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Whatever you are doing right now is determined by the way you are thinking.
Whatever emotions you feel are influenced by your thinking.
Whatever you want – all your desires – are determined by your thinking.
If your thinking is unrealistic, it will lead you to many disappointments.
If your thinking is overly pessimistic, it will deny you due recognition of the many things in which you should properly rejoice.
In this webinar you will learn the tools the best thinkers use in their work and personal lives.
You will learn how to implement these qualities of the best thinkers:
- How to reflect on your thinking.
- How to be more purposeful.
- Intellectual tools to raise the quality of your thinking.
- How to distinguish thoughts from feelings and desires.
This webinar will help you reason well through the problems and issues you face at work and in your personal life.
Every interaction we have with the people we serve matters.
It is an opportunity to build trust, demonstrate professionalism, and deliver outcomes that truly make a difference in someone’s life.
Drawing on best practices and real-world examples, in this training we will explore the core competencies that define exceptional trauma-informed person-centered service, and how to implement them effectively – both as an individual and as part of a cohesive team.
In this fast-paced interactive session you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- 7 features of a superb client experience (and how to implement them).
- How to reduce client frustration and diffuse tension.
- 8 key skills of superb service: emotional consistency, follow through, professionalism, and more!
- How to stay calm and keep your stress level low when working with challenging personalities.
- How to communicate with clarity in a way that is person-centered, trauma-informed, builds trust, and reduces anxiety.
- How to establish good teamwork within your agency.
This training will make an immediate impact on the quality of your service and client experience!
Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World
Date: January 16, 2025
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Central Time
Description:
We limit ourselves by looking too often at the big picture, and at other times too long at the fine detail.
However, there is great power in these misperceptions. We can learn to leverage perceptual illusions if we know when and how to use them to our advantage.
In this webinar Social Psychologist Emily Balcetis will share four powerful yet largely untapped visual tactics that you can use to improve outcomes in several situations.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
Narrow Your Focus – How narrowing your focus helps you exercise effectively, save money, and find more time in your day.
Widen the bracket – Seeing the forest instead of the trees reduces temptations and helps you recognize when a change of course is in order.
Materialize your plan and your progress – Creating checklists and objective assessments inspires better planning and adjusts your gauge of what’s really left to be done.
Control your frame of reference – Knowing where to direct attention improves your ability to read others’ emotions, negotiate better outcomes, foster stronger relationships, and overcome fear.
Successful people literally see the world differently.
In this training you will learn how anyone can leverage this “perception gap” to their advantage!
Resilience and Self Care
When it Hits the Fan: Navigating Mistakes and High Stress Moments
Mistakes. Accidents. Failure. Divorce. Break ups. Bankruptcy. Foreclosure. Eviction. Recovery. Sometimes our life and work just hits the fan. How we navigate mistakes and stressful moments determines our health and well-being professionally, personally and for loved ones around us.
In this session you will learn:
- Effective strategies for handling the harder times of life.
- How to make good decisions when stuck between two unpleasant options.
- How to identify why mistakes happened so that we can learn and grow from them.
- How to manage stress and develop a healing and recovery plan.
Get ready to turn past mistakes into current strengths in this presentation that will help you prepare for, heal and transform during difficult experiences!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Where in your life and work do you need to fail to make it better?
That is the opening question of this thought provoking presentation by Josh Dye. Failure surrounds us and is a part of our lives every day. It is also filled with valuable lessons, if we have the courage to learn them.
You will learn
- How to make good decisions and move forward in the midst of strong, difficult emotions.
- How to determine when quitting is the right thing to do.
- Three ways to identify where you can grow through failure.
- How regular experimenting helps you innovate, grow, and lead.
You will also get inspired by learning to overcome fear through the 5 Steps of Courage and how to handle failure with humility and resilience. Featuring high profile examples from celebrities we all know, and some personal examples too, Josh identifies how failure can propel us as people and organizations forward.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
When things go wrong do you waste time in the fruitless act of blaming yourself and others?
Do you go on guilt trips and make excuses you know are silly and pointless?
We are all tempted to do the above things when times get tough. The solution is to become resilient. To cultivate your ability to recover from adversity. It is a vital skill.
In this extraordinary presentation Dr. Srikumar Rao will reveal the secret of extreme resilience. A quality that enables you to recover so fast from difficult experiences that an outsider would not realize you were laid low at all.
About the Speaker: Dr. Srikumar Rao
Dr. Srikumar Rao is founder of The Rao Institute. Dr. Rao has authored, Are You Ready to Succeed: Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life, which is an international best seller, and Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated and Successful – No Matter What, a best seller on Inc’s “The Business Book Bestseller List.”
He is also the creator of the pioneering course, Creativity & Personal Mastery. Srikumar Rao helps leaders around the globe transform their lives so that they can experience abundant joy, no matter what comes their way. Dr. Rao is also a TED speaker and author.
Stress Management: Reduce Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
This webinar will explore two questions:
1. What does a healthy identity look like when incorporating mind-body-spirit self care practices that help manage stress?
2. How can we implement effective mind-body-spirit practices to achieve and maintain wellness and wholeness?
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How to identify stressors and their impact on your life.
- The difference between vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
- Learn stress-relieving tools to target specific stressors.
- How to set professional and personal boundaries in order to alleviate stress.
About the Presenter: Dr. Gimel Rogers
Dr. Gimel Rogers is a licensed psychologist and is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology.
With over 10 years of clinical, professional speaking, and training experience she is the owner of F.I.R.E. Igniting Lives and founder of One Temple Fitness. She is a Custody Evaluator of the Professional Clinical and Forensic Services department at the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT).
She earned her doctorate from Pepperdine University and has provided trauma-focused care with clients from the Children of the Night Program, the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, FCI Terminal Island, and community programs serving survivors of intimate partner violence.
Post Traumatic Growth: Bouncing Back from Setbacks and Traumatic Life Experiences
Post traumatic growth is more than just bouncing back. It is when someone positively transforms their world view after experiencing trauma.
Negative experiences can spur positive change.
According to pyschologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun, people that achieve post traumatic growth report positive responses in these areas:
- Appreciation of life
- Relationships with others
- New possibilities in life
- Personal strength
- Spiritual change
Learning Objectives:
In this training you will learn 5 ways to facilitate post traumatic growth in your life and those you serve:
- Education
- Emotional Regulation
- Disclosure
- Narrative Development
- Service
We can become better after setbacks. In this training you will learn how!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do
In this webinar, Amy Morin, LCSW will provide guidance on how to raise mentally strong children.
Amy will share research, stories, and examples that help participants understand: (Learning Objectives)
- The 3 fears that affect the way we raise kids.
- The 13 unhealthy yet common parenting strategies that rob kids of the mental strength they need to become the best versions of themselves.
- The exercises that parents can perform alongside their children to help them build and flex the mental muscles they’re going to need in the real world.
About the Speaker: Amy Morin, LCSW
Amy Morin is the Editor-in-Chief of Verywell Mind, the biggest mental health site in the world. She’s a licensed therapist, a psychology lecturer at Northeastern
University, and an international bestselling author.
Her books, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do, 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do, and 13 Things Strong Kids Do, have been translated into more than 40 languages.
The Guardian dubbed her “the self-help guru of the moment” and Forbes calls her a “thought leadership star.”
Her TEDx talk, The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong, is one of the most popular talks of all time with more than 17 million views. Her articles on mental strength
reach more than 2 million readers every month.
Her advice has been featured by major media outlets, including Fox News, CNN, Oprah.com, Today, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, Business Insider, Time, and
the Hallmark Channel. She also hosts The Verywell Mind Podcast.
When she is not on the road for speaking engagements, you can find her in the Florida Keys where she lives on a sailboat.
The Innovations that are About to Change Your Life
From in-body organ regeneration and 200-year lifespans, to moveable cities and climate modification, many scientific advances that feel far off — even fictional — are likely right around the corner.
Understanding the paradigm-shifting nature of what is to come is essential for ensuring transitions that preserve human life and dignity.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning objectives):
- The most likely paradigm-shifting innovations that are within most human lifetimes.
- The ways in which each of these shifts will impact human culture, governance and economies, and more.
About the Speaker: Matthew LaPlante
Matthew LaPlante is the co-writer of Lifespan: Why We Age, and Why We Don’t Have To, a New York Times best seller. He is also the founder and host of a radio program on Utah Public Radio called UnDISCIPLINED, and is the co-host of the Lifespan podcast. Matthew also serves as associate professor of journalistic writing at Utah State University.
The Power of the Downstate: Recharge Your Life Using Your Body’s Own Restorative Systems
If you’re like most people, the relentless daily grind of go-go-go, do-do-do, can run down your energy and deplete your resources.
While most of us find our lives full of “Upstate” moments that rev up our stress engines, it doesn’t have to be this way.
In the webinar world-renowned sleep researcher Sara C. Mednick, PhD, will show us how we can access the most replenishing and repairing aspects of sleep through activities and moments that happen during our day by diving into our “Downstate.”
Dr. Mednick shows that bringing ourselves back to the Downstate is critical for our health, well-being, and cognitive longevity.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How our bodies and minds are guided by a natural Upstate/Downstate rhythm—and how our modern lifestyles disrupt these rhythms to our detriment.
- How our vital organs and systems benefit from spending more time in the Downstate – which decreases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, chronic illness, and early death.
- How we can activate the Downstate through rethinking how to breathe, eat, sleep and exercise.
About the Speaker: Dr. Sara Mednick
Professor Sara C. Mednick is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine and author of The Hidden Power of the Downstate (Hachette Go!, pub date: April, 2022) and Take a Nap! Change Your Life. (Workman).
Dr. Mednick’s seven-bedroom sleep lab works literally around-the-clock to discover methods for boosting cognition by napping, stimulating the brain with electricity, sound and light, and pharmacology. Her lab also investigates how the menstrual cycle and aging affect the brain. Her science has been continuously federally funded (National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense Office of Naval Research, DARPA).
She received a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University, and then completed a postdoc at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and UC San Diego.
Working through Crisis: Strategies to Support Yourself and Clients
Right now many people are working through a crisis. The ongoing pandemic and recent staff and service shortages are creating incredible challenges for clients and the professionals that help meet their basic needs.
To survive this moment we need more than basic coping mechanisms. We need resilient strategies that help us physically and emotionally endure whatever we are facing. We also need tips to engage with clients when things get tough that are beyond our control.
In this training we will explore: (Learning Objectives)
- How to establish healthy personal and professional boundaries.
- How to become more emotionally resilient.
- How to effectively communicate with clients when challenges arise.
- What to do when it seems like there are no good options.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
We’ve all been there at that make it or break it moment in our lives. That moment where it seems as if time stops and the world is spinning, but you are not moving.
You have a decision to make. You have an obstacle in front of you that you did not expect or did not suspect it to be.
Maybe you haven’t attained the success you feel your hard work should have brought you by now or maybe you feel you have the talent to be all that you can be, be the expert in your field, but you just can’t seem to put that talent or those skills into position to maximize the moment.
Maybe you feel your potential or this gift you have just isn’t being tapped and you have no clue what’s missing or what’s holding you back.
If this resonates, this is the webinar for you.
In this webinar you will learn how to bring out your best, no matter what has happened in the past, or what you are doing now.
You will learn to overcome obstacles in 5 major areas:
- Focus
- Determination
- Action
- Perspective
- Mindset
Surviving and Thriving During Uncertainty, Stressful Times and Beyond
Stress. Anxiety. Frustration. Fear. Uncertainty. Have you felt any of these emotions lately?
If so, you are not alone.
The COVID-19 pandemic and recent social unrest are taking a toll on our emotional, physical, social, and financial health.
Self care is hard for many of us during ‘normal’ times. How are we supposed to manage all of this?
There are three common problems with a lot of self care advice:
1. It is too basic (yeah…I already know I’m supposed to exercise, eat right and go to bed early!).
2. It creates extra work during an already stressful time. (“Do this new thing, this new thing, AND this new thing and you’ll turn your life around!”).
3. It’s unrealistic (No, most of us can’t actually do it all, especially during times like this. Some balls will drop!).
Let’s explore a better way to do self care.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning objectives):
- Triggers – How to identify what is bothering you, so you can resolve it.
- Anti-Goals – How to identify what you don’t want to do, so you can do what you want.
- Subtraction – What to eliminate to make your life better.
- Dropping the ball – What commitments to drop and what to preserve when time gets tight.
You will also learn practical tips on how to manage difficult emotions, achieve mental strength, and maintain physical and financial health during difficult times.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Letting go of what holds you back is the key to reaching your greatest personal and professional potential. Sharing tips from her bestselling book 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, Amy Morin, LCSW will share how to give up the unhealthy shortcuts that rob us of mental strength.
In this webinar, Amy will share a clear plan of how to build resilience and mental muscle that will help you during the greatest challenges you face in work and life!
You will learn:
- How to stop wasting time feeling sorry for yourself
- How to stop giving away your power
- How to embrace change
- How to stop wasting energy on things you can’t control
- How to stop worrying about pleasing others
- How to overcome the fear of taking calculated risks
- How to stop dwelling on the past
- How to stop making the same mistakes over and over
- How to enjoy the success of others
- How to enjoy alone time
- How to overcome feelings of entitlement
- How to foster patience when results don’t come immediately
This is a life-changing presentation. Don’t miss it!
About the Presenter: Amy Morin, LCSW
As a psychotherapist turned author, Amy’s mission is to make the world a stronger place. Her education and expertise as a psychotherapist, combined with her personal experiences overcoming tragedy, give her a unique perspective on mental strength. In 2013, Amy introduced the world to the concept of mental strength when her article, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, became an anthem read by more than 50 million people. She’s been dubbed the “self-help guru of the moment,” by The Guardian and Forbes refers to her as a “thought leadership star.” Her advice has been featured by numerous media outlets including Time, Fast Company, Success, Business Insider, Oprah.com, Fox News, CNN, CNBC, and Today. She also appears in a Red Bull TV show called Visions of Greatness. She lectures across the globe to provide trainings, workshops, and keynote speeches that teach people how to build their mental muscle. Students from 42 countries access her online mental strength course. Amy’s also a lecturer at Northeastern University. She is a columnist for Forbes, Inc., and Psychology Today. She also serves as a parenting expert for Verywell.
Transform Your Boundaries: Good Boundaries, Free You is centered on the simple notion that your boundaries are there to take care of you, but can’t unless you tune in to, know and strengthen them.
Learn from author, national speaker, and therapist Sarri Gilman, LMFT how to tackle boundaries of all shapes and sizes, from the simplest to the most extreme, by developing the necessary techniques.
Learning Objectives
- A four-step process to build self awareness, boundary awareness, emotional awareness, and how to deal with the most challenging boundary issues.
- How to examine cause-effect relationships and relate those to boundary development.
- How to recognize which boundary skills you need to develop, and how to practice those skills.
- Practical ways to set boundaries in extremely challenging situations.
Get ready to transform your boundaries and life with Sarri Gilman!
About the Presenter: Sarri Gilman, LMFT
Sarri Gilman, LMFT is a psychotherapist, author, and workshop presenter. She is the author of Transform your Boundaries® (2014) and Naming and Taming Overwhelm for Healthcare and Human Service Providers (2017). Her humanitarian work includes founding two non-profits, and running non profits for 20 years.
In 2014 she retired from running non-profits to focus on teaching about boundaries. Her work with people led her to conclude that we have lots do to clarify our boundaries, improve our self-care, and face the things that are overwhelming.
Sarri continues to work in private practice on Whidbey Island and teach workshops. She lives with her husband and a tiny dog name Romeo. She spends her free time nordic skiing, knitting, swimming, hanging with her grown kids, and jogging on the island roads of her home.
- Practical mindfulness exercises you can use every day.
- How to reduce the impa+ct of difficult emotions.
- How to stop spiraling negative thoughts and bring your mind back to the present moment.
- The benefit of having an intentional calming space.
- Simple meditation exercises that bring peace and focus.
- How to use intentions and affirmations when setting goals.
- Mindfulness strategies in the workplace, and more!
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a health issue most people are familiar with, but what about those individuals who dedicate their lives to caring for the traumatized? What is the cost to them? Every day, professionals in the ‘caring professions’ selflessly serve traumatized people.
However, research has shown it comes at an extreme cost. The empathetic nature of caring professionals exposes them to an increased risk of vicarious trauma, or Compassion Fatigue, where the helper during a crisis can also become personally affected without experiencing the trauma. The PTSD symptoms can begin to manifest in those serving the traumatized and begin to create significant personal, emotional, and psychological changes within a person.
Amy Cunningham discovered Compassion Fatigue in her work as a supervisor of a juvenile probation therapeutic group home. Not realizing it, Amy’s constant exposure to the troubled teens and their issues would change her, and she developed Compassion Fatigue. After several months of implementing strategies recommended for Post Traumatic Growth, she began to normalize and find healing.
In this webinar, you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- How to differentiate between stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue.
- How to recognize the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue.
- How to identify the trajectory of compassion fatigue and begin to implement the 5 resilience’s needed to assist you in achieving post-traumatic growth.
About the Presenter: Amy Cunningham
Amy inspires individuals to live a life of compassion, empathy, passion, and purpose. She has spent the last 19 years working with nonprofits and mental health organizations, which began with a focus on assisting adolescents to overcome trauma and redefine their lives.
After recognizing the negatives effects that caring can cause, she became a certified Compassion Fatigue Educator through Green Cross Traumatology, and has traveled throughout the nation advocating a balance between work, life, and taking care of oneself. In 2011, Amy developed the Compassion Fatigue Training Program for the Center for Health Care Services – a division of Bexar County, Texas’ community mental health agency.
Amy currently serves as a Talent Management Consultant for CHRISTUS Health. CHRISTUS Health is an international non-profit hospital system with more than 35,000 employees. Amy serves on a team dedicated to the implementation and planning of all Leadership Development programs for the CHRISTUS Health System.
Since understanding Compassion Fatigue is vitally important to employee health, Amy pioneered the development of Compassion Fatigue training for CHRISTUS.
We live in world of high stress. From intense workloads, to looming deadlines, to personal difficulties- stress takes on many forms that adversely affect productivity, performance, and health.
