SPECIAL EVENT - BREAKFAST, NETWORKING & KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Co-Hosted by Xenium HR & Pilot Wealth Management

The average adult makes 35,000 decisions every day. That’s a lot of decisions.

As a leader at work, you’re constantly making decisions that can have a big impact. So, how do you know you’re making the right ones? We’re all subject to biases that cause us to mislabel problems, fail to identify all the relevant information and come to the wrong conclusions.

There’s science behind our decisions, and Pat McCauley, CEO and Owner of Bridgewell Agribusiness LLC, is here to help you improve how you make up your mind. Join us for an interactive seminar that will equip leaders with the skills they need to make better decisions. An expert in Decision Science, Pat will cover strategies for avoiding common traps and biases that cloud effective thinking and equip you with a framework for making better decisions in business.

This seminar will cover the following:The concepts of behavioral psychology that affect decisions

Identify the elements of good decisions
Introduce a framework for making better decisions
Examples of how biases impact the quality of management decisions
Problems in group decisions and how to minimize them
Summarize strategies to manage more decisions more effectively

Agenda:

7:30am - 8:00am - Check-in, Networking & Breakfast

8:00am - 10:00am - Presentation

Audience:

C-Level, Directors, Senior Managers

Speaker:

Pat McCauley is CEO and Owner of Bridgewell Agribusiness LLC (BWAB), a commodity-based sales and trading company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. BWAB sources food and agricultural products for industrial and retail food companies, collaborating with customers to solve complex supply chain and logistics problems.

In January 2018, Pat purchased BWAB from Bridgewell Resources, where he served as President and CEO since October 2013. Bridgewell Resources is a similar platform to BWAB, focusing on sales and trading of lumber-based products across a range of construction, utility, and retail markets.

Prior to Bridgewell, Pat spent 22 years at Susquehanna International Group (SIG), a global quantitative financial trading firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At SIG, Pat held a number of key positions including COO, Head of Business Development, Head of Equity Trading and Head of Trader Development and Education.

Pat has a broad range of entrepreneurial experience, managing and growing a wide range of highly successful businesses. He is a strong analytical and strategic thinker with significant operational experience. Pat’s greatest passion is teaching, training and developing employees, working to help his team realize its full potential.

Pat is an expert in the application of Decision Science to solving business problems. He regularly conducts seminars that explore the principles of Decision Science applied to managerial decision-making and strategic business management. In addition, he has developed a curriculum that he has taught as an independent study course for local high school students.

Pat resides in Portland with his wife, three sons and two dogs. In his free time, Pat pursues his passion for playing golf and watching professional sports, especially the Philadelphia Eagles and Portland Trail Blazers.

Traps and Biases – How to Make More Effective Management Decisions

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