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Our First Virtual Conference

Friday, April 17, 2020

                            Sessions and Speaker Details                                     

Toby Groves, PhD – ‘Metathinking

   • Groves is a researcher in social-cognitive psychology that’s spent the past decade studying critical thinking, decision-making and culture. His work focuses on targeted training to expose hidden influences in our thinking and redesigning brain networks to achieve more effective reasoning. He uses imaginative audience experiments to demonstrate his concepts. More at www.tobygroves.com

• Toby conducted a first of its kind study on dynamic thinking and professional skepticism and his research has examined high-stakes decisions, leadership and collaboration, ethics, culture and diversity, unconscious bias, and emotional intelligence.

• Metathinking is a leading-edge, neuroscience-based approach to achieve radical improvements in critical thinking.  The strategies will make you a better problem solver, communicator, leader and thinker.  Learn powerful cognitive tools that will give you new insights into your reasoning processes allowing greater thought regulation, adaptability, resilience and confidence. 

Major subjects:

•             Professional skepticism

•             Unconscious bias – best practices in audit

•             Emotional intelligence

•             The psychology of fraud

•             Decision-making under pressure and uncertainty

•             Behavioral profiling

•             Advanced communication techniques

•             Organizational culture & leadership

Quotes from attendees & clients:

• “Toby gave a great presentation dealing with the psychology of fraud. His research on these issues, personal interviews, and real-life experiences captivated the audience and this was not easy with a group of retired IRS agents. His personal experience allows one look at these issues in a whole new light. I highly recommend.”

• “Toby’s presentation dealing with the logic and psychology of fraud brought about the highest attendance I have seen at our functions; people were literally standing from the corridors of the auditorium to hear Mr. Groves speak. His research on these issues, personal interviews, and real-life experiences captivated the audience and brought about high reviews. His sense of longing to get you to think outside the box combined with his personal experience allows one look at these issues in a whole new light. I highly recommend it to anyone that has an interest in the profession of accounting, auditing, corporate governance, etc.”

Nate Cooper, General Assembly – Storytelling for Business People

  Nate Cooper is an entrepreneur, writer, and consultant in New York City. Nate has been developing websites professionally since 1997. He’s been a WordPress developer since 2003. After working in marketing at Apple Inc, Nate established himself within the New York tech and startup community. Forbes said: Nate is "deeply embedded in the New York tech scene, giving practical and insightful advice." His writing has appeared in Mashable and his book Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS and WordPress has been a bestseller in Programming: CSS books on Amazon.com.

His company Reboot Labs empowers content producers to engage their audience with high-quality e-learning products and membership websites.

These days, the Internet is abuzz about storytelling. You may have a great idea or creative business solution, but if you can’t tell a compelling story then your message may get lost. This class will help you understand how to uncover and share compelling stories with a range of audiences to achieve specific business goals, from funding for an idea to developing a clever campaign strategy.

In this presentation, we’ll delve into specific ways to incorporate storytelling into your personal and professional life.

The Course Content will provide:

1. Provide an overview of the ‘Hero's Journey’ as it relates to a business context
2. Move into Brand storytelling (i.e. What do you do vs what are your values, Start with Why, getting your audience to connect with your core values, & Understanding [personal] brand values)
3. Go through the Art of the bio (i.e. Understanding context, Format of bio and things to keep in mind when telling your story)
4. Then move into being Pitch perfect (i.e. Is your audience the hero or are you? Framing a problem, understanding your audience, Design thinking and the personal business model canvas, Telling your story in a pitch format, & Presentation tips)
5. Concluding with having a Growth mindset

Jay Gubrud – A Catalyst for Performance Improvement

 In this workshop, we’ll delve into specific ways to incorporate storytelling into your personal and professional life. First, we’ll examine the three types of stories in business before breaking into groups to uncover stories to use in professional settings. Then, in the afternoon, we’ll examine the role of storytelling in today’s media landscape, from ads to tweets to video campaigns. We’ll introduce advanced storytelling topics before giving students the opportunity to present in front of the class and get personalized feedback on ways to make their stories and pitches more effective.