Stress is a real problem that affects the bottom line of work and life. When we try to manage stress instead of using it to our advantage it makes us feel:
- Fatigued
- Depressed
- Unproductive
- Unmotivated to achieve and succeed
When we embrace the power of stress utilization we realize that we are in charge of our inspiration and energy levels and we become:
- High performers
- Energized
- Healthy
- Driven to conquer obstacles and succeed
Based on in-depth scientific research of how the human brain and body processes stress, working directly with hundreds of clients from some of the most intense environments imaginable, and challenging personal experiences, Dr. Terry Lyles has pioneered the field of stress utilization. Stress is not something that can be managed; but something that can be used and controlled for maximized output and success.
This insightful and eye-opening presentation will teach you: (Learning Objectives)
- Why stress utilization is key and stress management is ineffective.
- How to navigate stress and pressure in the workplace and your personal life.
- The ways that you respond to stressful situations will define your future efforts and endeavors.
- Simple ways to recharge and recover for maximized energy throughout the day.
- How to align your mind and body in order to maximize productivity.
Most of all, Terry shows you that when you take hold of stress you become a better more productive leader, manager, employee, and person in every area of your life.
About the Presenter: Dr. Terry Lyles
Dr. Terry Lyles’ work is focused on teaching groups of all ages how to navigate life’s storms and difficult situations through stress utilization and work/life balance training.
Terry has spent his life measuring and studying human performance. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology, has conducted extensive research in sports science, and is an expert in biotelemetry and psycho-telemetry.
Recognized as a thought leader in his field, Dr. Terry Lyles has appeared on NBC, ABC, USA Today, CNN, Headlines News, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, FOX News, and in U.S. News & World Report. He has also hosted a premier talk show sponsored by Success Magazine and was heard on-air as the “Stress Doctor” in south Florida.
Dr. Lyles has spent the past 20 years working with a diverse group of clientele in extreme settings. He has brought the vital tool of stress utilization to organizations like NASCAR Evernham Motorsports, DaimlerChrysler, Macy’s West, Pfizer, Universal Studios, ABC, ESPN, and Disney.
Perhaps the greatest teacher has been Terry’s own personal experiences. He has voluntarily placed himself into emotionally intense environments and situations like supporting fire-rescue workers in and around Ground Zero, helped international forensic medical teams in the Asian tsunami-torn area, and served regularly as a resource for other regions experiencing hurricanes and natural disasters.
He also has served as a caretaker for his own adult son—diagnosed with Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy, he wakes up every day facing an uphill battle against his physical limitations. Despite being given dismal odds, his son emotes joy and powers through the day with immense motivation. His son’s example made Terry ask an impactful question, “What is my excuse?” and then “What is your excuse?”
No one should live as a slave to his or her stress. Terry knows without a doubt that his time- tested, scientifically-measured approach to stress utilization fosters creativity, cultivates motivation, and increases productivity.
Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work
As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more.
There’s just one problem: most of these solutions are making things worse.
Creativity isn’t produced on an assembly line, and endless hustle is ruining our mental and physical health while subtracting from our creative performance. Productivity and Creativity are not compatible; we are stuck between them, and like the opposite poles of a magnet, they are tearing us apart.
When we’re told to sleep more, meditate, and slow down, we nod our heads in agreement, yet seem incapable of applying this advice in our own lives.
Why do we act against our creative best interests?
WE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO FLOAT.
The answer lies in our history, culture, and biology. Instead of focusing on how we work, we must understand why we work―why we believe that what we do determines who we are.
This webinar will explore how our work culture creates contradictions between what we think we want and what we actually need, and points the way to a more humane, more sustainable, and, yes, more creative, way of working and living.
About the Speaker: Rahaf Harfoush
Rahaf Harfoush is a Strategist, Digital Anthropologist, and Best-Selling Author who focuses on the intersections between emerging technology, innovation, and digital culture.
She is the Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture and teaches “Innovation & Emerging Business Models” at Sciences Politique’s school of Management and Innovation in Paris. She is currently working on her fourth book.
Her third book, entitled “Hustle & Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work,” was released in 2019. She has been featured by Bloomberg, The CBC, CTV, and Forbes for her work on workplace culture.
How to be Physically, Emotionally, and Mentally Strong
Strength is built by pushing back against whatever life throws at you. Strength is built by doing what’s hard and leaving your comfort zone.
Over time, everything gets messier and more disorganized. Even if you do nothing, everything still deteriorates and degrades. Without order, optimal function is impossible.
The consequence of suboptimal functioning is mediocre living.
Strong people resist the effects of entropy.
Strength is what allows you to build, rejuvenate, and organize your energies. Strength can take your life from subpar to outstanding.
- Physical strength fights against nature. It builds and preserves physical health.
- Emotional strength resists hysterics. It nurtures and develops emotional well-being.
- Mental strength erodes irrationality. It fortifies and protects mental health.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How to build physical strength.
- How to build emotional strength.
- How to build mental strength.
About the speaker: Ed Latimore
Ed Latimore is a best-selling author, former professional heavyweight boxer, and competitive chess player. His writing focuses on self-improvement and a practical approach to stoic philosophy.
Over 30,000 men and women subscribe to his newsletter, Stoic Street Smarts, for tips about self growth
Managing Stress for Positive Change
In the workplace, stress is often viewed in purely negative terms.
It’s seen as a response that should simply be minimized or pushed aside. However, it’s possible to use stress to fuel positive change.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):
- What exactly stress is.
- How you can train yourself to use stress in more effective ways.
- Reactions vs. responses.
- Things we can do to reduce employee stress when an organization experiences difficult times.
About the Presenter: Dr. Heidi Hanna
As an experienced speaker, Dr. Heidi Hanna has been featured at many national and global conferences, including the Fortune Magazine Most Powerful Women in Business Summit, ESPN Women’s Leadership Summit, and the Million Dollar Round Table.
Dr. Hanna is the Chief Energy Officer of Synergy Brain Fitness, a company providing brain-based health and performance programs to individuals and organizations, a Founding Partner of the Academy for Brain Health and Performance, and a Fellow and Advisory Board Member for the American Institute of Stress.
She is a NY Times bestselling author of several books, including The Sharp Solution, Stressaholic, and Recharge.
Her clients have included Google, Starbucks, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and WD40 as well as the PGA Tour and the National Football League. Dr. Hanna serves as an Everyday HealthExpert Wellness Advisory Board member, and a National Board Member and Certified Humor Professional with the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, although she won’t admit she’s funny.
Description:
Do you feel deep down that if you could just get some momentum that you could create the life you want?
Does it annoy you that you can see the path to success right in front of you, but can’t bring yourself to do it?
If you are the type of person who simply needs clarity, direction, and accountability to push you forward, this webinar is for you.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- How to identify the key sticking points and blind spots that keep you stuck in loops of procrastination.
- How to develop the mental toughness you need to thrive in an unfair world.
- How to stop being a ‘self-help junkie’ who never gets anything done and start executing your ideas.
Get ready to learn concrete steps, tools, strategies, and mindsets that will help you make real change!
SLOW does not mean doing everything at a snail’s pace. That would be absurd. It means doing everything at the right speed: quickly, slowly or whatever pace works best.
Slow means being present, living each moment fully, and putting quality before quantity in everything from work to food to parenting.
In this webinar you will learn:
- How slowing down actually helps us achieve more.
- The main reasons we feel like we are in such a rush.
- How to maximize each moment at work and home.
- Tips to improve thinking and decision making.
This webinar will help you work and live with greater intention and enjoyment.
Transitions: How to Grow During Work and Life Changes
Life is full of transitions, both large and small. We change jobs, move on from relationships, lose loved ones, and reflect on our beliefs and values. These moments of change present great opportunity, but also risk. Depending on how we handle them, transitions can lead to growth OR setback emotionally, physically, and financially.
In this insightful, reflective and interactive presentation you will learn:
- How to assess if your life and work reflects your values.
- How to prepare for transitions we see coming in the future.
- A 4-step process for making good decisions during times of transition.
- The Relationship Inventory – How to manage relationships during transition.
- How to handle transitions at work.
This presentation features multiple video and music clips that put our moments of transition in perspective. Get ready to learn strategies that will help you learn, grow and progress during times of transition!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Conform. Do what everyone else is doing. Never quit. Society (and your industry) has laid out a path for you to follow, but is it right for you? Following the masses leads to stress, debt, burnout, and living life in conflict with your values. There is a better way!
Learning Objectives
- How to overcome burnout at work
- How to overcome burnout in your personal life
- Tips for spending time in ways that bring you energy
- How live with more efficiency.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Leadership transcends position and hierarchy. It is about initiative, passion, forward-thinking, asking tough questions, calculated risks, and decisive actions during moments that make your heart pound.
Professional and personal leadership takes courage. This is where thought-provoking presentations and consulting by Josh Dye and Convene, LLC make the difference. Since 2010, attendees in over 150 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he melds practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
Speaking of experience, Josh has demonstrated excellent performance and leadership at each professional stop. While working for the MN Multi Housing Association he helped double its membership in Greater MN in less than 18 months, and launched the organization’s education programming statewide. At the National Association of the Remodeling Industry- MN Chapter, Josh helped set association records in member recruitment, event attendance, and awards program participation. During his tenure at HousingLink the organization reached all-time highs in website traffic and individual donations. He also spearheaded the launch of HousingLink’s first earned income ventures Twin Cities Rental Revue and Housing Hub.
Josh is the Founder and President of the Convene Training + Resilience Community.
Society tells us that “We can do anything!”, but many people instead hear, “We have to do everything…perfectly.”
We all know that perfection is an unrealistic goal, but the continued quest for it often leaves people of all ages feeling overwhelmed. This presentation will reveal 3 stress-reducing mottos to incorporate into your daily life.
You will learn (learning objectives):
- How to quiet critical self-talk
- How to reduce feelings of guilt
- How to shift your thinking from “I should” to “I want to.”
Viewers will also get a list of relevant resources to support this shift and participate in an exercise to learn where to begin.
About the Speaker: Megan Bearce, LMFT
Megan Bearce, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice with over 16 years of experience providing support and assistance to clients and offer the following unique specialties: overwhelmed women, perfectionists, and super commuters/road warriors and their spouses.
She is the author of Super Commuter Couples: Staying Together When A Job Keeps You Apart and speaks regularly to groups and at conferences, presenting on a variety of topics related to the challenges 21st century families face. Her professional career spans two decades as a writer, speaker and psychotherapist.
Megan earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles.
Next Level Self Care
Next level self care is more than just mastering coping mechanisms.
It requires sacrifice that allows us to develop a resilient lifestyle that thrives no matter what is happening in the world.
Next level self care is hard, and not always fun, but worth it.
In this training you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- How to establish healthy boundaries in relationships.
- How to become more emotionally resilient.
- Resources to improve fitness and nutrition.
- Next level financial self care.
Next level self care is about prioritizing and making hard trade-offs. Learn how in this training!
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
New Normal: How to Adapt When Things Change
Sometimes things suddenly change and we find ourselves grasping for a new normal.
Examples include:
- A loved one dies.
- A relationship ends.
- A new job role or responsibilities.
- A big change in income.
- A big change to our previously comfortable routines.
These sudden changes can leave us feeling out of sorts, lost, uncomfortable, and not knowing what to do next.
In this we will cover how to develop a mindset that adapts quickly when changes happens.
You will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- How to adjust your expectations
- How to determine what is essential and what is not.
- How to manage uncertainty and identify reliable information.
- How to manage relationships during times of uncertainty.
- How to gain long term perspective during short-term trials.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
How to Set Healthy Boundaries
Are you tired of bending over backwards for everyone else while no one really looks out for you?
Does it feel like you are always trying to make others happy, and if you ever dare set a limit, you get pushback or guilt trips?
Do you secretly fear saying no because you’re worried people will no long value, or even like you, if you do?
If so, this is the webinar for you.
When you KNOW where your boundaries are and can communicate them confidently, all this will change.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
- Stand firm in your limits and teach others to respect them too.
- Stop feeling pushed around and talked into things you really don’t want to do.
- Stop feeling so trapped with all the daily expectations and, instead just slow down and enjoy your life.
- Say no without worrying that people will no longer like or value you.
- End the need to justify your choices- and feel GOOD about listening to and living your own life for a change.
Get ready to put the right boundaries in place, and start listening to yourself and confidently setting your limits without feeling guilty, stressed or selfish.
About the Speaker: Julia Kristina
Julia is a world class therapist, teacher and speaker who has a natural ability to connect with both individuals and groups because of how she is able to bring deep conversations to the surface, and bring clarity to the complex things that make us perfectly imperfect beings.
From the moment Julia Kristina learned that there was such thing as a job where one could help another human being grow, heal and make changes that would transform their lives, and thus the lives of generations to come, she knew she had to do whatever it took to become a therapist.
Shortly after becoming a therapist, she realized that her love of therapy was followed closely by her love of teaching and public speaking – but being a mom of small children, wasn’t willing to spend her evenings and weekends at social and networking events to build out this part of her business, so she hopped online and started giving live mental wellness and personal development talks to what quickly became an audience of thousands of raving fans and followers that connected instantly with her honest, clear, yet easy and relatable way of communicating.
From there, she’s been invited to speak at regional and national conferences and on news segments as an mental wellness and mindset expert, has created her own suite of personal development courses, programs and seminars, and most recently, Julia and her Associates have began bringing their expertise to their local community through in-person corporate lunch and learns and day long or multi day workshops and trainings.
The 7 Types of Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity
How can we keep our energy, happiness, creativity, and relationships thriving in the midst of never-ending family demands, career pressures, and the stress of everyday life?
Through rest.
But rest is more than just sleep.
According to Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine doctor, there are 7 essential types of rest we must get:
- Physical
- Mental
- Spiritual
- Emotional
- Sensory
- Social
- Creative
A deficiency in any one of these types of rest can have unfavorable effects on our health, happiness, relationships, creativity, and productivity.
In this webinar you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- The science of rest.
- The spirituality of rest.
- The gifts of rest.
- The fruits of rest.
In this webinar you will learn the tools to give yourself permission to embrace rest, set boundaries, and seek sanctuary without any guilt, shame, or fear.
About the Speaker: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a Board-Certified internal medicine physician and work-life integration researcher.
She is the founder of Restorasis, a professional development agency dedicated to restoring wellbeing in the workplace by working with companies that care about their employees and want them to succeed at work as well as at home.
As a busy physician, author, and mom, she understands that life’s demands can leave you feeling mentally overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and physically tired. Daily she helps high-achievers deal with their work-rest imbalance and find actionable answers to the thriving lifestyle they desire.
Regret Reclaimed: How to Improve Decisions and Performance by Learning From Negative Moments
People often say I have no regrets, or live with no regrets.
But let’s face it, regrets are inevitable.
We have all done things that we wish we had handled differently.
According to author Daniel Pink, there are 4 categories of regrets:
- Foundation Regrets: “If only I’d done the work or put in the effort.”
- Boldness Regrets: “If only I’d taken that risk.”
- Moral Regrets: “If only I’d done the right thing.”
- Connection Regrets: “If only “I’d reached out.”
Handled properly, regrets help us learn.
In this training we will dig into the 4 categories of regrets and learn how we can use them to do the following (Learning Objectives):
- How to use regret to improve personal and professional decisions.
- How to use regret to boost performance.
- How to use regret to deepen meaning.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Description:
This webinar is about self sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it…for good.
Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
- Extract crucial insights from your most damaging habits.
- Build emotional intelligence by understanding your brain and body.
- Release past experiences.
- Step out of your own way, and into your potential.
For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome.
To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb.
In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
Learn how in this webinar!
Situational Awareness Safety
Do you serve clients in these places?
- Homes
- Hotels
- Other potentially volatile locations (shelters, treatment facilities, encampments, etc).
If so, you may have played the “what if” game in your head:
- What if they have a dog?
- What if I see a gun?
- What if I am chased or attacked?
- What if I get hurt?
Situational awareness helps you make careful, safe decisions when faced with a potentially unsafe scenario.
In this interactive Situational Awareness webinar will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- How to calmly make decisions when faced with an unsafe situation.
- How to act proactively to keep yourself safe.
- How to mentally prepare and develop a mindset of awareness.
- Safety tips to help your agency prepare.
Don’t leave your safety, well-being, and health to chance. Learn situational awareness safety skills in this webinar!
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Effective Communication
De-Escalation: Practical Techniques to Manage Emotional Reactions and Hostile Behaviors
In this training you will learn practical de-escalation techniques to help manage moments of crisis, intense emtional reactions, and hostile behaviors in way that promote positive outcomes for the people you serve.
We will cover trauma informed strategies that reduce the likelihood of a potential crises occurring, and situational awareness safety tips to follow when working with someone who has the potential to behave in a hostile manner.
You will also learn (Learning Objectives):
- Common causes and triggers of aggressive behavior.
- Skills for active listening and empathy.
- The role of nonverbal communication in de-escalation.
- How to identify signs of crisis situations and learn strategies for managing them effectively.
- Best practices for preventing future crises.
- Situational awareness safety tips to keep you safe.
By the end of this training you will have a greater understanding of de-escalation techniques and how to use them effectively.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Does it feel like people are not fully reading your messages?
Do you ask questions in an email that are misunderstood by others, or not answered at all?
Do you feel frustrated or drained from processing so much information each day?
Do you wish people would just get to the point?
If so, this is the training for you!
In this highly interactive training you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- The difference between well-written and effectively written.
- How to make sure all of your questions get answered in an email.
- The best format to respond to the questions of others.
- How to write with more simplicity and clarity.
- How to ethically use A.I. to write better.
- How to reduce the number of back and forth communcations.
Get ready to reduce information overload and increase efficiency with the tips you learn in this training!
Every person has the power to communicate and connect authentically. On the other side of this connection is TRUST. And trust turns into more abundance, more partnerships, more progress.
What people don’t realize is in order to get clear and make connections with people, we first need to understand HOW to discover our own truth, and share it with others in a way that resonates.
Erin Weed has developed a system for this called The Dig. She takes the audience on an interactive journey to first understand self, and then connect with others.
She teaches an exercise called Head-Heart-Core to help people understand the difference between expressing thoughts, feelings and desires. When people learn to communicate from all three places, we are showing up as the most authentic version of ourselves.
Erin helps people understand the unique power of our stories, the lessons we learn from them and the universal truths that tie all humans together.
Objectives
- Increase trust among co-workers, colleagues and clients
- Authentically communicate thoughts, feelings and desires
- Use storytelling for deeper interpersonal connection
- Distill your truth down to just ONE WORD
- Feel more clear and confident with who you are</li
- Aligning your work and life to be congruent with your words
- Become more confident in showing up as your true self
- Make stronger connections with people in a shorter amount of time
About the Presenter: Erin Weed
Erin Weed helps leaders and organizations find their voice and speak their truth. She is passionate about communication and authenticity…and the human connection that results as we show up as our true selves.
