Pre-Conference Workshops

Add one or both 3-hour workshops to your schedule. Held before sessions start on Sunday, October 11, participants will take a deep dive into two current topics affecting HR professionals today. Workshop participation requires registration and additional fees. See pricing hered.

Morning Workshop | 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM 

ROI – Turning the Intangible into Tangible

When investment decisions are made, Return on Investment (ROI) speaks louder than engagement scores, participation rates, and hearsay.

This workshop teaches you what ROI is and how to calculate it using tools to address questions like ‘What’s our return on investment?' and ‘Which program/initiative should we cut this year?’

You’ll learn to translate the value you are already delivering into language and evidence that secures investment in the work that truly matters.

Actionable Takeaways:

This session continues after the conference. A follow-up virtual session will be scheduled four weeks after the conference to showcase your workshop knowledge and present your ROI case study. And you’ll earn three (3) additional recertification credit hours for participating.

You will receive a ROI case study template, Interview Process Guide, Consulting Process Outline, and ROI Case Studies.

Session Presenter  

Kristine Conway, MS, PCC 

Founder of Effective Focus Inc.

Kristine Conway brings a unique combination of talent, expertise, evidence- based practices, and real-world experience that will support your organization's leadership strengths and create powerful new ways to achieve outstanding results through the professional development of your most valued leaders.

She has over 20 years of demonstrated excellence in improving the leadership experience working with C-level Executives, Vice Presidents, Directors, and highly skilled individual contributors.

Afternoon Workshop | 12:30 PM - 3:15 PM

Reclaim Your A-Game: Overcoming Leadership Injury

Consider your leadership story. Perhaps you’ve had leaders who inspired and empowered you — believing in you more than you believed in yourself. Perhaps you have also been hurt by a leader, suffering a leadership injury with lasting effects.

This workshop provides a framework for identifying, healing, and preventing leadership injuries. Drawing on her work with combat veterans, Dr. April equips leaders to address invisible injuries from the business world and beyond using a practical, positive, story-based approach.

Participants are guided on a journey to reflect on their own leadership experiences. Those who have suffered leadership injuries will learn the step-by-step process to overcome these challenges with a hero mindset. Leaders also thoughtfully explore how not to be a villain in someone else’s story — but rather be a guide who brings out the hero in others.

Actionable Takeaways: 

• Identify signs and symptoms of leadership injuries - including the three most common patterns you are likely to see affecting your team
• Learn the five-step process for healing leadership injuries - using pain of the past as fuel to become better and stronger than ever
• Prevent leadership injuries, avoid common pitfalls, and adopt key shifts to heal and protect others - building a lasting legacy of leadership

Session Presenter

April Minatrea, PhD

Director of Leadership Excellence 

Exponential Mindset Group

Dr. April Minatrea is a psychologist, speaker, and leadership expert who invites leaders to examine the stories we tell ourselves and others — and the stories they tell about us. She guides audiences to heal from past hurts, break through limiting beliefs, and forge forward with greater clarity and hope. Dr. April brings insight and expertise developed across her work in private practice, with the VA and Department of Defense, and as the Director of Leadership Excellence for the Exponential Mindset Group — translating hard-won lessons for leaders navigating complexity and change. Her presentations are known for being thought-provoking, playful, and deeply human – sharpening leadership from the inside out and inspiring leaders to live the story they want to tell.

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