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launchbox Keynotes - Provoke Conversation and Action

8 Apr 2015 · 2 min

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In this keynote excerpt, Dan Negroni, CEO and founder of LaunchBox, explains the company’s purpose of closing the divide between millennial employees and their managers. He describes how LaunchBox educates millennials in practical, real‑world skills while simultaneously coaching managers to step aside, listen, and foster innovation through better relationships. Negroni stresses that success hinges on asking thoughtful questions, building human connections, and consistently delivering value to customers, the firm, and the workforce. He acknowledges that change is difficult, but frames it as a fiduciary responsibility: managers must mentor and share wisdom, and millennials must remain open to learning despite their confidence.

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And of course, Dan Negroni, who is our Chief Launch Officer and CEO of LaunchBox. Thank you for being here.
Good morning, everybody. I'm Dan Negroni, and I am CEO and founder of a company called LaunchBox. And at LaunchBox, we bridge the gap between millennials and managers. So we are all millennial, all day, day, 365 days a year, and we love them. And we kind of teach them the real-world skills they need to know, and then we teach all the managers to get out of their own way, to bridge the gap and connect with them and create some innovation and results. If you do your homework, if you ask great questions, and if your focus is always about delivering value to others, whether it be the customer, the firm, the company, the workforce, you're gonna win. But you have to— it's hard. People don't like change. Everything we do in life depends on creating another relationship with a human being. We're human. Whether it's power, whether it's money, whether it's love, whether it's information we seek. Whatever we need to do. Talking, asking questions. Most powerful thing you can do in any relationship. Help me to understand. Why did you do that? Why do you like that? What's the best thing that happened to you this year? What'd you do this weekend? What was the most fun about that? A fiduciary duty of managers is to teach those people and share the wisdom that Ryan was talking about. And the fiduciary duty of the millennial is to understand, I have stuff to learn even though I'm great and I'm here, right?