Shifting Gears & Changing Lanes (change) - Whether an organization is growing or simply moving in a new direction, change is inevitable and happens at a dizzying pace. Shifting Gears & Changing Lanes will provide the tools to effectively navigate the road to change.

Through this program, attendees will:

•Create powerful and productive expectations.

•Find out the 4 major reactions to change and how to leverage them.

•Establish rewarding new mindsets.

•Discover the top 15 reasons why people don’t take action.

•Overcome the 4 major fears that get in the way of change.

•Break out of old roles, habits and beliefs.

•Learn proven methods to embrace the new and let go of the old.

Shifting Gears & Changing Lanes will enable people to accept change, confront their fears and move forward in a positive direction. Change is inevitable. Why not embrace it?

Rev Up Your Relationships (relationships) - More than ever, today’s professional environment requires working together as a team and getting closer to your customers. Rev Up Your Relationships will introduce a progressive thoroughfare for people to further improve personal and professional productivity. It will illustrate a powerful approach for people to connect with colleagues and clientele alike.

Through this program, attendees will:

•See how to create a winning “service mindset.”

•Be able to build instant and powerful connections with others.

•Discover how to keep existing relationships alive and thriving.

•Find out the 10 reasons relationships don’t succeed and how to overcome them.

•Learn the 4 steps to healthy conflict.

•Realize how to tear down walls and build up alliances.

Rev Up Your Relationships will enable people to create strong organizational ties that will increase productivity and drive an organization to new levels.

Jumping in the Driver’s Seat (leadership) empowers people to improve leadership skills and cultivate personal productivity. Today’s competitive and changing business environment demands that people must have an innate sense of personal responsibility for their work, their actions, and their relationships. This program will increase personal effectiveness.

Through this program, attendees will:

•Define leadership.

•Learn how to make their assumptions assets instead of liabilities.

•Realize how to give and receive feedback effectively.

•Learn proven strategies for healthy conflict with excellent outcomes.

•Create powerful and productive expectations.

•Discover practical communication skills for rewarding relationships with peers and customers alike.

Jumping in the Driver’s Seat will enable people to steer themselves into position to fully realize their outstanding contributions to their employer, family, and community.

Quotes from Jay’s past events:

“Jay is an awesome speaker! Our attendees loved his sessions and were raving on how he engaging & captivating his contents were. Survey scores were high! I truly enjoyed working with Jay and I look forward to the next opportunity. “

“On behalf of the PNW Chapter of PCMA, thank you so very much for the great presentation! The feedback so far has been outstanding. You engaged the audience and your leadership message was delivered with  professionalism, humor, and overall fun. It was a very interactive session and one that many organizations could benefit from! We hope for another opportunity to work with you! Jessica Strong-McAveney Programs Co-Chair PNW Chapter, PCMA”

 Agenda: (subject to change)                                                                                                  

AGENDA (8 CPE’s):

• 8:15am – log-in to the virtual event
• 8:30am –   Jeff Speed – Chapter President – Opening Remarks
• 8:40am –  Toby Groves | Critical Thinking / Meta-thinking / Professional Skepticism / Unconscious bias, Emotional Intel, etc.…*
• 9:30am –  Toby Groves | The psychology of fraud / Behavioral profiling / Decision-Making Under Pressure and Uncertainty*
• 10:10am  – Break
• 10:30am –  General Assembly | Nate Cooper – Storytelling for Business People
• 12:00 –  Jeff Speed – Chapter Officer, BOG, & By-Law Vote
• 12:15pm – Lunch
• 1:15pm –  Jay Gubrud | Shifting Gears & Changing Lanes… (change) & Rev Up Your Relationships…(relationships)
• 2:15pm –  Jay Gubrud | Jumping in the Driver’s Seat… (leadership)
• 3:00pm  –  Break
• 3:10pm –  Toby Groves | Advanced Communication Techniques*
• 4:00pm –  Toby Groves | Organizational Culture and Leadership*