Every team hits a wall: a setback, constraint, or problem that leaves people feeling powerless. The result is often blame, excuses, and disengagement.
 
During this session, Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill will introduce Accountability 2.0 and three practical skills leaders can use to help people escape the Excuse Trap, focus on what they control, and reclaim their power to act.
 
Attendees will learn how to turn moments of surrender into greater ownership, momentum, and results. In essence, you’ll see how to not hold people accountable, but rather how to create accountable people. We call this self-accountability.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Recognize the mindsets and behaviors that signal a team has shifted from ownership into surrender. 
• Help people move beyond blame and excuses by focusing on what they can control and influence. 
• Apply three practical skills to strengthen self-accountability, restore momentum, and create proactive teams.

Russ Hill solves the $400B leadership training problem by transforming underperforming leaders into executives who deliver measurable business results. His journey began after being ranked the lowest-performing leader in his company—a setback that pushed him into intensive development at Gallup and Wharton and eventually into leading national media operations. That experience revealed a core truth: most leadership training focuses on soft skills instead of outcomes.

Russ refined his methodology through a decade of executive consulting across 14 countries, driving culture and performance transformations. His work helped scale Spectrum Association Management to 900+ communities and turn around major media brands at Bonneville International. He has coached leaders at Amazon, Cigna, Chick-fil-A, Lockheed Martin, Johnson & Johnson, and other global organizations.

As Co-Founder of Lone Rock Leadership, Russ created the Lead In 30 methodology and LeaderOS framework, helping leaders master clarity, alignment, and movement. He is the author of Deliver: Why Some Managers Get Results and Most Don’t and host of The Lead In 30 Podcast.