Upcoming Virtual Programs

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday October 27
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Thursday October 28
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

In today’s competitive market it is imperative for an organization to have strong leadership for today, but even more important to have a culture that will transform the next generation of leaders. Strong leaders are able to project a vision their teams understand and strive to follow. What is the definition of Legacy Leadership ad how do you know when it exists?

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the difference between Management and Leadership
2. Understand the difference between Operational, Tactical and Strategic Leadership
3. Learn a basic understanding of DiSC and the definition of each style
4. Identify their Legacy Leadership

This program is ideal for: frontline supervisors through senior management

About Our Facilitator

Darryl Warren meets professionals where they are now to reveal and strengthen leadership characteristics to deliver significant results. Based on 30+ years of global leadership in large complex and agile midsized organizations, he has experienced and solved many leadership challenges.

People learn best through relevant stories. His broad leadership experience in customer facing and human resource functions provide real-world scenarios to cement learnings.

Currently he is President of his business solutions firm D. Gene Alliance where they grow mid-level managers to senior leaders including C- suite. Clients include leaders in software, medical, textiles, manufacturing, and IT.

Darryl is Executive Career Mentor, Adjunct Professor and Strategic Advisor to the Old National Bank Center at Butler University, Facilitator at Purdue’s MEP, and Executive Coach with Coaching Right Now and BTS.

Seeing professionals for who they are builds strong trust, allowing people to reveal hidden abilities to deliver team results! Only when we are fully seen, heard, and trusted can we grow to our highest ability. Leadership starts with self. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself!” – Rumi.

Virtual coffee talk

What does your Bias look like?

We all have biases. Every one of us. It is a natural part of our defense mechanisms and the more we embrace this notion and understand it, the better we can diffuse our own reactions to bias. Since everyone holds biases, how does it impact work in the workplace? Still don’t think you have any? Or, maybe you embrace the idea and want to see ways to confront and challenge them? Or, how can you help others confront and challenge and maybe even mitigate their own biases in the workplace?

At the Human Library, this is what we do. We provide a format for conversations and dialogue that break down the mystery, fear, misunderstandings, or whatever is building that wall to an understanding of others not like us. During this workshop, we will explore the impacts of bias and diversity. We will see how the process of the Human Library works and the impact it has on the workplace and on individuals. At the end, you will have explored your own biases, experienced a Human Library reading, defined common prejudices, examined how confronting bias in general can lead to better understanding overall and positively impact the work environment.

Learning Objectives

1. Explore the impacts of bias and diversity
2. See how the process of the Human Library works and the impact it has on the workplace and on individuals
3. Explore your own biases

About Our FacilitatorS

Charlize Jamieson is a retired IT and Retail Management executive, specializing in Client Management and Service Delivery. Her career spanned four decades with two Fortune 500 companies. Charlize grew up in Muncie, graduating from Muncie Central and attending Indiana Wesleyan University. She started her family and career in Muncie before moving to Indianapolis, then to the Chicago area, where she lived and worked for twenty years. She returned to Muncie, retired and involved herself in several local volunteer opportunities with the Human Library organization, United Way and the Big Four Rail Park, a new start-up non-profit organization that recalls rail history here in Muncie.

At the age of 60 and in her hometown of Muncie, Charlize came out as a Transgender woman after hiding her true gender identity for fifty years. She advocates for the local LGBTQ+ community and is a strong voice for improving diversity and inclusiveness in Delaware County. Charlize resides in Muncie, is married, and has three grown children.

Peggy Lewis has been an educator of one sort or another for 3 decades. She began her teaching career in California, continued in Maine and then Iowa, before moving to Indiana where she completed her career at Ball State University’s Teachers College working as a director of special programs connecting schools to educator preparation. She has also worked as an educational consultant for math and reading throughout the United States. Upon retiring, she was looking for that next purpose and challenge. While she loves to travel and explore, she needed that “something more.”

When she found out about the Human Library, she found a way to connect her lifelong commitment to education to her love of people and their stories. Starting in 2017, she began working, between travels, to bring a Human Library event to Muncie. After a successful event which drew the attention of the international organization, she has found that “something more” for her challenge and purpose. As Depot Manager for the Human Library Central Indiana Book Depot, Peggy works to bring the books and their stories to not only the Muncie area but the greater audience that the virtual world offers.

