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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Agenda

Changing our Paradigm of Leading Change

Drew Kugler  (Teacher/Coach, The Kugler Company, LLC)
Location: Room 3018, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 9
Time: 3:10 pm - 4:10 pm
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass - Get your pass now!
Audience Level: All
Track: Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All

This session reframes and re-energizes the seemingly endless efforts placed on managers and their teams to create a better, more productive team culture. Too often, what are posed as solutions for this ultimately make things more burdensome and frustrating. A new paradigm for planning and conversing for change is advocated for and participants are invited to practice its usage in the session immediately

Takeaway

Attendees are offered a new method of collaborative structuring and dialogue toward creating sustainable change. Promising to bridge the views of creative and engineering interests within teams and tackle seemingly intractable performance challenges with teammates, this session can change how the attendee looks at and feels about their work and, perhaps, their life.

Intended Audience

Managers of all levels, individual contributors to teams, and anyone who feels they have hit a wall in their own motivation and inspiration to do remarkable work.