Spring Seminar 2015 Speaker 5-10 years Track
How to ‘Work a Room’ with Confidence and Success!
The ability to confidently meet, mingle and make interesting conversation is a mark of success – and surprisingly a learned behavior. Prepare a self-introduction and a few conversation starters and you will be ready to make an entrance into any social gathering. Learn how to ease into existing conversations, introduce yourself and others, gracefully move from one group to another, and when and how to present your business card. Discover the single secret to success in social settings and approach social business events with enthusiasm.
Teri Gustafson
Teri Gustafson teaches skills that create confidence and success in social business interactions. A certified Protocol Consultant, she enjoys work with corporate executives, management candidates, employee groups, professional and social organizations and student groups. Teri founded the Protocol School in 1999 after 15 years doing human resource work in a Fortune 100 company, local government and academia. She lives in Shoreview, Minnesota and can be reached at .
Strategic Communication: How to Say the Right Thing at the Right Time
When you get your big chance with management, do you ever wonder if you say the right thing? Did you say too much, too little? This workshop will teach participants tools to adapt messaging and communication style to an audience to seamlessly transition from a hallway conversation with peers to a big presentation in the boardroom. The session will leverage concepts related to situational leadership and communication styles to help participants manage their strengths to be confident and impactful in any conversation.
Patricia Walker
Patricia Walker graduated in 2000 with her Bachelor of Science from Iowa State University in Engineering Science - Biomedical Engineering and then in 2002 with a Master of Science from the University of Iowa in Biomedical Engineering. She has worked in the cardiovascular device space since graduation and has enjoyed design, product development, manufacturing and now quality engineering. She currently works at Medtronic in Brooklyn Park, MN as a Principal Supplier Quality Engineer working with one of their largest contract manufacturers of cardiovascular cannulae and beating heart therapies. In her spare time, she enjoys travel, volunteering in her community and spending time with family and friends.
Lynn Davenport
Lynn Davenport has been a member of SWE since 1999. She joined as an undergraduate at Northwestern University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. She stayed loyal to the Big Ten and attended Purdue University for a Masters in Biomedical Engineering. Lynn has spent her career at Medtronic, Inc., including 4 years as a scientist studying cardiac pacing algorithms as well as more than 5 years in systems engineer in Neuromodulation. She is currently the Lead Systems Engineer for Pain Stimulation Therapy. Outside of the office, Lynn stays busy with her family including her husband, two young boys and one fuzzy dog.
The Power of One: Your Strategy One Step at a Time
Making changes one-step at a time can create big results! Whether you’re an experienced or a novice in your career, if your career strategy needs a kick-start, this workshop is for you. Kim will help you fine tune your career practices and help you align your daily activities to impact your overall results. By the end of the session, you will understand the what, why and how’s of developing a personal edge.
This interactive workshop is designed to help you build your career so that it’s right for YOU! You can have it ‘all’, whatever your ‘all’ is. This session will provide you to gain opportunities and the inspiration to develop new ideas and offer ideas for resources thatyou can use tohelp you meet your personal needs for career growth.
Objectives:
To get you to start thinking of your purposealign your purpose with your organizations purpose.To look at where you are at with your career and see how and if it fits with why you do it? And the direction you are planning to move with your career. Is it the right fit? Maybe or Maybe not?To make a pack with yourself, and making you accountable for following through with what you say you want to do in this session.
Kim Groshek
Groshek believes passionately that everyone has leadership ability, and that individuals can tap into their potentialby implementing her Change Management Approach.Kim is a consultant currently working as a Senior Project Manager. She has owned her own consulting firm, Groshek Consulting since 2000 and haspublished several books. Her most recent isCandice & Jimmy find their Rainbow and she is an award winning author of WIN BY LEADING, BUG'S ADVENTURE SERIES and NATE THE DRAGON.She produced her first kids play based on her book NATE THE DRAGON STOPS BULLYING, in schools during fall 2014 produced by the UW Whitewater traveling children's theater. Kim has been active in SWE since 2009 holding several leadership positions.
Kim has 2 Masters degrees one in Management from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater School of Business Management, and Computer Science from DePaul University, with a concentration in Cognitive Science and Project Management. She enjoys keeping fit by doing yoga, running and biking and spends most of her time with her husband and 27 year old daughter.
Strength Finder*
Identify your top 5 strengths through Gallup’s Strengthsfinder. Understand your strengths and your unique ability to impact the world around you. We will begin exploring what makes each of us strong and how to leverage it in our roles. Through our strengths we tap into our greatest potential for success.
A big thank you to Kristy for sponsoring this workshop and additional fees associated.
*pre-registration required as we have limited seats and class requires prework.
Kristy Larson Bio
Kristy Larson, Director of Talent Management, has worked at Starkey Hearing Technologies for more than 15 years. During this time, she has focused on increasing employee engagement and productivity through the effective attraction, retention and development of talented people. Focusing on serving customers, knowing the business, and continuously improving Starkey Hearing Technologies methods, she plans for Starkey Hearing Technologies to continue to be recognized as a “Great Place to Work and Grow”. Larson has passion for empowering people to reach their potential. She earned her undergraduate degree in human resources management with a minor in training and development from Winona State University and her MBA at the University of St. Thomas.