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Lee Rubin

For 20 years, Lee Rubin has been building high-performance teams in both corporate America and the collegiate and professional sports world, setting the foundational cornerstone for a leadership and culture-building mindset focusing on the key components that create extraordinary teams.
This strong core foundation was instilled early in Lee’s life as he held the position of captain of the Penn State football team, and later went on to serve as a Human Resource Executive building senior leadership teams for some of the countries’ most prominent corporations which have become dominate leaders in their industries.  

Lee has emerged as one of the most engaging and sought-after voices across the country with his unique ability to understand and articulate winning principles with tremendous clarity and practical application on team building, leadership and peak performance.
Lee has collaborated with and taken the stage for leading Fortune 500 Companies, like Johnson & Johnson, Sony and JP Morgan, to name a few, as well as collegiate and professional sports teams and organizations across the country.  

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications, with a minor in Business from Penn State University. Rubin received a full athletic scholarship to play football for the Nittany Lions. Lee was a three-year starting free safety, the 1994 Florida Citrus Bowl Defensive MVP and an All-Big Ten Conference selection and an Honorable Mention All-American.

Lee was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Central New Jersey. Lee and his lovely wife, Carmen, have been blessed with two beautiful daughters.

Five Components of Extraordinary Teams

Team Building Keynote

Machines are evaluated based on the output of the entire unit, not the impressiveness of their individual parts. Extraordinary teams, like great machines, require certain components that hold their pieces together.

While most organizations focus exclusively on building the skills of their individual members, elite organizations invest in the “stuff” that transforms a collection of talented individuals into extraordinary, machine-like teams.

Lee Rubin, who has a 20-year history of building and leading high-performance teams in corporate America and in the collegiate and professional sports world, will show how you can leverage this knowledge to strengthen both your meetings and events teams as well as your interactions onsite.
By attending this session, participants will learn the following:

• - Why individuals must make sacrifices to achieve the team’s COMMON GOAL.
• - Why open and honest COMMUNICATION is the foundation for trust.
• - Why daily, focused discipline is the key to CONSISTENCY.

Nancy Snowden

An educator by trade, dream chaser by nature and brain-science fanatic, Nancy Snowden has always sought to do things in her own way. From earning her Master’s Degree in English, Creative Writing, and Women & Gender Studies, to continuing her education and earning her Master’s degree in Adult Education & Interdisciplinary studies – she loves to look at an average opportunity and carve out the path that cultivates her zeal for life and passion for helping others. After spending a decade working in Higher Education and specifically, the wellness sector, she took a leap and joined the Academy team at MPI Global Headquarters and launched head first into the world of meeting and event professionals. Since then, Nancy has found an incredible amount of fulfillment working to provide #meetingprofs with the tools and resources they need to live and work at their best. From creating actionable ways to harness the power of emotional intelligence, to helping #meetingprofs evolve from event planner to business strategist, Nancy whole heartedly believes in the power of gathering people in intentionally designed spaces and loves playing a role in the changemaking that happens each day in our industry. In her free time, she loves to make pies, indulge in Tex-Mex cuisine, and spend time with her husband Alex, their son Mason and two dogs – Bennett & Kai.

Emotional Intelligence: Leveraging the Foundational Skill of the Future-Proofed Workplace

It is easy to hear the phrase Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and shrug it off as another buzzword de jure for 2022. The truth is, understanding the fundamental components of your emotional quotient as a businessperson and thought leader is crucial to not only leveraging relationships internally but establishing yourself and your organization as aligned with the values of today’s consumers.

By investing the time to learn more about how EQ can be used every day to elevate your professional rapport when managing stakeholders, projects or redefining organizational culture, you can undoubtedly “level up” your understanding of what is seen as the core future skill defining the workforce of today.

To ensure this session is anything but ordinary, we will tap into the power of humor and examine the lessons learned from the seminal work of Who’s Line is it Anyway? as we explore how improvisation and EQ unexpectedly intersect.

By attending this session, participants will learn the following:

• - Create a shared definition of what emotional intelligence is.
• - Discuss the four components that comprise emotional intelligence.
• - Apply emotional intelligence as a strategic business tool.
• - Discover the intersection of two future skills: improvisation and emotional intelligence.