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Tuesday, November 16
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Wednesday, November 17
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Do you have a mean coworker, oblivious boss, unruly employee, inept department, or frustrating client? Chances are, they are driving you crazy. Their problem has become your problem and is derailing your work and your job satisfaction. Learn how to identify and handle workplace relationships with key emotional intelligence skills so you can move from surviving to thriving.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the six most common behaviors that drive you crazy
2. Practice four steps to change your reaction
3. Learn valuable techniques to improve almost any work relationship

This program is ideal for: any leader

About Our Facilitator

Susan Rozzi (pronounced Row Z) is the president and owner of Rozzi & Associates. She has a passion for unleashing the potential for greatness in good leaders and believes each person has a unique way of leading. What makes Susan different is her observant approach and ability to speak grace with her candor. Susan focuses on leadership development, emotional intelligence insight and career management programs. She is certified in EQi-2.0 and EQ 360 (emotional intelligence assessment) and DiSC, a Certified Real Colors (temperament assessment) facilitator, and a Certified John C. Maxwell coach, trainer and speaker. She is a member of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), 2009 graduate of Leadership Hendricks County, a Board member of the Indiana Leadership Association, and Level Two co-working space. Rozzi graduated from DePauw University, earned an MBA from Indiana University and is an adjunct faculty member at The Fund Raising School at Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Virtual Lunch & Learn

Did you know that laughing 100 times burns as many calories as riding a stationary bike for 10 minutes? In addition to providing a great workout, humor can make your workplace more fun and productive…if it’s done right. This session explores the benefits of using humor at work and provides actionable guidelines to help you be appropriately funny in your workplace.

Learning Objectives

1. Physical and mental benefits of workplace humor
2. Using humor to include others
3. Choosing humor strategies for your workplace

This program is ideal for: leaders at all experience levels.

About Our Facilitator

Dr. Carolyn Goerner is passionate about creating confident leaders. Now in her 21st year as a professor at Indiana University-Bloomington’s Kelley School of Business, she’s coached and mentored graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of management and negotiation courses. She has multiple classes published on LinkedIn Learning and her book “The Confident Millennial: 52 Tips for Leadership Success” was published in September 2020. Carolyn’s company, Practical Paradigms, provides in-person and virtual training programs as well as personal and small group coaching. She received her PhD in Management and Human Resources at The Ohio State University. Carolyn lives in Greenwood, Indiana with her husband Peter and their dogs Charlotte and Etta.

Virtual coffee talk

In her essay, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction,” Flannery O’Connor says, “People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.”

Leaders, of all people, must be people of hope and courage. Those virtues are developed by, among other things, developing what Edmund Burke and others have called the moral imagination. Fiction is fodder for that imagination. The Leader that does not read literature—more specifically, stories—has a malnourished imagination and is weaker for it.

So let me persuade you to lay aside your dog-eared Good to Great or Seven Habits—yes even the latest Simon Sinek—for just a while, and sink your head and heart deep into a good story. Perhaps we’ll begin with Macbeth.

Learning Objectives

1. The imagination drives our decisions more than our reason does.
2. Our imaginations are driving us even when we don’t realize it, and often toward ends that we would say we don’t believe in
3. Learning to read fiction well allows for our imaginations to be trained toward human flourishing (and away from its enemies).

About Our Facilitator

Dan Daugherty and his family have lived in both the southernmost and northernmost states in the contiguous 48. They’ve found Muncie to be a pleasant medium. He taught literature, composition, and philosophy at private high school in Minnesota for 12 years. He currently serves as the Director of Education for Muncie Fellows and the Executive Director of Alcuin Study Center. He holds a BS in Journalism from BSU and an MA in Christian Thought from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He loves spending time with his wife of 25 years, his two boys (ages 19 and 14), and Watson, his dog. He’s also quite keen on reading literature, listening to and playing music, camping and hiking, hanging out with friends (preferably over a good craft beer), and playing with words on a page.

