of today’s workforce and organizational culture.

It is an imperative discussion for executives of today’s leading organizations, who seek to establish innovative, dynamic, and adaptive cultures. Cultures that can quickly become a competitive advantage for firms, if they are able to effectively capitalize on opportunities presented by digital transformation, as well as mitigate the risks often associated with the adoption of disruptive technologies.

SESSION OBJECTIVES:

The objective of this session is to deliver an engaging, informative, and provocative discussion on the impact technology has and will continue to have–focusing on the role of the executive suite. Virtually every industry has a long and rich history, built upon well-ingrained and successful practices, which necessitates today’s leading organization’s to reassess the products and services offered and how they are delivered.

To ensure a successful transition, the executive suite plays a pivotal role in defining their organization’s goals and promoting sustainable adoption of innovative practices, with the goal of embedding this ideology within the firm’s culture. The result of which enables firms to maintain their established service standards, while also preparing them to dynamically respond to new and emerging technologies and trends.

Leveraging The Decision Switch framework and 7 Principles of Successful Decision-Making, this session will cover:

• Understand It • Education: Brief baseline overview of the current and anticipated future technology trends impacting the accounting industry.
• Define It • North Star: The importance of defining your digital transformational goals in clear and simple terms, enabling organizational alignment and sustainable adoption.
• Own It • Role Definition: Establishing key roles to drive meaningful adoption and buy-in across your organization’s leaders, departments, and individual contributors.
• Empathize It • Change is difficult: The art of actively listening to and supporting those who might be negatively impacted by expected changes in workforce structure and culture.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

• The keys to building a culture of innovation and digital transformation.
• An actionable implementation plan which is based on the aforementioned principles, able to transform their firm’s culture and establish broad organizational buy-in.
• Three personalized commitments that the attendees will use to build an effective digital transformation program, and a strategy to stay accountable to their new objectives.

Digital Disruption, Peak Performance, and Culture: Successfully Ride the Wave of Technology Innovation & Digital Disruption!

THE SITUATION:

We are currently in the midst of a decades-long digital transformational journey, which following Moore’s Law, the transition is increasing at an exponential pace. Sitting at the edge of a proverbial cliff, the projected changes pose a significant threat to the structure and composition of today’s workforce and organizational culture.

It is an imperative discussion for today’s leading organizations, who seek to establish innovative, dynamic, and adaptive cultures built on the expectation of adopting an agile and decisive mindset. Cultures that can quickly become a competitive advantage for firms, if they are able to effectively capitalize on opportunities presented by digital transformation, as well as mitigate the risks often associated with the adoption of disruptive technologies.

SESSION OBJECTIVES:

The objective of this session is to deliver an engaging, informative, and provocative discussion on the impact technology has and will continue to have–focusing on the importance of cultivating an agile and decisive organizational culture. Virtually every industry has a long and rich history, built upon well-ingrained and successful practices, which necessitates today’s leading organization’s to assess and identify opportunities to improve the products and services offered and how they are delivered.

Promoting sustainable adoption of innovative practices, with the goal of driving accretive agility and growth. To ensure a successful transition, requires meaningful adoption of this ideology throughout an organization’s workforce, culture, and goals. The result of which enables organizations to maintain their established service standards, while also preparing them to dynamically respond to new and emerging technologies and trends.

Leveraging The Decision Switch framework and 7 Principles of Successful Decision-Making, this session will cover:

• Understand It • Education: Brief baseline overview of the current and anticipated future technology trends impacting the accounting industry.
• Educate It • North Star: The importance of informing your employees on the organization’s digital transformational goals in clear and simple terms.
• Own It • Role Definition: Education on the importance of defining and delivering on their roles, meaningful adoption of the organization’s goals and buy-in across your leaders, departments, and individual contributors.
• Transform It • Operationalize: Deploying programs and initiatives meant to cultivate a culture of confidence, collaboration, and accountability across your organization.
• Say It • Communication: Education on the necessity of protocols for employees to exchange information and ideas (verbal and non-verbal) in ways that are objective, accretive, and respectful.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:

• A clear understanding of the impact and opportunities created by innovation and digital transformation.
• An actionable personal growth plan which is based on the aforementioned principles, able to guide your workforce on how to level-up their skills and provide accretive support in achieving your organization’s goals.
• Three personalized commitments that the attendees will use to build their personal digital transformation upskilling development plan, and a strategy to stay accountable to their new commitments.