BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T090000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Moving Beyond Buzzwords: Culture\, Leadership\, and Performance in the Pursuit of Excellence DESCRIPTION:Excellence is uncommon. Winning is hard. People are messy. Situations are complex. And there seems to be more people offering solutions than ever. Unfortunately\, those answers often seem over-generalized\, over-used\, or over-marketed\, which has cheapened words like performance\, leadership\, and culture. Performance requires great culture\, which requires great leadership\, yet great leadership often faces great resistance. Kyle Stark\, President of Stark Contrast and former Assistant General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates\, will share some lessons learned from sport\, military\, and business that provide a stark contrast to the buzzword approach.SpeakerKyle Stark\, President of Stark ContrastKyle Stark helps leaders drive great cultures - alignment\, selection\, development\, execution - in sport\, business\, and military environments. Coach\, leader\, consultant. Student and practitioner of leadership. He has spent over 20 years coaching and leading with 15+ at the highest level of professional baseball. Fortunate to be a part of some world class teams\, he has participated in success everywhere he has been - often without maximum resources so culture had to drive it. This includes helping the Pittsburgh Pirates turn their franchise around going from averaging 95 losses per year before his arrival to being in the top 10 in wins over the last nine years there - while having the third-lowest payroll\, breaking a 20-season losing streak\, earning Baseball America's Organization of the Year\, and building a top-ranked development system. Before that\, he helped Cleveland in their turn-around\, resulting in being one game away from the World Series\, and had previously helped St. Bonaventure University win its only conference championship in school history. Prior to engaging on his professional journey\, he earned his MBA and JD. More importantly\, Kyle is a husband to Heather and father to Chance (23) and Cooper (16). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Excellence is uncommon. Winning is hard. People are messy. Situations are complex. And there seems to be more people offering solutions than ever. Unfortunately\, those answers often seem over-generalized\, over-used\, or over-marketed\, which has cheapened words like performance\, leadership\, and culture. Performance requires great culture\, which requires great leadership\, yet great leadership often faces great resistance. Kyle Stark\, President of Stark Contrast and former Assistant General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates\, will share some lessons learned from sport\, military\, and business that provide a stark contrast to the buzzword approach.
Speaker
Kyle Stark\, President of \;Stark Contrast
Kyle Stark helps leaders drive great cultures - alignment\, selection\, development\, execution - in sport\, business\, and military environments. Coach\, leader\, consultant. Student and practitioner of leadership. He has spent over 20 years coaching and leading with 15+ at the highest level of professional baseball. Fortunate to be a part of some world class teams\, he has participated in success everywhere he has been - often without maximum resources so culture had to drive it. This includes helping the Pittsburgh Pirates turn their franchise around going from averaging 95 losses per year before his arrival to being in the top 10 in wins over the last nine years there - while having the third-lowest payroll\, breaking a 20-season losing streak\, earning Baseball America'\;s Organization of the Year\, and building a top-ranked development system. Before that\, he helped Cleveland in their turn-around\, resulting in being one game away from the World Series\, and had previously helped St. Bonaventure University win its only conference championship in school history. Prior to engaging on his professional journey\, he earned his MBA and JD. More importantly\, Kyle is a husband to Heather and father to Chance (23) and Cooper (16).
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