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Every organization needs leadership. Qualified. Experienced. Innovative. Visionary.  Without leaders with clear purpose, vision, and determination, organizations struggle.

What differentiates successful business and organizations from those who constantly struggle and ultimately fail? The difference is the leadership, the experience, the abilities of those leading the organization.

Lea Strickland provides the needed leadership elements needed by her client organizations.  Ms. Strickland has extensive experience  and brings that experience to her clients and audiences on:

Topics:

  • Leadership – Vision, purpose, presence and accountability
  • Strategy – Goal setting, planning, and execution
  • Entrepreneurship – Start, grow, and run successful organizations
  • Success – Purpose, passion, and persistence
  • Governance and compliance – Roles, rules, and culture
  • Marketing – Expertise, credibility and visibility – making an impact

Keynotes:

  • The Woman Within – Leadership from Where You Are and Where You Want to Go
  • Leaders Are Made – Preparing for leadership
  • Take Two Tablets - Lessons for Leadership and Life from the Ten Commandments©
  • 10-Minute Success – Maximizing Your Results by Focus Your Time
  • Beyond Cost – Competing On Value and Competence Not on Cost
  • Write for Success – How Writing Enhances Your Connection with Your Market
  • Profitability and Sustainability – Beyond Sales Effort to Financial Results
  • CORE Performance – Four Factors of Performance: Competitiveness, Operations, Results and Execution

 

Workshops:

Success

  • 10-Minute Success – Living Your Life Today for the Future
    • Goals!

This workshop focuses attendees on identifying the goals that they want to achieve and finding the time consistently, everyday 10-minute at a time, to reach those goals.  Key aspects of the workshop include exercises to be honest with you about what is important. Setting goals that are meaningful and that you are passionate about versus doing those that are expected or imposed by others.

Technical Workshops

  • Government Funded Entities – Grants and Contracts

After the Award – The Business, Accounting, and Intellectual Property Requirements of Your Agreement

This workshop guides recipients through:

    • understanding their actual award documents and
    • The how to identify the requirements, terms and conditions impose
    • audit requirements
    • iedison and other invention disclosure requirements
    • accounting systems, and in the full day session
    • a basic set of policy templates that are the minimum each company should have in place.

Working with Others – Understanding the Different Options and Implications

This goes into the difference between subcontractors, consultants, purchased services/materials, and sponsored research.  The discussion also includes working with university or universities that you have pre-existing or existing relationships.  Dealing with potential and real conflicts of financial interest. Pass through clauses and other elements of ensuring the right agreement is selected based on the entity types, needs of the organization, and other factors.

Indirect Rates – What, When, Why and How Not to Leave Money on the Table

The elements, factors, and principles that govern what costs can be included, selecting the right cost base for your entity, maximizing your rate (the right way), and developing and filing the indirect cost proposal, annual filing requirements for negotiated rates, negotiating rates, and for DOD recipients understanding and using the ICE Model. The ICE Model is an “add-on” to the base Indirect Rate Workshop and should be limited to those organizations that have to do that format.

Audit Requirements – What Type, When, and Preparing for the Audit 

I cover both types of audits from the government agencies like DCAA and then the independent audit paid for by the company but required by the agency.  Topics include:

      • understanding the audit requirements,
      • how to deal with DCAA and non-DoD agency audit requirements when you have both
      • finding and selecting qualified auditors to do the audit
      • internal control requirements
      • accounting system structure and outputs
      • Managing the cost of the audit and other compliance

Programs:

Technovation Entrepreneur™
Technovation Entrepreneur™ is a multi-functional, integrated business program that works with both the public and private sector to provide individuals, start-ups, spin-outs, and organizations with the ability to transition research into marketable products and build a viable business.

The program focuses on helping innovators and entrepreneurs build companies that are successful in transitioning research into real world applications that meet specific market needs, and doing it profitably through a combination of education, training, planning, and execution support services. Technovation Entrepreneur™ features customized reference materials, webinars, seminars, workshops, and individual consulting through in-person, virtual, pre-recorded and print materials.

Lea based program elements on experience gained over eight years of working with spin-outs, technology transfer companies, and garage inventors who made the transition from the lab to commercialization to a market-focused business.

More information on the program is available online at TechnovationEntrepreneur.com.