YOU: Leadership, Reputation & Creativity at 2018 BIFMA 360

It’s an event many leaders in the contract furniture industry wait all winter for – the BIFMA 360 Leadership Conference. At the end of each January, members of the Business Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) gather for three days in a typically fair-weathered location to hear from a series of speakers arranged around a theme. This year we headed down to South Beach, Miami, for a stay at the sunny Loews Miami Beach Hotel. 2018’s conference theme, entitled “YOU [leadership, reputation, creativity]”, is quite a 180 degree turn from 2017’s theme of Aftershock, giving a name to the enormous impact of disruption from all corners of the world affecting our industry along with many others. 2018 ventured into a completely new direction – one of self-examination and introspection. The 2018 conference notes expanded on this “YOU” theme: “Leaders demonstrate a distinct set of behaviors. How we do our work informs …