At Accelerate 2023, we look forward to creating an inspirational in-person retreat experience and safe space for women in travel to connect, build relationships, share experiences and learn new leadership skills together.
Program
Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Relationship Building Practice &
Creating a Sounding Board Now that we will be together in person again, we will build skills to enable you to enlist allies from day 1 and build a support network. |
In this Session, you will:
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Leadership Highlights: Looking Back to Look Forward
Change – good or bad – can be unsettling and undermine performance. As leaders through the pandemic and great resignation, we can shift our mindset to proactively see the great opportunity to help ourselves and our teams grow from adversity and discover creative work-life balance strategies. |
In this Session, you will: Discover and share each of our own leadership highlights from the past year based on feedback from your teams and look forward to what we each will carry forward to leading in 2023 and beyond.
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Cocktail hour & Industry Leader Panel
Industry Leader Panelists
Victoria Feldman de Falco
One of HSMAI’s Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Hospitality Sales & Marketing, Vickie’s roots in tourism PR and marketing run deep and span every hospitality industry segment. Her advice has been featured in leading business media from Entrepreneur magazine to Crain’s New York Business, numerous travel industry media, and a full chapter in a popular university marketing textbook, Real People, Real Choices, now in its 10th edition.
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Nicole Mahoney
Nicole founded Break the Ice Media, a marketing communications agency focused on the travel, tourism, and hospitality industry in 2009. In 2016, Nicole launched the weekly podcast Destination on the Left, interviewing tourism professionals from around the globe on creativity and collaboration in the industry.
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Nancy Mendelson
Powered by a deep understanding in the abiding value of a brand, and its integrity, Nancy Mendelson started NEM Global in 2008, a consultancy specializing in the revitalization and transformation of organizations, destinations and individuals, helping clients define, articulate, and communicate their unique voice.
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Dinner & Optional Activity
Friday, April 14, 2023
Opening Remarks: Inspirational Speaker
Kara Richardson Whitely
Connect with her at www.kararichardsonwhitely.com and follow her on Instagram @kararichardsonwhitely or connect with her on LinkedIn
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Kara Richardson Whitely is the author of Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds, which is being made into a movie starring This Is Us actress Chrissy Metz. As an advisor and influencer, she helps brands connect with the 67 percent of women who are size 12 and above. She has worked with L.L. Bean, KEEN, Pfizer, Uber, Smuckers, Discover Puerto Rico, Novo Nordisk and more. She has been featured in The New York Times, on Good Morning America, The Today Show and countless online publications and is a contributor to Backpacker magazine and Outside Business Journal, with pieces coming out in both publications this month.
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Revisiting Resilience, Strategies to Thrive in the New Normal
We will revisit what we understand about resilience, better understand the case for and science of resilience and identify strategies and tools to develop our own resilience as well as how to support our employees in developing their own resilience. |
In this Session, you will: Share techniques to cultivate greater trust, safety and resilience – so that leaders can help their teams adapt and thrive, come what may.
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Recharge & Perform
To sustain high performance, leaders need to nurture their own well-being. We'll assess how we manage our energy and explore how to create space amid daily pressures. |
In this Session, you will: Learn simple tools to better manage their own – and their teams' – emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual resources. With this new awareness, the group will generate actionable ideas on how to foster more resilience across their organizations and the field of hospitality.
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Recognizing Burnout in Ourselves & Others
We will build on what we learned at Accelerate last year about the difference between resilience and endurance and shift our focus to how, as a leader, we can recognize burnout in ourselves and in others. |
In this Session, you will: Walk away with with concrete actions we can take to intentionally create positive experiences to fuel ourselves and to proactively manage our own energy and discuss how we can take learning back to coach our teams.
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Lunch
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Agile Leadership & Developing an Innovation Mindset
If the pandemic has taught the globe one over-arching lesson, it is the importance of agility in the face of uncertainty. As the world becomes more complex, interdependent, and rapidly changing, agility has taken on increased importance for leaders. Thought leaders on this topic call it the “agility imperative”. To succeed, leaders must not only be able to adapt to change but evolve their mindset to master higher levels of leadership agility. |
In this Session, you will: Learn, explore and exchange knowledge and experiences to build a better understanding of leadership agility in travel and apply it to our workplace environments. As agile leaders you will create empowered and high performing teams capable of anticipating change and executing successful innovation.
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Closing Remarks