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FROM REACTIVE FIRE-FIGHTING TO CREATIVE LEADERSHIP

Don’t let the relentless demands of your business rob you of your creative best for your business. This is your space to get creative about your business.

More than a planning workshop, the Create to Lead Workshop is a leadership design program—aimed at equipping you to consistently be more creative and strategic with your business.

In one day, you’ll learn some powerful tools that will help you reclaim the creative and strategic leadership you desire for your business and your life.

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“It’s like taking all the productivity books off your shelf and squeezing them into your own personal action plan.”

“This was like taking all the productivity books off your shelf and squeezing them into your own personal action plan. The ‘Margineering’ tool helped me clearly identify the behavior changes I can make to get more margin. That alone was worth the price of admission.” — Michael Kithcart, iHeartMedia

Who should attend

CEOs of small & middle market firms
Leaders of divisions or large workgroups
Future leaders wanting to lead creatively & strategically
Solopreneurs grappling with carrying all the load of their business
Any leader desiring tools to increase their personal creativity

from your creative best?

What's KEEPING you

This workshop was full of real actionable meat. I walked away with four things that will change my life. Fantastic use of time.

Ron Noden

LifeScale Analytics

This is like taking all the productivity books off your shelf and squeezing them into your own personal action plan. The ‘Margineering’ tool helped me clearly identify the behavior changes I can make to get more margin. That alone was worth the price of admission.

Michael Kithcart

iHeartMedia

I highly recommend this workshop! The relaxed style and the comfortable environment that Leary creates make it easy to get involved to get the very most benefit from the time. The materials are created in such a way that you will have no problem identifying areas where you can strategically increase your margin and also, what triggers you into reactive leadership. Then, if that wasn't enough, Leary gives you the framework to create an action plan to implement those changes.

Jason Polzin

Polzin Glass

This workshop provided an excellent structure to see how to be more intentional, to have a roadmap, to be more powerful, and to gain more margin.

Kevin Kruse

Wipro Technologies

It is so important to find time to think, act, reflect, and focus on priorities that will make the biggest difference for an organization. This workshop provided several tools to help me be more effective and efficient.

Jason Wenschlag

Minnehaha Academy

Such a fun and engaging experience. It was very well put together and it taught me to think smarter and more strategic about how I invest my time. I know the exact changes I need to make to pursue my most important goals.

Joseph Riccomoni

LiveWatch Security

A day well spent. Leary does a great job of weaving together psychological research, years of management consulting and richly meaningful stories of his own struggles to guide us through an exploration of what it takes to create the margin that we need in order to be more strategic leaders.

Mike Swenson

Simple Benchmarks

Really enjoyed the opportunity to reflect on personal development and foundational improvements that can be made to make a greater impact.

Mark Christie

Innovia Software

As a Fortune 100 sales exec, I'm buried in the day-to-day and have difficulty creating margin. Leary gave me a number of strategies and tactics to change that.

Ryan Carlson

Wells Fargo

This workshop was very helpful. I was able to objectively consider my choices and the resulting reality in my life. I now have the ingredients and structure to be all that I can be.

Peter Thaldorf

The Retirement Asset Management Group

Helped me to better assess myself--the good habits from bad habits and how to identify changes to make that benefit me and my organization.

Scott Lien

LifeScale Analytics

Just what I needed to force me to re-evaluate my structure, habits, thoughts, schedule, work/life balance. I look forward to re-engineering my life!

Jim Steffen

Trott Brook Financial

This workshop gave me the space I needed to think about what I want to accomplish for my firm. The framework we used gave me concrete steps without feeling overwhelming. And I now have a personal action plan with specific strategies to guard my margin and lead more like I want to.

Martha Carlson

The Bailey Group

One day that may forever transform the way you lead.

Go from reactive fire-fighting to creative and intentional strategic leadership. Learn the elements of strategic power you can use to become more creative in how you lead your business.

Whether you consider yourself creative or not—you truly are. You may just need a reliable system to coax out your creative vision for your business. This workshop will not only tease out your creative best, but it will also equip with with some practical tools to help you escape reactive mode and engage more consistently in creative and strategic thinking.

This is not hyped-up pablum about four-hour work weeks nor is it mystical practices for holistic living. Instead, you’ll receive practical—use it today—know-how based on cognitive science to unleash your creative best for your business and for your personal life.

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

— Albert Einstein

You’ll discover how to deploy some simple practices that will increase your strategic power and improve how you think about your business. You’ll work through practical exercises—including how to create space to add new projects without sacrificing your most vital commitments—that you can apply right now. And to tie it all together, you’ll develop an individualized ‘Margineering’ strategy that will gain you more reflective space to more consistently work on your business and not just in it.

Following these principles may not make you less busy, but they will help you think more strategically, creatively and less reactively.

What you'll learn

The brain science that explains how we get trapped into reactive mode
How your proficiency may actually hinder creative and strategic thinking
The triggers that most often keep you in reactive, fire-fighting mode
Simple practices to enlarge your capacity for strategic and creative thought
Develop your individualized action plan to increase your creative and strategic prowess

Get strategic.

The Strategic Margin Workshop will be held at the beautiful Minnesota Valley Country Club in Bloomington, Minnesota.

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Minnesota Valley Country Club, Bloomington, MN
Program begins at 8:30 a.m. and concludes at 3:30 p.m. Lunch included.
Program fee is $495

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