PRESENTATION TITLE: Now What?

(Carrying Change Back to Your Organization)

DESCRIPTION: There is an old saying never go to a conference alone based on the

challenges attendees face when they return to their workplace full of new energy and ideas,
only to run headlong into a peer group that has been grinding away in their absence. Drawing
inspiration from human nature and best practices from the world of communications, Andrew
Barlow will walk through simple steps to manage your own expectations and bring the
benefits of what youve learned to your home team.

ABSTRACT: Organizations invest sizable resources in sending employees to conferences

and conventions in hope their emissaries will return with transformational insights and ideas.
However, those hopes are often dashed on the rocks of reality as those newly-enthused
thought leaders return to less-than-receptive audiences. Mismanaged expectations, unclear
priorities and lack of a communications strategy can combine to kill momentum that could
help an organization.

Well dive into conventioneer best practices including peer connections, idea inventories,
priority setting, expectation management and simple metrics to keep a returning employee on
task and energized with leadership support. Main points include:

Aspirational Peers: Connect Now for Future Strength

Creating Your Idea Inventory: What Really Matters?
Setting Priorities (Could Dos vs Must Dos)
Informing Leadership: A Simple Plan
Identifying Sensible Milestones
Sustaining Your Momentum
Returning to Recharge: See you next year!

Andrews other presentations include: MOVE PEOPLE: Building Passion-Driven

Organizations and LIKE A BOSS: Talk Like the Leader You Aspire to Become.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Andrew Barlow has spent his career quietly helping leaders
sound their best. Leaders ranging from Navy battlegroup
commanders and bank presidents to hospital CEOs and the
top elected officials in Texas have benefited from his
unmatched writing talent, intuitive communications skills and
dry sense of humor. He works tirelessly to help leaders
convey their vision, goals and values to their audiences as
they elicit impassioned responses and effective action.

During his career, he served his country as an officer in the

U.S. Navy (including a wartime Tomahawk-firing deployment),
an associate pastor at a startup church he helped grow from
150 to 3,000 in Sunday attendance, speechwriter to the Texas
Governor, Lieutenant Governor and other elected officials and
founder of his own communications firm. At every stop, he has
found the creative way to tell a story, change perspectives and
precipitate effective action.

Contact Andrew Barlow at Andrew@OverflowCommunications.com or 512-436-0290