The 2024 FICP Strategic Leaders Event is peer-driven, with topics recommended by fellow strategic leaders through avenues like virtual exchanges. Each session is designed to be discussion based and will be facilitated by an experienced FICP Meetings Professional, ensuring a practical and interactive learning experience.
All education at the 2024 FICP Strategic Leaders Event will align with FICP's "Focus on Senior-Level Professionals" area of interest.
Focus on Senior-Level Professionals: Designed to guide senior level professionals, sessions focused on management skills, corporate navigation, reverse mentorship and more.
The 2024 discussion topics will be released closer to the event. Here's a glance at what the 2023 Strategic Leaders Event attendees experienced for a sense of the types of discussions you will participate in while in Tampa.
Strategic Leaders Reflection Exercise
Participants will partake in a series of 1:1 conversations designed to network with their peers, better understand the environment they are leading within, and allow for reflection on what has brought them to today and what they are hoping to get out of the Strategic Leaders Event.
Leading Your Team | Structuring, Managing and Evaluating Performance
Team and employee satisfaction often depends on role clarity and how you differentiate opportunities for each member of your department based on their talents and career goals. Incorporating feedback from rising leaders, participants will discuss strategies for leading and managing people with peers who oversee similar-sized teams. The full group will debrief to exchange tips for retaining talent while supporting their overall growth.
Coaching Your Team | Encouraging Soft Skill Development
How is your team working differently compared to five years ago? How has that resulted in more efficient and effective planning – or new challenges? Self-select which employee growth opportunity you want to discuss in length: executive presence, communication strategies, or understanding the business and stakeholders. Through small-group work and large-group sharing, participants will identify soft-skill training gaps and generate best practices for elevating our teams.
Educating Yourself | Industry Trends
To wrap up the day, participants will discuss which industry trends are influencing their teams and business structure the most. As a team, we will decide what anticipated developments we want to focus on the following day.
Preparing Yourself | Meeting Trends and Disruptions
Building off yesterday’s momentum, participants will examine today’s industry trends and what leaders should be anticipating for the future. Exchange ideas for current best practices and how you are preparing for what’s next. These topics might range from innovative technologies, environmental influences to economic conditions.
Advocating for Yourself and Team | Metrics and Reporting — What Stakeholders Need to Know and How to Deliver the Message
Participants will learn strategies for storytelling and data visualization to help demonstrate the impact of their department on the organization. Attendees will also have the opportunity to share best practices on reporting frequency, what to report on, technologies to use and innovative ways to communicate the volume of business.
"This event is one of the most impactful use of my time and something that recharges me, causes me to rethink my strategy and grant benchmarks. So grateful for this program and a primary driver for my FICP membership."
–Katherine LaMacchia, Baird, 2022 Strategic Leaders Event Attendee