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Joya Dass
Joya Dass leads business luminaries in discussions of leadership, corporate culture, and growth mindset.
In this workshop, you will learn the 6 reasons why capable people are reluctant to lead. It's something only people in positions of formal authority should do It's something people are born with rather than something they grow into It's a mindset issue making growth into leadership impossibleIt It will create interpersonal strife or hurt their image If things go south, they will be blamed It's easier to stay focused on the "doing." You have the knowledge. You have the skills. What is stopping you from grabbing the reigns? Join television presenter and founder of the Women's Leadership Academy, Joya Dass, as she engages award-winning scholar Sue Ashford in a conversation around why the most capable are often the least likely to step into leadership roles.
Did you notice that FIVE of the letters in the word MOTHER is "other." It's no wonder moms put everyone else first.
In this workshop, you will learn:
How to be SELF-ish and role model self care for your children
How to hold your own well-being sacred
How to give yourself permission to give your own needs a vote each day
How to identify your legacy
How to identify your values
Lisa Druxman is the author of "The Empowered Mama" a practical and interactive workbook full of simple, powerful tools to help moms reconnect with themselves.
Moms often try to juggle the roles of wife, mother, and homemaker while also being professional, competent women. Many moms feel like they can't take time to replenish their bodies and minds, despite their many roles. There's just not enough time in the day, and it seems selfish to take time when families and work still demand more.
Join us for this workshop with Lisa Druxman for some tools and learning on how to hold your own well being sacred.
Amanda used to wish there were more women creators for her to look up to. But she realized two problems: 1) It was her own fault for not paying closer attention, and 2) She could be the change she wanted to see. So she took her Twitter account seriously and started publishing online. One year later, she grew herTwitter following from 1k to 60k. And she would love to share her learnings with you. I will be interviewing her this Thursday at 12pm EST on LinkedIn Live
What you will learn:
Why the world needs more women to create and publish online
How to uncover your personal "why"
Redefine the typical audience building goals
Define and create your content strategy
How to deal with trolls (and red flags to look for when engaging online)
Bio:
Amanda Natividad is VP of Marketing for audience research startup, SparkToro. In her 9-year marketing career, she has managed B2C and B2B marketing teams across consumer packaged goods, software-as-a-service, and agency side. Earlier in her career, Amanda created Fitbit��s B2B content program and helped build their B2B marketing team. She also led marketing for ski lift ticket company Liftopia and for SEO content agency Growth Machine.
Amanda has spoken at marketing events like Demand Curve’s Growth Summit, and guest lectured at Columbia Business School and Cornell University. She is also a contributor for Adweek, a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, and a former journalist.
In this workshop, you will discover:
- The difference between being busy and productive
- How to reject the pressure to do more, be more, and achieve more
- How to focus on doing what’s important so you can live the lifestyle you want
- How to create a map to your ideal future
Did you know that your brain is FIVE TIMES more prone to noticing the negative than the positive. Why? Because that negativity bias was the difference between life and death for our ancestors. Thousands of years ago, they faced real fears, like being eaten by a lion.
But TODAY, that negativity bias could be torpedo-ing your ability to put 'self-care' in your calendar. Because your mom challenged you when you were getting your hair done at 7 years old. "Who do you think you are?" or someone told you at 13 "You didn't deserve it."
Here's the rub. Our brains love order. We are constantly referring to the past so we can guess what will happen in the future. Order. So, how can we short circuit our patterns, our negativity bias and start to make new choices?
In her latest book, productivity expert Tanya Dalton doesn't tell you what to think. She empowers you to choose how to think with a framework
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Reflection: Why do we make the choices that we do?
- You wanted a promotion at work. Why?
- To feel the success of climbing the ladder.
- You wanted to run a 5K. Why?
- To feel the joy of completion. To run over that finish line.
Projection. Based on the reflection, what are the choices you want to make?
Action: How do we move forward on the choices we are making?
Alteration: How do I protect for the times I get off track?
Join us April 27th for this workshop.
Zoë's company started over a sibling rivalry.
One Christmas, she was locked in a debate with her brothers about which direction the stock market was headed. To settle the score, she decided to gift them a competitive, social trading experience.
Except----there wasn't one.
So she built one.
Cue Zingeroo, a platform that allows you to compete and track performance on individual trades with your friends or family. You can be a seasoned trader or a new one. Its downloadable from the iOS store. She's raised $8.5M to date.
This is Zoe's second venture-backed company. Her first company was also founded because of a pain point. She had a relative with a rare disease and the cost of specialty medication was through the roof. She created an "Amazon of specialty medication." Zoe raised over $42M for ZappRx before the company was acquired by Allscripts in June of 2019.
Join me in this incredible conversation with serial entrepreneur Zoe Barry. When she isn’t busy building her company, Zoë enjoys mentoring first time founders. She has invested in over 20 startups to date.
