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Join fellow business leaders from across the region for our half-day event designed to help you navigate today's most pressing business risks and leadership challenges and equip you with forward-thinking solutions to empower your organization.

Session & Speaker Information:

Managing Benefit Costs in an Era of Rising Healthcare Spend: Data, Trends, and Actionable Strategies
Speakers: Jack Wooten & Greg Stancil, Scott Insurance
Architecture of Belonging
Speaker: Christi Barbour, Barbour Spangle Design
From AI-Curious to AI-Confident: A Leader's Guide to Harnessing AI
Speakers: Greg Boone & Erica Rooney, Walk West
Center of Aerospace for the Next 100 Years: How the Triad is becoming an Epicenter of Innovation
Speaker: Kevin Baker, Piedmont Triad Airport Authority

Whether you are focused on protecting your organization, driving innovation, or strengthening leadership effectiveness, this conference will provide valuable perspectives and actionable strategies to help your business thrive in multiple areas of an increasingly complex and rapidly changing environment.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Continuing education (CPE, SHRM, HRCI) credits are available for this event.

Jack Wooten

Vice President, Benefits Consultant
Scott Insurance

Jack Wooten is a Vice President and Benefits Consultant in Scott Insurance’s Greensboro office, where he advises middle-market companies on comprehensive employee benefits strategies. His expertise includes plan design, utilization analysis, alternative risk financing, pharmacy strategy, and the development of data-informed solutions tailored to each organization’s goals. As a member of Scott’s Senior Living Practice in North Carolina, Jack also brings specialized insight to organizations navigating the evolving needs of the senior living industry.

Greg Stancil
Vice President, Senior Account Executive

Scott Insurance

Greg Stancil is a Vice President and Senior Account Executive with Scott Benefit Services, bringing more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience to his clients. He provides strategic guidance in financial analysis, benefit design, claims utilization, vendor negotiations, and complex legislative and regulatory matters. Greg has also played an important role in Scott’s healthcare reform planning and legislative advocacy efforts, helping employers understand change and make informed decisions about their benefits programs.

Christi Barbour
Founder & Partner

Barbour Spangle Design

Christi Barbour is a designer, entrepreneur, speaker, and community builder with more than 25 years of experience creating spaces where people can thrive. As founder of Barbour Spangle Design, she helps organizations translate their values into environments and cultures that foster connection and belonging. She also founded High Point Discovered, a nonprofit storytelling platform celebrating the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of High Point, North Carolina. Christi is passionate about helping people build meaningful organizations and communities that endure.

Greg Boone

CEO

Walk West

Greg Boone is a technology CEO, AI transformation leader, and trusted executive advisor with more than 20 years of senior leadership experience. As CEO of Walk West, a growth consultancy at the intersection of marketing and AI transformation, he helps enterprise clients turn artificial intelligence into measurable business value, while building future-ready cultures. An engineer by training with extensive C-suite leadership, Greg combines technical depth with boardroom acumen. He previously co-led Blue Acorn iCi through its $125 million acquisition by Infosys and served as CEO of Cleartelligence. He is the author of AI at the Speed of Trust: The Human Edge in the Age of Machines and co-host of the award-winning podcast AI: Voice or Victim? His advisory work spans Fortune 500 companies and mid-market leaders navigating artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and organizational change including Walmart, Charter Communications, Panera Bread, NASCAR, Butterball, and Nielsen.

Erica Rooney
Chief People Officer
Walk West

Erica Rooney is a leadership expert and AI educator with more than fifteen years in HR, rising to Chief People Officer, the role she still holds today. She's the author of The AI Gap: Women, AI, and the Next Great Leap Forward and Glass Ceilings & Sticky Floors, and the founder of HER Collective, a fast-growing leadership community for ambitious women. She hosts the Glass Ceilings & Sticky Floors podcast and co-hosts the Telly Award-winning AI Voice or Victim. Erica has spoken on stages including SXSW and CHIEF and been featured in Forbes, SUCCESS Magazine, and CBS. Her mission: to get more women into positions of power, and keep them there.

Kevin Baker
Executive Director
Piedmont Triad Airport Authority

Kevin is the Executive Director of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority. He joined the Authority in January 2008. Previously, he served as a Vice President of the Michael Baker Corporation, managing a significant segment of the company’s aviation consulting business.

Kevin is a 1990 Graduate of Lehigh University, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and a Finance Minor.

He is involved in a number of local and national civic and business-related organizations.

October 29, 2026

Speakers: Jack Wooten & Greg Stancil, Scott Insurance

Speaker: Christi Barbour, Barbour Spangle Design

Speakers: Greg Boone & Erica Rooney, Walk West

Speaker: Kevin Baker, Piedmont Triad Airport Authority

Program Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the 2026 Business Leadership Conference, participants will be able to:

Identify leadership strategies that support long-range vision, organizational growth, consistent messaging, and perseverance amid competing perspective.
Compare regional and national employee benefits benchmarks to evaluate how an organization’s plan designs and premium rates align with those of its peers.
Apply values-based leadership principals to foster employee connection, strengthen organizational culture, and build resilient teams during periods of challenge and change.
Evaluate AI reasoning models, orchestration methods, and agentic workflows using a structured framework to identify practical applications within their organizations.

CPE Credit: 4.0 Basic hour
Field of Study: TBD
Delivery Method: Group-Live. | Program Level: Overview
No prerequisite or advanced prep is needed. Scott Insurance is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State Boards of Accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual course for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website:www.nasbaregistry.org.

HRCI Credit: 4.0 General Credit Hour
HRCertification Institute’s® (www.HRCI.org) official seal confirms that Scott Insurance meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HRCI’s eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.

SHRM Credit: 4.0 PDC
Scott Insurance is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.

CE is pending final approval, and hours are subject to change.

2026 Business Leadership Conference

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October 29, 2026

Continuing Education

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