Caronne Rush

Caronne Rush serves as the Assistant Director and Faculty Lecturer with the Office of Interprofessional Education, Health Affairs at the University of Florida. She is responsible for organizing interprofessional learning practicum and training experiences for students in the health sciences, curriculum, and faculty development. Caronne teaches interprofessional education courses at UF and has taught at Santa Fe for many years in College Success, Life & Career Development, & Marriage and Family. Additionally, at UF, she supports Diversity and Inclusion programs and committees. Currently she serves on AIHC Leadership Workgroup, the board at Oak Hall School, the Health Science Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Liaison Committee, and she helps develop pathway programming for underserved students, mentoring programs, and faculty advisor.

Caronne Rush is married to Titus Rush 3rd and mother to Titus Rush 4th and Zoe Rush. She is Jamaican by birth but grew up in Gainesville, Florida, by way of New York. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Specialist and Master's degree in Marriage and Family Counseling, and a second Master's degree in Business Management, and currently completing her Ph.D., all from the University of Florida (UF).

Mentoring – Purpose, Preparation, Process, and Possibilities

In this session participants will:

• Decide what type of mentor they need and why they need a mentor.
• In real time, walk through the mentoring process, facilitator as mentor and participants as mentee.
• Explore characteristics of a successful mentor/mentee relationship.
• Discuss successes and challenges of three successful mentoring programs.
• Feel empowered to develop a mentoring program or personalized mentoring relationship.

Developing Personal Resilience

Description:

Resilience is the capacity to maintain or regain high levels of performance and well-being when dealing with high levels of disruption and turbulence. As the pace of change continues to increase in both our personal and professional lives, the level of challenge rises as well. Successfully navigating challenges and achieving desired outcomes depends on our ability to adapt to new ways of thinking, solve problems, and overcome obstacles. When we demonstrate resilience, it might result in avoiding harm, staying or getting back on track, or experiencing growth from a difficult challenge.

In this workshop, participants will learn about the seven “resilience muscles” that help them thrive in turbulence. The resilience muscles are Positivity, Confidence, Priorities, Creativity, Connection, Structure, and Experimenting. Each of the resilience characteristics can be strengthened through consistent practice and the development of new mental habits. Participant activities will include assessing their current “muscle” strength, identifying exercises to practice using these characteristics, and developing a plan to build readiness for change. Participants will walk away with practical suggestions and resources for further development.

Participants will:

• Conduct a self-assessment of their resilience muscles.
• Identify exercises to practice strengthening resilience muscles.
• Develop an action plan to build resilience by strengthening their muscles.

Your Leadership GPS: Navigating Professional Storytelling for Influence & Action

Session Description:

In the workplace, it is vital for women to be confident in sharing their professional stories to influence stakeholders, create buy-in, and demonstrate impact. This session aims to support women in taking the wheel of their leadership journey through cultivating the essential skill of professional storytelling. Throughout the session, facilitators will encourage participants to explore how to elevate their professional stories to inspire change and action within their work. This includes how to understand which essential stories to share, how to craft a cohesive narrative, and framing stories to capture the attention of influential stakeholders. Importantly, participants will learn about how telling their story is a form of responsible career management and professional growth.

Facilitators will provide participants with a framework to build essential stories for their unique work, as well as time for self-reflection and practice sharing in a small group setting. Participants will also be equipped with a storytelling toolkit for additional learning and application after the session.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Describe the importance of professional storytelling to influence collaborators and gain buy-in
• Understand various techniques for collecting and sharing your business narratives to inspire change and create action
• Practice the types of essential stories you can craft about your work to create an impact

BE SEEN: How to Be Unshakeable When all Eyes Are on You.

This presentation is about . . .

• HEALING trauma that can stop us from feeling safe, grounded, and undisturbed when attention is on us, or when we want to step up and be seen in a larger way.
• BECOMING the person who people want to listen to and be inspired by.
• RECONCILING the resistance to fully expressing yourself and getting comfortable sharing your truth without fear of judgment.
• LIVING your purpose while impacting the lives of others, even if you don’t feel you’re the most qualified to do so.
• TURNING compassionate people into courageous leaders who are well respected for what they do.

