Rand Stagen is the Senior Partner of Stagen, a management consulting firm that specializes in strategy, execution, and leadership development. In his role, Rand is responsible for the oversight of delivery teams comprised of consultants, executive coaches, and subject matter experts. His firm partners with mid-market companies throughout North America to create Next- Level Results and sustained high performance. Prior to founding the Institute, Rand was President of Presido Media Group, a publisher of newspapers and magazines in the Southwest.

A seasoned entrepreneur, he has been featured in The Dallas Morning News, The Columbia Journalism Review, on Fox-TV. Rand is a former President of the Young Entrepreneur's Organization (YEO), a national resource for YPO, and has served as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Metrocrest Healthcare System. He earned his B.A. from Southern Methodist University and lives in Dallas with his wife and daughter.

• Next Level Leadership
Explore the hidden drivers of "Level 5 Leadership" and learn how to dramatically increase your ability to drive results, innovation, and change in your organization. Exceptional organizational performance begins with exceptional leadership. Rand Stagen will reveal fresh insights and methods from the field specifically designed to help leaders go to the next level. In the book "Good to Great" Jim Collins identified "Level 5 Leadership" as a key for good companies to make the move to great. Yet he admits that his research failed to show how leaders actually develop to level 5. In this engaging presentation, Rand will reveal the secrets to what Collins calls the "black box" of leadership performance. Individuals such as Jack Welch, Lance Armstrong, and Tiger Woods will be analyzed and their hidden drivers will be revealed. Attendees will be introduced to important breakthroughs coming out of Harvard that when combined with proper training can dramatically boost performance to levels that lead to greatness. All participants will receive a Human Performance Learning Module and a blueprint for launching an individual training discipline.
• Human Performance
The Human Performance module examines the highly complex system of states, stages, and multiple intelligences, and presents a simplified but comprehensive framework for understanding the relationship of these elements to leadership development and peak performance. Drawing on the work of the world's foremost experts in human development, integral theory, and organizational management, this module applies the latest research findings in these fields to illustrate how humans progress through increasing levels of proficiency in the cognitive, interpersonal, intrapersonal (i.e., emotional intelligence) ethical, physical, and spiritual capacities. Participants receive an integral psychograph with evaluations (under the supervision of PhD psychologists and elite performance consultants) of their own levels of development in the six intelligences. Peak performance results from an optimized integration of key competencies found in these different human capacities. Performance can be dramatically enhanced through multiple intelligence coaching and customized integral cross training programs that leverage participant's unique gifts while bolstering under-developed areas.
• Attention Management
The problem of information-overwhelm and Organizational A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder) is a testament to the obsolescence of traditional time management approaches. The Attention Management module combines the most up-to-date thinking on time management with cutting edge approaches to the economy of attention. It introduces attention management as a key determinant of business success. This approach addresses attention as a key competitive advantage, and highlights focus and concentration as intrinsic to peak performance. Using this model and three fundamental practices, participants learn to be not just efficient, but effective. Rather than emphasizing times and tasks, relationships and results take strategic precedence. Leaders are informed by ten tactics for managing time and attention, allowing them to proactively escape the "reactive zone" and "firefighting syndrome." Participants who use Stagen's proprietary Attention Management System achieve productivity increases of 20% - 40% based upon metrics such as worker output per hour, percentage of missed deadlines, number of hours reclaimed, percentage of time and attention solving crises, and percentage of time and attention devoted to proactive and strategic projects.
• The War for Talent
Stagen Leadership Institute's Research and Development department is committed to assembling and synthesizing the most current and critical data pertaining to leadership development and human performance. Based upon multiple studies and the US Department of Labor workforce statistics, the Institute recognizes an all too quickly approaching workforce shortage and impending war for top talent. The fight for the brightest and most versatile talent will not hit just certain industries. All organizations employing US workers will be actively engaged in battle to find and keep top talent. It is abundantly clear that there is a critical need for US companies to move beyond recruiting hype and begin viewing the development of high potentials as a strategic business driver.

Research done by the University of Pennsylvania shows that investments in human capital provide twice the return as capital investments. In building developmental programs for high potentials, top performing organizations have seen substantial return on their investment by: (1) investing in people whose values, skills and potential are in alignment with the organization's strategic plan; (2) utilizing detailed research results of each generation's set of common traits relating to communication, learning, motivation and loyalty development. By offering engaging developmental opportunities with these best practices in mind, organizations can begin recruiting and attracting talent with reasons other than the size of a paycheck. High potentials are decidedly enticed not just by financial success, but also by new opportunities and challenges, further development of their skills, and advanced education which will help to propel them within their organization. Enterprises that develop a strategy for attracting, developing and retaining top talent, will triumph over their competition.

The most skillful of organizations will create brilliant strategies for winning the War for Talent by taking immediate action to: (1) Attract the right people to your organization; (2) Align HR programs, policies and processes to business goals; (3) Motivate and reward employee efforts in innovatively valuable ways; (4) Inspire their employees to be fully engaged in their work and; (5) Identify and develop high potentials.