Portland Program
Thursday, March 5, 2009

Take Charge of Your Career

Intended Audience

Anyone in career or job transition!

Overview

Whether your career is stoked, stagnant or stalled, there are strategies that you can employ to begin positioning yourself to move into a more fulfilling situation.

Join us for an evening of information and exercises that will equip you to:

• Identify your dream position and steer toward it
• Recognize and highlight the strengths that make you successful
• Communicate the value that your next employer is looking for
• Design a plan to actively move toward your goal
• Develop the resources that will lead to your next position

The process will consist of focus topics led by an expert on that topic. Participants will rotate through all topics with some time for "speed networking". So far, the topics include:

• Development plan/action plan and strategies
• Networking
• Résumé building and writing
• Interview stories

Alignment with National ASTD Competency Model

9 Focus Areas Areas in BOLD will be addressed in this presentation.

1. Designing Learning 2. Improving Human Performance 3. Delivering Training 4. Measuring and Evaluating 5. Facilitating Organizational Change 6. Managing the Learning Function 7. Coaching 8. Managing Organizational Knowledge 9. Career Planning and Talent Management

Focus Group Leaders

Kathie Nelson
Founder and CEO, Connectworks
www.kathienelson.com

Kathie Nelson, Founder and CEO of Connectworks, a serial entrepreneur, and born powerhouse in business growth, is a three time author, highly sought after speaker, top tier business strategist, and coach. Her cut to the chase deliverables have produced her own award winning sales, and national acclaim. In addition to her contributions to emerging companies, many non-profits and large corporations have been the beneficiaries of her visionary leadership style resulting in substantial, measurable growth.

Sean Harry
Career Management Solutions

Dr. Sean Harry has over 20 years of experience in training and motivating people to reach their highest potential. For more than 15 years Dr. Harry worked in the non-Profit sector, where he led organizations through processes that helped define key mission, vision and core values; establish organizational goals and objectives to achieve that mission; and organize processes that improved motivation and increased productivity of employees and volunteers. Sean has worked in higher education for over 7 years as both an instructor and as a manager of the recruiting department. He has served on boards &/or committees for non-profit organizations, government agencies, and profitable businesses. In the for-profit sector Dr. Harry has worked for two Fortune 500 companies (Citigroup and Career Education Corp). As an entrepreneur, Sean has successfully started two small businesses and coached individuals in the establishment and growth of their companies. Sean is currently the Director of Training and Talent Management for Career Management Solutions, and a Career Consultant for DBM (an international outplacement firm). Sean serves on the ASTD-Cascadia Board as the VP of Finance.

Melinda Laubscher, PhD
Director, Insurance Service Group, Learning and Development
Standard Insurance Company

Melinda is the Director Insurance Services Group Learning & Development at The Standard Insurance Company, Portland, Oregon. She began her career as a university professor teaching labor relations, employment law, human resources, compensation, organization behavior, and organization development. Her specialties lie in management and executive development and coaching, organization development and change, transforming training departments to performance consulting, and aligning human resource and training processes and functions to strategic business goals.

Julie Bulrice
adidas USA

Julie is an experienced and familiar face in the learning arena in the Portland area. She has been involved in all facets of Learning and Development professionally for almost 20 years – most recently in directing the training function in large corporations. Julie has coached and mentored dozens of learning professionals over the years – and loves stand-up delivery, facilitation and coaching of leadership and communication skills. A giant step in her career happened several years ago when she took on a Global Learning role with Nike, Inc. who she was with for 10 years. “Working locally and thinking globally” expanded her vision of how training can be executed in many languages, many cultures and many contexts simultaneously. Julie also spent a year with the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia as their Principal Learning Consultant, and most recently, she’s “across the river” as the HR Director of Development and Training for adidas America. Her peers and colleagues appreciate her for asking good, inquisitive questions and realizing the “business” of training and development. She thinks strategically, laughs often, and enjoys a full Cabernet Sauvignon.

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