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| Own Your Moment: Rock the Power of Connection, Collaboration, and Commitment | |
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Brant Menswar Keynote Speaker, Best-selling Author of Black Sheep and Designing Momentum, Founder, Black Sheep Foundry BrantMenswar.com |
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Most teams don’t stall because of skill — they stall because people are waiting for the perfect moment instead of owning the one in front of them. Real momentum isn’t built in the easy moments… it’s built in the ones that require you to act with deliberate intention when it would be easier to step back. In this high-energy session, best-selling author, former rock star, and Apple Top 15 podcast host, Brant Menswar reframes ownership as something bigger than personal performance — it’s about choosing to show up in service of others in a way that lifts the room, strengthens the culture, and creates movement where others would have paused. Because the moment you own isn’t just yours — it becomes fuel for everyone around you. Participants will learn how to:
When you own your moment in service of someone else, you don’t just change the outcome — you change what’s possible for everyone watching. Brant will also join us at the New Orleans conference in February 2026 to double the impact with The Influence of Purpose, exploring how leaders can influence their teams in a way people feel, trust, and follow. Together, these sessions move from inspiration to implementation — from understanding what drives team engagement to owning the moments that bring it to life. |
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Learning and sharing in general sessioN
| CHART Talks: Brief Blasts of Brilliance |
| This popular, TED-style session features big ideas in small packages. Speakers will each present succinct and sometimes mind-blowing, rapid-fire ideas in just 10 minutes or less. |
| Live Ask My Peers (LAMP) |
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It’s a community brain trust of more than 250 top hospitality trainers together, in one room, rapid-fire sharing solutions from our industry. Always a highly popular session, LAMP is an interactive roundtable version of our online discussion forum offering best practices in crucial areas identified by trainers, such as implementing recruitment and retention strategies, using artificial intelligence and technology, creating high-performing teams, delivering training and certifications, and crafting effective instructional design. (CHART Members have access to the online Ask My Peers forum 24/7/365! Log into our member site to join the conversation!) |
Hospitality Training Breakouts
We will have 4 rounds of breakouts, with 6 sessions to choose from offered in each round. Breakouts will be added as they are finalized.
Pre-conference Workshops
| Certified Hospitality Trainer (CHT) Review and Exam — Sunday, 8:00am - 3:00pm | |
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If you are ready to upgrade your career, there is no better sign of a pro than the CHT achievement. Sign up for this review and exam for the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI) Certified Hospitality Trainer Certification. In order to attend this session, apply directly to AHLEI. Apply by July 5 to ensure that your application is approved on time. All study materials are provided online in advance. Study on your own in advance, attend the review session Sunday morning, August 3, and then sit for the exam Sunday afternoon. The review session will help you learn how to: assess training needs, apply training tools and techniques, design instruction, measure and evaluate training, develop supervisory and management personnel, and outsource. Then, take the exam with the new knowledge and confidence to succeed! |
Competency Workshops
One or two of CHART's Hospitality Training Competencies will be offered as a pre-conference session on Sunday from 10:00am - 2:00pm. A second will be offered as a post-conference workshop on Wednesday from 8:00am-noon.
Post-conference Workshops
CHT Recertification Points
Keep track of your documentation before it’s time to renew! You need a total of 50 points, every 5 years. The point breakdown for each CHART activity is as follows:
| 1 point | per day | Conference attendance |
| 3 points | per seminar | Competency workshops count toward this, in lieu of the 1 point per day of conference attendance |
| 1 point | per year | CHART membership |
| 5 points | per year | CHART board member |
| 4 points | per presentation | Competency and breakout presenters |
Service Event
WHY JOIN IN: The Service Event is the ideal way to kick off your CHART conference by giving back to our host community, working alongside others, and starting your connections and networking early. You can sign up to participate when you register for the conference. (If you have already registered and would like to participate, just email Susan to be added to the list. Details about our Boston Service Event will be added as soon as plans have been finalized.