SMART STAGE Leaders are Born to be Made!
Great leaders are born to made! This presentation will reveal how to transform today's workers into tomorrow's leaders using the three pillars of leader development: BEING (our identity in leader roles , how we see ourselves), KNOWING (what we know and how we think about leading), and DOING (instances where we practice leading). Learn how to intentionally create instances for our employees where the process of developing their leader identity, and thinking as a leader, can begin. This presentation will show you how to create leader development interventions that nurture leader identity, generate knowledge of how to lead - and which style to use when, and plan instances where employees practice leading to become a leader worth following.
Bryan J. Deptula

Dr. Bryan Deptula is the CEO of BKD Leaders, a modern-day leadership consulting company, and is the acting chair of the management department at W. Huizenga College of Business at Nova Southeastern University.
He capitalizes on years of industry experience, his own research, and knowledge of leadership to discover and develop leaders that make organizations grow. Deptula believes that the most important people in our lives are those who see the leader within us that we cannot see for ourselves. These people give us the courage and confidence to become the best possible version of ourselves. His motto learn, lead and live reminds himself, and all people that encounter him, to live into their highest potential.
Dr. Deptula is published in leading journals, the Leadership Quarterly, Personality and Individual Differences, and Human Resource Development Quarterly.
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