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  Orphaned Young Adults in Haiti, A Forgotten Group

  Astrid de Vries, Founder / President, Kids Connection Haiti

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

  Imagine being 18 years old, ready to spread your wings, eager to go to college or find a job. An exciting time in your life, right? Now imagine being 18 years old, without a family, without a diploma, without any working experience and without a network. What would you do? Where would you go? MORE >

  Have you ever thought about the impact a stable family life has on your (professional and personal) development? With a 40% unemployment- and illiteracy rate countrywide, orphans in Haiti suffer the most.

  Kids Connection Haiti was founded to empower orphans in Haiti to become contributing, self-sufficient members within their communities through education, life skills training, community service, mentorship, and career development. We would love to share with you how Kids Connection Haiti has been successful in empowering these young men and women create financially independent futures.

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  From Surviving to Thriving: Moving Beyond Toxic Work Environments

  Chrissy Macken, Founder and Career Coach, blueprintgreen

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  If you wake up every morning dreading going to work, if you've excused yourself from a meeting because you were ready to explode, if you've ever cried at work, if it feels like none of your work matters, and all your contributions are dismissed, if your job feels totally unpredictable and you have no control over your time or tasks, if the burdens of your job are all you ever think about, if you're so overwhelmed it's paralyzing, then you’re probably in a toxic work environment. MORE >

  Being in a toxic work environment means that your workplace is sick; despite your best efforts, it’s very hard for you to achieve a sense of wellbeing and thrive in this workplace. And work stress is seeping into all other aspects of your life, and it’s likely bringing you down. I’d bet that you are missing out on having well-deserved compensation and the chance to shine as the career rock star that you are. And, you're probably unable to find a sense of meaning, purpose, and enjoyment in the work you do everyday.

  Your toxic work environment is as bad as you think it is, and you deserve better.

  I've been there. I know what it's like for every day on the job to somehow feel worse than the last. I know what it's like to be so entirely STUCK. And, in this presentation, I’ll teach you the strategies for how to get unstuck, rediscover your strengths, and reclaim your career potential.

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  7 ways to not lose your best employees

  Dawn Shuler, CEO and Founder, The Shuler Group, LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Your employees and staff are the lifeblood of your organization. If you're losing good employees and/or you have a revolving door of people leaving your company, you're sacrificing profit, customer retention, and morale if you don't get a handle on this problem.

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  - The #1 reason employees voluntarily leave a position
  - How to identify your best employees
  - 7 strategies to employ (pun intended) to retain your employees - 6 of which you can put in place today

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  Budgeting Time for Efficiency

  DeDee Cai, Founder and CEO, FIT TO PROFIT

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  We all know about financial projections and budgeting. What if you can use the same concept in budgeting your time to be more effective and efficient? As a leader, you want to lead with power and clarity, but you find yourself spinning the wheels to keep up. You can tell you are on the verge of a massive burnout. You know what you are doing is not sustainable, but your team and everyone depends on you. What if you could achieve 10X the results by learning how to budget your time while managing your energy? Join us to explore the optimal ways to upgrade your habits, and retrain your brain for peak performance.
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  Grow Your Assets – Why growth is essential to your nest egg

  Thomas Yeung, Founder, Jurnex

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  In this talk, I cover the importance of growing your assets safely and responsibly. Everyone knows to save for retirement. But often, even affluent individuals and families aren’t convinced they’re on the right track. That’s because most financial advice focuses on playing defense. But when it comes to investing, a good offense is a FAR better choice. MORE >

  These days, it's not enough to buy "safe" low-yielding investments or ETFs and hope for the best. That's because, with people living longer and pensions getting cut, you run the risk of outliving your savings.

  We'll cover the broad strokes of what it means to diversify and invest for growth. This talk will be suitable for novice investors and advanced alike, since we'll be covering concepts that anyone can learn.

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  Frame for Change

  Shayanna Whitaker, CEO, The Institute for Dynamic Leaders

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Organizations are in a constant state of change, but employee competency and communication styles get in the way of the best experience of change. As a result of this talk, the audience are enabled to organically find common ground with teams and grow in conversations with clear intentions in favor of organizational change.

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  Dysfunctional Communication Styles

  Mark Shuler, President, The Shuler Group LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

  Dysfunctional communication comes into play when we feel drained or incomplete after an interaction. In short, you leave a situation feeling drained, and almost corrupted. What do we do to minimize these interactions, avoid them, fix them, or delete them?

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  3 Big Secrets About Stress That Are Keeping Your Health Hostage

  Dr. Anne Berkeley, Naturopathic Physician, Dr. Anne Berkeley PLLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Never before have we experienced stress as we do today. With advances in technology and the increasing pace of modern life, stress levels are high. Our bodies are trying to help us out, but we are not meant to be under stress all the time. Although we cannot escape it completely, there are proactive steps that we can take to change the way our bodies respond. We’ll talk about how stress impacts many different aspects of our health and what the best strategies are to quickly help our bodies recover. You will learn simple techniques to help increase resilience, improve performance and manage stressful situations. Join us to talk with Dr. Anne Berkeley about an individualized and holistic approach for managing stress and what this could look like for you. MORE >

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  Making What’s Missing – It’s Time to Grow into Your Power

  Cheryl Abram, Learning Doula, Ypifany

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Knowledge failure is the absence of appropriate action due to missing, ignored, or mis-applied knowledge. Every goal and objective have the very real potential for knowledge failure. In this session, Cheryl introduces a revolutionary new practice for quantifying learning’s value to the organization. MORE >

  Join Cheryl as she reveals a groundbreaking practice that calls for leadership to completely change its approach to learning, risk management, measuring performance, and inventing a learning landscape that truly nurtures and supports business missions and strategies.

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  The Fastest Way to Increase Your Energy for Good

  Granetta Coleman, Certified Healthy Lifestyle Accountability Coach, Rooted Dish

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  The Fastest Way to Increase Your Energy for Good covers: The 5 Culprits that are robbing your energy; The foods & drinks that are the top energy stealing offenders; One simple strategy you can implement immediately to avoid the 3pm crash (and binging on sugar); The fastest way to increase your energy, FOR GOOD (and it doesn’t involve supplements or caffeine); The 5 power-house energy boosting foods you can easily integrate into your diet today.
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