Be Green: Recycle your Mind

Kirsty McKinnon, Director and Founder of Excelr8
Have you recycled your mind? Have you purged your limiting beliefs and less than positive attitudes? Are you moving closer to your values?  Do your thoughts help sustain you as a leader? With a focus on environmental sustainability and recycling this session will show you how to clarify how you think so that your brain works for you, not against you!

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Creatively Engage Yourself and Your Workforce

Betti Clipsham, Director, H.R., Target Products Ltd.
In this turbulent time, how can organizations facing layoffs and cutbacks maintain productivity and employee engagement? How can you keep and attract those valued, yet individualized “X and Y” employees? In this session, you will explore ways to become more resilient during turbulent times.

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Love Them or Leave Them: Dealing with Difficult People
Karen Lisko, President, Motivatics
If you have ever lost sleep or fumed at your desk over an interaction with someone you work with, you may have encountered a difficult person.  But here’s the question: Who is more difficult - you or the other person? In most cases, it’s a little bit of both. In this session, you will learn to understand the most difficult personalities in the workplace and how to deal most effectively with them.

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Social Networking: You Need to Do It!

Eve Tahmincioglu, Author of From the Sandbox to the Corner Office
Not on Twitter? In the ever-changing cyber world, you could be committing career suicide if you don’t understand and partake in cyber social networking. Social networking sites like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook have become a key part of career advancement for professional women and men. In this session, you will learn how to broaden your network and your mind through the cyber-networking phenomenon.

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Stressed for Success (Not Failure)

Mary Braheny, Co-Creator, Life Designs and Author
Diane Halperin, Co-creator, Life Designs and Author
Stress is often an inevitable by-product of motivated living and the strange economic climate that surrounds us. However, it can become a means of developing greater self-awareness, more effective behavioral patterns, and more productive work time.  In this session, you will learn to recognize the signs of stress, reduce its effects, and develop strategies to create more efficient and effective patterns of living.

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Transformational Leadership: A New Way

Joe Gerstandt, Speaker and Facilitator
Rebecca Valdez, Executive Director, Latino Center of the Midlands
With an increasing number of women moving into roles of organizational, community and institutional leadership, women will play a critical role in re-defining leadership. What might that look like? Will it be a more inclusive model that truly embraces our differences? This dialogue will explore what a new model of leadership might look like and the transformational role inclusivity has in ushering in a new way of leading.

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Under the Influence of You

Jo Miller, CEO, Women's Leadership Coaching Inc.
It takes courage to lead through challenging times but women who do build a leadership presence that is indispensable. In this session, you will explore ways to gain influence and credibility, and use them to make a difference. You will learn to get comfortable gaining and using power in the right way, understand the mechanisms of power within your organization, and identify your six sources of influence.

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Be Green: Recycle your Mind

Kirsty McKinnon, Director and Founder of Excelr8
Have you recycled your mind? Have you purged your limiting beliefs and less than positive attitudes? Are you moving closer to your values?  Do your thoughts help sustain you as a leader? With a focus on environmental sustainability and recycling this session will show you how to clarify how you think so that your brain works for you, not against you!

» Kirsty's Bio

Creative Arts: Moments between Moments
Mary Braheny, Co-Creator, Life Designs and Author
Diane Halperin, Co-creator, Life Designs and Author
We live most of our lives pursuing goals and dreams, and taking care of business. But it’s in the moments between moments - standing in line, sitting in traffic - when our minds are allowed to float freely and connect with random thoughts. These are the moments when magic happens and answers are found. In this session, you will explore various Creative Arts Therapies that empower change and encourage us to live in the gap. (No movement or art experience is necessary. Wear comfortable clothing.)

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From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Valuable Leadership Lessons
Eve Tahmincioglu, Author of From the Sandbox to the Corner Office
With so few women in the c-suite in corporate America, you might wonder if you will ever hold a space at the big conference table. But there is a way to make it to the corner office. Learn from NBC’s “career diva” how some of the most successful women leaders were able to brush aside discrimination, history and negativity to climb the ladder of success.

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Leading from Within (Panel)
Moderator – Mary Ferdig, Sustainability Leadership Institute

Karen Carnahan, Carnahan, Smith & Gunter, Inc.

Alison Rider, Omaha Public Power District 

Jamie Summerfelt, Visiting Nurse Association
Barry Vennard, Unity Church

Do you bring your spirit to work? Do have an inner knowing that you often ignore? What does holistic leadership mean to you? ICAN's programs are all about developing leaders from the inside out. In this session, you will hear from some of the most genuine leaders we know about their experience of leading from within - coming from the soul of leadership at work and in life.

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Prepare for the Unexpected

Moderated by: Jacqueline Pueppke, Partner, Baird Holm
Panelists: Jill Robb Ackerman, Amber Neubert
Appropriate legal strategies can help you survive in spite of unexpected turmoil or change in your business or personal relationships. In this session, you will learn techniques to avoid or minimize disputes over the ownership and distribution of your personal and business assets, and maximize your chances to preserve your wealth, sanity, and quality of life.

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Recession-proof Your Career with Networking Savvy
Jo Miller, CEO, Women's Leadership Coaching Inc.
Research indicates that high-performing women build successful, sustainable, and satisfying careers by cultivating robust networks across their industry and profession. In this session, you will learn to introduce a memorable personal brand, analyze your existing networks, and create a strategic networking plan. With networking principles, actionable steps, and opportunities to practice, you will make an instant impact on your ability to initiate and cultivate lifelong relationships.

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Your Money & Your Life
Paula DeLaurentis, Managing Director, Strategic Alliances, TD Ameritrade
Diane Young, Director, Investment Management and Products Group, TD Ameritrade
If You Don’t Save Yourself, Who Will? This year’s financial roller coaster may have left you fearful of investing. That’s understandable. But sticking your money under a mattress will not help you long-term. In this session, TD AMERITRADE’s Paula DeLaurentis and Diane Young will walk you through the key components of Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan so you can leave the conference educated and empowered to build (or rebuild) your retirement savings.

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