The Furniture Industry’s
Premier Event
This premiere event offers furniture professionals key insights, unmatched networking, and industry innovation. Join to gain a competitive advantage and succeed in the furniture market.
Explore endless opportunities and elevate your business to new heights by attending the Furniture Today Leadership Conference in the lively city of Naples, FL, from December 3-5, 2024.
Meet our Keynote Speaker!
Alex Dorr, M.S., CSP
Alex Dorr, M.S., CSP
Title: Speaker, Vice President of People Evolution
Company: Reality-Based Leadership
Alex envisions a world where work is effortless, and teams are drama-free.
Standing side-by-side since 2015 with NY Times Bestselling author and thought leader Cy Wakeman, Alex collaborates with organizations and leaders globally to help them ditch the drama from the workplace, hardwire accountability in their teams and turn excuses into results.
Everything that Alex does as a speaker reveals to audiences that success and happiness is their natural state as a human being – once the drama is gone. His innate ability to connect with audiences of all sizes helps those experiencing success in their career to do it even more effortlessly, while those struggling with their workplace reality realize the same job they found themselves upset with today, becomes the job they look forward to and love tomorrow.
As a keynote speaker and trainer, he helps organizations exchange the endless argument for a DIFFERENT workplace reality for a shifted perspective that enables them to start achieving more success and fulfillment in their CURRENT workplace reality.
As a highly sought-after leadership expert, Alex was recently awarded the highly coveted CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) in 2023, placing him among the top 5% of speakers worldwide.
As a co-host of the Reality-Based Leadership podcast with Cy, he shares his journey, stories, and insights directly with over 30,000 leaders weekly to ditch the drama, modernize their leadership approach, and call their teams to greatness.
He holds a MSc International Business from the University of Derby (United Kingdom) and his client list includes Bank of America, Salesforce, Nationwide, John Deere, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Washington Commanders (NFL), Medtronic, Kaiser Permanente, Eli Lilly and Company, Mayo Clinic, Stanford Medicine, Adobe, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), among others.
Honoree Spotlight
Furniture Industry Leadership Awards
American Furniture Warehouse
Matter Brothers
Service to the Industry Award
Jim McIngvale
Owner, Gallery Furniture
Registration for Leadership 2024 is open! Reserve your spot today.
Join us for A Fireside Chat with Queer Eye Star and Home Furnishings Veteran Bobby Berk
Bobby Berk
Bobby Berk
Acclaimed and Emmy award-winning design expert, TV host and Author of Right at Home: How Good Design is Good for The Mind
Bobby Berk is an Emmy-winning design expert, TV host and author. He earned global recognition in 2018 for his work transforming lives and living spaces on Netflix’s Queer Eye, and has since established himself as a preeminent leader in the design industry. Bobby leads his eponymous multi-faceted brand, including comprehensive lifestyle destination BobbyBerk.com, while his design firm has become one of the most sought after in the home building industry. Most recently, Bobby released his first book, Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good For The Mind, available now.
He will be joining us at the Furniture Today Leadership Conference to share insights on consumer lifestyle preferences, opportunities for retailers and designers in new home communities, and where he thinks opportunities lie in the home furnishings industry.
Don’t take our word for it…
It’s been a fantastic, fantastic conference. The turnout has been fantastic. It’s good to be back in the same room with people.
We’re really looking forward to all of the new products that we have coming in for our customers. Lots of new products, lots of diversity in terms of different styles, and different models that we’re very excited to have for our customers.
Anytime I get on a panel, I’m happy to do it. It was informative and I thought there was good synergy with the people on the panel. It’s been a lot of great information to take home to the team.
Motivational, inspirational; a lot of things that we can take away to take our business to the next level.
It was so inspirational and it made me think so differently about our business and what’s important. It was fantastic.
Furniture Today is something we live with. The conference is a really good place to come spend a couple of days to review what your ideas and plans are for the coming year.
