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Ohio Valley Business Travel Association

Hyatt House OSU, Columbus Ohio

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Looking Forward: Building Best-in-Class 2023 Travel Programs - Will Tate, Partner Goldspring Consulting

Join us as we explore our learnings from the past 2 years and their impact on our 2023 strategies. Buyers and sellers will be showcased as "partnership" became not only our most important word, but a lifeline to our success. We'll discuss policy, contracting, pricing, implementations, labor challenges, and communication requirements, all wrapped up in best practices for 2023 managed travel programs.

Will Tate is owner and partner at GoldSpring Consulting.  He began his career at Ernst & Young.  Will moved to Dresser Industries where he led global operational and financial audits across 30 countries.  He then served as global travel manager for Dresser, consolidating a global travel spend of $100+million. In 2000, Will joined Management Alternatives, Inc., where he served as senior vice president and also developed a software solution to quantify the effectiveness of travel management programs in a multi-dimensional format.

A thought leader and sought-out expert in the travel industry, Will frequently moderates and speaks at industry events. He has taught many industry courses and co-authored the GBTA course “Fundamentals of Business Travel Management.” Will is a Certified Public Accountant and received his Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Texas Tech University. 

Your Most Focused Year Ever - Samantha Bean, Vice President of Sales & LTD Culture Champion

One of your greatest responsibilities as a leader is to focus and direct attention. It’s how you get results. But often, the most difficult attention to focus can be your own. In this session, we're going to talk about how to identify goals, destroy distractions, and make 2023 your most focused year yet.

In this session, attendees will learn how to overcome the destructive force of distraction in three steps:

1. Clearly define wins
2. Distance the distractions
3. Obsess about the process not the result

Sam currently serves as Vice President of Sales and Culture at LTD Hospitality. She has served as the Virginia BTA Chapter President, two terms on the GBTA CPC board and is a recipient of the GBTA Business Travel Service Award. She currently sits on the GBTA Government Relations Committee and is a participant in GBTA Ladders.

Sam has earned her Global Leadership Professional designation, her GTP and has completed the GBTA Manager’s Level Certificate through the UVA Darden School of Business. She is certified as a John Maxwell Leadership Coach and has had the honor of speaking for various GBTA Chapters and most recently at the SAP Concur Travel Summit.

Sam is an active leader in her church and serves as a CrossFit and Precision Nutrition coach.

“The Art of Belonging”  Shelly Brown, Speaker, Author, Artist, Rock Star Midfullness Edutainer

Join us as Shelley Brown, author of Weird Girl Adventures, pops into our world splashing the bright colors of her weirdness into our lives through funny, touching, relatable and oh so human stories accompanied by her very own pop art. She’ll teach us how to bring out everyone’s unique colors through her W.E.I.R.D. framework to amplify true connection and belonging.

Synopsis:

Have you ever felt weird, like you didn’t fit in, like you didn’t belong? When I pose this questionto audiences, everyone raises their hand. We’ve experienced a big shift. We are looking for more alignment with who are. We are looking for workplaces where there is a culture of trust and safety, where our gifts and talents are recognized and where we feel safe and have a choice to express our preferences, points of view and personalities. It begins with each one of us. We have more pressure, more responsibility, more competition in addition to the stress of long hours, quotas, deadlines and more. What will fuel us personally, professionally, support us to do what we do best and positively impact our success and the success of others? Belonging.

When we feel safe to be ourselves, we feel valued and appreciated for who we are, we feel like we belong, and we feel like we matter. Belonging is the critical ingredient for leadership, productivity, originality, creativity, innovation, and the antipode to “Quiet Quitting.” Belongingness helps everyone to show up well and that’s good for everyone, critical for organizational success and guest experience. 

Let Shelley take you on a journey to teach and inspire you to make a difference and take “You belong here,” from a slogan to an experience for everyone.

Audience Take-Aways

• Learn to shift belonging from a slogan to an ongoing experience to lead, engage and
• form stronger more successful organizations.
• Recognize how individuality connects us to be more impactful leaders and bring out
• the best in yourself and others.
• Understand how belonging impacts personal and organizational fulfillment.
• Remove the roadblocks to belonging to reduce stress, increase trust, productivity,
• and engagement.
• Walk away refreshed and inspired to use the 5-step W.E.I.R.D. framework to fuel
• and amplify true belonging for yourself both personally and professionally

We are partnering with Coats 4 Kids to collect Coats, Hats, Mittens. you will receive a complimentary raffle ticket for your donation.(1 ticket per person)