Informed Decisions: Leadership Conversations and Q&A with Randall Craig (Video)

2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 1

💥2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 1💥

We’ll leave the compilation of how-to generative AI demos and ‘hacks' to the talented Youtube creators – This session is about how leaders should be thinking about AI, and how we see can be strategic about using it to shape the future of our organizations.

Transformational HR: Strategic human resources for a growing organization Part 2

Continuing with the second part of our discussion on proactive, forward-thinking human resource management.

Topics include:

↳ Building out your HR capabilities: Where to prioritize?

↳ Tackling the pervasiveness of underperformance and disengagement

↳ For growing companies, is the solution better HR or leadership coaching?

Transformational HR: Strategic human resources for a growing organization: Part 1

People strategy, strategic planning, succession planning, and career paths – it’s never been more complicated to find the right people in the right seats.

Topics include:

↳ Managing people strategy for AI-forward organizations

↳ Who really shapes the culture?

↳ When HR is decentralized…

Conference Planning: Bums in Seats and Minds Engaged Part 3

Rounding out this full conversation on conference strategy and execution... 

Topics include:

↳ How do we measure if a conference was a success

↳ How can we offer more value to attendees (or members)

↳ The conference post-mortem: capturing the right lessons

Conference Planning: Bums in Seats and Minds Engaged Part 2

Further digging into conference planning, from effective content marketing to risk management. 

Topics include:

↳ How to influence registration

↳ The right and wrong ways to hold panel discussions

↳ Conference finances

Conference Planning: Bums in Seats and Minds Engaged Part 1

Topics include:

↳ Association events vs corporate: What can they learn from each other?

↳ The one-day summit vs multi days: What’s more effective?

↳ Free speaker vs paid speaker: is the cost difference worth it?

Building a One-Page Marketing Strategy Part2

Listen in on how we use our Trust Curve™ framework as the building blocks of a one-page marketing strategy.

Topics include:

↳ What part of the user journey to focus on

↳ D2C and B2B partnerships

↳ Frameworks to develop personas

Building a One-Page Marketing Strategy Part 1

Your marketing strategy should reflect the buying stages of your prospects. Use our Trust Curve™ framework to build your one-page marketing strategy.

Topics include:

↳ How does “awareness” happen? Through which channels?

↳ Persuasion techniques

↳ Best practices on relative spend and focus for each vertical?

Rowing in the Same Direction: Using Internal Communications to Drive Team Alignment Part 2

Continuing the discussion on internal organizational communications: the business impact is real: poor communications puts the brakes on growth, reduces productivity, and has a negative impact on culture. 

Topics include:

↳ Communication is a skill: How can leaders best invest in developing their communication skills, and upskill their team?

↳ How can organizations create more accountability and sense of importance to their internal communications?, and

↳ Internal communications are discretionary and don't have real world deadlines: How can we flag when things are going awry without being the "whistleblower"?

Rowing in the Same Direction: Using Internal Communications to Drive Team Alignment Part 1

Communications is a critical management tool to build an aligned team. Consider the challenges when done poorly: misinterpretations, incorrect assumptions, disengagement, mistrust, and resistance to change… 

Topics include:

↳ What internal communications are needed to power a well run organization?

↳ How do you know if your internal communications are "good enough"? What are the symptoms of a team when there is not enough or too much?, and

↳ How do you create trust and psychological safety so people feel comfortable communicating freely... but colleagues have had negative experiences with each other?

Business Growth Hacking Lab Part 2

Wrapping up with part 2 on this episode about organizational growth; business development, process, people, etc. It’s likely that your approach – however good – might benefit from a fresh perspective… and put-into-action-now new ideas. 

Topics include:

↳ What are the contributing factors to a business pulling apart from the pack and succeeding?

↳ When to niche down your services and when to expand your offerings?, and

↳ Partnerships without clear boundaries.

Business Growth Hacking Lab Part 1

You’ve grown to a certain level, but breaking through to the next is new ground. What changes must be made in Marketing? Tech? People? Would a new approach to business development open up new markets? And how about the ROI of your current investments?

Topics include:

↳ What is your advice to entrepreneurial leaders whose biggest challenge is business development?

↳ Client surveys and the net promoter score, and

↳ Referral sources that work with integrated business models.

Developing Your Culture with Work-from-Home Teams Part 2

Completing our Q&A on corporate culture and work-from-home teams.

Topics include:

↳ The impact that recordings of virtual meetings have had on working relationships.

↳ Repurposing the “savings” from work-from-home employees to employee perks.

↳ The impact and ethics of “moonlighting” by both employees and organizational leaders.

 

Developing your Culture with Work-From-Home and Hybrid Teams Part 1

🎙️Developing your Culture with Work-From-Home and Hybrid Teams: Part 1

For many organizations, hybrid and work-from-home are here to stay, but how can leaders build a strong culture, and ensure that team members are connected to the organization and the team without the benefits of sharing physical space? 

