If you’re attending the NAPSLO Mid-Year Leadership Forum,
March 5-8 in Scottsdale, make plans now to hold time for the General Session on
Friday, March 7. This year’s General Session will feature two speakers, both
with messages you can apply in your business immediately.
Eric Siegel, Ph.D., is the president of Prediction Impact,
Inc. and author of the acclaimed book, Predictive
Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die. Siegel is
also Executive Editor of the Predictive Analytics Times, and the founder of
Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World. Widely renowned as an
expert in predictive analytics and data mining, he is also a former computer
science professor at Columbia University, where he won the engineering school's
award for teaching, including graduate-level courses in machine learning and
intelligent systems - the academic terms for predictive analytics.
After Columbia, Dr. Siegel co-founded two software companies
for customer profiling and data mining, and founded Prediction Impact in 2003,
providing predictive analytics services and training to mid-tier through
Fortune 100 companies.
Siegel will discuss Predictive Analytics and how it applies
to our industry in his address at 9 a.m. on March 7. For more information about
Dr. Siegel, visit his
website.
After a brief NAPSLO Education and Career Development
presentation, guests will be inspired by speaker Erik Weihenmayer at 10 a.m.
Despite losing his vision at the age of 13, Erik Weihenmayer has become one of
the most accomplished adventurers in the world. Re-defining what it means to be
blind, he has opened the minds of people around the world. He is the only blind
person who has reached the summit of Mount Everest and the tallest peak on each
continent.
In his talk, “Leadership—Guess Who’s a Better Climber in the
Dark?,”Weihenmayer describes the time he and his partner, a much better
climber, were caught on a dangerous rock face at nightfall and without working
headlamps. In spite of his fear, Weihenmayer knew this was his time to lead his
friend down to safety. He believes the most important aspect of leadership is
how we pass it on to others. “Leadership is contagious,” he says, “We pass it
from body to body, from life to life, and we give all the people around us the
courage to do great things.” To learn more about Weihenmayer, visit
his website.
We look forward to seeing you in Scottsdale.
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