- High ROI
Many case studies show that, on average, improving your knowledge base can at least double your
output—and save countless more dollars in avoiding compliance failures. With senior managers and directors being implicated in so many scandals these days (e.g. option backdating), spending a thousand dollars to learn how to avoid serious trouble is cheap indeed.
Spending a few days of the work year on training and networking is nothing compared to the time your
team can waste arguing issues around the meeting room table. Better to make the decisions faster, based on real data and sound methodology. After three to four days of the workshops and panels at the NASPP Conference, you will have a checklist of action items to look into with respect to your own plans, policies and procedures. Many of our attendees tell us that the Conference has prevented them from making disastrous errors and helped them correct critical procedures. Every year they leave the Conference with action items that they can immediately implement when they return to work.
- Long-Lasting Job Skills
The NASPP Conference focuses on practical skills with
proven effectiveness across many projects. The enhanced work productivity you'll
achieve from learning these skills will be valuable for years, because human interface lessons typically endure.
Why? Because human behavior doesn't change nearly as fast as
technology, which is one reason the ROI is so much greater from training about
core competencies than from lectures about the latest fad. The facts about the
latest scandal won't matter next year, but the insights you learn at this
Conference will. You'll continue to reap returns from your investment across
many future projects.
- Motivating Experience
In many companies, being one of the few responsible for equity compensation can
feel very lonely. When you attend the NASPP Conference,
you'll be energized by the experience of
networking with hundreds and hundreds of kindred souls who care just as much about your job as you do.
You'll leave with new ideas, practical to-do lists,
knowledge to create better processes, and examples to inspire the rest of your
team. You also expand your network of people that you can call on when you need
advice, so that maybe things won't seem so lonely in the future.
- Experienced (and Reality-Based) Speakers
Our speakers have presented
many times to audiences all over the world. They
give fantastic presentations, or they wouldn't be
invited back. And they aren't worn-out, "professional speakers" who speak at
every event in the field with limited practical experience. Our presenters spend
most of their time doing actual work,
meaning that they have plenty of war stories to illustrate their topic.
In many cases, our speakers are the
pioneers who invented the methods and conducted the research
that everybody else simply reacts to. We won't waste your time on hearsay from
secondary speakers; you can come here and get it straight from the original
source—and ask your questions of the people who were the first to implement the
latest hot new ideas and practices, etc.
- High-Octane Knowledge Transfer
Our speakers know enough about their topic to fill up at least five times as many hours as they're given, but
they've made the tough calls to prune their material to the essence of what you need to know.
Our panels are based on real studies of real people,
showing which ideas work in the real world—and which don't.
We tell it like it is, and don't shy away from saying that a famous company has a failed idea, if that's
what the data shows.
- Experienced—and Amazing—Audience to Network With
Our Conference participants are amazing—over two thousand professionals gathering in one place for several days
to meet and share experiences. The halls buzz with discussions among people from all types of
organizations, from small businesses to the world's biggest and most famous
companies to enormous government agencies. Regardless of their organization's
size, all attendees work on the same issues that you do—and care passionately
about ideas that work, rather than simply sound good. Discovering
the lessons learned from countless other teams who have
dealt with the problem you're currently facing is one of the NASPP Conference's
greatest benefits.
- Explore New Solutions—The Fast and Easy Way
Everyone has a wish list of features and services that would streamline administration of their stock
programs. When was the last time you talked to your service providers about what
they offer and compared that to what their competitors offer? The NASPP
Conference gives you the only opportunity you'll have to talk to every service
provider in the industry, in person, in just three days.
Our exhibit hall is literally a who's who of the industry's top service providers and we offer plenty of
time between sessions for you to talk to them all, to see product demonstrations, and to ask them the hard questions about their service offerings. Be sure to arrive with a checklist of administrative challenges you want to address; the Conference is your opportunity to find solutions for them.
If you're a service provider, the
NASPP Conference is the single most important opportunity you will have to meet
with your clients and prospective clients. It's also a excellent opportunity to
scope out your competition and to forge partnerships with other providers.
