Welcome to FNATS Friday Features. This is a second edition in a series of four emails that you will receive over the next month to highlight the FNATS Short Course sessions. The FNATS Short Course offers the most comprehensive educational program for the green industry. With Florida’s $15.2 billion nursery and landscape industry taking a leading economic role in the state, the FNATS Short Course has interwoven the important theme of “Leadership” during this year’s program.

The program is divided up into general sessions, four concurrent breakout sessions, and two luncheons. This edition will highlight the general session & Friday’s luncheon and allow you to get to know the speakers of the sessions.

Thursday’s General Session
9:00 am – 10:15 am
“Good To Great” – Becoming a Great Leader (G1)
Dr. Hannah Carter, Wedgworth Leadership Institute, Gainesville, FL
YOU are what stands between enduring success and passionless mediocrity in your business. No matter where you are in your business or organization, you can be a leader in helping your team make the leap from a good to a great operation. Concepts and ideas taken from Jim Collin’s book Good to Great and tailored to fit nursery and landscape businesses will serve to benefit you, your business and the industry as a whole. Topics include:

• Achieving piercing clarity to produce the best long-term results
• Maintaining a culture of discipline
• How to work with technology
• Managing change
• Leadership lessons to achieve greatness

Dr. Hannah Carter has used these concepts to teach her classes on Organizational Leadership and Leadership Development at the University of Florida.

MEET DR. HANNAH CARTER
Dr. Hannah Carter grew up in northern Maine. She graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle in 1995 with a B.S. degree in Biology. Upon graduation, she began her career with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension (UMCE) developing educational programming for Maine’s potato industry. In 1999, she graduated with her M.S. in agricultural education and communication from the University of Florida and in 2004 she earned her Ph.D. from UF in agricultural leadership. Dr. Carter joined the faculty of the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication after graduation. With this appointment, she is the Director of the Wedgworth Leadership Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources, a leadership development program for individuals involved in Florida’s agriculture and natural resource industries. She is also an assistant professor, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on leadership development.

Friday’s Luncheon
Noon – 1:30 pm
Am I The Leader I Need To Be? (L2)
Harold Lloyd, Harold Lloyd Presents, Virginia Beach, VA
Ever wonder if you have what it takes to be an effective leader? This program identifies the 10 qualities all great leaders seem to possess. Harold will help measure your propensity to lead and give you a push in the right direction to improving your leadership qualities. So, whether you’re leading your church group, little league team or the people in your pruning division, this session is ideal for anyone who has the need and desire to lead others.

MEET HAROLD LLOYD
Harold was the President and C.E.O. of a 14-Unit retail organization for 10 years. The company consisted of 10 convenience stores with gasoline, two combo supermarket/discount stores, one conventional supermarket, and one deep discount health and beauty aid supermarket. His team of 1,000 associates were market leaders. They were innovative and dedicated to superior customer relations. Harold is also the author of It's About Time: A Time Management Tool Chest for Retailers.

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