2-Hour Virtual Seminar on Strategic Setup for Business Professionals 2026 Using Your Year-End Review
January 7, 2026
08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST
2 Hours
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Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
This webinar provides business professionals with a comprehensive framework for conducting an effective year-end review while strategically positioning their organization, department, or team for success in 2026.
Participants will learn how to evaluate performance, identify opportunities for improvement, implement lessons learned, and build forward-looking plans that strengthen operations, financial performance, talent management, and stakeholder engagement. The session blends practical tools, proven methodologies, and real-world examples to help professionals close out the year with clarity and confidence while entering 2026 with a strong, strategic roadmap.Why should you Attend:
- Conduct a thorough and structured year-end business review across operational, financial, and strategic domains
- Identify key wins, challenges, and lessons learned from 2025 to inform forward-looking decisions
- Evaluate team performance, resource utilization, and organizational alignment with strategic goals
- Develop a clear, actionable plan for achieving high-impact outcomes in 2026
- Strengthen business processes, communication practices, and leadership effectiveness
- Use data-driven methodologies to prioritize initiatives and allocate resources effectively
- Enhance stakeholder engagement and organizational readiness for new opportunities and challenges
- Conducting a Comprehensive Year-End Review
- Key components of an effective annual business assessment
- Reviewing KPIs, financial performance, and operational efficiency
- Identifying lessons learned and root causes of issues
- Evaluating Talent, Teams, and Leadership Impact
- Assessing team performance and individual contributions
- Workforce planning and identifying 2026 capability needs
- Leadership reflections: communication, decision-making, and culture
- Strategic Analysis for 2026
- Environmental scanning: opportunities and emerging risks
- Forecasting trends affecting your business and industry
- Using SWOT, OKRs, and scenario planning to shape the 2026 strategy
- Prioritizing Goals and Allocating Resources
- Establishing measurable objectives for 2026
- Aligning budget, personnel, and technology resources
- AI and digital transformation opportunities in the new year
- Building Your 2026 Strategic Roadmap
- Creating actionable plans and execution timelines
- Strengthening processes, controls, and accountability systems
- Communicating the plan with leaders, teams, and stakeholders
- Closing Out 2025 With Confidence
- Year-end documentation, reporting, and compliance preparation
- Ensuring a smooth transition into Q1 2026
- Final Q&A and action-planning insights
Who Will Benefit:
- All
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
