The Texas Travel Summit is the largest annual gathering of travel professionals from all sectors across the state. Join your colleagues for three intensive, impactful professional education days where you'll hear from leading innovators in the industry and network with pros from across the State. You'll return from Summit full of implementable ideas for your business.
Monday, September 23 - Wednesday, September 25
Fort Worth, Texas
A teacher of peak performance, an author of impactful books and presentations, and a lifelong student of success, happiness, and achievement, Dan Thurmon is on a mission. To encourage attendees’ uniqueness and contributions. To discover a sense of purpose and greatness. To have meaning at work, and in their lives.
He has worked with organizations around the world, in every spectrum of business: Fortune 500 companies. Startups. Associations across hundreds of industries. Troops on the front lines. Students, teachers, and entrepreneurs. Through his presentations and workshops, Dan helps these organizations to accelerate improvement, facilitate true breakthroughs and enable and encourage greatness.
Jenifer has nearly two decades of experience in media relations, crisis communications, speechwriting, coalition building, and media and presentation skills training.
Her career has spanned the corporate, nonprofit and political worlds, helping clients develop messages that will resonate with their core audiences and create strategies for effectively delivering those messages through the appropriate communications channels.
In launching Sarver Strategies, Jenifer focused her skills on training and storytelling, helping clients develop a narrative that effectively conveys their core values, and then preparing them to effectively deliver that message.
Jenifer has extensive experience in media and presentation skills training, having conducted workshops and one-on-one trainings for a wide range of public figures including CEOs, foreign leaders, local and state political candidates and office holders, and nonprofit leaders.
Chris Davidson oversees MMGY Global’s travel insights division. He is responsible for the agency’s portfolio of syndicated and custom research products, including its Portrait of American TravelersÒ series and its DK Shifflet suite of travel performance products. He also directs the organization’s substantial investment in travel intelligence and how it fuels marketing strategies that drive results.Chris has 25 years of experience in market research, strategic planning, brand strategy and integrated marketing communications.
During his tenure at MMGY, Chris has had the pleasure of working with industry leaders in travel and tourism, including Tourism Vancouver, Choice Hotels, Omni Hotels & Resorts, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Niagara Falls USA, and SeaWorld Parks. And, he is honored to speak at numerous industry conferences and events each year.
A common challenge for organizations today is helping their employees bring more energy to work and not only embrace change but see it as an opportunity to lead.
Dan Thurmon believes the reason that people struggle with change is they think they have to compartmentalize their life and keep everything in balance. What if we lived Off Balance on Purpose? What if instead of resisting uncertainty, we leaned into it? And what if rather than bringing our “work-self” to the office, we brought 100% of who we are?
In this keynote, Dan excites his audience with an interactive performance while giving them a multi-dimensional view of success. He doesn’t stand behind a podium and talk about dealing with fear and change – he does handstands on the podium to demonstrate what being uncomfortable and living off balance on purpose actually looks like. Your audience will talk about this presentation for years to come!
As a result of attending this program attendees will:
• Learn to take ACTION when it is uncomfortable.
• Manage energy and time more effectively.
• Adopt an Off Balance On Purpose approach as a realistic
and empowering way to excel at work and life.
Now in its 29th year, MMGY Global’s Portrait of American Travelers is the industry’s most respected and illuminating survey of the emerging vacation habits, preferences, and intentions of American leisure travelers. Chris Davidson, MMGY’s Executive Vice President of Insights & Strategy, will share the latest findings from this study, revealing a powerful profile of prospective travelers to the great state of
Texas.
He will unveil where these travelers most want to visit in the year ahead, describe their evolving expectations of culinary experiences on vacation, and explain how travel has become a leading source of social currency. Chris will make the case against developing generic Millennials strategies, and he will reveal how marketers should seek to go beyond traditional demographic targeting to define, reach, and influence consumers based more on life stage priorities, interests, and values. The presentation is a must for any industry professional hoping to more effectively qualify, reach, and influence the Texas traveler.
Come enjoy a donut and some conversation with Dan Decker, President & CEO of TTIA. Donuts with Dan is an informal communication format that Dan has used very successfully for most of his career. His intent with this time is to listen to members and answer any questions members may have. The only requirement is that you ask a question, even if that question is “may I have a donut?”
Gene Phillips Memorial, Clara Wuest Heidemann, and Heidemann Wuest Scholarships to be presented during luncheon.
Every day we have an opportunity to make an impact. Sometimes the smallest actions have long-term effects that impact people’s lives far beyond what we can imagine. Small, tangible actions can lead to big, audacious moves. Being poised, Page 4 of 4ready and able to take advantage of those opportunities is vital. And encouraging individuals to think collectively and take small civic actions that build stronger communities and create a more engaged civil society, can benefit us all. Through her own personal journey, historical examples, and relevant anecdotes Jenifer will talk about making an impact, no matter where you are.
A common challenge for organizations today is helping their employees bring more energy to work and not only embrace change but see it as an opportunity to lead.
Dan Thurmon believes the reason that people struggle with change is they think they have to compartmentalize their life and keep everything in balance. What if we lived Off Balance on Purpose? What if instead of resisting uncertainty, we leaned into it? And what if rather than bringing our “work-self” to the office, we brought 100% of who we are?
In this keynote, Dan excites his audience with an interactive performance while giving them a multi-dimensional view of success. He doesn’t stand behind a podium and talk about dealing with fear and change – he does handstands on the podium to demonstrate what being uncomfortable and living off balance on purpose actually looks like. Your audience will talk about this presentation for years to come!
As a result of attending this program attendees will:
• Learn to take ACTION when it is uncomfortable.
• Manage energy and time more effectively.
• Adopt an Off Balance On Purpose approach as a realistic
and empowering way to excel at work and life.
The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel
200 Main Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
United States
Fort Worth is just 45 minutes from Dallas Fort Worth Airport. Rental cars and Uber are available transportation options.
The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel
200 Main Street
Fort Worth TX 76102
Cut-off Deadline: Friday, August 30, 2019 (unless sold out prior)
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