Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

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

Session #2:
Thursday September 23
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Providing feedback is a powerful tool for any leader, but can be uncomfortable. This session will provide tools and training for effective, direct and candid feedback in a variety of settings. It will promote a two-way street for feedback in your organization and board, as well as help you know what happens after the feedback. Help yourself and your team create a culture that promotes feedback.

Learning Objectives

1. How to use feedback as a form of motivation
2. The art of Radical Candor
3. How to seek out feedback from others

This program is ideal for: anyone that is in a leadership role, wants to be in a that role and for any level within the organization.

About Our Facilitator

Kourtney McCauliff is an experienced Human Resources Professional, with a demonstrated history of working in HR for over 10 years in a variety of different industries, mostly Hospitality and currently Health Care as the Chief Human Resource Officer for Open Door Health Services. She has a focus in Recruiting, Retention, People Development and Employee Engagement. Kourtney is from Michigan but lived in Chicago for a decade before relocating to Muncie. When she isn’t working, she likes to spend time with her husband and family, as well as find ways to be involved in our great community!

Virtual coffee talk

Do you get overwhelmed thinking about your “to-do” list? Energy spent in one area is energy taken from another area. Get equipped with tools and methods to simplify and organize the swirling thoughts in your brain and reclaim the mental energy they consume. Halle will show you to work more effectively, efficiently and get creative about getting things done!

Learning Objectives

1. Reframe how to think about the word “busy”
2. Learn the dangers of multi-tasking
3. A process to work through feeling overwhelmed
4. A tool to discern what to do, delegate & say “no” to

About Our Facilitator

Halle Simpson is a globally certified Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, Keynote Speaker, Trainer and Author of the Know Thyself Journal. Her passion for speaking and coaching stems from growing up in a household with a parent battling depression and the grit gained from a 20 year career in sales and leadership development. In her work with executives and business owners across the country, Halle has come to specialize in creating intentional conversations to grow leaders and their businesses. In her down time, Halle enjoys daily journaling, yoga, massages, watching cooking shows and trips to Traverse City, Michigan. She resides in Indianapolis with her Boston Terrier, Marco (named after Marco Andretti) and is a race fan who attends the Indy 500 each year.

Virtual Lunch & Learn

This will be an interactive session in which participants learn what it takes to see themselves and those they lead through adversity. Together we will identify realistic and difficult situations in the workplace that are defined by uncertainty and anxiety, which include but are not limited to, financial difficulty, rebuilding culture, launching new processes or product lines, and change in leadership or other organizational changes. We will discuss the difficulty that accompanies these challenges in the way of personal stress, professional fears, staff engagement and more. Participants will be presented with resources and strategies that can be useful to leaders during this time. We will also answer common questions that come with professional and personal adversity: How much information do I share internally? How much information do I share externally? Should I run? Will this get better?

Learning Objectives

1. Leading people through uncertainty can be difficult, but leadership makes all the difference.
2. Difficult times are temporary if leaders approach them with the right mindset.
3. Participants will learn a simple risk analysis that can be used when making difficult decisions.
4. Leadership outcomes are dependent on a leader’s ability to engage others in the process.
5. What you do right now, matters more than anything the has happened in the past.

This program is ideal for: nonprofits, supervisors, managers, and others that lead people in the face of difficulty.

About Our Facilitator

Jonathan Jones serves as Executive Director of Motivate Our Minds, a Central Indiana youth serving non-profit that focuses on academic enrichment. He has developed and lead various initiatives in Central Indiana focusing on development in the following areas: interpersonal, career exposure, personal branding, leadership, communication and more. His personal mission is to cultivate people in an effort to create more cohesive communities and stronger teams. Collaborating with industry and higher education, he focuses on establishing positive and supportive relationships between adults, youth, and communities, while building engaging, forward-thinking, and dynamic experiences conducive to personal development.
A graduate of the Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, when not in the office, Jonathan finds to time to engage with youth and professionals in schools, workshops and conferences as a speaker, facilitator, and mentor.

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 specializes in helping reveal and strengthen leadership characteristics to successfully lead teams to deliver significant results. As a Coach with Coaching Right Now, Darryl has developed corporate level leaders, senior organizational leaders and cross functional teams in industry-leading businesses. Prior to working as a Coach, Darryl worked in leadership roles in Human Resources and Sales & Marketing at large, complex and agile mid-sized organizations. In addition to his development of leaders with Coaching Right Now, Darryl currently is Executive Career Mentor at Butler University, Leadership Facilitator at Purdue University and coaches senior and mid-level leadership through his own coaching business, D. Gene Alliance. He holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Miami (FL), an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan and is All But Dissertation (ABD) for his Doctorate of Business Administration from Walden University.

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.