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The Meeting of the Great Minds in Sports

2010 SPORTS EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
"Reinvention – Turning Challenges into Opportunities"

The tenth annual Sports Executive Leadership Conference will take place on July 22-23 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. The 2010 Conference promises to be the most educational and entertaining conference in our ten-year history. Please check back regularly for continued updates on the 2010 SELC.

For more information on the 2010 SELC please contact us at selc@generalsports.com

ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW

Golf Clinic at The Broadmoor
Improve your golf game with other sports leaders during Mike and Sandy LaBauve’s Golf Clinic at The Broadmoor. Mike and Sandy, two of the world’s top teaching professionals and former Golf Digest Schools instructors, will take you through every aspect of your game from driving to chipping to putting. You will even explore the mental aspects of the game. Good golf makes for good business, and this is your chance to improve your game in a relaxed environment.


Porsche Driving Experience
You are invited to participate in an unforgettable experience behind the wheel of a Porsche. You’ll learn driving techniques from world famous Porsche Professional Drivers that will not only improve your driving ability but show you what a Porsche is capable of. You'll be able to enjoy what makes a Porsche a Porsche – from its acceleration and braking to its well-balanced body control and handling. Experience first-hand why there is no substitute.


Exclusive Tour of the United States Air Force Academy
Enjoy a private tour of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The United States Air Force Academy is akin to West Point and Annapolis and takes great pride in developing the future generations of airmen who will lead America’s Air Force and beyond. The Academy is home to the Cadet chapel, which is the number one manmade tourist attraction in Colorado, academic and athletic facilities that rival the best in the world, and operates one of the busiest airfields in the country. A visit to the Academy will highlight cadets learning freefall parachuting, soaring in gliders, flying single-engine powered trainers and even operating remotely piloted vehicles (UAVs).


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

 
Thursday, July 22nd
3:00 - 5:45 p.m. General Session – Colorado Hall
"Reinvention – Turning Challenges into Oppportunities"
During this session, emcee Marc Fein will introduce you to the following keynote speakers:
  • Nathan Hubbard
    CEO of Ticketmaster
    Speech Topic: "The Reinvention of Ticketing"
  • Dr. Michio Kaku
    Renown futurist and physicist
    Speech Topic: "The Next 20 Years: How Science Will Revolutionize Our Way of Life, Business and even Love"
7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception Honoring the Advisory Council at The Broadmoor’s Cheyenne Lodge (Transportation to begin departing from the Broadmoor’s Main Complex South Tower entrance at 6:45 p.m.)
Special Guest Speakers:
  • Scott Blackmun
    CEO – United States Olympic Committee
  • Lieutenant General Michael Gould
    Superintendent – United States Air Force Academy
Friday, July 23rd
7:00 a.m. Breakfast – Lakeside Terrace (located on the east side of Cheyenne Lake)
8:00 a.m. - 12 p.m. General Session – Colorado Hall
"Reinvention – Turning Challenges into Oppportunities"
During this session, emcee Marc Fein will introduce you to the following keynote speakers:
  • Matthew Slaughter
    Associate Dean of the MBA Program, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
    Speech Topic: "The U.S. and Global Economy: Near-Term Outlook"
  • Dr. Mark Roth,
    Member of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine
    Speech Topic: "Suspended Animation is Within Our Grasp"
  • Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry
    leading authority on the impact of emotions on performance.
    Speech Topic: "Leading in Challenging Times – Being our Best in Our Most Difficult Moments"
12:00 p.m. Lunch – Lakeside Terrace
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Afternoon leisure activity – Mike and Sandy LaBauve Golf Clinic, Porsche Driving Experience, or Exclusive Tour of the United States Air Force Academy (Transportation to Porsche Driving Experience and Tour of USAFA to depart from the Broadmoor’s Main Complex South Tower entrance at 1:00 p.m.)
6:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception – Lake Terrace (located on the east side of Cheyenne Lake)
7:30 p.m. Charity Dinner and Entertainment – Colorado Hall
9:30 p.m. Featuring the entertainment of Magician Jeff Edmonds
9:30 p.m. Afterglow Cocktail Reception – Lake Terrace Dining Room Featuring more close-up magic by Jeff Edmonds
Saturday, July 24th
9:00 a.m. Complimentary cabana set up by the Broadmoor pool for all SELC attendees and their families and
6:00 pm. guest/spouse



SELC SPEAKERS

Marc Fein
The 2010 SELC emcee is Marc Fein of Turner Sports. Fein joined Turner Sports in 2004 and has worked on a variety of Turner Sports television and online broadband shows. He appears on TNT’s NBA coverage as an occasional guest host, filling in for Ernie Johnson on Inside the NBA, which features NBA analysts Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. Fein also serves as a studio host on NBA TV, the 24-hour network managed jointly by Turner Sports and the NBA.

Nathan Hubbard
CEO, Ticketmaster / CEO Ticketing, Live Nation
Speech Topic: "The Reinvention of Ticketing"
Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Live Nation Ticketing in 2008, Nathan Hubbard oversees the company’s ticketing and digital operations. He joined the company in 2006 as President of Ticketing, following Live Nation’s purchase of Musictoday, where he was Chief Executive Officer. At Musictoday, Mr. Hubbard oversaw the company’s primary ticketing system, which sells over 2 million tickets annually for artists, venues, festivals and sporting events, as well as its artist-to-fan e-commerce platform which services fan clubs, websites and other products for more than 500 artist clients.