Erin has been a professional speaker for 18 years, and has spoken to over one million people at live events around the world. She has won numerous speaking awards, and was the closing speaker for TEDxBoulder 2017.
Erin is an experienced keynote speaker, workshop leader and emcee. Her style is humorous, authentic and engaging – the kind of presenter who everyone wants to be friends with. Her ability to connect and inspire keeps her busy traveling, and she hopes to meet you soon.
In both personal and professional life, building rapport is key to creating lasting relationships. Simpatico—the ability to connect and build understanding with people from all walks of life—isn’t just a skill, it’s an art. Whether you’re meeting new colleagues, clients, or making friends, knowing how to navigate different personalities and communication styles can make all the difference.
🌟 What is Simpatico? Simpatico is more than just getting along; it’s about creating a harmonious connection with others by understanding their unique perspectives, responding authentically, and adapting your approach to fit their needs. It’s about finding common ground while respecting differences.
💬 Why It Matters:
- Strengthens relationships and fosters collaboration
- Builds trust and enhances communication
- Helps you connect with diverse groups of people
- Creates positive, supportive environments in both work and social settings
🔑 Key Strategies for Building Rapport:
- Adapt to Different Communication Styles – Learn how to identify and meet the needs of different personalities.
- Practice Active Listening – Show genuine interest in what others are saying to establish trust and understanding.
- Find Common Ground – Focus on shared values, interests, or goals to bridge any gaps.
- Use Empathy and Compassion – Be sensitive to others’ feelings, and approach conversations with an open mind.
- Be Genuine – Authenticity goes a long way in building strong, lasting connections.
🌱 Tip: Building rapport is about creating mutual respect. Stay curious, open-minded, and adaptable, and you’ll form meaningful connections with anyone—no matter their background or personality.
👉 Ready to connect with more people on a deeper level? Start practicing these strategies today and watch your relationships flourish!
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Assertiveness is being self-assured and confident without being aggressive. Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
This webinar will help you navigate fear and uncertainty, and practice strategies for assertive communication. We will explore the importance of assertive communication, and practical strategies for owning your voice.
You will learn (Learning objectives)
- The key differences between aggressive and assertive communication
- The risks & benefits of being a more assertive leader
- How to align your verbal, vocal, & visual communication to own your voice like a boss!
Join the Convene Training + Resilience Community to watch this webinar!
About the Speaker: Emilie Aries
Emilie Aries is a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and podcaster, and the Founder and CEO of Bossed Up, an innovative personal and professional training organization that helps women craft sustainable careers. Emilie is a political organizer turned award-winning women’s leadership consultant. She has helped hundreds navigate career transition and prevent burnout.
Her new, Bossed Up, was published in 2019 by Public Affairs Books (a division of The Hachette Book Group). It helps people step up as the boss of their life and assertively design a sustainable career path.
She earned her B.A. in political science from Brown University and completed a Fellowship on Organizing at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Do you struggle in difficult conversations? Have you ever let fear and anxiety prevent you from saying what needed to be said? Have you ever felt as though you don’t know what to say?
In this webinar you will learn the powerful Compassionate Curiosity framework. It is designed to guide you through difficult conversations, at work and at home. You’ll know what to say, how to say it, and when to say it in order to maximize persuasion while minimizing the risk of destructive dialogue.
You will learn (learning objectives):
- How to defuse potentially explosive conflicts before the conversation breaks down.
- How to use conflict as a tool to increase understanding and strengthen relationships.
- How to use the fundamental tenets of cognitive behavioral therapy to help you to overcome fear and anxiety.
- How to consistently put yourself in the best position for success.
The best things in life often lie on the other side of difficult conversations. However, fear and anxiety often overwhelm us and prevent us from standing up for ourselves when it matters most.
Learn how to overcome this fear and deal with conflict in this webinar!
About the Speaker: Kwame Christian, Esq., M.A.
Bestselling author and speaker Kwame Christian is the Director of
the American Negotiation Institute and a subject matter expert in the field of
negotiation and conflict resolution. Kwame has conducted workshops
throughout North America and abroad, and is a highly sought after national
keynote speaker .
Host of the world’s most popular negotiation podcast, Negotiate Anything ,
Kwame is dedicated to empowering others through the art and science of
negotiation and persuasion. The show features leading experts in the field
to deliver the best-in-class content. Now downloaded more than 1,000,000
times, Negotiate Anything has a dedicated and growing following with
listeners in more than 180 countries around the world.
Kwame’s TEDx Dayton talk, Finding Confidence in Conflict , was the most
popular TEDx Talk on the topic of conflict in 2017, and has been viewed
over 120,000 times. His book, Nobody Will Play With Me: Finding
Confidence in Conflict, is an Amazon Best-Seller and has helped countless
individuals overcome the fear, anxiety and emotion often associated with
difficult conversations through a branded framework called Compassionate
Curiosity.
As an attorney and mediator with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, a
Master of Public Policy, and a Juris Doctorate (Law Degree), Kwame brings
a unique multidisciplinary approach to making difficult conversations easier.
He also serves as an adjunct professor for Otterbein University’s MBA
program , as well as The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law in
the top-ranked dispute resolution program in the country.
Are you confident when negotiating with your boss, co-workers & clients? Do you dread planning holidays with your in-laws? Do salary discussions make your stomach turn?
Escape second-guessing and selling yourself short by finding the negotiator in you!
Each one of us negotiates every single day of our lives — at work, with loved ones, and in other personal interactions.
Whether you’re buying a TV, deciding on a vacation spot, getting your children to do their homework, or asking for a raise, your negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution skills are continually put to the test.
In this webinar, Dr. Joshua Weiss will show you how to negotiate with confidence and calm for successful results!
About the Presenter: Dr. Joshua Weiss
Dr. Joshua N. Weiss is the co-founder, with William Ury (Author of Getting to Yes), of the Global Negotiation Initiative at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project.
He is also the Director and creator of the Master’s of Science degree in Leadership and Negotiation at Bay Path University.
He received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in 2002.
Dr. Weiss has spoken and published on Negotiation, Mediation, and systemic approaches to dealing with conflict.
In his current capacity, he conducts research, consults with many different types of organizations, delivers negotiation and mediation trainings and courses, and engages in negotiation and mediation at the organizational, corporate, government, and international levels.
Dr. Weiss has conducted trainings and consulted with a number of organizations, companies, and governmental entities, including: Microsoft, 5th 3rd Bank, Novellus, Christies Art Auction House, Prospectiv, CDM Smith, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Genzyme, the Yala Network, Shades Organization, United Nations (multiple departments), the US Government (State Department and Transportation Security Administration), various pharmaceutical companies, universities, and state governments.
Understanding body language cues help us communicate better and more clearly understand what others are truly thinking and feeling.
In this webinar by body language expert Kanan Tandi of Body Speaks Better, you will learn the following (learning objectives):
How to Identify & Interpret Micro-Expressions
Sometimes people don’t say what they mean or mean what they say. By understanding micro-expressions, you will know what people mean and how they feel, even if they don’t say it.
How to Read People through Gestures & Postures
You will learn the meaning behind various types of gestures and postures. These reveal confidence, interest and more. Knowing them makes it easier to read others.
Get ready to understand the messages behind body language in this fun webinar!
About the Presenter: Kanan Tandi
Kanan is the Director of Body Speaks Better, a body language training agency. She is certified by the Center for Body Language, a world-renowned body language and micro expressions training organization. She has also studied under Dr. Matsumoto, Humintell, Vanessa Van Edwards, Science of People, and more. She earned an MBA in Communication Management from Symbiosis International University.
Crucial Conversations with Radical Candor: How to Talk About What Matters Most
Crucial conversations are hard. The more crucial the conversation, the less likely we are to handle it well.
Why? Because they evoke strong emotions and don’t happen often enough for us to handle them like experts.
This means we need principles that guide us through our most important interactions.
In this training you will learn the 7 principles of crucial conversations outlined by author Kerry Patterson:
- Start with heart.
- Learn to look.
- Make it safe.
- Master my stories.
- My path.
- Explore others’ paths.
- Move to action.
You will also learn how to comunicate with radical candor by caring personally but challenging directly when address problems.
Improve your communication skills when it matters most through this training!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less
We live in an increasingly divided world and most of us have encountered our fair share of aggressive people and difficult confrontations.
Fortunately, we now have the tools to become peacemakers and transform emotionally volatile situations and hurt feelings to calm, non-aggressive ones.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives)
- A set of social listening skills based on the latest finding in neuroscience and meditation.
- A set of communication skills, based on the latest findings in neuroscience and meditation.
- Practical tips on how to be civil in an uncivil society.
We can bring peace to all facets of life, cultivate healthier relationships, and participate in creating a more caring and compassionate future for us all.
About the Speaker: Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA
Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA left a successful career as a lawyer to become a peacemaker. He is an award-winning author, teacher, trainer, highly experienced mediator, and co-founder of the Prison of Peace project. This has been the most profound peace training Douglas has conducted thus far in his career.
People who are incarcerated that have gone through his program have learned and applied deep, empathic listening skills, leadership skills, and problem-solving skills to reduce violence in their prison communities.
To learn more about Douglas visit him at DougNoll.com.
The most successful people in life and in work are those who make others feel heard, understood, and valued.
How to Magically Connect with Anyone will teach you how to make better and more meaningful connections with anyone that you meet, so that you are seen as indispensable by those around you.
Brian utilizes jaw dropping magic demonstrations and laugh-out-loud stories from a career in entertainment to deliver a powerful message about humanity. Highlights include Brian’s coveted E.A.R.S. system for mastering the art of active listening, and the “Appearing, Flying Potato” tale, a hilarious lesson in pushing through and learning from failure.
After the webinar you will not just feel inspired to be the kind of person who makes others feel heard, understood and valued, but will also have a new toolkit full of instantly implementable strategies to get there.
You will learn (learning objectives)
- How to create an environment in which everyone feels heard, understood, and valued
- How to develop “perspective taking” skills that inspire meaningful connections
- How to integrate the four components of the E.A.R.S. system for active listening into conversations
- How to discover how to get out of one’s comfort zone in order to make new, daily connections
- How to develop resiliency against failure
About the Speaker: Brian Miller
Brian Miller is a magician, speaker, and author of personal success book Three New People: Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities. For 12 years he has shared his magic and his message with thousands of audiences in 11 countries across 4 continents. Based in Connecticut, Brian now performs his interactive blend of jaw dropping magic and laugh-out-loud comedy at 200+ events each year.
As a child, Brian suffered from a debilitating social and speech anxiety. He was bullied and mostly friendless through middle school. Though he loved magic tricks, he couldn’t muster the courage to perform for anyone. Brian got a fresh start in a new school for 9th grade, where he met another student who was also into magic. Through magic and friendship, Brian developed self-confidence for the very first time.
Founding his business at the early age of 16, Brian worked as a professional magician while completing a dual Bachelor’s of Science in mathematics and philosophy, achieving a 4.0 in philosophy and receiving two international awards for presenting original work. He was accepted into a PhD program for Philosophy of Language, but turned it down in order to pursue a career in entertainment.
Brian quickly found a following with college students on the national campus activities circuit, earning two nomination’s for “America’s Best Campus Artist” (Campus Activities Magazine) by the age of 24.
As his act evolved, so did the demand for his work. Brian developed a reputation for mixing world class entertainment with an engaging personality and the ability to adapt to any group. He began accepting invitations to entertain at exclusive private events throughout New England, such as bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, company holiday parties, and corporate events.
The #1 source of pain on a team, or in any relationship, is conflict. When a team avoids conflict, it wastes the precious energy that drives creative problem-solving. What if conflict wasn’t good or bad? What if conflict was an energy source your team could harness to produce innovative, creative, and transformational results?
In this webinar, CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke will reveal the following:
Learning Objectives
- Learn the root causes of unproductive conflict
- Learn the root causes of conflict avoidance
- Learn practical real-world tools to deal with and use conflict to create productive solutions.
About the Presenters: Susan Clarke & CrisMarie Campbell
Susan Clarke – With curiosity, compassion, and laser-focus, Susan helps people identify and eliminate the blocks that keep them from creating what they really want in their relationships, work, and life. In 2002 she co-founded Thrive! with CrisMarie Campbell to help individuals and teams develop their leadership skills, increasing their influence, vitality [aka mojo] and momentum for creating the changes they want to see and experience in their lives.
CrisMarie Campbell – CrisMarie has a passion for people in leadership and creating winning teams. As an Olympic and World Championship rower, she learned firsthand what makes a championship team versus simply a team of champions. In 2002, CrisMarie co-founded Thrive! with Susan Clarke to share her unique perspective to a wider audience making relationships matter as much as organizational results.
Authentic Persuasion: Communication that Moves Others to Action
As a human services professional, having a solid grasp of persuasion skills makes you much more effective. Even though you don’t sell a product, people need to get sold on your ideas, plans, and processes. Understanding the basics of effective persuasion (while not acting ‘salesy’) will make your communication easier and produce better results.
In this training you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- The seven values of superb customer service.
- Unselling: How to effectively sell your ideas, plans, and processes without coming across as ‘salesy.’
- Whose Agenda? Guiding clients and co-workers to win-win outcomes.
- How to lead conversations to get positive results.
- How to assertively ask for what you want without feeling awkward.
This is a great training for those who want to communicate more persuasively while remaining authentic and kind.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
The Elevated Communicator: How to Master Your Style and Strengthen Your Well-Being at Work
Discover your communication style and elevate consciousness at work to build trust, strengthen collaboration, relieve stress, and improve wellbeing.
Our work lives revolve around effective communication. It is essential for cultivating trust and team collaboration, as well as strengthening our motivation and wellbeing at work.
And with teams experiencing more anxiety, stress, and burnout than ever before, strong communication skills have never been more essential.
In this webinar you will learn the 4 communication styles based on Maryanne O’Brien’s proprietary model:
- Expressive
- Reserved
- Direct
- Harmonious
You will also learn:
- The connection between emotional health and communication patterns.
- Strategies to manage your communication style under stress.
- Practices to improve your well-being and reduce conflict.
- Methods to flex toward other styles to communicate more effectively with people.
About the Speaker: Maryanne O’Brien
Maryanne O’Brien has spent decades guiding people and cultures to foster open communication, cultivate empathy, and deepen trust. She has a depth of experience building iconic brands and purpose-driven organizations, and helping businesses to consciously transform.
She’s worked with big brands like Nordstrom, Coca-Cola, and Apple, as well as small, independent businesses.
Her background in advertising, consulting, and corporate coaching taught her to value authentic leadership and healthy cultures, and inspired her to found Conscious Company. Maryanne is dedicated to supporting shifts in conscious leadership, communication, and well-being.
She also leads classes in intuition development and energetic healing techniques—mentoring people on a path to higher consciousness. She lives with her husband on a hobby farm just outside Minneapolis, where she leads retreats.
Influence: The Psychology of Achieving Buy-In
If you want to have greater influence and impact in your work, it is important to understand the psychology of why people say yes and make positive changes in their lives.
To have greater impact, we need people to buy-in to our ideas and ultimately put them into action.
Learning Objectives – In this training you will learn how to ethically apply the six universal principles of influence as defined by the research of Dr. Robert Cialidini:
- Reciprocation
- Commitment and consistency
- Social Proof
- Liking
- Authority
- Scarcity
You will also learn how to notice when people are using these strategies against you in a dishonest way.
Finally, you will learn motivational interviewing techniques that can help inspire change in clients or others with whom you work.
Get ready to improve your communication and negotiation and influence skills!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
The Magic of Message: How to Talk Less, Say More, and Connect with Anyone
Did you know the world’s shortest joke can be told in just two words?
It’s hard to get our ideas to spread. The real problem is that we focus too much on how great and innovative our idea is, rather than how clear and understandable it is.
But in truth, the more you know about something, the harder it is to explain it to an outsider.
That’s why to spread our ideas we need to be able to state what it is, who it’s for, and why it matters in one sentence. Yes, just one. And in this program, you’ll learn how.
In this session you’re going to learn how the greatest communicators capture attention, earn trust, and build meaningful relationships, and how you can apply the same techniques to elevate your message the next time you have something important to say.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):
- Understand the formula for producing crystal clear messaging.
- Apply the techniques used by the world’s best thinkers and doers to capture attention and earn trust in their communications and conversations.
- Create brand new messages that move people to action.
About the Speaker: Brian Miller
Brian Miller is a former magician turned author and international keynote speaker, whose TEDx talk has been viewed 3.5 million times.
Outside of his own speaking engagements, he also prepares leaders for the world’s most prestigious stage – TEDx – to deliver the talk of their lives.
Brian’s students have leveraged his process to build 7-figure empires, start international empowerment movements, and win the largest inspirational speaking competition in North America.
How to Stay Cool When You are Put on the Spot
There are plenty of high-stakes moments in which people catch you off guard and make you feel defensive, whether by their choice of words or demeanor.
You know that you should respond calmly and dispassionately. Expressing strong emotions rarely helps to address the challenge. It also leaves a bad impression.
Nevertheless, your imposter syndrome kicks in, making you feel vulnerable, sensitive, and less confident in your abilities. This is magnified if you’re already feeling on edge from exhaustion, anxiety, and stress.
In this webinar you will learn how to maintain your composure so you can think clearly, express yourself with conviction, and come out strong.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How to focus your mind after the initial shock.
- How to check your assumptions.
- How to start a dialogue.
- How to close with confidence.
About the Presenter: David Lancefield
David Lancefield helps leaders unlock value by transforming themselves and their organisations.
He is a contributing editor of strategy+business, contributor to Harvard Business Review and guest lecturer at London Business School. He has published more than 50 reports on strategy, digital innovation and leadership.
He serves as a catalyst, strategist and coach. He has advised more than 35 CEOs, led 500 projects, including 30 transformation programmes, structured 15 digital ventures/ecosystems and has 14 years’ experience as a strategy partner in PwC.
How to Speak With Kids About Traumatic Events Without Added Fear and Anxiety
Social media and 24-hour news provides a constant source of unending information that can spread like wildfire. Shielding kids from news and information is not an option.
What’s a parent or professional that works with kids to do?
