5:00 | Registration, Networking, Cocktails & Dinner
6:45 | Announcements, Introduction of Program
7:00 | Guest Speaker (1 PDU)
8:00 | Participants network and/or participate in SIGs
8:15 | PMO SIG, Quality SIG programs (1 PDU)
Note: meeting starts one hour earlier than usual, at 5:00, for cocktails and extended networking!
Whether your goal is to increase your personal engagement, maximize the engagement of your team, navigate change, or improve the culture with which you face your customers—this humorous, uplifting, practical, research-and-story-based session inspires audiences to reignite by using Scott’s W.H.I.P. philosophy (What you Have In your Possession). Scott challenges the standard definitions of success and happiness, and shares 5 concrete tools rooted in positive psychology to help create sustainable positivity and performance—while spreading it to others. Learn to master the energy you and your team bring to the workplace and life—for increased results. As a result of this session, participants will be able to:
• Understand the connection between discretionary effort and engagement
• Gain resilience in the face of adversity and challenges
• Spread engagement like a virus using 5 simple tools
Scott Carbonara is a keynote speaker, author, and change management consultant who is passionate and skilled in engaging a company’s greatest asset: its people. Scott helps organizations and individuals create and live the stories they want to have told by stakeholders, employees, and customers. Scott is known as “The Leadership Therapist” for his diverse professional portfolio–from serving as an award-winning crisis counselor–to executive director of communications/change management and eventually chief-of-staff of a multi-billion-dollar healthcare company. He addressed a skyrocketing 38% attrition rate and, through digging beyond the surface and implementing creative employee engagement initiatives, reduced it to an unprecedented 6.5%–saving millions of dollars. Scott has spoken for such esteemed groups as SAS and AT&T Global, and is the author of several leadership books including A Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement (McGraw Hill). He breathes life into employee engagement, culture, change management, communication, and customer service. www.LeadershipTherapist.com
Members $15
Non-Members $30
The Stone Manor 101
101 Saw Mill River Rd
Hawthorne, NY