The Future of You
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Love: No Ego - Attain the pillars, principles, and strategies to live your best life
When it comes to having a thriving business, it’s important that the individuals, team members, and employees representing that business have an established foundation rooted in integrity, uncolored opportunity, and positive support and direction. Whether they recognize it or not, people crave for purpose. Despite challenges, companies and organizations should, to everyone’s benefit, want to make the environment a special and awesome place to be for everyone involved.
“Love...No Ego (LNE) Heart-Led Engagement and Leadership” can help capture, create, and promote such an environment, an environment in which the human intuition and spirit is pushed into greatness. Greatness is a space where collaboration, creativity, and clarity naturally flows. Imagine a culture of individuals who are able to live and function from a conscious and well-respected space of diversity, equity, and inclusion, while having a self and community practice that promotes the awareness of, and then the diminishing of, biases, judgment, and fear. The result is optimal performance!
“Love...No Ego (LNE) Heart-Led Engagement and Leadership” shares pillars (4) and principles (3) that promotes individual and community growth, long-term happiness and success, and resiliency. Let’s learn and implement the LNE pillars and principles, and live on the frequency of Miracles!
Wednesday Keynote Speaker: Freddy Jackson
Freddy is an inspirational and transformational speaker, mentor, personal trainer, educator, author, and founder of The Love No Ego Foundation, located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Freddy's Love...No Ego philosophy serves as the foundation for pushing the human spirit into greatness. He helps clients to remove biases, fear, and judgement, while simultaneously igniting their intuition to produce monumental results! Approaching a decade of experience, Freddy has delivered powerful, engaging, and relevant presentations, mentored, consulted, and conducted workshops for individuals, teams, and organizations nationally and internationally. Freddy utilizes and demonstrates his pillars and principles to enable participants to grow and perform better than their everyday pressures and gain optimal performance, personally as well as professionally. His approach improves their overall awareness and sustainability, promotes self and team development, helps them to notice the ego and where the limitations are, and gets committed to living a life of resiliency! Freddy currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife of three years, Emily. He loves being a dedicated husband and bonus Dad to his step-son, Jaxson!
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Staying relevant AND authentic: how to make the latest online marketing trends work for your company
Thursday Keynote Speaker: Marlynn Schotland
Author and food, wine, and travel blogger Marlynn Jayme Schotland will travel almost anywhere at a moment’s notice, will eat/try almost anything once, and embodies the LIVE LOUDLY philosophy every day. A first-generation Filipino-American, she enjoys sharing her passion for home cooking with fresh, simple ingredients, and share family favorite recipes and recipes inspired by her travels. She travels as often as possible around the world with her husband and their two children. Passionate about the wine industry, Marlynn also holds a WSET 2 Award with Distinction wine certification. Currently she is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the International Food, Wine, Travel Writers Association. Before launching Urban Bliss Life, Marlynn worked as a communications executive, including work as a public relations director. Her career started as a broadcast journalist after earning her Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications: Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Currently, Marlynn lives and works in the Portland, Oregon area with her husband, two children, and their lovable Lab Retriever.
Friday, March 15, 2024
PODCAST LIVE: Just Show Up, Building the life you want with discipline
Manifesting change in our lives isn't as difficult as we often make it seem. In fact, Ryn says they have found that the most successful athletes in strongman, and the most successful professionals they have ever met, are those who simply show up and put in the time. There's no substitute for attempting, experimenting, and failing. In this interview, Ryn will share with the live audience and podcast listeners how to build discipline that lasts, not just motivation that gets them started. We need to stop making success seem like some large, pie-in-the-sky idea, and instead distill it down to its simplest element:
Friday Keynote Speaker: Ryn (Kathryn) Bennett, CPSM
Ryn (Kathryn) Bennett, MPH, is a non-binary 40 under 40 award winner, world-record-holding strongman competitor, celebrated TEDx and Ignite speaker, and advocate for developing mental toughness. They are the author of Productive Pain, a personal memoir and inspirational guide. With a background in social and behavioral health and process improvement, Ryn's professional career spans industries including tech, healthcare, and engineering/construction. Ryn used the mental fortitude and tenacity they learned in the gym to advance their career and overcome burnout, working from an entry-level process improvement role into a director position. Ryn is a Certified Professional Services Marketer and is nationally ranked as a strongman competitor. They are passionate about helping others develop the mental tenacity and internal strength they need to succeed, no matter the adversity they're facing.
Fellows Forum
Bridging the Gap Between Booms and Busts
Panelists:
Paula Stamp, PhD, MBA, FSMPS, CPSM
Dr. Paula Stamp is vice president, economic development for CLAYCO. In her role with CLAYCO, Paula is responsible for strategic positioning of the firm across multiple business units including Institutional, Industrial, and Aviation; qualifying and securing new business opportunities; market research; strategic planning; and program validation and post-occupancy research. She works closely with both the construction and architecture entities within the integrated services model of CLAYCO.
Paula has more than 20 years’ experience in the AEC industry and carries the designation of Certified Professional Services Marketer conferred by the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) and is a Fellow of SMPS. She is President-Elect on the Society SMPS Board, governing board for the international organization. Paula is past president of SMPS/LA, Southern California Development Forum, and YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley. She is also the recipient of the SMPS/LA Leonardo Award which honors excellence and mentorship within the marketing field. She currently sits on the boards of the YWCA Glendale Pasadena and the non-profit developer A Community of Friends (ACOF). ACOF’s mission is to end homelessness through the provision of quality permanent supportive housing for people with mental illness. Paula’s work on the board focuses on strategic planning, resource development, and financial auditing of the organization. As a developer that owns and manages over 40 properties across Southern California, Paula’s contribution to the ACOF board is one that positively impacts our communities and furthers the solutions around homelessness.
Kenda Salisbury, FSMPS, CPSM
Kenda Salisbury, FSMPS, CPSM, leads Degenkolb Engineers’ strategic growth efforts across the Pacific Northwest region. With over 20 years of experience in the A/E/C industries, Kenda specializes in developing and managing client development strategies. She has successfully mentored and worked closely with technical professionals to help them strengthen their client relationships and build business.
Kenda was named an SMPS Fellow in 2019 and has been a Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) for over 20 years. She’s an active member of SMPS and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). Kenda is also a founding member of Building Women, an organization focused on the education and growth of women in the healthcare design and construction industries. She serves on the Standing Advisory Committee for Harborview Medical Center, acting as a community advocate for the hospital’s design and construction projects.
Dana Galvin Lancour, FSMPS, CPSM
As Barton Malow Holdings’ Vice President of Branding and Communications, Dana provides creative and strategic direction to the Barton Malow Family of Companies’ brands while overseeing a talented team of marketing and communication professionals across North America. She brings a vision that inspires her team to continually strengthen Barton Malow’s brand, reputation, and unique approach to marketing Barton Malow’s services.
Dana is a certified professional services marketer (CPSM) and a dedicated member of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS), acquiring the prestigious Fellow designation in 2013 after serving in various local, regional, and national capacities within the organization. Dana regularly speaks as a subject matter expert on the topics of marketing, communications, social media, and employee engagement. Crain’s Detroit Business named Dana to its 2023 list of Notable Leaders in Marketing.
