2017 Education Series: Leadership Essentials

Successful managers need to bring more to the table than just the ability to tell a person what to do. This leadership session helps you understand the right skills and expertise needed to build and develop cohesive, energized teams that understand the team’s goals and how they relate to the overall company goals – goals that build company profitability, market share, innovative products and an energized, passionate and talented workforce.
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ABOUT SPEAKER PEG RICKARD - she is a proven senior-level director successful in driving growth and profitability with extensive experience in strategic planning/execution, brand development, marketing, product innovation, and organizational training and development. Peg has proven international business leadership and strategic marketing capabilities and success in large to mid-size corporations and start-ups. She led cross-disciplined and results-oriented global teams and completed a company-sponsored Executive MBA Program.

Peg demonstrates the key principle that profitability derives from understanding customers’ and employees’ needs and goals and then transitioning that knowledge into leadership, strategy, market development, and execution and company growth. Peg is a life-long learner and people-person who embraces challenges and believes work should be fun.

Peg has an MBA with a focus on Strategy and Marketing from UW-Madison, a Masters in Media Communications & Curriculum from UW-Madison with an emphasis on Cognitive Psychology, and a BA in Journalism from UW-Madison. Peg also has additional training in Strategic Visioning & Facilitation, Creative Problem Solving, and Adult Learning Constructs & Practices.