Agenda
1:15 PM | Golf Scramble 
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1:00 - 3:30pm | Activities: To be announced |
3:30 - 5:00 pm | Registration 
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6:30 - 7:30pm | Cocktail party 
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8:00 - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 - 9:15 am | Welcome & Intro |
9:15 - 10:00am | Main Stage Reality Based Leadership Keynote speaker Alex Dorr helps organizational leaders exchange the endless argument for a different workplace reality that enables them to achieve more success and fulfillment. This highly actionable presentations will enable furnitue industry leaders to immediately ditch the workplace drama, hardwire accountability in their teams and turn excuses into results. Speaker: Alex Dorr, M.S., CSP Company: Reality-Based Leadership Keynote Sponsored by  |
10:00 - 10:45am | Main Stage State of the Furniture Industry Leading industry CEOs discuss the the current state of the furniture economy, the critical issues impacting performance and the outlook for improvement in the coming year. Speaker: Mohamad Amini Executive Director Company: Samson Holdings Company: Synchrony Home & Auto |
10:45 - 11:15am | Networking Break |
11:15 - Noon | Track 1 What Furniture Dealers Need to Know About the Shifting Competitive Landscape Piper Sandler investment analyst Peter Keith will unpack the key factors that are currently shaping the furniture economy and reveal the most critical factors furniture dealers need to consider as they formulate stategy for 2025 and beyond. Speaker: Peter Keith Piper Sandler Managing Director, Senior Research Analyst Track 2 A Fireside Chat with Queer Eye Star and Home Furnishings Veteran Bobby Berk Designer Track
Today, Bobby is again redefining his career. Following the publication of his first book and continued partnership with Tri-Pointe Homes, he is sharing insights on consumer lifestyle preferences, opportunities for retailers and designers in new home communities, and where he thinks opportunities lie in the home furnishings industry. Speaker: Bobby Berk Acclaimed and Emmy award-winning design expert, TV host and Author of Right at Home: How Good Design is Good for The Mind |
12:00 - 1:30pm | Networking Lunch |
1:30 - 2:15pm | Track 1 What consumers like . . . and don't like, about shopping furniture stores Exclusive consumer research from Furniture Today Strategic Insights will cast new light on consumers' furniture shopping journey, uncovering why and how they shop furniture stores and why some consumers are opting to shop elsewhere. How can furnitures increase their share of consumers' purchases? Find out when this exclusive research is revealed Speaker: Bill McLoughlin Furniture Today Sponsored by  Track 2 Design Intervention Designer Track
PANEL: Veteran retailers share their experiences working with designers to increase sales, enhance consumer experience, and build repeat customers. Speakers: Michael Galloway
Stacey Garcia
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2:15 - 3:00pm | Main Stage Building a Culture of Innovation A panel of next-generation retailers discuss what today's leaders need to do to create a culture of innovation and growth that resonates with younger generations. Speakers: |
3:00 - 3:30pm | Networking Break |
3:30 - 4:15pm | Main Stage Unpacking AI: What you need to know right now Many company leaders recognize the need to understand and employ Artificial Intelligenece in their business. But separating future fantasy from today's actionable reality can be confounding. This detail-rich session will provide furniture dealers with the key insights they need to get started as well as to improve upon their current efforts. Speakers: |
4:15 - 6:00pm | Networking Activities |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Cocktail party  |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | Awards Dinner Sponsored by  |
8:00 - 8:45 am | Breakfast |
9:00 - 10:30am | Retail Renaissance: Creating the Ultimate Customer Experience Furniture Today will unleash the brainpower of its high-level audience in the form of a massive brainstorming session. This unique and fast-moving session will bring together retailers, manufacturers and suppliers to uncover the best strategies for enticing consumers into stores and exciting them with an exceptional shopping experience. Combining small and large group interactions, this moderated brainstorming session will give our attendees the chance to network while simultaneously laying the groundwork for a retail renaissance of great shopping experiences. |
10:30 - 11:00am | PANEL: The 'Secret Sauce' of Sales Success The furniture industry's most successful Retail Sales Associates will share the secrets of their success. Find out how these sales superstars work with consumers to fulfill their dreams of a beautiful home. These experts will reveal the "secret sauce" to higher close rates, bigger tickets and happier repeat customers. |
11:00 - 11:15 | Wrap up and adjourn |
$20.5 Billion in Retail Buying Power
$20.5 Billion in Retail Buying Power
Our attendees include over 100 retailers representing 40 leading retail organizations
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