President of KGC Direct, LLC

Kenneth W. Gronbach is president of KGC Direct, LLC and author of the current book, “Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead“, which was recently released in April 2017. Ken is also the author of the bestselling book, “The Age Curve: How To Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm.”

What is the most important question to ask yourself in business?  The answer is: How many people are in my market, and is that market growing or shrinking?

Ken is an internationally respected demographer who has been able to forecast societal, commercial, economic, cultural and political phenomena with uncanny accuracy.  Ken’s unusual blend of marketing savvy and common sense demography, based on twenty years of proprietary demographic study, set him apart.

Session: Opening General Session, Tuesday, May 7 at 10:45 a.m.

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Founding Director – Harvard International Negotiation Program

As founding director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, Dr. Daniel Shapiro brings a gold mine of practical frameworks on collaboration and communication to boost your organization’s success. He has successfully advised everyone from leaders of war-torn countries to executives at Fortune 500 companies and family-owned businesses, and he brings these ideas to life through personal stories of his global fieldwork. Participants have called his talks “nothing short of mesmerizing.” Named one of Harvard’s top 15 professors by The Harvard Crimson, he has conducted some of the most highly praised workshops at the World Economic Forum, and has led successful negotiations in the Middle East, East Asia, and Europe.

Dr. Shapiro is co-author of the negotiation classic Beyond Reason and author of the highly acclaimed book, Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, which Matthew Bishop of the Economist Group noted as “quite simply, the best book I have ever read on negotiating in situations of extreme conflict.” His life’s joy is spending time with his wife and three young boys, who have proven to be his greatest teachers in how to negotiate the nonnegotiable.

Session: Wednesday General Session, Wednesday, May 8 at 9:45 a.m.

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Afterburner Inc. is a team of elite military professionals who are experts in helping organizations of all sizes pursue Flawless Execution. Using Afterburner’s Flawless Execution methodology, they will help take you to the next level in performance. This nationally acclaimed combination of sound organizational development and combat-proven methodologies has made Afterburner Inc. one of the fastest growing training and consulting organizations in the country. The Flawless ExecutionSM Model is a proven process used by elite military teams around the world to execute missions when the stakes are high, and failure is not an option. Business success, like success in combat, depends on execution.

Session: Closing General Session, Thursday, May 9 at 9:15 a.m.