Ben Hutton - 2021 Chamber Chair

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The Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting is coming up. Which makes this a great time for us to catch up with the 2021 Chair Ben Hutton, CEO of Hutton. He joins Don and Ebony to talk about his leadership path as well as what to expect from special guest speaker Patrick Lencioni at the Annual Meeting. On this episode we discuss:

• Starting work from the age of 12
• How Ben’s leadership has been impacted by his father, his faith and his network
• The importance of showing up
• Why he wanted to be a leader of the Chamber
• The good a business can do for the community
• How chasing the wrong goals taught Ben his biggest lesson as a leader
• What the Chamber represents
• The upcoming annual meeting on November 16, 2021 with guest speaker Patrick Lencioni
• Why people should attend the annual meeting
• Entering the danger
• Making dumb suggestions
• Being stuck with the same entrepreneurial stories for 15 years

Learn more about the Wichita Regional Chamber Annual Meeting:

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Ben Hutton was swinging a hammer as soon as he could lift it. By age 12, he was working job sites. He studied construction management at Kansas State University and started at Hutton as a project manager. Soon after, he was leading the company’s business development efforts. In 2010, he became president. In 2016, CEO. Since then, the company’s capabilities have expanded and the number of employees more than tripled.

Patrick Lencioni’s teachings have been instrumental in Ben’s leadership journey. You might recognize Pat from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Death by Meeting, or Ben’s personal favorite Getting Naked!

Lencioni is the pioneer of the organizational health movement and one of the world’s foremost experts on leadership and teamwork. As an author, speaker, consultant and CEO of the Table Group, Pat has spent the last 20 years shaping the organizational health movement by helping leaders develop cohesive teams and engaged employees.

Patrick’s books have sold more than 6 million copies and his work has been featured in Fortune, USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review, to name a few.

During his time in Wichita, Patrick will be focused on his new model, The Working Genius.

Far too many people in the world suffer needlessly because they don't understand their personal areas of working genius. As a result, they don't do the kind of work that gives them joy and energy, and they end up in jobs and projects that are draining and demoralizing. This is a grave tragedy on two levels.

First, it leads those people to lose confidence in themselves and enthusiasm for life, which is devastating for them, their families and friends, and society as a whole. That alone is heartbreaking.

Second, organizations and teams–even families–that don't tap into the true genius of their members can't come close to realizing their potential. They are left puzzled by their inability to achieve their goals. This often leads them to make inaccurate and hurtful judgements about one another, and to feel unnecessarily guilty about their own shortcomings.

What makes all of this particularly tragic is that it is avoidable. The solution is for everyone–employees, managers, students and spouses–to identify their areas of working genius, as well as their areas of life draining weakness, and to put themselves in a position to tap into their genius more and engage in their weakness less.

Annual Meeting is open to the community and anyone who purchases a ticket will be given access to the Working Genius assessment so you can tap into your own genius and discover the gifts you bring to work!

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