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Challenge the Limits Beyond Tomorrow: Vitalizing, Enlightening and Entertaining

A power-packed program combining thought-provoking questions and predictions based on the solid and refined thinking of today's scholars. This futuristic combination of motivation and inspiration is designed as a catalyst for people to re-evaluate their daily choices. Challenge the Limits Beyond Tomorrow is a mind-expanding program offering insights to cross the threshold into the new millennium. The session deals with the human element to help keep abreast of cutting-edge technologies to command a prime position in our future business world. Also, tools are offered that address how the human element can deal with the changes that will occur and how they will affect our daily lives.

Leadership for the 21st Century: Explore the Dual Nature of Leadership

Who designates an individual as a leader? How does one enter the upper echelon of the revered rank of leadership? Do all leaders have the innate ability to inspire confidence and create an atmosphere conducive to trust, and agreement? This inspiring presentation offers powerful instruction designed to enhance teamwork and communication, as well as provide the specifics of exemplary leadership. Attitudinal leadership will be explored with emphasis on leaders establishing and emulating core personal values and beliefs. Methods will be presented to interpret the actions of others, respect individual differences and make choices to change behaviors. Through a process of lecture, dialogue, self-review, and experiential activities, it will become clear why leadership is not so much the exercise of power as it is the empowerment of people.

Build with "Ease": Ecological, Autonomous, Sustainable Environments

This powerful and informative session will present the challenges, the solutions, and the opportunities to some of the critical ingredients in designing, building, and effectively residing in our future living environments. With a voracious appetite for open space and low-rise, low-density development, the renowned and now notorious suburb has turned out to be one of mankind's more harmful intrusions on the environment. The ballooning size of the typical new suburban home and the infinite replication of lawns, garages, septic tanks, heating systems, laundry rooms, and other amenities for each household have made the suburb a convenient metaphor for wastefulness in our modern society. "If not now, when? If not you, who?" Robert F. Kennedy was so right in this statement back in the 1960s. The time is long overdue to replace fashion with refinement and luxury with elegance. It is time to turn inward and ask the simple question, "How can we expect to continue the misuse and abuse of our life-giving natural environment on what Buckminster Fuller referred to as Spaceship Earth?" We are the only generation in the history of our planet who will leave the world in worse condition that we when entered it. Environmentally responsible architecture is only now surfacing in the mainstream as a glimmer of hope to the omnivorous, opulent, and energy-consuming MacMansion designs of the 1980s to the present. Careful consideration to resource conservation, land ethic, and a poetic understanding of space are all elements that are now encouragingly being embraced. Less is definitely more.