Don’t be afraid of starting conversations about hard topics. These conversations are a must. Keep the lines of communication open. Calm and Connection are the key!
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How to make the conversations happen.
- What to do before the conversation.
- When and how to most effectively speak with kids about traumatic events.
About the Speakers: Dr. Caroline Danda, LP and Carron Montgomery, MSPC, LPC, RPT
Dr. Caroline Danda is a clinical psychologist in private practice who specializes in working with children and adolescents with anxiety, depression, and other emotional or behavioral regulation problems. She loves working with children and teens who have “big emotions.” She has a passion for normalizing mental and emotional well-being and helping youth and their families not only resolve current challenges but also develop foundational skills for thriving.
Carron Montgomery is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist, Level II trained EMDR, and trauma specialist. At the outset of her career, Carron worked for two nonprofit organizations: the first focused on counseling survivors of abuse, and the second focused on serving low-income families and victims of trauma. Nine years ago, she started a private practice with two other women to specialize in treating anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, grief, and loss. Carron utilizes a client-centered approach that includes collaboration with each client’s team of professionals–teachers, doctors and school social workers and primary caregivers.
Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening?
In this webinar Julian Treasure will reveal the secrets of powerful speaking — from designing great content to vocal exercises and tips on building rapport.
In this webinar you will learn exercises to develop your communication skills that are as effective at home as in the meeting room or video call.
You will learn (learning objectives):
- How to make sound work for you.
- The four cornerstones of powerful speaking and listening.
- How to avoid the seven deadly sins of speaking and listening.
- Exercises and methods to achieve clarity, precision, and impact.
It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (almost) No Help From My Spouse, and How You Can Too
Conventional wisdom says that “it takes two” to turn a troubled marriage around and that both partners must have a shared commitment to change.
So when couples can’t agree on how—or whether—to make their marriage better, many give up or settle for a less-than-satisfying marriage (or think the only way out is divorce).
Fortunately, there is an alternative.
In this webinar, you will hear marriage and family therapist Winifred Reilly share her own story of reclaiming her now nearly forty-year marriage, along with anecdotes from many clients she’s worked with.
You’ll learn how to: (Learning Objectives)
- Focus on your own behaviors and change them in ways that make you feel good about yourself and your marriage.
- Take a firm stand for what truly matters to you without arguing, cajoling, or resorting to threats.
- Identify the “big picture” issues at the basis of your repetitive fights—and learn how to unhook from them.
- Be less reactive, especially in the face of your spouse’s provocations.
- Develop the strength and stamina to be the sole agent of change.
About the Speaker: Winifred Reilly, LMFT
Winifred Reilly is the author of the book It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help From My Spouse–and How You Can, Too.
As a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology, Winifred Reilly is trained to work with all aspects of interpersonal relationships. She has a private practice in Berkeley, California, with a clinical specialty in working with relationship issues, doing psychotherapy with couples and individuals.
In her more than thirty-five years of clinical practice, she has treated many hundreds of couples, ranging from those seeking guidance for an essentially sound relationship encountering difficulty, to couples who are convinced that they’re headed for divorce.
She also offers case consultation to therapists on their work with the challenging couple they treat.
Her writing has appeared on The Huffington Post,The Good Men Project, xo Jane, Real Simple, and on her relationship advice blog, Speaking of Marriage. Her book, It Takes One to Tango is about empowering one partner to create far-reaching positive change in a marriage, whether or not his or her spouse joins in the effort. (Simon and Schuster, April 2017).
Description:
Communication should be clear and concise, and we should get to the point quickly.
The problem is we don’t always know how to do this.
What does it mean to be concise? How can a complex topic be summarized in just a few lines?
In this webinar you will get a step-by-step guide for clear, concise communication in everyday work conversations.
You will learn:
- How to have shorter, better work conversations and meetings.
- How to get to the point faster without rambling or going off on tangents.
- How to lead your audiences toward the solution you need.
You will also learn how to apply one technique to almost every discussion, email, presentation and interview with great results.
Get ready to take your communication skills to the next level in this webinar!
Customer Service (Client Service)
Dr. Vicky Kelly said “Trauma Informed Care is a shift in the basic questions that we ask. A shift away from the question, What is wrong with you? to the question, What happened to you, and how does that impact how you function today? In this training, you will learn the three different types of trauma that people experience, and the common responses people exhibit when they have survived traumatic events.
You will also discover how to build trust with those who have experienced trauma, and how to empower clients to make positive healthy decisions.
You will also learn:
- 6 key principles of a trauma informed approach
- The universal precautions approach
- The empowerment approach
- How to have a trauma informed conversations and interactions
- Person centered communication, and more!
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Stephanie Glaros has interviewed and photographed hundreds of strangers for her street photography and storytelling project, Humans of Minneapolis. In this webinar, Glaros will teach you her process for mindfully engaging people she doesn’t know and how it’s increased her capacity for empathy.
She will offer practical tips for how to make more meaningful human connections in order to encourage kindness and compassion, a beneficial approach for any human services professional!
Learning Objectives
- How to mindfully engage with people you don’t know.
- How to make meaningful human connections.
- How to use empathy to show kindness.
- How to use empathy and be compassionate towards others.
About the Presenter: Stephanie Glaros, Humans of Minneapolis
Stephanie Glaros is a teaching artist, author, and speaker based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She spent eight years as the art director for Utne Reader magazine where she received accolades for her collaborations with illustrators, but she is best known for her blog and book, Humans of Minneapolis. Her work has been featured in the Star Tribune, Minnesota Monthly, City Pages, and on MPR.
Ethics at Work
Ethics is about doing the right thing.
This seems simple, but gets complicated when we are faced with real world challenges.
It is common to encounter situations that just don’t feel right. Many factors can affect how we respond in ethically uncertain situations, including conflicts of interest, pressure to perform at a high level, and our desire to just get along with other people with as little conflict as possible.
In this training we will explore the following:
- Ethics fundamentals – Identify, verify, take action.
- How to apply an ethical self check.
- How to identify and address a conflict of interest.
- Based on your role, what boundaries should you have with clients and co-workers?
- Confidentiality.
- Reporting ethical issues.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Difficult Personalities: How to Navigate Relationships with Clients, Co-Workers and Others Who May Have Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissism, and other Challenging Personalities
Do you ever feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to?
Do you serve clients, or are in any relationships with people that have intense, irrational rages that seem to come out of nowhere?
Do you feel like you are walking on eggshells to avoid confrontations or constantly upsetting someone?
If the answer is yes, then you are likely interacting with someone that may have borderline personality disorder (BPD), narcissism or other challenging personality traits.
People compare working or living with someone that has borderline personality disorder, or other personality disorders to:
Living in a pressure cooker with thin walls and a faulty safety valve.
Living in a perpetual oxymoron. It’s a seemingly endless host of contradictions.
Feeling like you are going through the spin cycle on a washing machine. The world is whirling around, and you have no idea which way is up, down or sideways.
In this training, we will explore strategies to more effectively serve and interact with people that have, or demonstrate the traits of, people with borderline personality disorder, narcissism, and other challenging personalities.
You will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- What is going on inside a person that has a personality disorder.
- How to identify and understand behavior that is influenced by a personality disorder.
- How to set boundaries and communicate with someone that has a personality disorder.
- How to personally find peace and cope with the stress of interacting with people that have a personality disorder.
By the end of this training you will have a greater understanding of how to navigate complex interactions with people that have difficult personalities!
NOTE: This training is NOT about how to medically or psychologically provide treatment for someone with a personality disorder.
This is for professionals that happen to work with people that may have a personality disorder, and are looking for strategies to better serve them, and personally cope with the impacts of these challenging and stressful interactions.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing can help you and the clients you serve clearly define goals, think things through, and move toward change.
Whether you’re considering losing weight, addressing an addiction, leaving a toxic relationship, or any number of other big goals, taking steps toward personal change requires a steadfast mindset and a detailed plan of action.
In this webinar you will learn practical prompts, guidance, and support for figuring out long-term goals, developing a solid plan to achieve them, and making a committed change.
It will help you and the clients you serve build your motivation, clarify your commitment to reaching your goals, and empower you to take charge of your future.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- What motivational interviewing is and how it can help lead to personal change.
- How to refine goals and identify obstacles.
- How to build motivation and sustain positive change.
About the Presenter: Angie Wood, LCSW
Dr. Wood earned her masters degrees in social work from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1992, and her Ph.D. in social work from Tulane University in 2006.
She has been in clinical practice in various settings and fields such as addictions, family preservation, community mental health, and criminal/juvenile justice.
In 2003 Dr. Wood was first trained in motivational interviewing, and worked as a research assistant for a project that evaluated the community-wide implementation of Motivational Interviewing.
By 2005 Dr. Wood began training juvenile justice staff on MI and eventually contributed a book chapter on MI training for paraprofessional staff in juvenile justice settings.
For over a decade Dr. Wood has conducted seminars and workshops for professionals in behavioral health, criminal justice, child welfare, and healthcare settings.
From Stigma to Strength: How to Communicate with People that Have a Substance Use Disorder
People with addiction and substance use disorders are often blamed for their disease. This stigma discourages people from getting the help they need.
Would you want to interact with somebody who is just going to shame you?
Addiction stigma is baked into our culture. Sometimes we say something and do not realize the shame it heaps on others.
Other times we think we are helping, motivating, or simply ‘telling the truth’ when we are actually harming and re-traumatizing.
In this live webinar we will learn a better way to communicate with people that have a substance use disorder.
You will learn:
- A brief history of the stigma of addiction.
- Stigmatizing words people often use.
- Alternative phrases to use instead.
- 6 key principles of a trauma informed approach.
- How to empower people to start making positive changes.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Change is about handling tough times and tough issues. Whether it is a small crisis or a major disaster, a minor malady or a life changing event, bullying in hallways or terror in the streets, this webinar looks at how parents and professionals working with kids can use wit and wisdom to nurture and enrich ourselves and children as we navigate through the minor and major chaos in our lives.
You will learn (learning objectives):
- How to help kids develop constructive ways of responding to what life hands them.
- How to help kids navigate divorce.
- How to help kids navigate death & illness.
- How to help kids during difficult life events.
- How to support children through emotional ups and downs.
About the Speaker: Barbara Coloroso
Barbara Coloroso is an international bestselling author and for the past 44 years an internationally recognized speaker and consultant on parenting, teaching, school discipline, positive school climate, bullying, grieving, nonviolent conflict resolution and restorative justice.
She has appeared on Oprah, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and NPR and has been featured in the New York Times, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, and other national and international publications.
Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field-tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.
She is the author of four international bestsellers: kids are worth it! Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline; Parenting Through Crisis—Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and Change; The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander—From Pre-School to High School, How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence; and Just Because It’s Not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right—From Toddlers to Teens, Teaching Kids to Think and Act Ethically. Barbara’s latest book is Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide…and Why it Matters. She also has two critically acclaimed video programs Winning at Parenting… without beating your kids and Winning at Teaching… without beating your kids.
Values of Superb Client Service
Superb client service is an individual responsibility, but thrives in and requires excellence teamwork. The clients we serve are often demanding, and work gets stressful. When we focus on supporting one another and opening up the lines of communication, service to clients improves and so does the morale on our teams.
The values that drive us determine the client experience, and anyone else that interacts with our agencies.
In this fast-paced session full of interactive, practical examples, you will learn:
How to create a great client experience that is trauma informed.
How to develop emotional consistency.
How to communicate in a way that builds trust, increases transparency, and reduces anxiety.
How to improve your listening skills.
How to diffuse tension and handle frustrated people.
How to establish good teamwork within your agency.
This session will make an immediate impact on your work culture and client experience!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
This webinar is about forgiveness, new starts, shame, and the power of possibility. Catherine Hoke founded Defy Ventures, a revolutionary organization that transforms the lives of people released from prison. It heals families, strengthens communities and creates jobs.
But mostly, Catherine’s work helps us find our humanity, regardless of whether we have been to prison or not. Catherine Hoke will share stories of her successful experiences serving clients and teach us what it means to lead from within while better serving those that need a second chance.
You will learn:(Learning Objectives)
- How to forgive yourself and others.
- How to more effectively serve clients who have made mistakes.
- How to achieve restoration with apologies and taking responsibility. H
- ow both you and your clients can discover your ‘generous hustle’ and benefit others.
About the Presenter: Catherine Hoke
What would it be like if you were known for the worst thing you’ve done? Or known for the worst thing you never did? Don’t we all need second chances? In 2004, Catherine Hoke toured several Texas prisons and discovered that many of the incarcerated men she met possessed strong business acumen, sales skills, and entrepreneurial qualities. She also found that many gangs and drug rings are run similarly to corporations —with bylaws, bookkeeping functions, marketing strategies, and quality control programs.
Following these realizations, Catherine Hoke founded two of the most successful and disruptive nonprofits in corrections: Prison Entrepreneurship Program and Defy Ventures. Her efforts have inspired 7,000 executives, entrepreneurs, and investors to volunteer as mentors and employers. Over 5,000 incarcerated people have graduated from these programs, and in doing so, many have earned Baylor University MBA certificates. The programs reduce violence and have produced industry-leading recidivism rates of less than 7% and 5% respectively. Most recently, Cat launched a company called Hustle 2.0. Hustle 2.0’s vision is to be the first self-sustaining, for-profit company delivering life-transforming education to millions of justice-involved Americans.
To produce the most cutting-edge product, Cat established a computer lab within California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in America. In doing so, she is bringing together the most talented incarcerated people along with leading professors, industry experts, and correctional leaders to contribute to the program. Cat inspires audiences to use failure as a catalyst for innovation and reinvention. Cat will challenge you to ‘step to the line,’ forgive yourself and others, and move forward by making a difference. Seth Godin published her best-selling book, “A Second Chance: For You, For Me, and for the Rest of Us,” a powerful reflection on the struggles and triumphs of her journey, and her graduates’ journeys. Fast Company named Cat one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Forbes named her on “40 Women to Watch Over 40.” She received the MDC Partners Humanitarian Award.
Dealing with Difficult People
It is hard to work, serve and live with difficult people. We don’t get to choose our co-workers, the people who walk through our doors needing service, or even many of our family members.
This means dealing with difficult people is inevitable.
In this training we will learn strategies for dealing with difficult people that were revealed in a new report from Harvard Law School’s Program of Negotiation.
You will learn how to:
- Overcome “my-way-or-the-highway” people to get things done.
- Prepare ahead for challening conversations
- Deal with stubborn, hostile, greedy, and even downright dishonest people
- Ease tensions during negotiations to solve problems and build fruitful relationships.
Difficult people don’t have to slow us down or make us miserable. Learn strategies for managing these relationships in this training!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Health and Well-Being
It is estimated that nearly 7% of the adult population in the US will at some point in their life suffer from depression. It is a rare family that has not been touched by the pain of depression, which might include drug/alcohol abuse, job-loss, divorce, infidelity, suicide, emotional and physical harm, and a host of other difficult and hard to talk about subjects that harm the integrity of a family.
Despite an increasing number of conversations about depression in the public sphere, many families continue to fight this battle in silence and alienated from their loved ones.
Learning Objectives:
- Currently accepted causes and treatments of depression.
- Risk factors associated with the onset of depression.
- Strategies for working with you loved one to seek help.
- Recommendations to help your loved one or clients maximize the offerings of the professional mental health offerings.
About the Presenter: Mark Meier, MSW, LCSW
Mark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over with over 25 years of clinical, professional, and academic training on depression, to go along with a deeply personal understanding of the impact depression has on families and workplaces when left unrecognized and untreated. In 2009 Mark co-founded the Face It Foundation to provide free support services to men who deal with depression and who have survived suicide attempts.
Today Face It serves over 100 men each month with support groups, retreats, education classes, and social activities. In addition to his full-time work at Face It, Mark is on staff in the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine – Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and an advisor for multiple research studies on depression through the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Mark has delivered over 350 talks across the United States on depression and he openly speaks about his own battle with depression that resulted in his hospitalization in 2002.
Mark believes it’s his own experience with depression that has best positioned him to help others.
You’re likely feeling the effects of less humanity and more technology. Our minds are distracted, our attention spans are shortened, we want everything on demand, email inboxes are never empty, our energy is frequently negative, we’re addicted to social media, and we’re sleep deprived. This cannot be the new normal. Breath is the antidote!
This ‘Breathe to Succeed’ webinar will share the transformative power of breath in in the workplace. Even just three deep breaths at key moments can make a huge difference. We’ll learn Sandy Abrams’s fast, simple, and effective breathing techniques, and become more mindful and engaged and experience better moods, a calmer perspective, and positive energy that will translate to next-level productivity, creativity, and clarity.
You will learn (Learning Objectives)
- How to utilize a variety of simple breathing techniques to access your optimal energy and manage your emotions in the moment.
- How to become self-aware of your negative thought patterns/behavior and rewire your brain with positive new habits.
- How to activate the power of your mind to breathe through challenges, make better decisions, and reach goals effortlessly.
About the Presenter: Sandy Abrams
Sandy Abrams is a self taught entrepreneur who (much to her surprise) turned a product idea into a multi-million dollar business (launched in 1993), Moisture Jamzz. A self-taught entrepreneur without a business background, Sandy had the passion and persistence to roll up her sleeves and learn on the fly. After years of sweat equity building her business, she turned her naivite into success, experience and savvy. Her signature products, Moisture Jamzz Moisture Gloves and Socks quickly became a top-selling accessory in the beauty/spa industry. They were sold in stores such as Bed, Bath & Beyond, Linens’NThings, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom and QVC. Also, private labeled for some of the biggest names in beauty: Estee Lauder, Bath & Body Works, H2O PLUS, Crabtree & Evelyn and Bare Escentuals.
After years of helping people turn their ideas into reality, Sandy published her first book titled, “Your Idea, Inc.” (Adams Media 2010) and put her inspirational, motivational advice and anecdotes into this entrepreneurial guide book. Now in “Breathe to Succeed,” (Publishing May 1, 2019) Abrams shares her simple yet powerful Breath & Mindfulness tools that fueled her entrepreneurial journey over the past 25 years; making her what she calls a “C.E.’Om…able to juggle the chaos of entrepreneurial life thanks to the power of mindful breath & positive, strategic thoughts.
Abrams currently leads “Breathe to Succeed” and “Beverages & Breath” Workshops, 1:1 customized Breath & Mindset training for entrepreneurs, leaders, employees and executives.