Topics include:

↳ How can leaders of work-from-home and hybrid teams create the culture they aspire to?

↳ Picking up bad habits: Role modelling at work, and

↳ Do you think there's a type of person who is best suited for a work-from-home role or a work-from-home team?

Two Perspectives on Retreat Planning: Facilitator vs Event Planner Part 2

🎙️Two Perspectives on Retreat Planning: Facilitator vs Event Planner: Part 2

Continuing with this part 2 of the conversation between Randall Craig, as leadership retreat facilitator, and Dwayne Rutherford, as corporate event planner, to share a behind-the-scenes look at how we help our clients focus on the goals of their executive offsite without distractions. 

Topics include:

↳ Calculating the ROI of a corporate retreat: The cost of doing business and employee engagement

↳ Virtual retreats and development days: What is the role of virtual?, and

↳ What are teams doing that is getting in their own way and preventing best outcomes for the corporate retreat?

Two Perspectives on Retreat Planning: Facilitator vs Event Planner Part 1

🎙️Two Perspectives on Retreat Planning: Facilitator vs Event Planner: Part 1

In this episode we are joined by Dwayne Rutherford TAG HIM], corporate event planner, to explore leadership retreat planning and execution from the dual lenses of Randall as facilitator, and Dwayne as event planner. Catch the full episode. 

Topics include:

↳ What might we not understand about the corporate retreat industry, and corporate retreat planning?

↳ What are purposeful and goal-driving reasons to have a corporate retreat?, and

↳ Managing expectations for your corporate retreat.

Let’s talk about:

↳ How to demonstrate our impact on the outcomes of the event.

↳ Avoiding the biggest mistakes and challenges of planning an executive retreat.

↳ How to create an environment that is conducive to team learning.

↳ (And if you are considering holding a corporate retreat, what are the tough questions you should ask.)

Business Acceleration with Peer Mastermind Groups: Part

There is one mode of learning that many leaders have not had experience with: A peer mastermind group! 

Topics include:

↳ Go fast alone vs go far together

↳ Peer mastermind group vs professional association membership

↳ Facilitator or no facilitator (and do they need subject matter expertise)

Executive Presence Part 2

How important is executive presence, and how much should it play into your hiring process?

 

Topics include:

↳ Executive Presence and Local Culture: Do core qualities of executive presence transcend geography?

↳ Executive presence and succession planning

↳ How best to elevate your executive presence

Executive Presence Part 1

This episode is for leaders in their role as mentors and role models. 

 

Topics include:

↳ Executive presence as a learnable skill: Can anyone get there or are some personalities better suited?

↳ Executive Presence vs Professionalism

↳ Having Hard Conversations: How do you talk about "executive presence" with your employees?

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze: Increasing Your Business Efficiency Part 2

Gain new perspectives on how to incorporate greater efficiencies into your operations and processes so that your growth will be smoother – and faster.. 

 

Topics include:

↳ 4DX or alternative frameworks?

↳ Whose “job” is it to resolve inefficiencies?

↳ When head office won’t change… but you want to do something new in your division?

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze: Increasing Your Business Efficiency Part 1

“Work smarter, not harder”, they say – but what does that mean exactly? Especially in growing businesses, leaders know what they know, but don't know what they don’t know…

 

Topics include:

↳ Is “getting ahead” a myth?

↳ How will AI impact how we work?

↳ How can we prepare for disruption?

Pivoting Your Organization: How and When to Change Directions Part 2

Our 2nd segment on how and when to pivot. 

 

↳ Should organizations buckle down or take more risks when there is uncertainty?

↳ When is an “inspiration to pivot” wise vs a distraction from testing the current business model?

↳ Organizational pivot.... or create a new business?

Pivoting Your Organization: How and When to Change Directions Part 1

In business, there is always change, particularly when you are chasing product-market fit. How do we decide to stay the course or look for new opportunity? 

Topics include:

↳ Proactive pivots vs reactive pivots

↳ The role of "weak signals", and how to identify them?

↳ Predicting the future vs creating it

Achieving Work-Life Balance for Leaders and their Teams: Part 2

Going deeper into work-life balance for leaders, including frameworks from Randall’s bestseller Personal Balance Sheet.

Achieving Work-Life Balance for Leaders and their Teams: Part 1

A perspective on work-life balance that incorporates the realities of leadership and team dynamics (finally!). 

Topics include:

• Managing by minute vs managing by objectives

• What should leaders share (or not share) with teams when trying to role-model work-life balance?

• Perceptions of work-life balance for younger employees who prefer a flexible schedule.

• And understanding the difference between work-life imbalance vs burnout.