The most valuable conversations aren't predetermined — they're shaped by the leaders in the room.

At the 2026 FICP Strategic Leaders Event, discussion topics are influenced by fellow strategic leaders, creating an executive-level learning experience focused on today's most pressing priorities. From business management to event measurement and optimization, every program is designed to encourage candid dialogue, shared perspectives and practical takeaways that extend far beyond the event.

We anticipate participants will have the opportunity to earn 8 CMP-eligible hours.

Strategic Leaders Event Program

Explore the Strategic Leaders Event program and discover the conversations shaping the future of meetings and events.

• Redefining Event Success: Aligning Stakeholder Priorities and Using Technology To Measure, Communicate and Demonstrate Impact
• Designing Immersive Events That Deliver Real Value and Justify Travel
• Navigating Risk, Contracting and Supplier Accountability
• Structure, Capacity and Talent – Do We Have the Right Team Operating Model for the Future?

Blueprint to the Future: Leading in a New World of Work

Eric Termuende, Workplace Culture Researcher, Future of Work Expert and Best-Selling Author

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Whether it is the next market disruption or the yet-to-be-created technology that is sure to evolve how we work, the future is truly impossible to predict. While trends, charts, and forecasting are interesting, we must shift from trying to anticipate what the future looks like to building resilient systems and teams that can help us navigate whatever the future brings.

In this engaging, insight-filled and actionable conversation, workplace culture and leadership expert Eric Termuende delivers a hands-on, customized and research-backed blueprint that has helped thousands of category-leading teams build trust, remove friction and prepare for a future that is changing constantly, unpredictably and faster than ever before.

About Eric

Eric Termuende is a keynote speaker, bestselling author and researcher focused on one of the defining leadership challenges of our time: how to navigate uncertainty and change when the world refuses to stand still.

For over a decade, Eric has studied leadership, trust, culture, team performance, technology and the changing nature of work. His work explores why traditional approaches to planning and leadership can break down when conditions change quickly, and what allows people, leaders and teams to continue moving when the path ahead is unclear.

Eric challenges the idea that the best leaders are the best predictors. Instead, his research shows the importance of creating direction without pretending to have certainty, building the trust required for honest information to travel, reducing the friction that slows teams down and making small, deliberate One-Degree Shifts that turn action into information and progress.

Eric has brought his research and ideas to hundreds of stages around the world, working with leaders and teams at organizations including Amazon, Toyota, IBM, Coca-Cola, Lockheed Martin, Nationwide, Zoom and Nokia. His ideas have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and Inc., and his first book, Rethink Work, became a bestselling resource for leaders navigating the changing world of work.

On stage, Eric combines a researcher's curiosity with a storyteller's instinct and a speaker's sense of the room. Known for his energy, humour and highly customized approach, he makes serious ideas feel immediately relevant and practical. Audiences leave with more than inspiration. They leave with a clearer way to lead, adapt and move forward when the future is uncertain.

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