Abrams volunteers with the national non-profit organization NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship) and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Emotional Eating: Tips to Tame Your Food Mood
The grim statistics of America’s weight woes are closely tied to the emotional and mental coping mechanisms we practice to process our feelings.
Dr. Ro, America’s Nutrition Coach, has great news!
These habits can be changed and we have the power to break free from eating our feelings and overcome emotional eating for once and for all.
When food is over-consumed and used to escape negative, self-defeating thoughts and unwanted feelings it can become a crutch and ultimately a drug.
But used for its intended purpose- sustenance, food nourishes and supports the body for normal bodily functions and helps us to thrive.
In this webinar you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- How to acknowledge and connect your feelings to your food choices.
- Core belief systems that block your success and ways to reframe your inner dialog.
- Foods that boost your mood.
- Healthy behaviors to replace the unhealthy habit of using food as a crutch.
- Practical tips for weight-loss and weight management.
About the Speaker: Dr. Ro
Dr. Ro is the author of three books:
- Lose Your Final 15: Dr. Ro’s Plan To Eat 15 Servings A Day, Lose 15 Pounds at a Time.
- Dr. Ro’s Ten Secrets To Livin’ Healthy.
- You Healthy, And Happy: Dr. Ro’s Tips To Living An Inspired Life.
Her recent book, Lose Your Final 15, was the cover story in Woman’s World Magazine, only the third time in the magazine’s history featuring an African American Woman on its cover.
Everyone knows good nutrition supports your overall health, but few realize that certain foods, power foods, can protect your brain and optimize its function, and even dramatically reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s Disease.
New York Times bestselling author, clinical researcher and health advocate Dr. Neal Barnard has gathered the most up-to-date research and created a groundbreaking program that can strengthen your memory and protect your brain’s health.
In this webinar you will learn from Dr. Barnard which foods to increase in your diet and which to avoid, and specific exercises and supplements that can make a difference.
It will not only help boost brain health, but it can also reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and other less serious malfunctions such as low energy, poor sleep patterns, irritability, and lack of focus.
You’ll discover: (Learning Objectives)
- The best foods to increase cognitive function.
- Dairy products and meats-the dangers they may pose to your memory.
- The surprising roles alcohol and caffeine play in Alzheimer’s risk
- The latest research on toxic metals, like aluminum found in cookware, soda cans, and common antacids.
About the Presenter: Dr. Neal Barnard
Neal D. Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C., is a physician, clinical researcher, New York Times Best Selling Author author, and an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Dr. Barnard’s articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the American Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Scientific American, the American Journal of Cardiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Lancet Oncology, Preventive Medicine, and in many other scientific and medical journals. He is the editor-in-chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians and the author of 18 books for lay audiences.
In 2015, Dr. Barnard was named a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and he received the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Trailblazer Award in 2016. He is an active member of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, the American Medical Association, and other organizations working to improve health and medical care.
Real Happiness at Work
Even the best jobs are filled with stress, tough deadlines, impatient bosses, seemingly endless meetings―all the ills of harried life.
But as science increasingly shows, meditation is the antidote.
Real Happiness at Work is about being committed without being consumed, competitive without being cruel, managing time and emotions to counterbalance stress and frustration.
This webinar will help you bring the profound benefits of meditation to an area where you could use it most―the workplace.
You will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- Core meditations on broad themes like motivation, awareness, and seeing the good in others.
- Short “stealth” meditations, the kind that are quick, private, and doable anywhere.
- How to achieve great happiness at work!
Get ready to to be more creative, organized, and accomplished in this webinar with New York Times Bestselling Author Sharon Salzberg!
About the Speaker: Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer and industry leader, a world-renowned teacher and New York Times bestselling author. As one of the first to bring meditation and mindfulness into mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, her relatable, demystifying approach has inspired generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers.
Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, her seminal work, Lovingkindness and her newest book, Real Change: Mindfulness To Heal Ourselves and the World, coming in September of 2020 from Flatiron Books.
Sharon’s secular, modern approach to Buddhist teachings is sought after at schools, conferences and retreat centers around the world. Sharon is the host of her own podcast, The Metta Hour, featuring 100+ interviews with the top leaders and voices in the meditation and mindfulness movement, and her writing can be found on Medium, On Being, the Maria Shriver blog, and Huffington Post. Learn more at www.sharonsalzberg.com
The Joys of Jet Lag: How to Find the Joy in Every Journey
In this webinar you will learn how to use a traveler’s mindset to craft joy in daily life.
Too many of us are moving through our days on autopilot, having settled for a life of mediocrity, and are barely even scratching the surface of our true potential.
We’ve become blind to the wonders around us and before long, life will have passed us by and we’re guaranteed to look back with defeated eyes of regret, wondering what-if.
What if we had actually listened to the voice desperately begging us to find joy in the now, live with purpose and achieve our full potential, instead of burying it out of fear or doubt?
This webinar is intended to shake participants awake so they can take hold of their life, raise their standards, and learn to truly enjoy the journey along the way.
Regardless of whether or not you like to travel, its captivating travel stories and insights learned from real-world experiences provide you with the tools needed to live your best life, one of wholehearted adventure and joy, no matter where you are.
Learning Objectives
- How to craft joy in your work and daily life.
- How to live with purpose.
- How to achieve our full potential.
- How to live your best life no matter where you are.
About the Speaker: Kat Medina
As a child, I wanted to be MacGyver when I grew up. Now, as the founder and Creative Director of a Silicon Valley startup, I’ve become a well-traveled bookworm who finds creative solutions to entrepreneurial challenges with the resourcefulness of a figurative shoelace, paperclip, and bubblegum. Not quite the MacGyver I had in mind, but at least this way I don’t have to rock a mullet (although I, unfortunately, did so as a kid).
I graduated Cum Laude from California State University, Monterey Bay with a degree in international business and my unique work-to-travel lifestyle has led me to be featured in Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler’s NYT bestseller, Rebooting Work.
The career that I created has given me the freedom to pursue my passion and travel to more than 30 countries, as well as, live in Ecuador, Argentina, France, Spain, and currently, my native United States.
For much of my life, I had noticed a clear difference between the person I was during my travels and who I was in my domestic life. During my time abroad, I easily embodied my values for living a passionate and purposeful life. And yet, when I returned from trips, I would revert back to futile attempts to control external factors, feeling frustrated if things didn’t go as planned, and often overlooking the gifts around me due to their commonality and predictability.
Several years ago, I made it my mission to bridge the gap between who I am when I travel and who I am at home.
My book, The Joys of Jet Lag, explores the most valuable lessons I’ve learned during the process and shares the keys to creating a life of adventure through an openhearted approach to living. These insights, when embodied and applied, have the potential to transform the ordinary to the extraordinary and craft unbridled joy and fulfillment, no matter where you are.
Date: February 15, 2024
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Central Time
Description:
- They don’t ignore their problems.
- They don’t keep secrets.
- They don’t hesitate to set boundaries.
- They don’t become martyrs.
- They don’t use their emotions as weapons.
- They don’t try to fix each other.
- They don’t communicate with disrespect.
- They don’t blame each other for their problems.
- They don’t forget why they fell in love.
- They don’t expect the relationship to meet all their needs.
- They don’t neglect their partnership.
- They don’t take each other for granted.
- They don’t stop growing and changing.
If you want to fix your sleep problems, Internet tips and tricks aren’t going to do it for you. You need to really understand what’s going on with your sleep—both what your problems are and how to solve them.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how sleep works and the ways in which food, light, and other activities act to help or hurt the process
- Learn why sleeping pills are so often misunderstood and used incorrectly—and how you can achieve your best sleep without them
- Incorporate sleep and napping into your life—whether you are a shift worker, student, or overcommitted parent
- Think outside the box to better understand ways to treat a multitude of conditions—from insomnia to sleep apnea
- Wade through the ever-changing sea of sleep technology and understand its value as it relates to your own sleep struggles.
About the Speaker: Dr. W. Chris Winter
Dubbed “The Sleep Whisperer” by Arianna Huffington, Dr. Winter has been involved in the field of sleep medicine for twenty five years. A fully board certified neurologist and double board certified sleep specialist, Dr. Winter has been helping individuals sleep better through his private clinic, group consultations, work with professional athletes, and dynamic media presence.
His first book, The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix it, has received high praise both in the United States and internationally as a fresh and effective approach to a growing problem.
Imagine walking out of the grocery store with 4 bags full of fresh food, dropping one, and not bothering to pick it up.
Seems crazy, but that’s essentially what most of us are doing all the time. The average American throws away over $35 each month in the form of uneaten food. Yup, the lettuce that went bad, the leftovers you never got around to eating, and the science experiment in the back of the fridge you’re hoping your husband will clean up one day—they all add up to 15 to 25 percent of the food you buy going uneaten.
In this webinar you will learn easy tips on how to reduce food waste.
You will learn (Learning Objectives)
- Grocery shop smarter
- Plan meals better
- Decode expiration dates
- Use your fridge to its full potential
- Cook with leftover ingredients
- Store foods properly, including specific shelf-life, storage and creative use-it-up ideas for more than 85 common foods.
Reducing food waste has never been easier or more delicious! Learn how in this webinar!
About the Speaker: Dana Gunders
Dana Gunders is a national expert and strategic advisor for food waste reduction. Dana focuses on solutions that prevent surplus food from occurring, as those are the solutions with the highest financial and environmental return.
Some of her proudest achievements include authoring Waste Free Kitchen Handbook, testifying in Congress, and helping to launch both the food-waste think tank ReFED and the now $100M Save the Food campaign.
For almost a decade, she was a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the first to bring to light just how much food is wasted across the country through her 2012 report Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill.
Her work has been covered on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, NPR Science Friday, CNN, NBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox, Dr. Oz and many other outlets.
True wellness goes beyond fitness and nutrition. It starts with your mindset. What are the stories you tell yourself? We often carry stories about ourselves that are not helpful or uplifting. Sometimes these stories come from what other people have said about us. It is time to take a deeper look at what makes us tick.
In this presentation, Carisa Rasmussen, founder of Clean & Lean and regular Fox 9 morning show contributor, will help you see yourself in a new way. You will learn how to set and accomplish goals that nobody can prevent you from achieving. You will also learn some great fitness tips you can implement right away to improve your health.
Learning Objectives
- How to train your mind.
- How to address the unhealthy stories we tell ourselves about what we can and can’t do.
- How to set achievable personal and professional goals.
- How to overcome adversity.
- Gain a new perspective on wellness that will help you feel more healthy and achieve your goals!
About the Presenter: Carisa Rasmussen
Carisa Rasmussen has been a speaker at both national and local events. Carisa has been a Fox 9 morning show contributor since 2013. She’s known for cultivating hope and inspiration through her presentations and online courses.
Carisa built two successful business’ and has been a consistent Fox 9 cooking and fitness contributor since 2013. The first company Carisa started and currently owns, Accessible Homes, builds and remodels homes for people with disabilities in both MN and western WI.
Rasmussen sees her greatest accomplishment as losing over 75 LB’s while running a million-dollar business, as a full time student, all when she was still a new Mom. She shares that it doesn’t matter what the goal is that you want to accomplish, you’ll need the same tools to accomplish any goal.
Carisa has held pageant titles, competed at a national fitness competition and completed a half marathon. Rasmussen is the official personal trainer for Miss MN. She is a certified personal trainer, certified nutrition consultant. She has helped thousands of people create a more confident and healthy lifestyle through her online programs and motivational presentations.
Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing.
While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness. Rather, it results in a desire for more. It redirects our greatest passions to things that can never fulfill. And it distracts us from the very life we wish we were living.
Live a better life with less.
In this webinar you will learn (learning objectives)
- The life-giving benefits of owning less
- How all the stuff you own is keeping you from pursuing your dreams
- How to craft a personal, practical approach to decluttering your home and life
- How to experience the joys of generosity
- How the best part of minimalism isn’t a clean house, it’s a full life
The beauty of minimalism isn’t in what it takes away. It’s in what it gives. Learn how to live with less in this webinar!
About the Speaker: Joshua Becker
Joshua Becker is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Simplify, The More of Less, and Clutterfree with Kids and the co-creator of Simplify Magazine.
He is the founder and editor of Becoming Minimalist, a website dedicated to intentional living that was named by SUCCESS Magazine as one of the top ten personal development websites on the Internet.
He has contributed to TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Christianity Today. He is a featured contributor to Forbes Magazine and has appeared on numerous television programs, including the CBS Evening News.
Joshua and his young family were introduced to minimalism nine years ago during a short conversation with their neighbor. Since then, Joshua’s story and writing have inspired millions around the world to find more life by owning fewer possessions. Today, based on his thoughtful and intentional approach to minimalism, he is one of the leading voices in the modern simplicity movement reaching over 1 million readers every month.
He is also the Founder of The Hope Effect, a nonprofit organization changing how the world cares for orphans. Currently, he lives in Peoria, AZ with his wife and two young kids.
Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss
There is no right way to grieve. Grief is complex. It is ever changing and may come to us differently on any given day.
Drawing from her personal experiences and the stories of the 2 million followers on her Grief Speaks Out Facebook page, author Jan Warner will offer hope in its most practical form.
In this webinar you will learn: Learning Objectives)
- Supportive, useful guidance to help you create a life in which peace, and even gratitude, can coexist with your grief.
- Exercises that will help you process your feelings and develop skills for coping with grief as it arises.
- Themes that capture common feelings and experiences such as: Loneliness, Things Left Unsaid, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Guilt, and Intimacy.
About the Speaker: Jan Warner
When my husband died I thought I would miss him very much and be sad. I didn’t know I would feel totally devastated. After the first chaotic year I needed to find meaning again in a life that seemed meaningless without him. I decided to honor him by being available to grieving people the way he, as a recovering alcoholic, was available to alcoholics and addicts.
I started a blog and then the Facebook page Grief Speaks Out. My goal was to reach one person. I had no idea that the Facebook page would become a supportive community of over 2 million people from almost every country in the world. Now I have a written a book to be able to share my experience in how to be fully alive with grief.
I have a Master’s in Counseling Degree and have studied NLP, Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Neo-Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. I have been doing my FB page www.Facebook.com/GriefSpeaksOut for over 5 years. It is humbling to think that I have created such a loving, supportive, international community for myself and fellow grievers.
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Use your head.
That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards.
What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, is think outside the brain.
A host of “extra-neural” resources—the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around us— can help us focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.
In this webinar we will explore the research behind this exciting new vision of human ability, exploring the findings of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and examining the practices of educators, managers, and leaders who are already reaping the benefits of thinking outside the brain.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How to think outside the brain to solve problems.
- How to think outside the brain to make discoveries.
- How to think outside the brain to create new things.
About the Presenter: Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of Origins, The Cult of Personality, and now The Extended Mind.
She has held the Bernard Schwartz Fellowship and the Future Tense Fellowship at New America; currently, she is a fellow in New America’s Learning Sciences Exchange.
She has also received the Spencer Education Reporting Fellowship and the Rosalyn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship.
Description:
Brain Energy is Dr. Chris Palmer’s revolutionary breakthrough in understanding mental health, and improving treatment for anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and more.
In this webinar you will learn:
- The connection between nutrition, metabolism, and mental health.
- Diet options to improve mental health.
- Treatment options for various mental health conditions.
Get ready to hear a fresh approach to mental health and disease!
According to the American Psychiatric Association, the cost of depression in the American workplace is in excess of $200 billion annually.
These costs are associated with medical expenses, absenteeism, presenteeism, disability costs, costs related to suicide, and other workplace burdens. With a prevalence rate of nearly 8% among full-time workers, no workplace is immune from the impact of depression.
Learning Objectives
- Currently accepted causes and treatments of depression.
- Risk factors associated with the onset of depression.
- Strategies for educating your workplace about depression.
- Recommendations to help employees access treatment.
- Learn tips about how to mitigate the impacts of depression in the workplace!
About the Presenter: Mark Meier, MSW, LCSW
Mark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over with over 25 years of clinical, professional, and academic training on depression, to go along with a deeply personal understanding of the impact depression has on families and workplaces when left unrecognized and untreated. In 2009 Mark co-founded the Face It Foundation to provide free support services to men who deal with depression and who have survived suicide attempts.
Today Face It serves over 100 men each month with support groups, retreats, education classes, and social activities. In addition to his full-time work at Face It, Mark is on staff in the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine – Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and an advisor for multiple research studies on depression through the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Mark has delivered over 350 talks across the United States on depression and he openly speaks about his own battle with depression that resulted in his hospitalization in 2002.
Mark believes it’s his own experience with depression that has best positioned him to help others.
Nutrition is about energy, health, and nutrients. Meal planning is about time, organization, process and strategy. Learn from the popular Fox 9 morning show contributor Carisa Rasmussen helpful tips on what to eat and effective meal planning for you and your family!
Learning Objectives:
- How nutrition impacts energy.
- How nutrition impacts health.
- How much water to drink and greens to eat.
- Tips on how to develop a healthy nutrition lifestyle and mindset.
About the Presenter: Carisa Rasmussen
Carisa Rasmussen is a national speaker. Carisa has been a Fox 9 morning show contributor since 2013. She’s known for cultivating hope and inspiration through her presentations and online courses.
Carisa built two successful businesses. The first company Carisa started and currently owns, Accessible Homes, builds and remodels homes for people with disabilities in both MN and western WI.
Rasmussen sees her greatest accomplishment as losing over 75 LB’s while running a million-dollar business, as a full time student, all when she was still a new mom. She shares that it doesn’t matter what the goal is that you want to accomplish, you’ll need the same tools to accomplish any goal.
Carisa has held pageant titles, competed at a national fitness competition and completed a half marathon. Rasmussen is the official personal trainer for Miss MN. She is a certified personal trainer, certified nutrition consultant. She has helped thousands of people create a more confident and healthy lifestyle through her online programs and motivational presentations.
Fluorescent lights. Cubicles. Internal offices with no windows. Low energy. Sound familiar? We are spending less time outdoors than ever before. However, the impact of getting outside (and bringing nature inside) has great benefits for self care, mental health and productivity (for both us and our clients).
Learning Objectives
- Learn the benefits of the outdoors for self care
- Learn how getting outside improves mental health
- Learn how getting outside improves productivity and focus
- Learning about the mood-boosting benefits of the great outdoors for your clients, community and YOU!
About the Presenter: Hannah Maertz
Hannah has spent most of her career working in the non-profit sector, preparing at-risk youth for employment and education opportunities, programming public radio, and providing care to folks in need. Hannah is now is a Community Manager for a coworking space in downtown Minneapolis.
