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Meetings Industry Lunch & Learn: Improve Your Public Speaking Skills

Catalyst Ranch welcomes all Meetings Professionals to hear insights from a peer while enjoying a satisfying meal. Executive Admins, Retreat Programmers, Facilitators and everyone in between: Join us as we learn from communication expert Brendan Sullivan how to level up how we present ourselves and our ideas at the meetings we coordinate. Learn and practice physical adjustments that help us appear more confident, knowledgeable and professional. Enjoy lunch from Big Delicious Planet and network with other Chicagoland Meetings folk! Admission is only $10. Catalyst Ranch, 656 W Randolph St., Chicago. Friday, November 1. 11:30 am – 1 pm.

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-learn-improve-your-public-speaking-skills-tickets-73150383767

Catalyst Ranch 17th Anniversary Party

Each year, the West Loop pioneer Catalyst Ranch celebrates their years of being in business with a party that lifts up their community. “Since we couldn’t have made it 17 years without the support of other women entrepreneurs, we’re sharing the spotlight on November 4 with a group of women with innovative small businesses of their own. Come enjoy awesome food and drink—on us, as always!—and get to know these awesome women and their inspired projects. Along with our Founder Eva Niewiadomski, our party guests will get the opportunity to extend a modest but meaningful amount of support to help each of them reach their next step.” Admission is free; Visit the link to RSVP. Catalyst Ranch, 656 W Randolph St., Chicago. Monday, November 4. 6pm – 8:30 pm.

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION: https://www.catalystranch.com/event/17th-anniversary-party-supporting-women-entrepreneurs/

Have you ever thought about going to the "dark side" to pursue a career in public relations? This is your chance to learn about the PR industry and get inside tips from former journalists who have made the leap. Topics addressed will include what a PR career entails, which journalism skills transfer and which might not, how to leverage your network, PR "myth busting" and more.

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Panelist

Monique Garcia, Vice President of Public and Media Relations, Mac Strategies Group

Moderator

Eric Benderoff, Senior Vice President, Burson Cohn & Wolfe 

Three companies will present in the usual BNC format.

They each will have 10 minutes to cover the following six questions:

What's the product or service?

Why will the customer buy it?

What's AMAZING about the management team?

How does the company make money?

What traction does the company have?

How does the investor make money?

The 15- 20 minute structured Q & A with the audience, surrounding the six questions, will follow each presentation.

Hors d'oeuvres and Refreshments are Served

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Over the past five years the automotive industry has seen more disruptions than in the past 100 years: the explosion of mobility-as-a-service, ride-sharing and ride-hailing, reduced car ownership, booming fleets, connected-everywhere vehicles, and the emergence of electric batteries as viable alternatives to traditional motors.

Everything we know about the automobile industry and the way we transport people and packages is changing. 

Join our panel of industry experts to better understand the implications for your business and your life.

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With customer experience (CX) at the center of many digital transformation initiatives, CDOs and CIOs often stake their claim. How then should CMOs work with other C-levels to properly align CX along all touchpoints of the customer journey throughout continual transformation? And who really owns, and should own, the customer experience?

Sitting in a unique spot within a pioneer brand that is influencing the way digital transformation is scaled, adopted and implemented by the world’s most influential enterprises, Tania Salarvand from ThoughtWorks will share how the role of marketing is evolving in the process. From her first-person observations, she will present the ways marketing can lead and sculpt digital transformation, how to integrate marketing with digital teams, and what skills and tools are needed to do it.

In this talk, you will learn:

• Why there’s really no such thing as “digital transformation” anymore
• How to change the culture of a siloed organization when you’re thinking digital
• Where there are clear and clean lines between roles and where there shouldn’t be

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PWCC invites you and your guests to their November Happy Hour. 

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Join us on November 13th to celebrate World Kindness Day with one of our newest programs, The ROI of Kindness: Creating a One-of-a-Kind Culture that Drives Success. We guarantee a high-energy, fun morning to give you a taste of how small acts of kindness can create an enormous impact.

AGENDA:

8:30 - 9:00am - Registration and Networking

9:00 - 10:00am - Program

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

What if we told you that your organization’s key driver for success should be…kindness? Would you scoff at the idea that something typically associated as “warm and fuzzy” could be your key differentiator, primary driver of business results, and creator of an unbelievable culture that engages both employees and customers? At a time when business is moving at breathtaking speeds and competition is fierce, we are here to make the irrefutable case that infiltrating your culture with kindness is the secret sauce to delivering an unprecedented ROI.

In this high-impact program, you learn from best-in-class organizations such as Southwest Airlines, Chick-fil-A, and Zappos on how kindness has propelled their success, and you discover how true business strength and boldness are captured through kindness. Building the business case is only the first step; next we share a specific formula and tangible tips for infiltrating kindness into your culture. Whether you are a senior leader or an individual contributor, everyone walks away with powerful insights, tools, and techniques for creating unsurpassable ROI through kindness. There is not one dull moment in this story-rich, action-packed program that changes your work and your life for the better.

Participants leave this program with the ability to:

Recognize and create the strong business case for kindness in the workplace

Utilize proven techniques from world-class organizations where kindness is a key value

Inspire kindness to build loyal employees and customers who become raving fans

Develop new ideas and implement effective strategies that build a positive and kind culture

Boost employee and customer engagement through methods that anyone can implement

Create a positive mindset and plan that is contagious and permeates the entire organization

FAQs:

Who should attend this event?
HR/L&D professionals. All are welcome, of course, but we will be targeting this workshop to HR professionals who handle HR, talent acquisition, learning, and development.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please e-mail our team at info@jbtrainingsolutions.com with any questions - we'll do our best to answer promptly!

DETAILS & REGISTRATION: https://www.illinoistech.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1295882&group=

Nexus Mutual uses the power of blockchain technology and Ethereum to allow people from all over the world to share insurance risk together without the need for an insurance company. Nexus Mutual is now launched on Ethereum Mainnet. Their token model uses a bonding curve: https://nexusmutual.io/token-model

Hugh will give a brief intro to the project and then talk about their bonding curve approach, why they built it, how it works and what the experience has been so far.

Speaker: Hugh Karp, Nexus Mutual

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The meetup will start at 5pm, 1 hour earlier than usual. This is because the presenter is in London where it’s much later. Please plan to leave work early to make it in time!

Schedule:

5pm - 5:15pm
People arrive. Please try to arrive before 5:15pm when the talk will begin.

***5:15pm*** (on the dot!)
Talk starts

6pm
Talk ends

6pm - 6:15pm
Additional Q&A with the speaker

6:15pm - 7pm
Open time for people to chat

7pm - ???
For anyone who is interested, we'll go to nearby bar to continue discussing Ethereum

Join us as we explore the power of owning your data narrative with an expert panel of internationally renowned data scientists. In this exclusive event, we'll uncover: 

- data as storytelling
- managing data use by business stakeholders
- mitigating data misinterpretation 
- feeling comfortable contributing data when you think you aren't an expert
- diversity on team and how that drives perspective and data narratives

Food and drink provided by our platinum sponsor, Gogo!

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Are you a nonprofit leader struggling to effectively tell your organization’s story? 

Are you a consultant who has a great story to tell to prospective clients, but are unsure of the avenue in which to do so? 

The November ACN program is for both audiences!  

We will spend time learning from experts in the media relations and communications fields in three key areas: storytelling, branding, and media relations. You will then have the opportunity to take what you’ve learned to begin composing and creating your own media release, branding strategy or storyboard with experts available to offer guidance and suggestions. Join us to learn, grow and support one another as consultants and nonprofit professionals!

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