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Eighth
Annual CEO Leadership School
Top Corporate Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success
Sunday, 8:30 am — 1:00 pm • Sunday, October
12, 2008
The CEO Leadership School, which begins each NAHC Annual
Meeting, was designed to help the industry’s present
and future leaders. The goal is to put them in touch with
many of the best and brightest from other industries who
have been asked to share the secrets of success. The CEO
Leadership School, therefore, is very much a leadership
or management seminar. The Eighth
Annual CEO Leadership School is $200. You can register
for the CEO School separately or add it when filing out
an Annual Meeting registration form*.
It is human nature for all industry leaders to believe
that their issues and problems are unique and to some extent,
this is true. However, there are far more commonalities
across-the-board from industry to industry than there are
differences.
The CEO Leadership School allows those that NAHC has identified
as leaders to listen and learn, extrapolate from other
industry executives, and hopefully, find answers which
they can implement immediately when they return home.
The CEO Leadership School is NAHC’s way of building
the intellectual equity of its members. Home care and hospice
CEO’s are often too busy, mired in the paperwork
and red tape, to read as much as they would like. The CEO
Leadership School brings the experts to them, face-to-face,
and helps teach, challenge, and inspire them. Its purpose
is to, in the words of Stephen Covey, “sharpen the
saw.”
* While
the CEO Leadership School Registration Fee is $200.00
per person, NAHC offers our Certified Home Care & Hospice Executives (CHCE) a special registration fee of $100.00 per CHCE registrant.
Invited speakers will include the following, subject to
their acceptance.
 Ann Rhoades
Founder and President, People Ink, Former Human Resources
for Southwest and JetBlue Airlines
Ann is a dynamic human resources executive and self-described “rule
breaker.” In the course of over 25 years, she’s
used her “people-centric” approach to help
organizations go from good to great. At Southwest Airlines,
she solidified the company’s reputation for a stellar
work force. At Promus Hotel Corporation, she built a culture
based on outstanding service. And she created JetBlue Airway’s
People Team in New York. Still a board member at JetBlue,
she now has a consulting firm that brings her ideas to
a broader market, especially the health care industry.
She serves on patient safety and quality task forces at
Texas Medical Institute of Technology, and she’s
co-founder of CareLeaders Corporation, which helps hospitals
boost their performance. This commitment to quality inspires
her community involvement, including service with Albuquerque
Community Foundation, Brigham & Women’s Hospital,
Safer New Mexico Now, and the University of New Mexico.
Whether focusing on health care or hospitality, she urges
HR professionals to try out new roads. “The great
promise of HR,” she says, “is that you can
have a huge impact on any organization. When you understand
that, you act differently, you make better choices. And
you are more confident in taking risks and daring to speak
the truth.”
 Dale Brown
Motivational Speaker and Former Basketball Coach, Louisiana State University
“The best potential of me is we,” Dale recently told a crowd in Dakota. This credo has earned him fame as a coaching legend and “master motivator.” It’s a good thing he had a winning approach when he first arrived at LSU. In 1972, LSU basketball was second to football in everything from fan support to the budget. Determined to make the Tigers a fan favorite, he travelled the state handing out purple and gold nets and poems asking folks to give the team a chance. He also caught their attention by winning four Southeastern Conference championships and twice reaching the NCAA Final Four. But his competitive streak didn’t kill his sense of compassion. This was clear when three players asked him for money to visit a dying teammate in St. Louis. Brown knew this violated NCAA rules governing off-campus entertainment. Yet “I gave them the money,” he says, “and I’d do it again.” He’s continued to give as head of a foundation that provides scholarships for needy students and as a dynamic public speaker. “It is a law of life,” he tells groups, “that to live fully, we must learn to use things and love people – not love things and use people.”
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