With the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, business leaders are tasked with providing confident, informed, and strategic direction. Employees, customers, suppliers, and others are looking for leadership in these trying times.

Dirk Beveridge, founder of UnleashWD, a design, innovation, and strategy firm that transforms legacy distributors into nimble and innovative market leaders, hosted a series of 20-minute video conversations with leaders and subject matter experts to give viewers the insight they need to proceed forward with confidence as the days to come are unknown. They can be watched for free at www.unleashwd.com/leading-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic.

Topics will include the following and more:

• Strategic leadership in times of crises
• Supply chain disruption
• Internal communication strategies
• Remote working strategies
• COVID-19 update
• Health and sanitation strategies for your employees
• Financial planning considering the COVID-19 outbreak
• How do we make money in turbulent times?

Featured guest speakers include the following:

• Kaihan Krippendorff: Deploying agile strategy in times of crises
• Elatia Abate: Remote working strategies
• Patty Olinger: Health and sanitary considerations from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council
• Dr. Christopher Kuehl, Ph.D:  The economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis
• Dr. Dana Wells: Consider the human and relational capital issues during the pandemic
• Dr. William Putsis, Ph.D: Strategic considerations during the coronavirus crises
• Joe McNamara: Leading through times of uncertainty with distributed teams and contingency plans
• Mike Marks & Make Emerson: How to stress test your business in times of crises
• Margaret Rogers: Why you should foster resiliency in time of crises, and how to do it
• Jeanne Hurlbert: Lessons from another Black Swan Event: How our Hurricane Katrina research can help you engage your team, your customers, and your market
• Gerry O’Brion: How to pivot your marketing message in the early stages of this pandemic crisis
• Brian Peters: We are a Jan/San distributor at the epicenter of this pandemic: Here is how I am leading
• Keith Northey: I’m not the company president: How a frontline manager is helping his team pivot and stay focused in this rapidly changing environment
• Tracie Sponenberg: I’m a chief people officer of a regional distributor: Let’s talk about the human element of this crisis
• Dirk Beveridge: Five principles and mindsets that should guide tour sales team during the Cornavirus crisis and one easy yet forgotten sales tool to re-introduce to your sales process