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09/17/2026

Your People Are Your Greatest Investment. Are You Maximizing It?

Meet ENCORE Speaker Kurt Wells

Leadership is ultimately about people and performance. How do you know what is working? Where are people struggling? What should you measure? And perhaps most importantly, what do you do with that information?

Those are questions Kurt Wells, Co-Founder, Partner and CEO of the Center for Great Work Performance, has spent much of his career helping organizations address.

Kurt brings nearly 30 years of experience spanning operations, workforce performance, human capital, employee development, technology, staffing and business growth. His career has included leadership roles in field operations, business development and executive management, along with entrepreneurial ventures focused on workforce development, experiential learning and organizational performance.

At ENCORE, Kurt will help lead Performance Analytics for Leaders, exploring how effective leaders identify the performance measures that matter, translate data into action, coach employees more effectively and improve organizational results.

And Kurt’s involvement doesn’t stop there. He will also join Mike Philie for The Leader Everyone Depends On, turning the conversation inward to explore the mindset, habits, energy and personal discipline required of leaders others rely upon.

Don’t Sit This One Out

ENCORE 2026 is not six disconnected presentations. The entire day has been intentionally designed as a leadership journey, moving from people and performance to technology, growth, data-driven decisions and ultimately your own development as a leader.

Monday, October 5 | Quest Conference Center | Westerville, Ohio

Bring your emerging leaders. Bring your managers. Bring members of your senior leadership team. Better yet, come together and take the ideas back to your organization as a team.

Registration is open. Join us at ENCORE 2026 and Lead Beyond Today.

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