When not at work, you’ll find Hannah exploring Minneapolis on bike, checking out a local music show, or passionately discussing the importance of spending time in the outdoors. She has a B.A. in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and a B.A.S in Psychology from the University of Minnesota – Duluth.
The Simple Path to Wealth
JL Collins wrote the book called The Simple Path to Wealth.
The book grew out of a series of letters to his daughter concerning various things—mostly about money and investing—she was not yet quite ready to hear.
Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we’ve created, understanding it is critical.
“But Dad,” she once said, “I know money is important. I just don’t want to spend my life thinking about it.”
This was eye-opening. I love this stuff. But most people have better things to do with their precious time. Bridges to build, diseases to cure, treaties to negotiate, mountains to climb, technologies to create, children to teach, businesses to run.
Unfortunately, benign neglect of things financial leaves you open to the charlatans of the financial world. The people who make investing endlessly complex, because if it can be made complex it becomes more profitable for them, more expensive for us, and we are forced into their waiting arms.
The simple approach I created for her and will present to you, is not only easy to understand and implement, it is more powerful than any other.
In this Q&A style webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):
- Debt: Why you must avoid it and what to do if you have it.
- How to think about money, and the key to building your wealth.
- Where traditional investing advice goes wrong and what actually works.
- What the stock market really is and how it really works.
- Why the stock market always goes up and why most people still lose money investing.
- How to invest in a raging bull, or bear, market.
- Specific investments to implement these strategies.
- How to simplify the sometimes confusing world of 401(k), 403(b), TSP, IRA and Roth accounts.
- TRFs (Target Retirement Funds), HSAs (Health Savings Accounts) and RMDs (Required Minimum Distributions).
About the Speaker: JL Collins
JL Collins is the author of The Simple Path to Wealth and is a popular guest on podcasts that focus on financial independence.
In addition to his work as a publisher, Mr. Collins is an accomplished consultant, author and speaker and podcast guest. He has provided reorganization strategies, sales and marketing strategies, sales training, business plans and operational reviews for clients such as The Aberdeen Group, East Ohio Gas, National City Bank and Thompson, Hine and Flory. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and holds a BA in English Literature.
Outsmart Your Anxious Brain
Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question our decisions and ourselves, worry about the future, and it fills our days with dread and emotional turbulence.
But what if we understood that anxiety is merely a trick of the mind, trying to convince us we’re in danger?
Anxiety is like a magician behind the curtain, playing subtle tricks on us to convince us that we’re in danger when we’re not. When we understand this, we can observe our anxious feelings with some distance.
It’s time to outsmart your worry and anxiety.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):
- The “trick” of chronic anxiety.
- The ten most powerful techniques based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you respond differently to panic, anxiety, worry, and phobias.
It’s time to outsmart your worry and anxiety. Learn how in this webinar!
About the Speaker: Dr. David Carbonell
David Carbonell, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
He has maintained a practice devoted exclusively to the treatment of anxiety disorders in Chicago for more than thirty years. He is also the “coach” at anxietycoach.com, a self- help web site for people troubled by fears and phobias.
He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from DePaul University in Chicago in 1985 and is licensed as a clinical psychologist by the States of Illinois (# 071-003556) and New York (# 015044).
He is a member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies, the American Psychological Association and the Illinois Psychological Association.
Mental Health and Well-Being in the Workplace
The importance of good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace is a subject of increased awareness and attention.
One in four people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives.
In this webinar speaker Gill Hasson will share guidance for improving mental health and supporting those struggling with their mental health.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- Why and how to promote mental health in the workplace.
- Guidance on managing staff experiencing mental health challenges.
- How to deal with employee stress and anxiety.
- How to support those struggling with mental health, regardless of your role.
About the Presenter: Gill Hasson
Gill Hasson is a careerscoach, has over 20 years’ experience in the areas of personal & career development, and is a freelance tutor / teacher in mental health issues for mental health organizations.
She also teaches and delivers training for adult education organizations, voluntary and business organizations and the public sector. Gill is also Capstone’s best selling franchise author.
Personal and Professional Development
Stepping Up: How to Lead from Any Position or Role
Leading and creating is no longer about hierarchy.
It is about taking initiative, and having the guts to do something different and risking failure. It is about caring enough to put in extra thought, time, emotion, and energy to make something remarkable happen.
Do you want your work to be more fulfilling and special? Then lead and create, regardless of your position. Learn how in this dynamic presentation!
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Transform: The 4 Laws of Behavior Change
“If you are having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. This problem is your system.” ~ James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
Behavior change is hard. In fact, 91% of people don’t achieve their New Year’s resolutions.
But 9% do… What makes them different? The systems they set up to make progress.
In this training you will learn how to put the 4 laws of behavior change into action:
- Make it obvious.
- Make it attractive.
- Make it easy.
- Make it satisfying.
You will also learn the difference between goals vs. systems when working to achieve your goals.
Use this training to better help your clients, and to take your life and performance at work to the next level!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Most have heard of IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence) and how they contribute to our overall potential.
A new kind of intelligence, Positive Intelligence (PQ) is on the rise. Positive Intelligence (PQ) helps us maximize our potential.
However, according to the research of Shirzad Chamine, 80% of all teams operate below a critical Positive Intelligence level, and fall short of achieving their true potential for success and happiness.
Why? Mental Saboteurs.
Saboteurs are the voices in our head that generate negative emotions in the way we handle life’s everyday challenges.
They represent automated patterns in our minds for how to think, feel, and respond. They cause stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, restlessness, and unhappiness. They sabotage our performance, wellbeing, and relationships.
In this training you will learn:
- The 10 saboteurs and how they impact performance.
- How to identify and overcome your top mental saboteurs.
- How to increase your Positive Intelligence (PQ).
- How to apply PQ tools and techniques to increase performance and fulfillment.
Brain Power: How to Get the Most Out of Your Brain to Improve Thinking, Learning, and Performance
Understanding how our brains work can transform our daily lives.
Fortunately, brain scientists know a good deal about the things that impact our brains.
In this training we will explore 11 of the brain rules highlighted by molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, and how we can leverage them to improve thinking, learning, and performance.
The 11 Rules we will explore are:
- Exercise
- Survival
- Sleep
- Stress
- Wiring
- Attention
- Memory
- Sensory Integration
- Vision
- Music
- Exploration
Understanding the impact of the 11 rules on our brains can help us maximize they way we live and work!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
What do you do when you’re faced with a big decision? If you’re like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn’t work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people’s opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut.
What if there was a better way to make quality decisions so you can think clearly, feel more confident, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more decisive and be more productive?
Making good decisions doesn’t have to be a series of endless guesswork. Rather, it’s a teachable skill that anyone can sharpen.
In this webinar, bestselling author Annie Duke and former professional poker player lays out a series of tools anyone can use to make better decisions.
You will learn:
- To identify and dismantle hidden biases.
- To extract the highest quality feedback from those whose advice you seek.
- To more accurately identify the influence of luck in the outcome of your decisions.
- When to decide fast, when to decide slow, and when to decide in advance
- To make decisions that more effectively help you to realize your goals and live your values.
- As a result of this weinbar you will achieve happier outcomes and fewer regrets!
About the Speaker: Annie Duke
Author. Professional Speaker. Decision Strategist. Former Professional Poker Player.
Annie Duke has leveraged her expertise in the science of smart decision making to excel at pursuits as varied as championship poker to public speaking. Annie’s latest book, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, is available on September 15, 2020 from Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. Her previous book, Thinking in Bets, is a national bestseller. In the book, Annie reveals to readers the lessons she regularly shares with her corporate audiences, which have been cultivated by combining her academic studies in cognitive psychology with real-life decision making experiences at the poker table.
For two decades, Annie was one of the top poker players in the world.
In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the prestigious NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master’s degree.
Annie now spends her time writing, coaching and speaking on a range of topics such as decision fitness, emotional control, productive decision groups and embracing uncertainty. She is a regularly sought-after public speaker, addressing thousands in keynote remarks at conferences for organizations ranging from the Investment Management Consultants Association to the Big Ten Conference.
She has been brought in to speak to the executive teams or sales forces of organizations like Marriott, Gaylord Resorts and Ultimate Software, among others. She is a sought-after speaker in the financial sector, with clients such as Susqehanna International Group and CitiBank. Annie regularly shares her observations on decision making and critical thinking skills on her blog, Annie’s Analysis, and has shared her poker knowledge through a series of best-selling poker instruction and theory books, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone: Mastering the Most difficult Hands in Hold’em Poker (both co-authored with John Vorhaus).
Annie is a master storyteller, having performed three times for The Moth, an organization that preserves the art of spoken word storytelling. One of her stories was selected by The Moth as one of their top 50 stories and featured in the organization’s first-ever book. Her passion for making a difference has helped raise millions for charitable causes.
In 2006, she founded Ante Up for Africa along with actor Don Cheadle and Norman Epstein, which has raised more than $4 million for Africans in need. She has also served on the board of The Decision Education Foundation. In 2009, she appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice, and raised $730,000 for Refugees International, a charity that advocates for refugees around the world.
In October 2013, Annie became a national board member for After School All-Stars. In 2014, Annie co-founded The Alliance for Decision Education to build a national movement that empowers teachers, school administrators and policymakers to bring Decision Education to every Middle and High School student. In 2016, she began serving on the board of directors of The Franklin Institute, one of America’s oldest and greatest science museums. In 2020, she joined the board of the Renew Democracy Initiative.
Confidence Building Strategies for Work and Life
Discover how to increase confidence, overcome self-doubt, and showcase your strengths!
We all struggle sometimes to find the confidence we need. In this webinar, confidence and motivation expert Kirsty Hulse will teach practical skills to increase confidence, overcome self-doubt, and showcase your strengths.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How to improve your self-image by overcoming your negativity bias, softening your inner critic, and learning to think confident thoughts throughout your day.
- How to develop resilience when dealing with difficult situations.
- How to demonstrate your unique confident traits and project your confidence outwards.
About the Speaker: Kirsty Hulse
The founder of Roar! Training, Kirsty is a highly qualified coach. Her training has been described as “game changing”, “life changing,” and from the thousands of people she’s worked with, 100% of attendees would recommend her work to a colleague.
Kirsty founded her first company Manyminds at 26, a marketing agency with global clients like Virgin Atlantic and IBM which turned over nearly a million dollars in its first year of trading.
In 2 years, she scaled the business to a team of over 50 independent, remote staff, disrupting a traditional landscape.
She also wrote a bestselling book and is a standup comic, having performed a show at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, she brings a passion for humor into her work.
It is common to think that problems are natural and inevitable.
For example:
- Clients will frequently have questions.
- It is common for clients to get confused.
- Some people will always show up late.
- It’s normal to scramble to meet a project deadline.
What if it didn’t have to be this way?
Well, it doesn’t. Upstream thinking can solve a lot of our annoying, costly probems before they happen!
In this training we will learn:
- Barriers to Upstream thinking.
- How to identify if a problem has an upstream cause.
- Questions to ask to when solving a problem with an upstream cause.
- How to use second order thinking to avoid unintended consequences when solving problems.
- How to build systems to solve problems before they start.
Best Self: Thrive in Your Personal and Professional Life
Are your days full of work, relationships and activities that are true to your authentic self, or do you spend time on things you find uninspiring?
This training is for those who want to identify and live as their best selves.
To help us live and work as our best selves, author and life coach Mike Bayer developed a framework called the seven SPHERES.
The seven SPHERES are:
- Social
- Personal
- Health
- Education
- Relationships
- Employment
- Spiritual Development
In this training you will learn the following (Learning Objectives):
- How to improve your social life.
- How to improve your physical and mental health.
- Tips for maximizing your career and learning opportunities.
- Strategies to boost your personal and professional relationships.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Growth: Rising to the Next Level Personally and Professionally
Many of us desire to get to the next level in our personal and professional lives, but don’t know the steps to take.
In this training you will learn how to identify what growth means to you, and how to implement sustainable change.
You will learn (Learning Objectives)
- How systems are better than goals in achieving sustainable growth.
- Examples of professional, financial, and personal life systems.
- How sunk costs hold us back from growth, and how to overcome them.
- How to determine when quitting is the right thing to do.
- Three ways to identify areas of growth.
- How regular experimenting helps you innovate, grow, and lead.
You will also get inspired by learning to overcome fear through the 5 Steps of Courage and how to handle failure with humility and resilience.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Brain Power: How to Get the Most Out of Your Brain to Improve Thinking, Learning, and Performance
- How to be present and open.
- How to create a solid foundation of self-confidence and your own genuine leadership style.
- How to develop a System for learning, a platform for failure, and a mindset of excellence.
Ethical intelligence may not get as much attention as other forms of “smarts,” but as Bruce Weinstein will show in this webinar, it is the most practical, valuable, and even courageous form. Ethical intelligence determines success on the job, fulfillment in relationships, and sense of self-worth.
In this webinar by ‘The Ethics Guy’ Dr. Bruce Weinstein, you will learn how to apply the five principles of ethical intelligence to the toughest problems you face with clients, colleagues and other valued people in your life.
In this webinar you will learn how to apply the five principles of ethical intelligence to work and life situations (Learning Objectives):
- Do no harm
- Make things better
- Respect others
- Be Fair
- Care
Learn how to strengthen your personal and professional relationships, and make the right decisions every time, everywhere.
About the Presenter: Dr. Bruce Weinstein ‘The Ethics Guy’
Forbes Contributor Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy®, shows companies around the world how ethical leadership at every level is the key to sustained success.
Some of his books include:
• Ethical Intelligence: Five Principles for Untangling Your Toughest Problems at Work and Beyond
• The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character Employees
• Is It Still Cheating If I Don’t Get Caught? (for tweens and teens)
Bruce has discussed ethical leadership over 200 times on national and international broadcast and cable television news programs. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from Georgetown University and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan awarded Bruce a National Fellowship in Leadership Development.
Bruce lives in New York with his wife Kristen Bancroft, a compliance professional in the financial services industry. To relax Bruce enjoys traveling to national parks with his wife, playing drums, and trying to figure out the plot of “The Godfather, Part II.”
Personality: Leverage Strengths and Minimize Weaknesses to Improve Performance
Many of us have taken a personality assessment at some point in our lives. These often happen when we are getting hired or as part of team building exercises.
Whether it was the Myers-Briggs, DiSC, Strength Finder, Enneagram or something else, we learned our natural strengths and weaknesses and those of our teammates as well.
A common outcome is to finally feel understood by our co-workers. I am what I am. Now THEY know how to adjust to work better with me.
In other words, we experience validation and gain some insight, but don’t grow or change.
There is a better way.
In this training we will explore how to better utilize personality assessments to leverage our strengths and minimize weaknesses.
You will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- Popular personality tests and what they reveal.
- How to use the personality assessment to identify areas where you can improve your performance.
- How to use the personality assessments to better understand how others view you, and help you adjust to others.
- A ‘work style’ assessment that will help you more easily adapt and work effectively with others.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Cognitive Bias: Uncover Blindspots in Your Thinking and Decision Making
A cognitive bias is an error, or blind spot, in our thinking and decision making.
It convinces us that we have an accurate understanding of a person or situation, when we actually don’t.
Cognitive biases lead to:
- Decisions with unintended consequences.
- Decisions that backfire in the long term.
- Decisions (and actions) that have a negative impact on people we serve.
- Overconfidence in our knowledge and understanding.
In this training you will learn about common cognitive biases that we experience, strategies to combat the biases, and how to make better decisions.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Description:
Psychological scientist and author Dr. Alice Pailhès has pioneered the scientific research on magicians’ mind control tricks, called forcing techniques.
But these mind control tricks don’t just exist in the world of magic – they’re part of your everyday decision-making process.
In this webinar you will learn:
- How forcing techniques work.
- How to identify blindspots.
- Invisible forces that shape our decision making.
This is guaranteed to be a fun and enlightening session that will take your thinking and decision making to a new level!
Your success and influence as a professional depends upon your ability to relate to others, to create impact with your clients and team, and in being an inspiring authentic human to be with.
It’s the quality of your presence that ultimately determines your ability to succeed—your presence is your impact, and for good or bad, you are contagious.
In this webinar, Anese Cavanaugh will share the the following (Learning Objectives)
- The power of using intention, service, and self-care as magic
- How to use the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence) to create impact
- Frameworks for up-leveling your leadership presence and (positive) contagiousness.
About the Speaker: Anese Cavanaugh
Anese Cavanaugh is devoted to helping people show up and bring their best selves to the table in order to create significant positive impact in their lives.
She is the creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®), an advisor and thinking partner to leaders and organizations around the world, a keynote speaker, and author of CONTAGIOUS CULTURE: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives, CONTAGIOUS YOU: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want, and THE LEADER YOU WILL BE: An Invitation (a leadership storybook).
As a leading voice on intention, energy, and presence in leadership and culture, she helps people unlock greater leadership potential, collaborate more inspiringly, create more openly, intuit more bravely, and lead more joyfully and effectively.
Description:
Whatever you are doing right now is determined by the way you are thinking.
Whatever emotions you feel are influenced by your thinking.
Whatever you want – all your desires – are determined by your thinking.
If your thinking is unrealistic, it will lead you to many disappointments.
If your thinking is overly pessimistic, it will deny you due recognition of the many things in which you should properly rejoice.
In this webinar you will learn the tools the best thinkers use in their work and personal lives.
You will learn how to implement these qualities of the best thinkers:
- How to reflect on your thinking.
- How to be more purposeful.
- Intellectual tools to raise the quality of your thinking.
- How to distinguish thoughts from feelings and desires.
This webinar will help you reason well through the problems and issues you face at work and in your personal life.
Time is precious.
Many of us spend hours each week in meetings and conversations.
The faciliator of the meeting dictates whether that time is wasted or makes a positive difference.
Let’s learn some leadership tips for hosting better meetings and conversations that improve productivity, not reduce it.
In this training you will learn:
- How to decide when a meeting is actually needed.
- How to choose the best platform: Virtual, in-person, or phone call?
- How to implement the three Ps of effective meeting facilitation: Purpose, people and process.
- How to keep the group focused while inspiring active participation.
- Tips for having shorter meetings that have great impact.
- How to have less meetings while keeping communication thriving.
Supervisors and Managers
The Art of Leadership
During this training we cover the following: (Learning Objectives)
- What impacts employee performance?
