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Session Schedule At-a-Glance

All sessions are 2- 1/2 hour workshops.  All times Eastern (New York time). Topics, speakers and schedule may change without notice.

Please Note:

  1. Recordings are available one business day AFTER the live session has ended.
  2. To access the call-in details for the live session, click here.

Day 1 – August 2, 2012 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Eastern

Day 2 – August 9, 2011 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Eastern

Day 3 – August 16, 2011 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Eastern

All sessions are 2 1/2 hour workshops. All times EST (New York time). Topics, speakers and schedule may change without notice.

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

“Business Development Made Simple!”
Day 1 – August 2, 2012 at 12:00 noon to 3:30 p.m. Eastern

Business development is the make-it or break-it skill needed to advance from staff to partner.  Yet, it is the area most professionals fear and avoid!

Join Cheryl as she simplifies the area of business development.  You will develop a Personal Marketing Plan during this session – which you can use immediately!

Questions we will address include:

  • How can I change my attitude towards business development?
  • Can business development really be fun?
  • How can I understand client needs?
  • How can I avoid rejection?
  • How do I integrate business development into my daily practice?
  • And more…..

Dr. Cheryl Leitschuh, Ed.D. is a leadership development consultant and specializes in personal and professional success. She assists companies in achieving their key business objectives by fully capitalizing on a single line of their balance sheet — their human resources potential. She uses powerful programming, assessments and technology to harness and maximize the untapped potential of a company’s human resources assets.

Cheryl is listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who of Professional Women..  She is the immediate past Chair of the AICPA Women’s Initiative Executive Committee.  She has served as a board member of Wayside House, a  chemical dependency treatment program for women and on an advisory board for the Metropolitan Economic Development Association.

“Building Leadership Muscle!”
Day 2 – August 9, 2012 at 12:00 noon – 3:30 pm Eastern

The secrets to achieving high performance and becoming an effective leader does not lie in your computer, PDA or smart phone – it lies in your ability to understand and leverage your greatest asset – your brain!

Kyle MacKenzie Nowell is a corporate coach and trainer specializing in the emerging field of NeuroLeadership – where profound discoveries are being made about how to best lead and build collaborative relationships with others.  Drawing on the latest findings about the brain, Kyle brings a practical approach to maximizing engagement and performance by developing impactful leadership competencies.

In our interactive, engaging and thought provoking sessions, you will discover and take away:

  • Key insights into why we each think differently
  • How to deepen leadership effectiveness through understanding the brain
  • Ways of creating rapport and trust with colleagues and clients
  • A leadership approach for creating engagement and openness to change
  • How to better organize your day for optimum productivity, better problem solving and decision making
  • Three key practices to apply in everyday workplace scenarios – starting today

“It’s Your Journey – Are You Driving This Bus?”
Day 3 – August 16, 2011 at 12:00 noon – 3:30 p.m. Eastern

Regardless of where you are in your life and career, this session will bring insights that will assist you in moving forward.  This workshop will enable the participants to understand the foundations of empowerment and how to apply these in their lives as well as in the management of others.   Sometimes we find ourselves standing before a huge goal wondering how to climb the mountain, or we find ourselves on the wrong road entirely wondering how we got here and how to find our way back to the life and/or career we envision, and sometimes we simply know that we need a new path but we are unsure of what we want.  The session will introduce the participants to the seven sources of personal power that support successful people.   The workshop will also introduce the participants to concepts and skills necessary to engage in effective goal attainment such as core belief systems and growing edges. Participants will also engage in development of a personal empowerment plan.

Mary Bennett is a well known expert on topics related to talent development, human capital management, diversity and inclusion, succession planning and the development of leaders.  For the past twenty five years Mary Bennett has been a practicing client services executive in the accounting profession.  Mary has spent the majority of these years with a top ten global Firm at the partner level where she led practice areas, office locations, and large engagements consulting with clients in financial services internal audit, enterprise risk management and organizational development.  Mary is the founder of MLBennett Consulting and now works full time as a consultant to organizations and a coach to individuals. Mary has won several awards for her work in making a difference: Women of the Year, ASWA; Presidential Citation Award, AWSCPA; Torchbearers Award, Indiana Commission of Women; and more.  Mary has worked with hundreds of companies and thousands of leaders on mentoring and advocacy, career/life integration, skill building, developmental coaching, executive development, emerging leader training, coaches training, women’s initiatives and much more.   Mary has been active in many charitable organizations including Youth Services Bureau serving on the Board and Executive Committee, UNITED WAY serving on the Allocation Committee, Board and Executive Committee, YWCA in Atlanta, GA serving on the Board and Executive Committee and others.  Mary is currently serving on the finance committee of the YWCA of Asheville, NC.   She is also the current chair of the AICPA Women’s Initiatives Executive Committee. Mary has been married for 28 years and is the mother of three grown children and a grandmother.