2024 Nautilus Annual Meeting

Wednesday, May 15 – Friday, May 17
Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center
7121 Bishop Road, Plano, TX 75024

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Dandapani Satgunasingam

Health and Mental Wellness Expert

About Dandapani

John Nersesian

US Global Wealth Management, PIMCO

About John

Chris Voss

Founder and CEO, The Black Swan Group

About Chris

Jay Baer

Business Growth and Customer Experience Expert

About Jay

Cam Marston

President, Generational Insights

About Cam

Jon Acuff

Author, Speaker, Podcaster

About Jon

Breakout Workshops

Three, one-hour breakout workshops will be held between 1:30 and 5 pm on Thursday afternoon, with a 15-minute break between them. We’ve had a lot of great suggestions on workshops for this year’s meeting, so as you register, please help us prioritize the topics that are most important to you.

Nautilus Night In - Wednesday, May 15

On Wednesday evening, we will provide dinner and entertainment at the hotel in celebration of Nautilus’s 30th Annual Meeting.

Nautilus Night Out - Thursday, May 16

We will be offering a Nautilus Night Out following Thursday’s reception at the hotel featuring various hosted restaurant choices as well as an opportunity to go out on your own and explore the Legacy North and The Shops at Legacy East areas and/or the Legacy West area.

Complimentary shuttle service will be provided for those who choose to dine on their own. You can let us know your preferences for the Nautilus Night Out as you register.

Important Information

Guest Fees

Guests will be charged a $900 fee. There is no guest fee charged for children working in agent’s business, successor agents with a signed agreement on file with the Home Office, District Agents, and Nautilus Members’ staff.

Hotel Registrations and Cancellations

All meeting registrants are 100% responsible for making their own hotel room reservations and any cancellation charges that may apply.

Flight and Airport Transportation and Reservations

Attendees are responsible for making their own flight and ground transportation arrangements upon arrival to Dallas. The Plano Marriott Town Center does not provide airport shuttle service.

Return transportation to DFW Airport and to Love Field will be provided on Friday, May 17, via complimentary motor coach service departing from the Marriott hotel lobby promptly at 12:30 pm.

Please note: If you depart at any other time or date, or if you use any airport other than DFW or Love Field, you will be responsible for arranging and purchasing your own ground transportation.

Additional transportation options:

Uber or Lyft: Uber and Lyft are available at DFW and Love Field airports.
Town Car: Premier Transportation, call 800-789-4847 or email reservations@premierofdallas.com for rates. Reservations required.
For shared van transportation to DFW or Love Field: Super Shuttle 800-258-3826, www.supershuttle.com. Reservations required.

Dress Code

The entire meeting is business casual, which includes dress pants, nice jeans, sweaters, shirts, skirts, and dresses that while not formal, still maintain a professional presence.

You may wish to bring a light jacket or sweater and an umbrella, as the weather in Dallas in May can be rainy, breezy, and cool. Check The Weather Channel’s forecast for Plano, TX, prior to departure: https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USTX1060:1:US.

Questions

For meeting registration questions please contact Megan_Hogan@newyorklife.com.

Dandapani Satgunasingam

After graduating university with a degree in electrical engineering, Dandapani Satgunasingam left it all behind to become a Hindu monk under the guidance of one of Hinduism’s foremost spiritual leaders of our time, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. For 10 years he lived a life of serious personal discipline and training at his guru’s cloistered monastery in Hawaii. When his vows expired, he chose to venture out into the world to share a practical and simple systematic approach to balancing work/life challenges. He works with entrepreneurs and some of the top athletes in the world to help them understand and leverage their mind so that they can be the best at what they do. He does this by empowering them with tools and teachings that have been used by Hindu monks of his tradition for thousands of years. His TEDx talk has over 5.6 million views and both his GoalCast videos garnered over a total of 75 million views in just five months.

John Nersesian

John Nersesian is head of advisor education at PIMCO, providing advanced wealth management and investment consulting education to financial professionals. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2019, he was senior managing director of wealth management services for Nuveen Investments. Previously, he was a first vice president at Merrill Lynch Private Client Group, where he also led advanced training for financial consultants. He served as a board member of the Investments and Wealth Institute (formerly IMCA) from 2006–2017 and as chairman for the 2014–2015 term, and he is a faculty member for the IWI Certified Private Wealth Advisor and Certified Investment Management Analyst education programs at Yale University and The University of Chicago. He has 38 years of investment and financial services experience and holds an undergraduate degree in business and economics from Lehigh University.

Chris Voss

Chris Voss is the founder and CEO of The Black Swan Group, a firm that uses a unique combination of negotiation skills developed from Scotland Yard and the FBI to help companies and individuals take their skills to the next level, solving communication problems with hostage negotiation strategies. Chris is the former lead crisis negotiator and lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI and co-author of the book, Never Split the Difference, in which he draws on his experiences in truly life-or-death situations to illustrate these techniques and offers scores of examples of how they translate into our working lives.

Jay Baer

Jay Baer is a business growth and customer experience author, researcher, and advisor. A 7th-generation entrepreneur, Jay has written seven best-selling business books and created six multi-million-dollar companies. He has consulted for more than 700 brands, including Nike, Oracle, IBM, and the United Nations. An inductee into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame, Jay also was named as one of the world’s top 30 Global Gurus in both customer experience and marketing. He founded the global strategy firm Convince & Convert. The firm received multiple Inc. 5000 designations, and Jay and his team provided winning ideas to leading brands in nearly every business category. He co-created the Social Pros podcast, and hosted the show for 500+ episodes, twice winning "best marketing podcast" from the Content Marketing Awards. Jay is also an active investor and works with dozens of startups as an advisor. And in his spare time, he is the second most-popular tequila influencer and educator on the planet. His Tequila Jay Baer channels on Instagram and TikTok reach hundreds of thousands of fans weekly.

Cam Marston

Cam Marston is an author, advisor, radio talk show host, and top-rated keynote speaker on the trends shaping the workplace and marketplace. His presentations are informative, engaging, humorous, and full of concrete research that is tailored to his audience. Cam enlivens the data with anecdotes, tales from the real business world, attention-grabbing visuals, and quips that make the messages and actionable strategies memorable. His original focus was on generational differences and their impact on the workplace and marketplace. Cam and his firm, Generational Insights, have provided research and consultation to hundreds of organizations, ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations, as well as to major professional associations. Cam’s four books and countless articles describe and analyze the major generations of our time, explaining how generational workplace and marketplace preferences affect every aspect of business, including recruiting and retention, management and motivation, and sales and marketing.

Jon Acuff

Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including All it Takes is a Goal, Soundtracks, and Finish. Published in more than twenty languages, his work is both critically acclaimed and adored by readers. When he's not writing, Acuff can be found on a stage, as one of INC's Top 100 Leadership Speakers. He's spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, and companies around the world including FedEx, Nissan, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Chick-fil-A, Nokia, and Comedy Central. Known for his insights wrapped in humor, Jon shared the stage with an American icon when he opened for Dolly Parton at the Ryman Auditorium. Jon lives outside of Nashville, TN, with his wife, Jenny, and two teenage daughters.