FRED KRAKOWIAK
TOPICS
Cultivating Your Own Maverick Spirit
Purpose: Strategies for Making a Career Redirection & Life Transformation
Krakowiak unfolds his journey of transitioning from a successful 30-year career in financial planning to follow his life-long passion of becoming a nature & wildlife artist and African guide. From Wall Street to the vast plains of Africa, Krakowiak shares his personal strategies for redefining yourself and reinventing your career, to live a life that inspires you, and in turn inspires others.
Takeaways from Krakowiak’s program:
- Recognizing and responding to triggers that signal crucial turning points
- Discovering and pursuing your passion
- Achieving balance of mind, body and spirit
- Building an authentic personal brand
The Importance of Decision Making Through the Eyes of Africa
Purpose: Building Client Relationships with Sound Decision Making & Leadership
Krakowiak shares the importance of choosing the best decision under pressure and communicating effectively. Take for instance elephants, they mock charge but they can also charge with the intent to harm you. In Africa a misinterpretation of wildlife’s body language can result in a reactive decision which jeopardizes your day. How you react to a bad decision can be critical to your fate on safari just as in business. Trusting your peers and communicating effectively in a crisis, coupled with reading your client and adapting to their signals, often means making critical decisions that will determine your success.
- Understanding the behavior & body language of others to aide in your decision making.
- Recovering from a bad decision and the profound effect it has on your success moving forward.
- Making good decisions and building successful relationships with others by trusting your advisors and mentors.