You have shared over and over with me, how you need to set clear boundaries. But where do you start?
In this workshop, psychotherapist Terri Cole teaches a specific set of skills that can help you stop abandoning yourself for the sake of others (without guilt or drama) and consciously become empowered in every aspect of your emotional, physical, personal, and professional life.
Since becoming a Boundary Boss is a process, Cole also offers actionable strategies, scripts, and practices that can be used in the moment, whenever you need them. You will learn:
- How to recognize when your boundaries have been violated and what to do next
- How your unique “Boundary Blueprint” is unconsciously driving your boundary behaviors, and strategies to redesign it
- Powerful boundary scripts so you will know what to say in the moment
- How to manage “Boundary Destroyers”—including emotional manipulators, narcissists, and other toxic personalities
- Where you fall on the spectrum of codependency and how to create healthy, balanced relationships
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Are you endlessly giving and doing for all of the people all of the time?
Do you feel you are the one people come to when they need something because they know you’ll get it done, no matter what?
If you’re nodding your head, then this workshop is for you
It's easy to fall into the trap of seeing ourselves and our actions as being “nice” and a “good” person.
We’ve been taught to believe that taking care of ourselves makes us selfish and bad. So many of us were raised to define our goodness by putting others before ourselves.
When we give from a place of need and fear, what can happen is we end up resentful, angry, exhausted. We can feel like the people in our lives are taking advantage of us and our generosity. Every relationship is a dynamic, which means each individual is responsible for their 50%.
We need to ask ourselves, “How can I set healthy boundaries?"
What you will learn in this interview:
- Rejection. How do you deal with it?
- Why 'courage' is more important than 'confidence' ?
- The question of deserving. What is that nonnegotiable for you?
- Most think about the 'why' in life. Then the 'what.' Then the 'where.' Why Debbie puts the 'where' first?
I could tick off all the accolades and accomplishments of Debbie Millman.
- She designed the merchandise for the movie Star Wars.
- She worked on the redesign of Burger King. Hershey’s, Tropicana.
- At one point, if you walked into any given grocery store or supermarket, anything like that, she had a hand in about 20 percent of everything you might see or touch.
- She helped co found the world’s first master’s program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City,
- She is founder and host of "Design Matters," which is the world’s first and longest podcast about design.
But what I'm really about to give you is one of the most motivational talks you have ever experienced from a successful woman in business.
I will ask Debbie about three exercises she teaches her students:
- Her "10 year future you exercise." In your best possible life, what are the things you could accomplish?
- Understanding how you come across. How do you want to be perceived?
- What's a three-word combination that could only describe you?
And other questions.
Are you having a hard time finding talent? Keeping talent? In this workshop, Amanda Bedell shares non traditional places you aren't looking.
In response to your queries on hiring challenges, we bring in a strategist on the NON-TRADITIONAL places and ways to find and keep employees in this job market. Business Growth Strategist Amanda Bedell of BCC Business Consulting will share resources such as
- Local Worksource
- Success stories from clients who have used untraditional hiring methods.
- How and where to start to employ from these employment pools.
Are you a caregiver to an aging parent? Are you back to homeschooling children in the not so post pandemic environment? You will learn these things from this interview
Sociologist and Author Tracy Brower shares the capabilities that you develop as a caregiver and how you can leverage them to fuel your career:
- Leadership.
- Empathy.
- Stress Tolerance.
- Communication
- Time Management.
So you have built great skills which you know are relevant to business. You can convince your employer about your capabilities by making a strong business case. Tracy shares how.
Global human resources and talent development executive Amy P. Kelly presents six tips for building a corporate culture post-COVID-19. Given that we can’t return entirely to the old ways of working, it’s a great idea to step back and use this moment as an opportunity to rethink how we do business whilst protecting and developing our teams.
You have great ideas. You write about it. But how do you ensure the right people are reading it? This talk shares six tips In this workshop, you will learn Writing about the people you’d like to connect with (or the companies you’d like to work for). Proactively sharing articles you create. Using the “ladder strategy” for your content.
David Burkus, keynote speaker, and organizational psychologist, and author of Leading from Anywhere shares his six tips for not only being a more effective leader of a virtual team, but how to be a key contributor to the overall company culture – even when that culture is reduced to Zoom meetings and DM chats.
In this talk, you will learn to: Be disciplined about your 'me' time. Learn to say 'no'. Buck convention. Go it alone. Try new things. Say 'yes' to new experiences. Embrace the lessons, rather than fight them. Be kind to yourself. If you make a mistake, move on take stock of your values so you can prioritize. I'm in conversation with author Alka Joshi, author of the "Henna Artist" and "The Secret Keeper of Jaipur." It's fascinating trilogy that is a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick and set to become a Miramax TV production.