Rachael Jayne will teach specific, tangible practices you can implement immediately to become the most magnetic and compelling person in the room.

This is some of her best training on how to increase your courage and visibility, as well as boost your ability to feel safe and unshakeable—no matter what!

Outcomes:

• Rachael Jayne will show you what it takes to master 7 key areas that make someone a compelling leader who owns their value and can communicate it.
• She’ll show you 3 things you can immediately change in your communication style that will have people pay attention to what you say and want to follow you.
• Learn how to embody a clear energetic signal that has you attract more respect—personally and professionally.

Lead with Intention – Shifting from Chaos to Clarity

Description

A coffee spill, a text from a frustrated colleague, a family emergency, and traffic when you’re already running behind - all before you’ve sat down for your first morning meeting! Our ability to solve problems effectively is a key predictor of our overall success and happiness. And problems are guaranteed to come our way every day, so we might as well get really good at solving them!

This session will offer a proven framework to tackle problems with efficiency – allowing you to spend more of your time on the priorities that matter most to you. You’ll learn how to not only be calm in the face of major roadblocks, but also how to spread calm to others, ultimately encouraging deeper thinking and yielding better solutions for all. During the session, you will have the opportunity to develop an action plan to cause you to shift out of the chaos and into clarity for addressing the problems that you face as a leader every day.

Outcomes

• Practical strategies to maintain calm and spread calm when we encounter roadblocks
• Increased self-awareness about how we currently solve problems
• Identification of 1-2 key behaviors you want to build to improve your approach to solving problems

Passion + Purpose = Success

Objectives:

1. Attendees will gain skills necessary to identify their passion and purpose and how it translates to job descriptions and duties
2. Attendees will be able to look at their current position description in a new light beyond “duties” to mechanisms to utilize their skills, talents, and purpose
3. Attendees will be able to better communicate the benefit of communicating purpose filled “duties” to the employee and the employer
4. Attendees will be able increase skills necessary to evaluate and align their position descriptions, employer needs, and their passion and purpose

The Road Map Within: Leading With Empathy & Self-Awareness

Description

Our career and life journeys are full of on-ramps, accelerations, road blocks, and detours. None of them are a mistake. When we accept and allow for the vastness of our experiences, we can become more brave, empathic, and bold leaders.

In this motivating session, we’ll explore self-awareness and empathy tools as a means to personal and professional leadership development.

Together, we will explore how to:

• Learn from regret.

• Grow through set-backs.

• Expand through what brings you joy.

• Thrive in authenticity.

• Empower others.

Finding Your Way Back: From Burnout to Boundless

Description

A 2021 Deloitte survey of 5000 working women in 10 different countries found nearly half experienced burnout and cited burnout as the leading cause of quitting. Black women who experience burnout do so in the backdrop of sexism, implicit bias, microaggressions, and overt racism. For first generation women, the prescriptive success story of “American dream” may keep them from acknowledging burnout and dissatisfaction in career. As the pressure to perform mounts, many of these high-achieving women reach a breaking point, quitting careers, adopting maladaptive behaviors, or worse committing self-harm. However, there is a way forward that allows women to work through their burnout journey and create a boundless midlife. In this keynote, participants will take a deep dive into the different forms of burnout and how they manifest. Attendees will be encouraged to name the sources of their burnout and the impact burnout has in their personal lives. Finally, participants will examine the role of self-compassion, setting boundaries, and realigning their true purpose in healing from their burnout.

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Outcomes

• Define the occupational burnout.
• Explore the variety of ways that burnout manifests: professionally and personally.
• Develop an intentional roadmap to counter burnout and live a boundless midlife.