- Understanding work styles
- Setting expectations
- How to give effective feedback
- How to have difficult conversations
- How to choose the right leadership frame for each situation
- Connecting with your people
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Cognitive Bias: Uncover Blindspots in Your Thinking and Decision Making
A cognitive bias is an error, or blind spot, in our thinking and decision making.
It convinces us that we have an accurate understanding of a person or situation, when we actually don’t.
Cognitive biases lead to:
- Decisions with unintended consequences.
- Decisions that backfire in the long term.
- Decisions (and actions) that have a negative impact on people we serve.
- Overconfidence in our knowledge and understanding.
In this training you will learn about common cognitive biases that we experience, strategies to combat the biases, and how to make better decisions.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Description:
In this webinar leadership expert Audrey Daniels will teach you how to embody the traits of an assertive leader, and how to show empathy in a way that motivates others.
You will learn:
- How to develop your own assertive leadership style.
- The benefits assertiveness provides to your career and organization.
- How to develop greater self awareness.
- How to set boundaries.
- How to communicate with diplomacy and tact.
Get ready to take your leadership skills to the next level in this webinar!
Management Essentials: Module 2
Research shows that 50% of staff don’t know what is expected of them. In this module, we’ll help managers change that ugly statistic on their teams!
Each staff-person has primary tasks they are responsible to complete. Establishing a standard of performance answers the question, “What does it mean to do a good job on this task?”
The standard of performance is also what is used to evaluate staff performance.
In this module managers will learn how to: (Learning Objectives)
- Establish standards of performance.
- Effectively communicate the standards of performance to their team.
- Create standards of performance.
- Determine what training is needed for staff to achieve the standards.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Management Essentials Module 4: Delegation
Managers must move from “doing it all” to “delegating to others.”
In this module managers will explore:
- What are they doing currently that they think they SHOULD delegate to someone else?
- Why are they not delegating it?
- What would need to happen for them to be able to delegate it, or to feel comfortable delegating it?
- The 3 Ts of Delegation: Training, Time Management, and Trust.
- How to empower staff to make decisions.
- What, when, and how to delegate.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Distributed: Supervising Remote and Hybrid Teams
Organizations that have staff who work in-person and remote is rapidly becoming a new normal.
This presents unique challenges for supervisors as they try to lead happy and productive teams.
In this training we cover the essential things supervisors must know to effectively manage remote and hybrid staff.
You will learn:
- Tips to keep your team socially and professionally connected.
- Ways to train new staff when they or veteran employees are working remotely.
- How to improve engagement in team meetings and conversatons.
- Strategies to enhance collaboration and information sharing.
You will also learn 5 key things you must establish as a leader of a remote or hybrid team, and quality of life tips to teach your staff as they work remotely.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Leadership Development: Identifying Staff Who are Ready for the Next Level
Leadership Development: Identifying Staff Who are Ready for the Next Level
Let’s be honest. It is hard to find great staff. It is even harder to keep them.
Developing the talent we have into leaders is more important than ever.
Good leadership is a game changer. It gives people direction, purpose, security and recognition. It also separates a great job experience from a bad one.
As the saying goes, “People don’t quit a job, they quit a manager.”
Given limited resources, what strategies can we use to develop leaders in our organizations?
In this training you will learn:
- How to spot leadership qualities in potential employees.
- Key questions to think through before promoting someone to a leadership position.
- Leadership Assessment Tools – What they tell you about personality, workstyle, emotional intelligence, strengths, and more.
- Resources to develop culturally competent leaders.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community.
Since 2010 he has provided trauma informed care, and training to professionals that serve the following types of clients who have experienced trauma: People with low incomes that are experiencing homelessness and housing instability, individuals with mental illness and other mental health challenges, people with physical disabilities, people with substance use disorders, individuals in the criminal justice system, refugees, children experiencing trauma, and more.
Attendees in over 1,500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2006 Josh earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Housing Studies from the University of Minnesota. In 2010 he earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Teamwork
Trust is the foundation of a healthy workplace with high morale. When trust is lacking, tension and burnout are high, needless conflict spreads, and performance suffers. High stress environments make these things worse.
When trust is present efficiency increases, people support one another, clients are more cooperative, and work is a rewarding place to be.
To excel as an organization that is great for people and productivity the following must happen:
- Managers and supervisors trust their staff.
- Employees trust management.
- Clients trust both the professionals and the organization serving them.
But how?
In this training you will learn how individuals and organizations can build trust in their relationships and communty, including:
- The top 10 traits of high trust people.
- How to have effective relationships with people that hold different values.
- How to build credibility.
- How to restore trust after it was lost.
Trust can serve as our greatest benefit or biggest liability. Get ready to learn how to reap the benefit of high trust relationships and work environments in this dynamic training!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
From Boomers to Z: How to Work Effectively Across Generations
For the first time in modern U.S. history there are significant members of 4 different
generations in the workplace: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z.
Differences in work styles, expectations and preferences have a big impact on how well we
work together…or not.
In this fast paced, interactive trainingyou will learn why each generation approaches things
the way that they do, and tips for adapting and working well together.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the background of each generation.
- Understand the work style of each generation.
- Learn how to adapt to effectively work and communicate with people from other generations.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Description:
Your happiness and your success depend on your working relationships.
- How well you work with your boss.
- The people you manage.
- The way collaboration happens with colleagues and peers.
- How you connect with clients and the people you serve.
But the hard truth is this: most of us leave the health and fate of these relationships to chance.
We say “Hi,” exchange pleasantries … and hope for the best.
But many relationships become suboptimal at some point, whether it’s a good one that goes off the rails or one that was poor from the start.
But it doesn’t have to be like this.
Every working relationship can be better.
In this webinar Michael Bungay Stanier will show you how to build the best possible relationships.
You will learn:
- 5 powerful questions that deepen trust.
- How to set relationships up for success from the beginning.
- How to maintain relationships so they thrive.
- How to rebuild poor relationships.
Employees are the most important asset for running your organization and serving clients. Research indicates that illness or a death in the family is the second most common problem which affects workplace performance (stress is #1). When a death or other serious crisis occurs, on average it impacts the lives of more than 25 other people. Grief and loss can affect the individual or the entire team. Handling loss at work is challenging on a personal and professional level.
While 84% of companies have Employee Assistance Programs, only 10% of employees use them. Managers and co-workers need to do more than just send a grieving individual to an EAP program which only addresses part of the grief/crisis picture.
In this webinar you will learn (learning objectives):
- The impact of grief and how it affects the entire team.
- What to do and say in times of crisis & grief.
- How to talk to a grieving individual as well as their co-workers.
- How the team’s productivity is affected during the grieving/crisis period.
Get ready to put plan in place to train your staff on how to handle grief or crisis in the workplace BEFORE a crisis arises.
About the Presenter: Linda Trignano
For more than 24 years Linda has worked facilitating grief recovery support groups, training grief facilitators, as well as working with individuals who are in the process of recovering from grief and loss.
She has worked with individuals experiencing a divorce or death, children who have lost a parent, relative or close friend to death or divorce, as well as training for a unique Rainbows program to work with the children of 9/11 victims. She is a certified facilitator through the Newark, NJ Diocese to create and run grief support groups. She also has training from Hospice to work with terminally ill patients.
All of this combined with over 18 years of corporate management roles with extensive experience in Employee Development Planning, Team Dynamics, Change/Transition Management and HR Quality Process Management has given her the unique skills to effectively train managers, staff and employees to be compassionate.
Methods: How to Work Effectively with People Who Have Different Workstyles
Working with people who have different work styles is often challenging. Our background, skills and experiences impact how we view communication, time, deadlines, relationships, decision-making, and more! To work effectively together, we must better understand our own work styles and the work styles and preferences of people on our team.
In this presentation you will learn: (Learning Objectives)
- The 9 dimensions of work style.
- How to adapt our own style to work better with others.
- Milestone Management – How to approach small and large projects to ensure high quality work that meets deadlines!
Workplaces that feature a wide variety of workstyles are a strength and benefit. Request this session to learn how to work well together, regardless of how you approach the job!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Selfies, social media, and sharing (bikes, cars, and more!) are hallmarks of the Millennial generation – the largest generation in U.S. history. Selfish and sense of entitlement are words some have used when working this group. If working with millennials was a Facebook relationship status it would be: “It’s Complicated.”
Factors including workplace culture, training, talent, motivation, personal life issues, and more all contribute to the working relationships. In this session you will learn how to move millennials from “It’s Complicated” to “Engaged!”
Learning Objectives
- Learn influences on the Millennial generation
- Learn traits of the Millennial generation
- Learn workplace preferences of the Millennial generation
- Learn how to form good relationships with and engage the Millennial generation
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Leadership transcends position and hierarchy. It is about initiative, passion, forward-thinking, asking tough questions, calculated risks, and decisive actions during moments that make your heart pound.
Professional and personal leadership takes courage. This is where thought-provoking presentations and consulting by Josh Dye and Convene, LLC make the difference. Since 2010, attendees in over 150 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he melds practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
Speaking of experience, Josh has demonstrated excellent performance and leadership at each professional stop. While working for the MN Multi Housing Association he helped double its membership in Greater MN in less than 18 months, and launched the organization’s education programming statewide. At the National Association of the Remodeling Industry- MN Chapter, Josh helped set association records in member recruitment, event attendance, and awards program participation. During his tenure at HousingLink the organization reached all-time highs in website traffic and individual donations. He also spearheaded the launch of HousingLink’s first earned income ventures Twin Cities Rental Revue and Housing Hub. Josh is now the Founder and President of Convene, LLC, a speaking, training, and consulting company for corporations, associations, nonprofits, and small businesses, currently serving clients throughout the United States.
Josh Dye is the President & Founder of Convene, LLC, a speaking, training, and marketing consulting company.
This webinar is about cultivating and sustaining healthy, thriving, fulfilling and meaningful relationships. The key to this is greater awareness. And it doesn’t have to be so difficult. You will learn a dynamic set of communication and social skills to have more harmonious relationships.
You will also learn (learning objectives)
- How to listen with empathy.
- How to articulate your needs and feelings without blame and judgment.
- The “T” exercise that will help you understand your feelings, and have greater empathy for others.
The quality of life and work is the quality of our relationships. Learn how to improve your relationships in this webinar!
About the Speaker: Michael Jascz
Michael Jascz is the Founder and Executive Director of The Relationship Foundation, an educational initiative on the forefront of a unique approach to Social and Emotional Learning with proven results. For over 14 years, Michael has dedicated himself to helping people build healthy and meaningful relationships. Michael has developed a groundbreaking program entitled “Healthy Relationships 101,” which has been introduced in New York City high schools since 2007.
Before working in the school setting, Michael studied the work of leading relationship authors and lecturers — Harville Hendrix and Marshall Rosenberg — whose work inspired the Healthy Relationships 101 curriculum and guidebook. He has given numerous relationship presentations and seminars throughout the United States and Europe, and he maintains a private coaching practice. Michael holds a degree in political science and anthropology from the honors program at Ohio State University.
Kwame Christian says a conflict is A negotiation with attitude.
Conflict is a regular part of our lives. Whether it is a disagreement with a co-worker, client, family member or friend, we need tools that help us resolve important issues that are holding us back.
For many of us, conflict is uncomfortable. We would rather avoid it than confront it. We also struggle to understand how to resolve conflicts fairly.
Following a conflict resolution process, or framework, helps a lot. Instead of just winging it, we can follow research-driven and time tested best practices.
In this training you will learn the different conflict styles that people have, and we will review conflict resolution frameworks created by three experts:
- Lisa Gates’s Resolution Roadmap
- Kwame Christian’s Compassionate Curiosity
- Jennifer Beer and Caroline Packard’s Mediator’s Handbook, which forms the foundation of the process professional mediators use at Conflict Resolution Centers around the country.
Let’s get ready to resolve conflicts together!
Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work
Have you ever wanted to disagree with your boss in a meeting? Speak up about something that doesn’t seem right? Make a tough decision that you know will be unpopular?
We all have opportunities to be courageous at work.
But since courage requires risk—to our reputations, our social standing, and, in some cases, our jobs—we often fail to act, which leaves us feeling powerless and regretful for not doing what we know is right.
There’s a better way to work and live.
Courage isn’t a character trait that only a few possess. It’s a virtue developed through practice.
In this webinar you will learn:
- Research-based tactics to help you make better use of your courageous instincts at work.
- How to develop courage through practice.
- How to incoporate courage into your everyday life.
- Stories of ordinary people who’ve acted courageously to make a greater impact.
About the Speaker: Jim Detert
Jim Detert is the author of the book Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work, published by Harvard Business Review Press.
He is the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and a Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
Jim’s research focuses on workplace courage, improvement-oriented voice (why people speak up or stay silent at work), ethical decision-making and behavior, and other leadership-related topics. This research, as well as his consulting experiences, has been conducted across a variety of global high-technology and service-oriented industries as well as public sector institutions, including K-12 education.
Jim received his M.A. in sociology and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Harvard University. He also holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin.
From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading
Unresolved conflict is workplace kryptonite. Get ready to develop the mindset and skills to defuse disagreements, overcome division, and turn conflict into an opportunity for growth.
Unresolved workplace conflict wastes time, increases stress, and negatively affects business outcomes. But conflict isn’t the problem, mismanagement is.
We unintentionally mismanage conflict when they fall into patterns of what speaker Marlene Chism calls “The Three As:” aggression, avoidance, and appeasing.
“These coping mechanisms are ways human beings avoid the emotions that come with conflict, but in the end it’s all avoidance,” says Chism.
In this webinar you will learn how to fearlessly deal with conflict head-on by expanding your conflict capacity.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- The three elements of conflict capacity: Inner Game, Outer Game, Culture.
- Inner Game – How to build self-awareness, values, discernment, and emotional integrity.
- Outer Game – Skills, tools, and communication techniques.
- Culture – The visible and invisible structures around you that can encourage or discourage conflict.
About the Speaker: Marlene Chism
High-level leaders seek Marlene’s expertise as a thought partner, advisor or coach when going through periods of transition or change.
Organizations seek Marlene’s leadership development courses to teach mid-level and senior leaders the strategic communication skills to initiate conversations that get results and increase accountability.
She’s the author of four books, including Stop Workplace Drama; No-Drama Leadership; 7 Ways to Stop Drama in Your Healthcare Practice, and From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading.
Marlene is an expert on the LinkedIn Learning platform offering courses in Anger Management; Difficult Conversations; Difficult Conversations for Managers, and Working with High Conflict People as a Manager.
Marlene has a degree in Communications from Drury University and a master’s degree in Human Resources Development from Webster University. She’s an advanced practitioner in Narrative Coaching.
Date: January 18, 2024
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Central Time
Description:
The foundation for strong relationships, highly collaborative teams and full self-expression is trust and psychological safety. Creating a culture of psychological safety requires a willingness and a commitment to practice open and healthy dialogue.
Fostering psychological safety begins with the science of asking powerful questions and the art of compassionate listening. When applied, employees and customers feel heard, seen and understood. Employee’s thoughts, ideas and perspectives are welcome and their talents and creativity flourish.
Organizational consultant, speaker and author Jean Marie DiGiovanna, will share the critical success factors to creating trust and the foundational skillset and tools needed to create and foster a culture of psychologically safety.
In this interactive session, get ready to:
- Discover the equation for success and factors critical to creating an environment of trust and psychological safety.
- Learn the #1 Skill Renaissance Leaders possess to shift the dialogue, increase employee engagement and create a culture of trust and psychological safety.
- Apply the “Safety 6” Questions that open up the dialogue and foster psychological safety on a day-to-day basis.
Diversity and Inclusion
Our unconscious mind is amazing. It can process much more information than our conscious mind.
It makes shortcuts based on our background, cultural environment and personal experiences to make quick decisions about everything around us.It is also wrong a lot of the time, especially when it comes to people that are different from us in areas of race, skin color, disability, gender, religion, age, appearance, and more.
In this training you will learn how to increase awareness of unconscious bias, and discover strategies to better manage it when serving clients, working with peers, and making key decisions.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
What is bias?
How unconscious bias impacts our thinking, expectations and actions.
How In Groups and Out Groups affect our beliefs.
How to gain greater awareness of where you may have bias.
Microaggressions: What they are, and are not.
Strategies to reduce the impact of bias on decision making and actions.
This training focuses on structural racism. The trainers review the history of racism in the USA, address individual attitudes and knowledge, explore the concepts of internalized oppression and privilege, and examine how agency based and society-wide institutional arrangements implicitly or explicitly foster racism. Participants learn that they are institutional ‘‘gatekeepers’’ who can affect organizations either by acting to maintain or helping to undo racism.
Learning Objectives
- How to unpack systemic racism.
- How to unravel white privilege.
- How to take steps to be an ally.
- How to develop an action plan that can be immediately applied.
About the Presenters:
Cecilia Stanton Adams
Cecilia Stanton Adams is the CEO of Stanton Adams Consulting, LLC and is most known for her track record as an accomplished educator and Diversity thought leader. She is committed to a holistic approach to transforming organizations, teams and individuals with the principles of equity and inclusion.
Her education and over 15 years of experience in Strategic Diversity positions, she has contributed to the development of programs and services that increase representation of diversity from education, front line workers through to the highest levels of leadership.
Her visionary approach inspires others to recognize the diversity their organizations may be overlooking in: Recruitment, Retention, Training, Supplier Diversity and Community Relations.
Cecilia earned a Master’s Degree in Psychology & Sociology from Lehigh University in 2003. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Industrial Psychology from Capella University in 2009. She is currently working on earning a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and coaching from Sedona University.
Malissa Stanton Adams
Malissa is a diversity, inclusion and social equity expert. With over 15 years of experience in operations management and organizational development in the public and private sectors, Malissa understands how to motivate others and act as an effective liaison between organizations and members of under-served communities.
For the past 8 years Malissa has served as the COO of Stanton Adams Consulting, LLC. She also serves as the Housing Outreach Representative for Catholic Charities USA. In 2016 Malissa earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Rasmussen College. She is currently earning a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Microaggressions are the everyday encounters of subtle discrimination that people of various marginalized groups experience throughout their lives. Microagressions can be intentional, unintentional and/or unconscious, and have a big impact on morale in the workplace.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning objectives)
- The definition of microaggressions.
- Examples of microagressions.
- How microaggressions impact us and others in the workplace.
