• Explore the importance of Performance, Image and Exposure in order to develop your Leadership Quotient.
• Increase your awareness of your emotional and business intelligence and leverage these tools for advancement.

As established professionals, constant travel has become a mainstay of our work lives. Oftentimes, we find that we must travel alone to distant places, both domestically and internationally. In this “Lunch and Learn” session, you will hear from Physical and Cyber Security experts, who will provide strategic information to help you be Proactive, Prepared and Protected when it comes to your personal safety and well-being while away from home.

• Recognize current trends in personal cyberattacks affecting your safety.
• Identify behaviors of online predators and pre-incident behaviors of violent predators.
• Learn how to conduct a personal risk assessment.
• Become aware of travel security tips for hotels, transportation, and public locations.

It’s been called Personas, Avatars, Target market whatever you choose to call it we are going to fine tune that skill and dig deep into what type of clients you want to attract. Your firm deserves to work with your ideal clients who make every day a pure pleasure to work with. If you are stuck in that rut of accepting anyone who needs your services or you are not increasing your client base as fast as you would like, then please join me in learning a step by step approach to building your empire. We will focus on how to draw the ideal client, where to find them, and how to build marketing that resonates and leads them to you.

• Building out personas to draw the right clients to you.
• How client research can help you develop marketing.

Engaging Male Leaders is a significant element in successfully achieving gender diversity. This session will explore the various ways in which panelists have engaged male leaders in their gender diversity efforts and accomplished tangible results.

• Have access to individuals who have tangible experience in engaging male leaders in order to explore real scenarios.
• Learn about many different ways in which engaging male leaders may be accomplished.

• Latest updates on state of gender diversity in the profession;
• Cover strategies to help women advance in their organization;
• Discuss opportunities to help organizations engage and retain a more diverse talent pool;
• Showcase AICPA resources that organizations and individuals can leverage from.

If you want to take your business to the next level, your leaders need to lead. Too often, though, they’re swamped with doing someone else’s work. This interactive session will show you when it’s time to delegate, what you should be delegating, and to whom you should be delegating it. Most important, you’ll learn the secret to delegation: It’s not about your time. It’s about surrounding yourselves with the right people.

• Identify where their time is best spent, in terms of both their careers and their organizations.
• Employ a proven process for determining which tasks are interfering with their ability to lead.
• Delegate these tasks to employees who have the skills and capacity to complete them.

The times…they are a changin’! Business, and the world at large, are changing faster than ever. When we can’t adapt, our careers and our lives feel like more of a struggle than something to enjoy. In this session, we’ll explore why change feels so hard from a physiological, mental and emotional perspective. With this understanding, we will come up with some practical ways to overcome the fear factor and learn to love change!!

• Explore why change feels so hard from a physiological, mental and emotional perspective.
• Learn some practical ways to overcome the fear factor.

Research tells us that people are less likely to express gratitude at work than anywhere else, even though they wanted to be recognized and appreciated more at work. Yet, expressing gratitude at work can have a significant impact on workplace culture and employee wellbeing. From increased job satisfaction, happiness and a sense of community to improved morale, reduced stress, and improved immunity, the impact of gratitude on well-being is far-reaching. Since we spend at least 1/3 of our waking hours at or on work, focusing on gratitude is one of the best things we could do to transform our workplaces.

• Explain the business case for gratitude and why a culture of appreciation is critical to retention and morale
• Identify practical ways to foster a culture of appreciation at their workplace
• Differentiate between the power of bucket fillers vs. bucket dippers
• Explain the simple formula for fostering trust and connection in relationships AND reflect on their own appreciation language and understand how to communicate it and respond to others’ styles to optimize communication

Women face issues that hinder their career progression, such as diminished confidence, not being heard, and not regarded as a leader. Julie shares one of the overlooked keys to leadership success for women: a strong vocabulary. An effective leader needs to be articulate and use robust words. Yet, women can be careless about the language they choose (like, um, sorry…) In this session, participants will learn strong vocabulary that impacts their success as a leader, and learn the obstacles that prevent their progress and impact. Leave this session knowing that with practice, you will excel in your career by increasing your skills and confidence.

• Remove weak language from your vocabulary and insert strong leadership language to influence and impact those around you.
• Increase your confidence by taking action and speaking up!

Do you need an energy boost?

Power up your productivity, creativity, and health by learning simple ways to improve performance, power, and alertness.

• Eliminate glute amnesia while increasing productivity, creativity, and collaboration.
• Remove counterfeit energy and improve decision-making.
• Effective transitions from work to home.