As Live Nation’s ticketing division founder, he oversees all digital and e-commerce initiatives for the company and architected the successful launch of Live Nation Ticketing in January 2009. Live Nation Ticketing services hundreds of venues across nine countries worldwide, including all of Live Nation’s owned and/or operated venues in North America. Mr. Hubbard is a graduate of Princeton University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Michio Kaku
Renowned futurist and physicist
Speech Topic: "The Next 20 Years: How Science Will Revolutionize Our Way of Life, Business and even Love"
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He is the co-founder of string field theory (a brand of string theory) and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature – the strong force, the weak force, gravity, and electromagnetism – into one unified theory.

He is the author of several scholarly, Ph.D. level textbooks and has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. He has appeared on television (Discovery, BBC, ABC, Science Channel, and CNN to name a few), written for popular science publications like Discover, Wired and New Scientist, and has hosted many documentaries including BBC’s recent series on Time. He also hosts two weekly radio programs heard on stations around the country including Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science.

Dr. Kaku received a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1968 where he came first in his physics class. He went on to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972. In 1973, he held a lectureship at Princeton University.

Matthew Slaughter
Associate Dean of the MBA Program
Signal Companies’ Professor of Management
Tuck School of Business in Dartmouth
Speech Topic: "The U.S. and Global Economy: Near-Term Outlook"
Matthew Slaughter has been called a bright young star in international economics. He is a former member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President and a writer, researcher, and associate dean of the MBA program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Approachable and enthusiastic, Slaughter makes practical sense of demographics and data for non-academics in presentations and public interest articles for publications like the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. He frequently advises corporations and associations on market opportunities outside the US, the effects of governmental policies on their industries, and the policies and practices of global leaders including China, India, and Japan. He has appeared on several TV and radio programs such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and NPR’s All Things Considered. For many years he has consulted both to individual firms and also to industry organizations that support dialogue on issues of international trade, investment, and taxation.

Keynote presentation:
The U.S. and Global Economy: Near-Term Outlook
What forces can sustain economic recovery? What forces might restrain it? Are certain companies, industries, and countries better positioned to lead a recovery? This talk does not provide a single set of omniscient answers guaranteed to be right. The recent crisis has laid bare how inherently difficult economic forecasting is at all times—and especially now, amidst so many forces at play with few if any historical precedents. Instead, Slaughter provides a framework for answering these and other pressing questions with probabilities and scenarios, all based on key facts and insights from recent history with a conversation about three alternative scenarios of recovery—strong, tepid, or none.

Dr. Mark Roth
Member of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Speech Topic: "Suspended Animation is Within Our Grasp"
Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It's wild stuff, but it's not science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas, suspended animation can potentially help trauma and heart attack victims survive long enough to be treated. His research has reawakened an unusual notion from the annals of science: reversible metabolic hibernation. Yes, putting living organisms into suspended animation -- and bringing them back safely.

Roth has his bachelor's degree in biology from Oregon and a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Colorado. Then he spent four years in postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Baltimore. His findings have appeared in an array of scientific journals and grabbed headlines around the world. But perhaps the greatest evidence that Roth has hit his scientific stride is the increasing frequency with which references to his work turn up in pop culture, including an entry in "Ripley's Believe it or Not! Special Edition 2007" entitled, aptly, "Mice on Ice."

Keynote Presentation:
Suspended Animation is Within Our Grasp
As a cell biologist in cancer research, Mark Roth studies genes, chromosomes and autoimmune disease. But he's best known for his research into suspended animation. Already, Roth has managed a world first: putting a vertebrate -- a zebrafish embryo -- into an oxygen-deprived state for several hours, then restoring it to completely normal development. He's been able to reduce the core temperature of mice to 10 degrees Celsius, and then revive them, harmlessly.

This MacArthur "genius" grant winner may spur the next big leap for lifesaving medical systems with techniques that buy time for critically ill trauma patients -- people in desperate need of organ transplants, for example -- whether in emergency rooms or on battlefields. Roth tells his story of discovery, science and the core passion that drives his work.

Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry
The leading authority on the impact of emotions on performance
Speech Topic: "Leading in Challenging Times – Being our Best in Our Most Difficult Moments"
Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is a thought leader on the subject of leadership, performance and managing change, JP was one of the highest rated former lecturers at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management’s Executive Education Program (ranked number one worldwide). He now acts as an advisor to numerous Fortune 100 companies as well as the NHL and NBA teams, and Olympic medal winning athletes.

Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is an uncommon combination of business entrepreneur, Olympic Coach and business school sage. He has grown the Institute for Health & Human Potential into a successful multi-national business, named one of the Fastest Growing Companies as part of the 18th annual PROFIT Magazine ‘Fast 100’ ranking. He has helped athletes win Olympic medals at three Olympics and he has trained at the prestigious Harvard Medical School’s Mind Body Medical Institute and the University of Massachusetts’s Medical Centre Stress Clinic. He is sought after worldwide for his expertise as well as his flat-out-fun and enthusiasm. Audiences throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and South America have heard edge-of-their-seat stories that created clarity for what was required to win and a call to action to get moving!

Keynote Presentation:
Leading in Challenging Times - Being our Best in Our Most Difficult Moments
Most leaders manage 90% of their work fairly well. They get things done, move things forward and are effective in the majority of what they do. What makes the difference, however, between a good leader and a great leader is what they do when they face the difficult 10%. Unfortunately, many of us, unknowingly, avoid the difficult. We move away from what is uncomfortable, what is anxiety provoking. We don’t have the difficult conversations we know we need to have or hold people accountable in the way that is required to be world class.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

In this powerful closing keynote presentation, hear from one of the world’s authorities on performance and leadership how to be your best in your most difficult moments and how to coach your team to be their best in their most difficult moments in order to win.

You will learn:

  • The traps that leaders fall into that diminish the engagement level and effort of those around them
  • The importance of holding people accountable
  • What your direct reports most want from you
  • A powerful model for coaching

Exercises that bring clarity to the most important tasks, relationships and change you need to focus on over the next 90 days.