The complexities of leading through uncertainty are undeniable: the path ahead is often obscured by unforeseen challenges, market disruptions, and technological advancements. The very nature of uncertainty breeds discomfort and resistance, making it a formidable adversary to effective leadership. However, it is precisely during these times of ambiguity that the mettle of leaders is truly tested.
The Performance Excellence Network is pleased to announce a special workshop experience on November 9: Leading through Uncertainty: The Wine Detective! The workshop will be 1:30-5:30 at a location TBD in the Twin Cities (and, yes, includes wine tasting!). The workshop will be facilitated by Danielle Galmore, founder of North Carolina-based Touchpoint Wines and founder, Questa Consulting.
This workshop is designed to delve deep into the intricacies of leading through uncertainty, with a unique emphasis on the human element. We recognize that while strategies, analytics, and tactics are vital, it is the people side of leadership that can make or break your organization’s trajectory in times of flux. Over the course of this workshop, we will not only equip you with invaluable tools and insights to navigate these uncharted waters but also foster a collaborative environment where kindred leaders can share, learn, and grow together.
We will then take a unique twist and play Wine Detective. Wine Detective was designed to be a fun and collaborative activity that reinforces the curriculum of the workshop. Using a blind tasting format, you will work in small groups to solve a case. The experience is intended to mimic being faced with a decision during uncertainty and uses some of the best practice and tactics from the workshop to remove the uncertainty and solve the case. You are competing against other groups, similar to a typical competitive landscape. (There will be non-alcoholic options available for those who choose.)
Investment $200for members, $400for non-members. Groups of three from the same member organization registering at the same time are $175/each. Fees include wine (or non-alcoholic drinks).
Come experience this unique, fun, and powerful method of combining education and entertainment – a concept called “Edutainment,” which makes leadership development a little more “sticky!”
Facilitator Biography
Danielle started Touchpoint Wines in 2022 as a way to combine her corporate skills and experience with her passion for wine, and WSET level 3 Advanced certification in wine. With over 20 years in product development, marketing and leading innovation teams for companies like Herman Miller Inc. and Steelcase Inc, she has a proven background in sales, marketing, intrepreneurship and strategy.
As the founder of Questa Consulting LLC, she designs and tests business models to create new value for customers, and find new revenue streams. She also supports her clients in gaining alignment on strategic direction, setting and operationalizing culture and values, and special programs like mentorship. Her customers include Jones Lang Lasalle Technology, D-Ford a division of Ford Motor Company, Lenovo, BHDP Architecture, Nitel; and other consulting agencies like Clareo Partners.
She is a certified Experience Economy Expert and has been trained in Design Thinking methods and frameworks through Steelcase and IDEO. She uses those skills to build business opportunities related to market gaps, disruptive technologies and shifts in behavior. She loves evaluating emerging business ideas, envisioning new models and solutions, and testing business concepts for desirability, feasibility and viability to find new answers and insights.
She and her husband, Tom, currently reside in Raleigh NC, where her hobbies include golf, reading, travel and wine. She just completed the WSET level three, advanced, award in Wine.
A graduate of Central Michigan University in marketing and advertising, she has continued her education with specialized leadership training such as, Leading High Impact Teams at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management; a two-year global leadership development program with Steelcase; Global Effectiveness and Culture Building and Leading Distributed Teams with Wilson Learning.
