The Tampa Open Leadership Symposium is a 3-day learning event about Open patterns of leadership and engagement.
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You can attend 1, 2 or all 3 days. We are strongly encouraging everyone to participate all 3 days. The 3-day pass is your best value. Buy a 3-day pass and share it with your friends. Go ahead. We want you at this event! Everyone who participates in Tampa joins our community of Open practitioners, and becomes a lifetime Member of the Open Leadership Network.

The Symposium Schedule at a Glance
Day 1: Tuesday February 4th
Tuesday offers FOUR full-day Master classes to choose from. Each student earns a Level 1 certificate (a certificate of completion) from The Open Leadership Network.
Day 2: Wednesday February 5th
Wednesday is the main event: the full-day OPEN LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM featuring our keynote, executive Ebenezer Ikonne, and 7 short plenaries. Each plenary speaker provides a rich set of takeaway resources and tools to explore after the event to deepen your learning. The Open Space event after lunch is your opportunity to connect with the Speakers more deeply throughout the day. It is also your opportunity to meet and interact with all the participants and also with our Honored Symposium Guests.
Day 3: Thursday February 6th
Thursday is the last day and offers ANOTHER FOUR FULL-DAY MASTER CLASSES to choose from. Each student earns a Level 1 certificate (a certificate of completion) from The Open Leadership Network. Choosing between these classes migh7t be difficult to do. If so, don’t worry, the class you missed will be available ONLINE after the Symposium and you receive a very chunky discount on those online versions of the class you missed!
The Complete Symposium Schedule in Detail

Here is the schedule for DAY 1: Tuesday, February 4.
There are FIVE great full-day classes to choose from on Tuesday. Every single one of these courses addresses a one or more of the specific patterns of Open Business Agility as depicted in this diagram:

You can learn more about these patterns, in detail here
Feb 4 Schedule
Day | Date | Time | Event | Details |
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Tue | 4-Feb | 0900AM | Inviting Vision (with OLN certificate) | Instructor: Darren Terrell (co-formulator of the Inviting Vision engagement model) |
Tue | 4-Feb | 0900AM | Open Space in Organizations (with OLN certificate) | Instructor: Mark Sheffield (co-author of INVITING LEADERSHIP) |
Tue | 4-Feb | 0900AM | Impact! Agendashift for Products and Services (with OLN certificate) | Instructor: Mike Burrows (author of Right to Left, Agendashift and Kanban from the Inside) |
Tue | 4-Feb | 0900AM | Acting As An Executive Coach (with OLN certificate) | Co-Instructor: Peter Fischbach Co-Instructor: Daniel Mezick |

Here is the schedule for DAY 2: Wednesday, February 5
Feb 5 Schedule
Day | Date | Time | Event | Details |
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Wed | 5-Feb | 0830AM | The Main Event: BEFORE LUNCH Keynote and Plenaries in the AM | KEYNOTE: Ebenezer Ikonne, Associate Vice President of Engineering, Cox Automotive, on: Open patterns in practice PLENARY: Stacia Heimgartner on FAILAGILITY PLENARY: Daniel Mezick on INVITING, DELEGATING and FEEDBACK PLENARY: Doug KirkPatrick on NO LIMITS SELF MANAGEMENT PLENARY: Mike Burrows on THE AGENDSHIFT ENGAGEMENT MODEL PLENARY: Heidi Araya and Cristin Hernandez on CHOOSING TO BE COACHED PLENARY: Darren Terrell on INVITING VISION: Is your Vision Inviting? PLENARY: Peter Fischbach on REACHING and TEACHING EXECUTIVES PLENARY: Mark Burgess on PROMISE THEORY |
Wed | 5-Feb | 0130PM | The Main Event: AFTER LUNCH Whole-Group Open Space event in the PM | Whole-group Open Space event with full Proceedings. Facilitated by Mark Sheffield With our Honored Symposium Guests fully participating: including.... Carol McEwan Bob Galen Mark Kilby |

Here is the schedule for DAY 3: Thursday, February 6. You can choose from ANOTHER five great Master classes. Each class awards a Level-1 certificate of completion from The Open Leadership Network:
Feb 6 Schedule
Day | Date | Time | Event | Details |
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Thu | 6-Feb | 0900AM | NO LIMITS Self Management (with OLN certificate) | Doug Kirkpatrick (Author of the books Beyond Empowerment and NO LIMITS Self Management) |
Thu | 6-Feb | 0900AM | OpenSpace Agility (with OLN certificate) | Darren Terrell (co- creator with Diana Williams of the INVITING VISION engagement model) |
Thu | 6-Feb | 0900AM | Inviting Leadership (with OLN certificate) | Mark Sheffield (co-author of the INVITING VISION engagement model) |
Thu | 6-Feb | 0900AM | Promise Theory (with OLN certificate) | Mark Burgess (originator of PROMISE THEORY) |