Be a Speaker at the Great Game of Business Conference

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Being a speaker at the Great Game of Business Conference™ is a great opportunity to share your lessons learned, inspire other business people with your journey, advance the mission of transforming lives with the Great Game of Business, and identify yourself as a leader in the open-book community. To thank you for your time and contribution to the community, speakers also receive a free conference registration.

This year, we are doing speaker selection a little differently. We've polled the community to determine what topics are top-of-mind, and potential speakers are asked to select from those topics.

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2023

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Submission Deadline: January 15, 2023

Anyone wishing to speak at the Great Game of Business Conference must submit a speaker application, which will be evaluated by the Practitioner Council. The Council will rate speaker applications based on the goals and objectives of the conference, as well as speaker qualifications.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ASSOCIATES, SUPERVISORS, AND MIDDLE MANAGERS INVOLVED IN THE PRESENTATIONS! Not only is that what the Great Game of Business is all about, but practitioners and 'tire kickers' alike want to hear from the people “on the front lines” that can give them insights and inspiration to help ignite engagement in their own organizations.

As part of the application process, you will choose up to three topics that you would be willing to present on, and provide a short "pitch" for each topic selected. The pitch should include your experience with the topic, as well as a few of the ideas and insights you would share in the session.

If selected, you will be grouped into a presentation team that includes a Great Game Coach and Great Game staff member. The team will work together to develop the session, description, learning objectives, tangible takeaways, and slide deck. (If you have a particular coach or staff member you'd like to work with, please note that in your application.)

This year, we are asking potential speakers to select up to three topics from the following list of topics, curated from practitioner input:

Getting new employees up-to-speed: onboarding for Great Game
Attracting and retaining talent
Tactics for hiring the RIGHT employees
Strategic people planning (succession planning)
Career track development
Engaging families to retain employees
Employee development programs
Start with the Right Leadership - enhancing your leadership team
Leadership in a Great Game company
Breaking down departmental silos
Dealing with conflict
Creative ways to teach personal financial literacy
Using Huddles to teach employees
Huddle leader training
Train the Trainer
Creating MiniGames
Keeping The Game alive / sustaining The Game

Reviving The Game / taking the Game to the Next Level
Tactics for driving line-item ownership
Innovative ways to create line of sight
High-Involvement Planning
Contingency planning
Capital and long-term planning
Economic expectations for the future
Closing the gap between the haves and have nots
Using technology to create efficiencies (digital transformation)
ESOP / Employee ownership (and related topics)
Ownership transition considerations
Reforming a "yes man" culture
Blending GGOB with other operating systems/ideas
CEO-in-Training: How to prepare your successor now
Specific challenges of female CEOs
Playing The Game through difficult financial times
Tactics for creating buy-in to GGOB

You are also invited to submit a "wild card" topic - an off-list topic of your own choosing.

Submission Deadline - January 15, 2023

Please read through this entire page before clicking the Start Your Submission button. In addition to explaining the submission process, this page details the requirements, benefits, and expectations related to being a conference speaker.

The submission form will collect information about the speakers and the presentation being proposed.

*AFTER SUBMISSION, YOU MAY RETURN TO YOUR PROPOSAL ANY TIME UNTIL JANUARY 15 TO MAKE EDITS. YOUR PROPOSAL WILL NOT BE EVALUATED UNTIL THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE.*

If you have any questions, please contact Kristi Stringer (kstringer@ggob.com).

If chosen as a speaker, your registration fee for the conference will be waived (value: $1,550). This complimentary registration does NOT include:

add-on Conference events such as the CEO Summit, Wednesday night networking reception, or deep-dive workshops
hotel accommodations or other expenses (travel, transportation, parking, meals or materials)
conference registration fees or expenses for support personnel, personal camera crews, etc.

If chosen to be a Breakout Session speaker, you will be grouped with a Great Game Coach and Great Game team member to develop a 75-minute session for the conference. The team will need to work together to achieve the following requirements:

Develop an educational session that will fill a 75-minute time slot and include adequate time for participant sharing, questions, and answers. The session should be interactive, hands-on (to the extent possible), and result in multiple take-aways.

Submit one (1) educational blog or vlog post tied to the session topic, to help market the session. Parameters to be provided.
Submit a PowerPoint presentation that adheres to Conference branding guidelines - template will be provided and must be utilized.
Provide any necessary session handouts.
Grant The Great Game of Business, Inc. the right to audiotape, photograph, and/or videotape your presentation, and reproduce and sell the materials as it sees fit.

Sessions must be content-driven and educational. Sessions that appear to pitch a product or service will be not be chosen.

Sessions presented by or co-presented with actual Great Game of Business practitioners are preferred. If you are a service provider and feel your product or service is complimentary to the principles and practices of The Great Game of Business, we recommend you co-present with a client.

Sessions that provide at least two tangible tools as a take-away for participants are preferred - consider what action the participants will be able to take after participating in your session.

Sessions that provide hands-on learning opportunities or interaction (such as small group activities) generally receive higher marks.

Sessions that are innovative and applicable to a broad audience are preferred.

The application is in three parts:

>> ACCOUNT: You'll start out by creating an account.

>> ADDITIONAL INFO: You may choose up to 3 topics from the list (or select a topic of your own choice) and make a short pitch for each topic selected.

>> PROFILE: To complete your profile, you will need to enter basic contact info, and a short bio, and upload a headshot and company logo.

You will have the opportunity to come back and update your submission before the 1/15 deadline, but note that there are a few items that will be required in order to initially submit/save it.

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