30 Oct LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026 LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026 Friday, October 30, 2026 (12:00 AM to 11:59 PM) 4.0 PDCs Provider: Paul Boyles Executive Coaching & Training LLC Course Name: LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026 Speaker: John C. Maxwell, Rory Vaden, Stephanie Chung, and Vallie Collins Program Type: Conference Registration URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live2lead-knoxville-2026-tickets-2000011147180?aff=oddtdtcreator LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026, Alcoa, Tennessee Email Details Learning Objectives • Develop a leadership growth plan using awareness, intentionality, and consistent action. • Apply trust-building and communication practices to align employees across different backgrounds and generations. • Use the Focus Funnel to identify work to eliminate, automate, delegate, defer, or concentrate on. • Identify leadership behaviors that support employees and strengthen teamwork during uncertainty and adversity. • Translate purpose and value-based leadership into specific coaching, recognition, and employee development actions. • Create a 30-day action plan with a measurable workplace outcome and accountability checkpoint. Details You're Registered! DescriptionLocation LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026 SHRM Recertification Provider Activity Submission | 4.0 PDCs Program title: LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026: Developing Leaders, Building Trust, and Strengthening Workplace Performance Date: October 30, 2026 Location: Hilton Knoxville Airport Provider: Paul Boyles Executive Coaching & Training LLC Delivery: In-person conference with recorded keynote presentations, a live keynote, and facilitated learning application Audience: HR professionals, executives, managers, supervisors, and organizational leaders Educational time: 240 minutes / 4.0 instructional hours Program Description LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026 equips HR professionals and organizational leaders with practical approaches to leadership development, communication, trust, delegation, and resilience. Through two presentations by John C. Maxwell and messages from Stephanie Chung and Rory Vaden, participants explore intentional growth, leading people with different backgrounds and perspectives, prioritizing work, and adding value to others. A live keynote by Vallie Collins, a survivor of US Airways Flight 1549’s emergency landing on the Hudson River, provides a real-world starting point for examining resilience, servant leadership, and responding to adversity. Facilitated workplace application connects the presentations to employee development, team alignment, and organizational effectiveness. Participants leave with a practical leadership action plan. Learning Objectives • Develop a leadership growth plan using awareness, intentionality, and consistent action. • Apply trust-building and communication practices to align employees across different backgrounds and generations. • Use the Focus Funnel to identify work to eliminate, automate, delegate, defer, or concentrate on. • Identify leadership behaviors that support employees and strengthen teamwork during uncertainty and adversity. • Translate purpose and value-based leadership into specific coaching, recognition, and employee development actions. • Create a 30-day action plan with a measurable workplace outcome and accountability checkpoint. Session Descriptions and Objectives John C. Maxwell | Session 1 Get Ready, Get Set, Grow: The Three Game Changers of Personal Growth | 39 minutes Examines awareness, intentionality, and consistency as foundations for leadership growth. Workplace application focuses on identifying blind spots, creating development goals, and replacing inconsistent habits with purposeful learning. Learning objective: Identify a leadership blind spot and outline a development goal supported by a consistent practice. Rory Vaden Multiply Your Time: The Focus Funnel and the Significance Calculation | 45 minutes Explores self-management through urgency, importance, and significance. The Focus Funnel provides a framework for eliminating, automating, delegating, intentionally delaying, or concentrating on work. Application addresses overloaded managers and leadership bottlenecks. Learning objective: Evaluate a recurring work activity using the Focus Funnel and select a delegation or prioritization improvement. Stephanie Chung Earn It: The EARN System for Leading People Who Are Not Like You | 33 minutes Addresses earning trust, improving communication, and aligning teams across differences. The EARN framework—Establish, Assure Alignment, Rally the Troops, and Navigate—supports leaders working with multigenerational and multicultural teams. Learning objective: Select a trust-building behavior and develop questions to clarify team alignment and expectations. John C. Maxwell | Session 2 The Four Steps to Significance: From Success to a Life That Adds Value | 38 minutes Explores moving from individual success toward purposeful leadership that adds value to others. Application connects intentional action and shared purpose to coaching, employee recognition, and development. Learning objective: Identify a specific action that adds value to an employee or team and define how to put it into practice. Vallie Collins | Live keynote Resilience and Servant Leadership: Lessons from the Miracle on the Hudson | 45 minutes proposed Drawing on her experience aboard US Airways Flight 1549, Collins shares lessons from adversity. The planned workplace application examines how leaders support others, maintain perspective, and strengthen teamwork during uncertainty. Learning objective: Identify lessons from the keynote and translate them into two behaviors for supporting a team through adversity. Proposed Educational Agenda and Credit Calculation Educational component Minutes Maxwell: Personal Growth 39 Vaden: Multiply Your Time 45 Chung: Earn It 33 Maxwell: Four Steps to Significance 38 Collins: Live keynote 45 Facilitated workplace application and action planning 40 TOTAL EDUCATIONAL TIME 240 / 4.0 PDCs Recorded-session lengths are approximate, as listed in the supplied speaker matrix. Finalize the agenda using verified recording lengths and the confirmed live keynote duration. The 4.0-PDC total requires 240 minutes of eligible educational activity. Breakfast, lunch, breaks, introductions, sponsor remarks, prize drawings, headshots, and general networking are excluded. Facilitated Workplace Application | 40 Minutes • 10 minutes — Leadership growth and purpose: Identify one blind spot, select a development habit, and connect an action that adds value to an employee or team. • 10 minutes — Trust and alignment: Discuss a workplace communication challenge and develop three questions to clarify expectations and build trust. • 10 minutes — Focus and delegation: Apply the Focus Funnel to a recurring task; specify what to change, who will own it, and how expectations will be communicated. • 10 minutes — Resilience and action planning: Debrief Collins’s keynote, identify two supportive leadership behaviors, and complete a 30-day plan with one measurable outcome and an accountability checkpoint. Recommended SHRM BASK Alignment Behavioral competencies: Leadership & Navigation, Relationship Management, Communication, and Business Acumen. HR knowledge areas: Learning & Development, Employee Engagement & Retention, and Organizational Effectiveness & Development. These selections reflect the proposed workplace applications and should be matched to the categories available in the provider portal. Learning Methods and Evidence Recorded and live presentations; facilitated discussion with specific workplace prompts; individual reflection; and a written action plan. Retain the final agenda, session descriptions, attendance documentation, participant evaluation, and action-planning materials. Award credit according to actual eligible participation. Reference Materials LIVE2LEAD 2026 Speaker & Content Matrix (host-supplied): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IR5QkRYnY9LVoQgy8Yv7I2k2-yow8tTpzUngCZ9iU7U/mobilebasic Vallie Collins: https://valliecollins.com/index.html LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 2026 LIVE2LEAD Knoxville 20262001 Alcoa HwyAlcoa, TN 37701-3163 Map & Directions