"Leadership and the Power of Choice: Creating the Right Mindset" presented by Christopher J. Coyne, President & CEO of modeof8™

Are you upside down in your thinking?

Building strong houses and strong companies requires the same critical ingredient – a solid foundation. Follow successful leaders around, and soon you will realize their “foundation” takes shape in the choices they make and the mindset they live out on a daily basis.

Leveraging nearly 20 years of hands-on leadership development experience, Chris will describe what it takes to create the right mindset – specifically, “owning” the personal and professional choices you make concerning development, engagement, and connection. Throughout the presentation you will be introduced to insights from some of today’s foremost minds in the area of leadership and personal development.

Do you have the right mindset? If you are upside down in your thinking, you need a change. The same old thinking yields the same old results. There is an upside. Choose now. The right mindset empowers.

Meet Our Speaker: Christopher J. Coyne

Chris has been a leadership educator for nearly two decades. His experience crosses organizational cultures, from corporate and military training environments to the university classroom.

His company, modeof8™, strives to create a responsive community of lifelong learners…fully engaged and interpersonally connected. Utilizing a phased approach, clients are encouraged to adopt the “modeof8ed™ mindset” through focused relationships and professional coaching. The leadership track showcased in the 60-day modeof8 experience™ is rapidly becoming the initiative of choice for organizations wishing to build or energize their leadership development culture.

Coyne rose to the highest enlisted rank in the United States Air Force, Chief Master Sergeant, represented by less than three percent of the military. More than half of his 26+ year career was spent in senior-level advisory and leadership capacities, as well as in classrooms and training institutions, where he prepared leaders at all levels for increased responsibility and effectiveness. He is an in-resident graduate of all four levels of enlisted professional military education, including the executive-focused Chief’s Leadership Course, held at Air University in Montgomery, Alabama. 

A self-proclaimed “education junkie,” Chris holds several AAS degrees, a BS in Applied Organizational Management, and a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His post-graduate level interests focus on neurological and contextual underpinnings in leadership education. 

An accomplished and sought after speaker, he brings a passion and intensity to his seminars, keynotes, and coaching sessions that create a highly motivating and transformative atmosphere. In 2013, look for Chris’ first literary endeavor, Outside the Gate: Developing the modeof8ed™ mindset.

 Coffee, light breakfast, and TLC served.