All Topics in Washington D.C.

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  Going from Manager to Leader

  Bob Graham, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Breakthrough Solutions

  Most people see managers as people to tell others what to do. By contrast, good leaders collaborate, inspire, motivate and celebrate their team members and the collective success. Ideal for new and seasoned managers, Bob Graham explains the benefits of being a leader, then provides participants with actionable strategies for becoming the leader their teams need. This interactive workshop can radically improve how teams operate. MORE >

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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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  Marketing your Self

  Marvin Meinders, Owner, Meinders Consultant, LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

  Now that you have finished your education and ready to find that perfect job you have been working for, now is the time to find the job. You can be the perfect candidate for the job, but if you do not market yourself well, all your training may have been in vain. Most people do not think much about marketing themselves until it is time to look for a job, but if you wait until then, you start out at a disadvantage in the job market. MORE >

  Marketing and networking are keys to finding good jobs today. You may think that automated job searches and automated applications are the way to employment in today’s market. But with these tactics alone you will miss about 80% of available job opportunities. Did you know that according to Steven Rothberg, founder of job search website CollegeRecruiter.com, approximately 80 percent of the jobs are never advertised? We will discuss how the use of networking and social media can improve your marketability.

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  Personalized Medicine in the Context of Diagnostics and Healthcare Improvement.

  Tisha Jepson, CEO, True Bearing Diagnostics

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Why has the trajectory of healthcare improvement from the Human Genome Project until today fallen so short of expectations? Why is cancer ahead of the pack? Why is 40-70% of testing for coronary artery disease unnecessary? Why are 50% of first heart attacks unexpected? What are some important differences between DNA and RNA when it comes to healthcare? This talk will touch on these and related topics that will enable the lay person to better understand the current status of clinical and diagnostic care as related to personalized medicine from the perspective of the transcriptome and its ability to assist with a fundamental pivot supporting better population scale health and healthcare. MORE >

  Goal – more preventative care and better accuracy as physicians and the patients work toward addressing declining health and diseases both diagnostically and therapeutically.

  Focus - a new diagnostic test for coronary artery disease (CAD) will be described as a case study.

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  Wellness for the Busy Professional

  Michelle Rhodes, Nurse Entrepreneur, Michelle Rhodes Media

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Objectives: Learner will identify 6 types of wellness, Discuss how to improve it, Where to access resources.

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  Building C3 Communities with Talent Optimization

  Mali Phonpadith, Founder & CEO, SOAR Community Network, LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Build Compassionate, Cohesive and Collaborative (C3) communities within organizations using behavioral science and talent optimization disciplines. Mali shares strategic approaches to help executives drive business results by building and maintaining compassionate, cohesive and collaborative communities within the organization.
  The focus and goal of the session will help executive leaders: MORE >

  *Come to a consensus on new strategic priorities;
  *Use behavioral science to design high performing, innovative and cohesive teams;
  *Drive business results by aligning people data (behavioral strengths) with strategic objectives

  Takeaways:
  *Participants will be able to evaluate and prioritize their strategic objectives
  *Participants will be able to analyze and design people/team/talent strategies that creates C3 Communities within their organizations
  *Participants will be able to establish a new approach to talent management that increases engagement, improves collaboration, drive business results and improve organizational effectiveness
  *Participants will be able to assess how their “team type” and “culture map” (based on the results of their people data) impact engagement, productivity and innovation

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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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  Your voice creates: Men should not yell at women

  Gary Gracia, Zilah

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

  I had to learn the hard way that talking, yelling, screaming and shouting in high volumes does something to women. Women have tolerated a lot because of how people talk to them but as my wife has taught me (she likes to use the word train), women should not accept being spoken to like that. Someone needs to educate men and women to love with women even when someone is rude. MORE >

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  The New Age of Women and Girls

  DonnaAnn Ward, Actor, Writer, Organizer

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

  As we witness the unprecedented presence of women in positions of prominence, it seems that fifty-one percent of the world's population has come into their own in a very big way. We see women and girls making a stunning impact on our world and our perception of possibility. It is an exciting time to be around these women, to be a part of an explosion of equality and smashing of stereotypes. MORE >

  This rise of women touches all aspects of our lives, to speak of powerful women and girls is to be a part of a shift the world over. Lysistrata put her foot down in 411 B.C. and Malala Yousafzai put her pen to paper in 2014, between the two moments, a fascinating history has been made. I enjoy speaking on all topics female, including LGBTQ, reproduction, education, aging, body and self-image, marriage, divorce, and singlehood.

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