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Program

4:00  Registration table opens
4:30  Educational presentation
5:30  Networking
5:35  New member welcome meeting
6:00  Dinner & announcements
7:00  Keynote presentation

Location

Doubletree Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, Oregon

Pick up your parking voucher at the registration table–Parking is FREE!

January Menu

Draper Valley Chicken Oscar served with Dungeness Crab, Roasted Asparagus & Hollandaise Butter Smashed Potatoes

Or

Barbecue Bowl with Orange Soda BBQ Soy Curls, Brown Rice, Peppers and Onions, and Wilted Kale

Red Velvet Cake

Wiki Management: The Future of Management Has Already Arrived!

Conventional management thought assumes that command-and-control is the most effective way to organize the efforts of large numbers of people, but rapid change and increasing complexity have rendered that model obsolete. Designing organizations to succeed in a time of great change demands a new and very different model. Discover a revolutionary new business world where leaders are catalysts and facilitators rather than bosses and workers are highly engaged in shaping strategic thinking and operational practices. Learn how a new breed of innovative business leaders have completely overhauled the ways we build organizations and why, despite being hidden in plain sight, the future of management has already arrived!

About the Speaker

Rod Collins is the Director of Innovation at Optimity Advisors, a national management consulting firm. Rod is leading expert on the next generation of business management. He works with forward thinking business leaders who understand that managing great change means changing how we manage. Rod is the former Chief Operating Executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, one of the nation's largest and most successful business alliances, which today has over $30 billion in annual revenues. Under his leadership, the business experienced its greatest five-year growth period in its 50-plus year history, as year after year, it set new records for operational and financial performance. Rod is also the author of Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World (AMACOM Books, 2014). His previous book, Leadership in a Wiki World: Leveraging Collective Knowledge to Make the Leap to Extraordinary Performance, won the 2011 EVVY book award for Business/Finance.

The Elegant Set: Capturing the Collective Intelligence in the Room

The Elegant Set is a facilitated exercise that is especially useful when an organization is under pressure to deliver a solution or to implement a strategy, and it is caught in a cycle of endless debate driven by deep irreconcilable differences among a large group of key stakeholders. This methodology is a way to move a group forward by tapping into the collective intelligence of the group to quickly identify workable common ground.

About the Speaker

Rod Collins is the Director of Innovation at Optimity Advisors, a national management consulting firm. Rod is leading expert on the next generation of business management. He works with forward thinking business leaders who understand that managing great change means changing how we manage. Rod is the former Chief Operating Executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, one of the nation's largest and most successful business alliances, which today has over $30 billion in annual revenues. Under his leadership, the business experienced its greatest five-year growth period in its 50-plus year history, as year after year, it set new records for operational and financial performance. Rod is also the author of Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World (AMACOM Books, 2014). His previous book, Leadership in a Wiki World: Leveraging Collective Knowledge to Make the Leap to Extraordinary Performance, won the 2011 EVVY book award for Business/Finance.