- Techniques to manage, minimize and eliminate microaggressions in our workplace.
About the Presenter: Marcus Hollan
Marcus Hollan is the COO of Studio5 Learning. Studio5 Learning is a San Francisco-based learning design firm focused on people development. Marcus is also the Executive Director of the Cultivating Change Foundation. The foundation elevates LGBTQ agriculturists through advocacy, education and, community. Marcus earned a Master’s Degree in Community & Leadership Development from the University of Kentucky.
Cultural competence is defined as a set of behaviors and attitudes that enable you to work effectively in multicultural situations. Cultural competency is achieved by developing skills and practices important in cross-cultural interactions and using knowledge about individuals and groups to create practices and policies to create an inclusive environment. Attendees will learn how to establish positive relationships, engage clients, and improve the quality of services you provide.
Learning Objectives
- The definition of diversity, culture, equity and inclusion.
- How to identify personal gaps in cultural competence.
- How to recognize unconscious bias in yourself and others.
- How to develop an action plan that can be immediately applied.
About the Presenters:
Cecilia Stanton Adams
Cecilia Stanton Adams is the CEO of Stanton Adams Consulting, LLC and is most known for her track record as an accomplished educator and Diversity thought leader. She is committed to a holistic approach to transforming organizations, teams and individuals with the principles of equity and inclusion. Her education and over 15 years of experience in Strategic Diversity positions, she has contributed to the development of programs and services that increase representation of diversity from education, front line workers through to the highest levels of leadership. Her visionary approach inspires others to recognize the diversity their organizations may be overlooking in: Recruitment, Retention, Training, Supplier Diversity and Community Relations.
Cecilia earned a Master’s Degree in Psychology & Sociology from Lehigh University in 2003. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Industrial Psychology from Capella University in 2009. She is currently working on earning a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and coaching from Sedona University.
Malissa Stanton Adams
Malissa is a diversity, inclusion and social equity expert. With over 15 years of experience in operations management and organizational development in the public and private sectors, Malissa understands how to motivate others and act as an effective liaison between organizations and members of under-served communities.
For the past 8 years Malissa has served as the COO of Stanton Adams Consulting, LLC. She also serves as the Housing Outreach Representative for Catholic Charities USA. In 2016 Malissa earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Rasmussen College. She is currently earning a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
We live in a chaotic world that is growing increasingly more complex. Human services and public agencies are finding that those we serve are facing an increasing number of challenges in their lives. Further, our organizations are facing our own internal challenges to keep up with diversity, equity and inclusion practices. This webinar will focus on the concept of intersectionality and how it can be used as a framework to better understand ourselves, our organizations, and those we serve.
The session will help participants unpack and understand their own intersections of identity at the crossroads of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, ability and more. From there we will dive deeper to understand how these aspects of ourselves inform both our privileges and vulnerabilities and how those inform how we serve clients, and how we show up in this world.
Webinar Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of intersectionality.
- Understand how our intersectional identities show up in the workplace and in the world.
- Learn strategies using intersectionality to better serve our clients.
About the Presenter: Bruce Thao Bruce Thao is Founder & CEO of LIT Consulting – Lead. Inspire. Transform.
Bruce has over 12 years of experience working with diverse communities, including immigrants/ refugees, people of color and LGBTQ. Bruce brings added value to his clients through his combination of expertise in research, non-profit management, mental health & wellness, group facilitation, public policy and leadership development. He provides transformational coaching, diversity training and consulting at the intersections of race, class, gender and sexual orientation to help clients better understand how to evolve in our ever changing global landscape. His work helps leaders to show up as their best and full selves every day.
Through LIT, Bruce works with non-profits, government, academic institutions and foundations to assess and understand systems of oppression, diversity and inclusion both within and outside of the workplace, and to craft strategies to co-create new ways of thinking and working for equity. His leadership coaching focuses on empowering people of color and/or LGBTQ individuals with strategies to harness their inherent resilience and power to bring their full and best selves into the workplace and the world. Prior to his consulting work, Bruce served for 5 years as Director of Programs of a $10 million non-profit driving national policy work, research, and capacity building programs for organizations across the country. Bruce holds a B.S. and M.S. in Psychology from St. Joseph’s University, an M.A. in Social Welfare and completion of all doctoral coursework in Social Welfare from the University of Chicago. He is a 2013 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow, a 2014 White House Champion of Change, and was named 2016 Young Professional of the Year by the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce. Bruce is currently authoring a book on historical trauma & radical healing.
A Safe Place to Talk About Race: How to Address Race and Culture at Work
This webinar offers practical and real approaches to discuss and navigate the issues of race and culture in the workplace. You will discover steps and tools for more effective outcomes that help you lead with greater confidence.
You will learn:
- Current Social Justice Issues – How to handle these at work.
- It’s not our fault – Now, what basic definitions do we need to know?
- Is Everything about race and culture? What’s the difference
- Opportunities! 5 ways to respond when someone else makes mistakes.
- Opportunities! 5+ ways to respond if you make mistakes.
- What race and culture skills the best leaders demonstrate.
About the Speaker: Sharon Davis
Sharon Davis is a founding member of the Institute for Healing of Racism in 1987.
She has conducted International Dialogue Racism sessions in Mmabato, South Africa, and facilitated a Public Seminar on Cultural and Tribal Unity in Gabaronne, Botswana, and conflict resolution in China. She was interviewed by McNeil/Lehrer Newshour for the “Healing Racism in America” segment.
Sharon served as an International Institute and U.S Immigration Services speaker and MC at Swearing-in Ceremonies for new Americans, a regular TV panelist on “Interfaith Odyssey”, and Advisor and former Executive Director at the National Resource Center for Racial Healing which included being a Project Advisor – Diversity for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Saturn Titan Mission.
Still Kicking: Investigating the Intersection of Ageism and Ableism
Worried about how your mind or body might change over time?
That’s actually ableism, not ageism.
Why does it matter? Because we age well not by denying those changes, but by adapting to them.
In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives)
- The difference between ageism and ableism.
- How ageism and ableism intersect and reinforce each other.
- Why it’s so important to dismantle the dread and dual stigma of ageism and ableism.
About the Speakers: Ryan Backer and Kelly Durden Posey
Ryan Backer
Ryan is an age activist, public speaker, and ‘old person in training’. They are aiming to eradicate ageism intersectionally.
Kelly Durden Posey
Kelly is the founder of Inspired Inclusivity Consulting. With over 14 years of experience as an attorney, HR Professional, and educator, and a wealth of experience advocating for the LGBTQ+ community, Kelly provides tangible, actionable strategies for embracing inclusion.
Develop Interpersonal Skills for Inclusive Conversations at Work
Strong interpersonal skills at work are essential. In this webinar, Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn will share the actions and skills needed to support an inclusive work culture.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- How to boost self awareness and become more curious.
- How to deal with disagreement.
- Deep listening.
- How to apply these skills in one-on-one and group settings.
About the Presenter: Dr. Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn
Dr. Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn is an educator, speaker, trainer and writer.
Sarah has a B.A. from Haverford College, an M.A. in Social Justice and Education from University College London’s Institute of Education, and an Ed.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She is based out of Oxford, Mississippi.
Productivity and Time Management
Are you owning your day, or does it feel like your day is owning you? What progress are you making on your goals and priorities? Do you spend time the way you want, with people who bring you life?
Enough questions. It is time for action. Specifically, it is time to set up a daily practice that helps you do the following:
Learning Objectives
- Have peace of mind and focus throughout the day.
- Make progress on your most important life goals.
- Increase productivity at work.
- Live life the way you want, fully!
Many of the most productive, successful and peaceful people have a daily practice. Now it is your turn! Learn how in this presentation.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Leadership transcends position and hierarchy. It is about initiative, passion, forward-thinking, asking tough questions, calculated risks, and decisive actions during moments that make your heart pound.
Professional and personal leadership takes courage. This is where thought-provoking presentations and consulting by Josh Dye and Convene, LLC make the difference. Since 2010, attendees in over 150 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he melds practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
Speaking of experience, Josh has demonstrated excellent performance and leadership at each professional stop. While working for the MN Multi Housing Association he helped double its membership in Greater MN in less than 18 months, and launched the organization’s education programming statewide. At the National Association of the Remodeling Industry- MN Chapter, Josh helped set association records in member recruitment, event attendance, and awards program participation. During his tenure at HousingLink the organization reached all-time highs in website traffic and individual donations. He also spearheaded the launch of HousingLink’s first earned income ventures Twin Cities Rental Revue and Housing Hub.
Josh is the Founder and President of the Convene Training + Resilience Community.
Our work and lives are as busy and hectic as ever. Are email overload, daunting documentation requirements, boring meetings, and overwhelming clients (and co-workers!) driving you to the brink? Let technology help!
In this fast-paced session, Josh Dye will share websites, apps, and technology hacks that will increase your productivity, efficiency & learning, and help relieve stress.
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Everything we know about time management is wrong. We are pressed for time more than ever before, and it is an issue that has a significant impact in our work. In this webinar, Mark Brown addresses the challenges of accomplishing more with fewer resources…and an unforgiving clock. He uncovers the truth about Time-management, which is really SELF-management. He will reveal the five key components for maximizing productivity and multiplying your time.
You will learn (learning objectives):
- The simple yet powerful 5-step process for conquering your to-do list once and for all.
- The 5 permissions that will set you free to do your best work on time, without wasting energy battling stress and anxiety.
- The critical nature of prioritizing and apply practical procedures for managing both time and people successfully.
- How to develop a pinpoint focus on critical success factors, while identifying and eliminating peripheral distractions that hinder project success.
- How to obtain the necessary tools to maximize the hours in each day, by becoming a multiplier.
About the Presenter: Mark Brown
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Mark Brown Immigrated to the United States at 18 years old with only $40 in his pocket and a dream for a better life.
Today, he has become one of the most popular inspirational speakers in the world.
In 1995, Mark defeated more than 20,000 contestants from 14 countries to win the illustrious Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. Since then, he has delivered more than 3,500 presentations, to more than 1.7 million people throughout the world.
As an expert in helping people overcome their fears to reach their maximum potential, Mark has been featured on CNN Headline News and the New York Times, and Men’s Health. He even had his own PBS Special which was nominated for an Emmy Award.
He has shared his insights across a wide variety of industries, to major corporations including Sprint, Sheraton, Principal Group, Prudential and Cathay Pacific Airways.
Additionally, Mark has been a guest lecturer at premier academic institutions such as Penn State University, Xavier University and the University of Florida.
Using a unique blend of hilarious humour and hard-hitting honesty, Mark Brown will both challenge and compel your group to take their performance to the next level.
How do you get things done when it feels like the world is conspiring to hijack your time, your attention, and your focus?
When distractions are everywhere, and nothing seems to get accomplished? Start by watching this webinar to learn the tools and strategies for overcoming procrastination, building stronger habits, harnessing daily energy, and being more focused, all so you can be more efficient and effective with your time and get things DONE.
In this webinar you will learn (learning objectives):
- The importance of being in action.
- How to prevent obstacles from stopping you.
- How working with (and around) your brain, can make all the difference in what can be accomplished every day.
- How to leverage the trifecta of action, energy, and focus to stay on track and get more DONE
About the Speaker: Ellen Goodwin
For 20 years, I ran my own creative business. I loved it at first. Yet, with mastery came complacency. I’d reached my peak and was slowly slipping down the other side of the hill. Many days while waiting for the muse to strike, I would become engrossed in the online world of endless clicks, sucked into a rabbit hole of distractions.
I almost got myself fired.
Bored and unfulfilled, I became addicted to my current situation rather than taking the steps towards my own evolution. Like many people, my catalyst for change came when I hit bottom, nearly fired from a long-term contract because of my inability to stop procrastinating. It was my wake-up call.
So I asked myself: why?
Powerless and frustrated, I began to ask why.
Why couldn’t I stay on task or finish on time? I began to study procrastination, and the answers came like lightening: my brain. Neuroscience holds not only the answer as to why we stay stuck, but the formula for what we should do instead. By working with our natural human habits rather than fighting against them, we can create a game plan to squash procrastination and step out of our own way.
My understanding can help YOU.
Understanding my own experience allowed me to create a new result. As your Action Instigator and Accountability Partner, I will do the same for you.
Time Flies When You Waste it: How to Take it Back
The old saying “Time flies when you are having fun!” is true, but time flies at the speed of light when you waste it. This keynote presentation highlights the ways we waste time professionally AND personally, and offers practical, helpful tips for getting the most out of each precious moment we are given.
Do you feel like time is no longer you own? In this refreshing and motivational presentation you will learn how to take it back.
You will learn:
- How to change your meeting culture so they no long drain time & energy.
- Email hacks to have a manageable inbox every day.
- Practical minimalism: transforming how time is spent personally.
- How to have tough conversations that address challenging issues.
Each moment we have is precious. This session will help you spend time the way YOU want!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Clutter chokes our energy, productivity and money in our personal and professional lives. Clearing away the clutter reawakens our creativity and passion. In this session Josh Dye will offer practical, actionable tips for eliminating clutter in our homes, relationships, email, devices, and more!
About the Speaker: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
During COVID-19 and Beyond
COVID-19 is disrupting workplaces across the world. To address the public health crisis people are social distancing. For many, this means working remotely from home. Under normal circumstances, it takes time to adjust to working from home. Now, even more challenges exist.
For example, many are sharing space with their partners who are also working from home, and trying to watch their kids at the same time (including the presenter of this webinar)!
How will staff get anything done?
Don’t lose hope. Instead, watch this webinar for tips on how to effectively work from home during COVID-19 and beyond:
You will learn (Learning objectives):
- How to communicate when working remotely.
- How to collaborate when working remotely.
- How to reduce distractions, especially in the COVID-19 environment.
- How to set up a productive work from home space.
- How to train a remote team.
- How to avoid self-care and productivity pitfalls.
- Technology tools and tips to get the most out of remote work.
This time is a challenge, but also an opportunity. Learn how to get the most out of these unique circumstances in this Convene Training + Resilience Community webinar!
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by clutter in your personal life?
Do you feel like you have too much on your plate at work and at home?
Do you need to do more with less time?
If so, this webinar is for you! Professional organizer Rebekah Saltzman will share her best tips to boost your productivity and peace of mind through decluttering, automating, and outsourcing.
You will learn (Learning Objectives):
- Top 10 decluttering tips to clear your mind (and space!)
- How to determine what to outsource and when (e.g. house cleaning, lawn mowing, and other tasks).
- 3 automation tools for increased workplace productivity (e.g. Helpful templates).
About the Presenter: Rebekah Saltzman
Rebekah Saltzman is a professional organizer. Rebekah’s straightforward approach to managing “stuff” and her no-nonsense ability to get to the heart of what is important combines with her people skills to help people get control of their lives through organization.
By helping her clients streamline everything from clothing to papers to books and household goods, they have found that they get the most out of their possessions and stress less about managing it all.
Her experience in moving her own household several times, in combination with her organization planning and doing has led her to specialize in working with clients who are facing a move, whether upsizing or downsizing. She has found that her skills extend to helping others with time management, as well.
A native of Silver Spring, Maryland, Rebekah lives with her husband and three children in Israel.
The Monday morning all-staff meeting. One-on-Ones. Regional conference calls. Supervision meetings to discuss client cases. Emergency meetings. Meetings, Meetings, and more Meetings?
Are you experiencing these symptoms?
If so, you must seek immediate help before death by meeting permanently sets in.
All kidding aside, the amount of meetings our agencies hold is destroying morale, increasing burnout, making us less productive (NOT more), and getting in the way of our most important work.
There is a better way!
Learning Objectives
- How to hold fewer meetings, but keep communication thriving.
- How to leverage new technology to create transparency and accountability, while still meeting less.
- An empowered model for decision making and leading that helps you get the most out the times you do meet.
Get ready to revolutionize your work culture to meet less and get more done! Learn how in this dynamic training.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Leadership transcends position and hierarchy. It is about initiative, passion, forward-thinking, asking tough questions, calculated risks, and decisive actions during moments that make your heart pound.
Professional and personal leadership takes courage. This is where thought-provoking presentations and consulting by Josh Dye and Convene, LLC make the difference. Since 2010, attendees in over 150 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he melds practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
Speaking of experience, Josh has demonstrated excellent performance and leadership at each professional stop. While working for the MN Multi Housing Association he helped double its membership in Greater MN in less than 18 months, and launched the organization’s education programming statewide. At the National Association of the Remodeling Industry- MN Chapter, Josh helped set association records in member recruitment, event attendance, and awards program participation. During his tenure at HousingLink the organization reached all-time highs in website traffic and individual donations. He also spearheaded the launch of HousingLink’s first earned income ventures Twin Cities Rental Revue and Housing Hub.
Josh is now the Founder and President of the Convene Training + Resilience Community.
The Monday morning all-staff meeting. One-on-Ones. Regional conference calls. Supervision meetings to discuss client cases. Emergency meetings. Meetings, Meetings, and more Meetings?
Are you experiencing these symptoms?
If so, you must seek immediate help before death by meeting permanently sets in.
All kidding aside, the amount of meetings our agencies hold is destroying morale, increasing burnout, making us less productive (NOT more), and getting in the way of our most important work.
There is a better way!
Learning Objectives
- How to hold fewer meetings, but keep communication thriving.
- How to leverage new technology to create transparency and accountability, while still meeting less.
- An empowered model for decision making and leading that helps you get the most out the times you do meet.
Get ready to revolutionize your work culture to meet less and get more done! Learn how in this dynamic training.
About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA
Leadership transcends position and hierarchy. It is about initiative, passion, forward-thinking, asking tough questions, calculated risks, and decisive actions during moments that make your heart pound.
Professional and personal leadership takes courage. This is where thought-provoking presentations and consulting by Josh Dye and Convene, LLC make the difference. Since 2010, attendees in over 150 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.
What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he melds practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.
Speaking of experience, Josh has demonstrated excellent performance and leadership at each professional stop. While working for the MN Multi Housing Association he helped double its membership in Greater MN in less than 18 months, and launched the organization’s education programming statewide. At the National Association of the Remodeling Industry- MN Chapter, Josh helped set association records in member recruitment, event attendance, and awards program participation. During his tenure at HousingLink the organization reached all-time highs in website traffic and individual donations. He also spearheaded the launch of HousingLink’s first earned income ventures Twin Cities Rental Revue and Housing Hub.
Josh is now the Founder and President of the Convene Training + Resilience Community.