From Olympic Gold Medalist to Broadway, and from television analyst to President of the Women’s Sports Foundation, Dominique Dawes continues on a path to inspire, motivate and lead. Dawes is best known for her tremendous success as an Olympic gymnast who competed in three Olympic Games (1992, 1996, and 2000), won four Olympic medals, and has a permanent place in the U.S. Olympic Committee Hall of Fame. Fans across the nation and around the world remember her as a member of the gold-medal-winning "Magnificent Seven" at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where she also won a bronze medal as she wowed the crowd with her stunning performance in the floor exercise, becoming the first female African American gymnast to win an individual medal. She also earned a bronze medal with the U.S. team in the 1992 Barcelona Games and left an imprint in the sports world with her “back-to-back” tumbling pass. Dominique made a surprising comeback with an anticlimactic end in the 2000 Sydney Games. Dawes presentation will focus on empowering audiences to embrace a team mentality, use failure as fuel, and believe in the power of their dreams.

Having served 30 years as a SEAL leader, retired Rear Admiral Scott Moore is a master in organizational leadership and teambuilding. He served in every leadership position in the SEAL teams, including the former commander of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, and closed out his career as the number two leader in the entire SEAL organization. He led the military’s elite forces through more than 2,000 of our nation’s most extreme, high-stakes missions and was deployed on SEAL team operations across the globe. He understands the importance of leadership and cohesiveness like few others can, and his experience runs the gamut from leading small groups to large-scale tactical planning. From the mountains of Afghanistan to briefings in the Oval Office, Moore is the man our leaders trusted when failure was not an option. Moore will share stories of teamwork in life-and-death circumstances and insights on recruiting, training, and equipping teams that exceed expectations.

Our world is a mess. People are suffering to some degree or another everywhere we look. One major reason the world is like this is that people are using the power model of leadership which focuses on power and control. That coupled with the reduction in interpersonal communications has created a more divisive climate at work and in our government relations with our citizens. Servant leadership is about serving people, not using people. Serving others is the most meaningful and satisfying way for leaders to live and lead. It begins with “the natural feeling that one wants to serve.”

Since starting at Neenah Foundry in 1989, Frank Headington has over 49 years of foundry experience. He has a Master’s of Science in Industrial Management from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master’s of Science in Ceramics Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Respected for his expertise in metalcasting, Headington was the 2016 recipient of the AFS Peter L. Simpson Gold Medal. Headington has been an active member of AFS serving on numerous technical committees, the AFS Board of Directors, AFS Research Board and as AFS staff holding the position of Interim Technical Director from 2017-2020.

Reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) have brought back over 700,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs in recent years. At the same time, the COVID crisis demonstrated the risk of long supply chains. These trends have drawn attention to the advantages of reshoring and nearshoring.

Harry Moser, Founder of the Reshoring Initiative, will provide fresh new examples of how U.S. foundries are taking advantage of the trend toward shorter supply chains and what that means for your company and your customers. Plus, discover how Reshoring Initiative’s Total Cost of Ownership Estimator and the Import Substitution Program can help your company land contracts that otherwise would have gone overseas.