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Chapters – Caring for Caregivers
Roger Renik, Support Group Facilitator for "Chapters"
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
Request This Free SpeechWhether for an aging parent, neighbor or friend, most people will be a caregiver at some point in life if they're not already. This can sometimes be a challenging role when combined with everyday living and one's own daily responsibilities. MORE >
Sharing experiences, especially in the care giving capacity, creates an informative and overall helpful environment in which you can realize that you are not alone in your role. Roger, a caregiver for over 15 years provides a supportive and interactive seminar with a distinct awareness of Senior Care. Even after the caregiving role may have ended, the emotional and mental part may live on for years to come. We can talk about this and know being the role of caregiver has a direct effect on all persons involved. -
Chapters – The Forty Year Rehearsal
Roger Renik, Support Group Facilitator for "Chapters"
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
Request This Free SpeechDecades before the formal diagnosis of Depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Roger came to understand that something in his life was "different" from what he viewed as "normal" in others. Although he carried on daily living as best possible, unexplained sadness tied in with repeating habits and emotional breakdowns brought him to seek professional assistance. He now offers an interactive and non-medical discussion focusing on life experiences up to and following the diagnosis. MORE >
This presentation is an honest dialogue on how everyday living can be reshaped and life can continue regardless of your own personal challenges. -
Keeping the main thing, the main thing
R. Brady Johnson, USAF Veteran, Stroke Survivor, Author
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
Request This Free SpeechGrowing up as a youth, my mother was a college educator, and my father was the President of the 2nd largest School Board in Illinois.I played football and Baseball, and sung for The Pepsi Generation Singer. I began to struggle with my grades, and my mother said that I needed to "keep the main thing, the main thing". She suggested that I use, what she said as the three F's, and yes,I thought of one. The three F's, Focus, Fun, and Friends,and I have used them through life. I am a successful, retired member of the USAF, I have been a sports agent, working with 22 NFL players, a motivational speaker, and now I am a Natural Bodybuilding. I have held on to "Keeping the main thing the main thing", and the three F's!!! MORE >
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How to Create Resilient Equitable Communities in a COVID-19 World
Kelwin Harris, Diversity, Equity and Civic Engagement Speaker
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Request This Free SpeechOur cities face serious threats; growth is uneven; neighborhoods are struggling; and streets are erupting in protest as COVID-19 has made existing inequalities worse. Now more than ever, we must address racial equity and provide strategies for prosperity for the good of everyone. Drawing from his experience as a community leader on the South Side of Chicago and as an urban planner, Kelwin Harris uses an equity lens to discuss multiple facets of systemic racism that persist and offers strategies and interventions for the road ahead. MORE >
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Congress Doesn’t Care What You Think
Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Request This Free Speechthis presentation addresses the problem of unlimited political money corrupting our democracy. We explain the problem clearly, and discuss the causes and possible solutions, including steps that we can take in our own communities to begin addressing this structural problem in our country. The presentation is non-partisan and brings issues to light which are of concern across the aisle. MORE >
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The Case for Kindness
Marie Genevieve Pawlak, Managing Principal , Prime Alchemy a division of Planning101 Group
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
Request This Free SpeechWhat would happen if Kindness was put on trial? Does it really pay to be kind In Leadership? How does kindness really help us in today's fast-paced world? This talk will provide insight and humor into what it really means to be kind and how being kind is the secret ingredient to success.
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Murder by Meeting
Marie Genevieve Pawlak, Managing Principal , Prime Alchemy a division of Planning101 Group
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechLife is too short to be killed by meeting!
Meetings should be an opportunity to connect, learn, encourage, and get things done. So how do you make your meetings better for everyone when you have to do them virtually or in person? This talk will review the six ways people have tried to kill others in meetings and how to stop them. You will laugh, cry, and admit that you have been attempting to destroy your co-workers. In the end, you will walk out with an action plan on how to make your next virtual meeting a great meeting. MORE > -
Is the Culture of Your Business by Choice or Chance? – Culture matters and leaving it to chance invites trouble.
Mark James, Founder & President, Performance Advisors Group, Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechA culture by chance is the welcome mat which invites variation into a business, hurting performance and results. On the other hand, a culture guided by choice helps prevent variation that hurt results. Get insights on how to make sure your organization’s culture enhances your value proposition and the customer experience instead of eroding them. Including a close look at the specific actions and behavior leaders must contribute to create the right culture. MORE >
Attendee Takeaways
-What defines company culture
-Why culture matters
-Which culture archetype describes your organization’s culture?
-Key culture influencers
-Actions to achieve culture by choice
-Signs of an ideal culture -
Business Improvement Einstein’s Way – How Einstein’s Three Rules of Work Can Help a Business Succeed
Mark James, Founder & President, Performance Advisors Group, Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechAlbert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Einstein believed you have to think about things differently and three rules, inspired by his work, provide us with the means do so. No one knows what will happen in the future. But, following these rules can get your business ready for whatever does. Attendees will come away with practical ways to use Einstein’s three rules of work to: MORE >
- Fix performance barriers
- Discover opportunities amidst difficulty
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What’s an Assault Weapon, and why are they so deadly?
Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Request This Free SpeechThere's been a lot of discussion lately about tighter regulations on assault weapons like the AR-15. If we are going to regulate these weapons, we will need a legal definition describing them. And instead of a definition that depends upon specific configurations or cosmetic appearance, we propose a definition based on the factors that make this class of weapons so deadly. MORE >
This presentation focuses on the development of this class of weapons, the factors that make them so deadly, and how we can use those factors to legally define an "assault weapon" for future regulation thereof.