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 Joe Pettit, New Leaf Leadership

 BIOGRAPHY

Joe Pettit is an author, keynote speaker, and the founder of New Leaf Leadership, a consulting and leadership development company. He is a highly sought-after speaker known for his memorable, impactful content and delivery. Joe uses his years of leadership experience and expertise in leadership development and emotional intelligence to educate, equip, and empower leaders. An innovator of personal growth strategies, Joe thrives on helping others succeed and empowering leaders to discover how they can improve communication and teamwork. Joe is a South Carolina native and loves doing life with his wife, four children, and dog. He enjoys spending time in his organic, raised bed vegetable garden, watching football, and taking family vacations. To learn more, visit Joe at www.joepettitinspires.com or www.newleafleadership.com.

KEYNOTE SESSIONS

1) What to Know Before You Sow: How to Prepare a Growth-Centered Work Culture In Today’s Changing Climate
Ideal audience: Directors, Industry, All

Growth and innovation are becoming increasingly critical elements of business success. As the K12 industry changes and grows, leaders must create a culture that energizes teams and empowers them to perform at their best. It’s no longer enough to give instructions and then walk away hoping that employees will turn strategy into success. Through interactive breakout sessions, case studies of innovative organizations, practical exercises, and the exploration of successful strategies, this session gives you the resources needed to develop an organizational culture that prioritizes growth and performance over compliance and “the way it’s always been done”.

• Identify three ways to build a sustainable growth culture
• Produce two new ways to encourage and cultivate team buy-in
• Assess current status and develop new ways to enhance work environment and culture

Ideal audience: Directors, Industry, All

In this powerful session, Joe equips teams with the insights they need to identify human behavior strengths, blind spots and communication preferences. Attendees will walk away with clarity and practical applications for improving team communication, developing stronger relationships, and creating a healthier workplace culture. This session includes a fun and enlightening learning session where attendees choose an animal based on identified similar characteristics. Past attendees love this breakout as it brings fun and laughter to the group while quickly developing awareness about themselves and others, even with team members who struggle seeing their colleagues’ uniqueness in a positive light.

• Identify human behaviors and what drives people to behave the way they do
• Develop social and emotional skills such as self-awareness, relationship skills and self management
• Recognize ways to build unity and teamwork

Ideal audience: Directors, Industry, All

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is becoming highly sought after in the K12 industry. It is important to recognize what emotional intelligence can do for you and your staff. This session isn’t just another touchy-feely leadership class, but it will equip you with key skills that will help with your recruitment, retention and staff development. This interactive workshop presents you with a well-proven framework that will improve your emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and lead to improved relationships with your team members, students, parents, and all district stakeholders.

1. Identify uses of emotional intelligence and importance of EI in schools.
2. Define and create plan to improve 4 Pillars of Self-Care
3. Practice real scenarios and receive real-time performance analysis