Virtual Lunch & Learn

Creating Content, Finding Joy, & Telling Your Story Using What You Already Have.

We live in a time where social media marketing is key to business growth. A time where “impressions”, “likes”, and subscribers can make or break our next event. Many of us may not feel that we are adequately prepared to use these platforms in a way that sells.

I believe that many businesses lack one simple thing: Authenticity in Storytelling.

Besides that, we are also living in a scarcity mindset.

This 90 Minute workshop will focus in on the idea that we truly do have everything we need to craft the stories that foster connection and hopefully a genuine transaction. Sanovia, a trauma-informed arts based practitioner and founder of Pack Light, LLC, will speak on how we transform our minds from not having enough, to creating from exactly where we are using the stories we already have. This session will close with a Q & A session and you will leave with tangible & valuable resources on how to create amazing low cost and effective content.

Learning Objectives

1. What if I told you that LIMITS only Exist in Your Mind?
2. Become Idea Centered & Give Space for Failure in their Execution
3. Only Do What Brings You Joy.
4. All Victories won’t Matter Until Small Victories Do
5. Show Up Authentically (Start from Where You Currently Take up Space)

About Our Facilitator

Sanovia Garrett: As a Creative Entrepreneur, Performance Artist, and resident instigator, sparker, innergizer of JOY, Sanovia’s goal is to transform the world from the inside out using a trauma-informed arts based practice. Sanovia is a Muncie Central class of 2010 graduate as well as a first generation college graduate of Ball State University’s 2014 Communication Studies (leadership minor) class. She graduated with her Masters in Urban Studies (Community Arts) from Eastern University in 2018 and is now pursing a full time life as a creative as well as working as an enrollment counselor for the same University.

Many of Sanovia’s activities are centered on arts ( e.g., movement therapy, creative coaching, music performances, poetry, podcasting, and joy-based events curator).

Her first ep, ‘You Have Everything You Need’ (YHEYN) which released on January 26th, 2020 was mostly recorded in her bedroom. The phrase YHEYN has been the guiding light she has used to help inspire her creativity throughout the last two years. Her business Pack Light, LLC was founded in January of 2019, largely in conjunction with that same phrase.

Sanovia is currently living in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday, December 22
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Wednesday, December 23
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Workplace stress and burnout are a threat to every organization, and neuroscientists agree that we cannot do our best decision-making when our brains are in crisis mode. Understanding the root causes of stress AND the data-driven ways of managing stress in healthy, sustainable ways benefits your people and your organization immediately and for the long term. In this highly interactive session, we do a quick triage of participants’ current stress factors, and use this real-time information to discuss best practices for addressing both acute and chronic stressors. Participants will leave with a personalized plan for stress interventions and ongoing stress management practices that they can use in their personal and professional lives, as well as information to take back to their teams for improved workplace environments and experiences.

Learning Objectives

1. What is the difference between acute and chronic stress?
2. How can leaders identify stress in themselves and their teams?
3. What are the benefits of a formal stress management strategy?
4. What are ways individuals can manage stress in the moment?
5. How can organizations create cultures that mitigate the impacts of stress?

This program is ideal for: anyone who is human, works with humans, or has aspirations of becoming human. 🙂

About Our Facilitator

Sarah Ratekin is the founder and Chief Happiness Officer of Happiness Is Courage Inc. where she channels her passion for creating incredible employee experiences to help clients solve difficult engagement challenges. She leverages her skills in translating the science of happiness and well-being into actionable plans, for radically positive results. Sarah is an enthusiastic positivity activist who believes we can change the world for the better by being positive, grateful and kind. and a pragmatic businesswoman who understands the ROI of positive employee experiences.

She has spoken at conferences across North America, facilitated numerous workshops on workplace excellence, and worked with groups from 2 to 200+ to discover and embrace their personal strengths, ambitions and relationship goals.

She and her spouse Kris, both certified Laughter Yoga leaders, also travel extensively bringing the joy and power of laughter and positivity with organizations of all sizes and industries. In their downtime, they enjoy exploring the outdoors (usually by kayak), dancing and general merry adventuring. Sarah and her family currently reside in Indiana.