Judson Kauffman

Judson has helped to build remarkable, high-performing teams in his career. He has also been a member of highly dysfunctional teams. He’s learned that the secret is to establish an identity characterized by compassion, trust, and shared values. A good company has product-market fit; a great company also has an invincible culture. Like a hat without a head, a strategy is useless without a solid culture. Key Take-Aways: - Understand how culture impacts strategy and performance - Learn discrete levers to pull to craft a dream culture - Hear some funny and memorable stories about team development - Discover both the art and the science of culture - Find compassion for your teammates, leaders, and yourself

Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a major stressor, but how can teams come back stronger after such events? Key Takeaways: - Understand robustness, resilience, and anti-fragility - Hear personal stories of failure and success - Learn a formula for resilience, and how to improve that formula to go beyond resilience - Walk away inspired and better-equipped to handle uncertainty and volatility

Companies like Apple and Patagonia transcend what it means to be a company. These organizations have spirit, and this drives its members further. In this talk, Jud will describe the conditions required to replicate this in any team. Key take-aways: - Learn how culture emerges from structure - Explore what spirituality in a corporation looks like and how to create it - Learn the three most important attributes of teams that use the spiritual edge to enhance performance