Taylor Williams

Taylor Williams, M.Ed., Ed.S., is a Master Corporate Trainer in Learning, Development, and Engagement at Haskell. Her passion for personal development, mental health, communication, emotional intelligence, and innovation inspire her work. With a background in mental health, business, design thinking, and performance, Taylor is passionate about helping people create lives - in and outside of work - that help them to feel like the best version of themselves. At Haskell, Taylor loves being a part of a team that is devoted to personal and professional growth. She is proud to be a part of the Haskell Together committee, committed to company-wide diversity efforts.

Since 2012, Taylor has run a communications consulting company that focuses on interpersonal communications to improve company culture. She is a consultant with the MBA program and the University Athletic Association at the University of Florida, where she was a student athlete. Her work there focuses on mental health and wellness, positive culture, and life design. She has served as an adjunct lecturer and curriculum designer for various undergraduate and graduate programs including UF, George Washington University, and George Mason University.

She is the Creative Director of a live storytelling organization, Guts & Glory GNV, in her hometown of Gainesville, Florida. She loves public speaking, and has written a book and given a TEDx talk on that topic.

Taniqua Miller, MD

Dr. Taniqua Miller is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist with a special focus in midlife/menopause health. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology at Yale University. After completing her medical degree at Harvard Medical School, she went on to complete her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. As a 1st generation college graduate and physician, she is a committed educator and advocate for underrepresented medical students and physician trainees. She has been recognized by the Emory School of Medicine and the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics for her teaching excellence and innovative curriculum development. After 14 years of practice, Dr. Miller took a step back from clinical care to center herself and her journey of burnout. She tells her own story of professional burnout to empower other women over 40 to live a boundless midlife. She is wife, mother of three children, and the founder of TaniquaMD, an educational platform with a mission to empower women over 40 in their midlife journey. In her spare time, she loves sleep, visits to the beach, and spending time with her family.

Christine Watson

As a Certified Professional in Talent Development, Christine Watson designs and facilitates learning solutions that incorporate participant engagement and contribute to business results. Her passion for connection in this ever-changing world is fueled by her commitment to living a life inspired by nature and informed by research. Observing life’s challenges through the lens of the natural world, Christine seeks to apply the skills learned as a Personal Resilience Practitioner. She earned her certification through the Resilience Alliance and seeks to share the concepts with others so that they can experience resilient outcomes during times of turbulence. Christine believes that the natural world provides a framework for us to observe the inter-dependencies of all living beings and incorporate those lessons into our human relationships. It is through these connections that we can effectively build resilience.

In her current role as a Talent Development professional at Wounded Warrior Project, Christine delivers learning solutions that drive organizational outcomes in the areas of leadership development, personal resilience, performance improvement, employee engagement, cultural connection, and succession planning.

For the past 25 years, Christine has served as a trusted advisor within the industries of higher education, banking, manufacturing, food processing, and non-profit management. She has been recognized by senior leaders for achieving learner engagement and promoting a culture of learning within the organizations in which she has served.

Christine’s love of nature and her fearless enthusiasm for learning have her pursuing the designation of a Florida Master Naturalist through the University of Florida, IFAS. She makes her home in Jacksonville, with her husband, daughter, and Mr. Louie the min pin.

Allie Simon

Allie Simon serves as the Associate Director for Career Engagement at the University of Florida’s Career Connections Center in Gainesville, FL. In her current role, she provides leadership and strategic vision for the Career Engagement and Career Pathways team, including coordinating the center’s foundational and customized student career development services. Allie leads the center’s initiative to elevate the student experience of career services throughout campus. In her 10 years at the University of Florida Career Connections Center, Allie has served in multiple roles to support students including developing programming for specific populations including first-year students and underrepresented students through partnerships across campus. She holds a Master of Education and an Education Specialist in Counselor Education, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Florida.

Angel Iverson

Angel Iverson has worked with the University of Florida’s #2 nationally ranked Career Connections Center for twelve years holding the roles of Assistant Director for Career Events, Senior Assistant Director for Employer Development, and currently Director for Career Foundations. In her current role, Angel provides leadership to various teams, directly manages the center’s Employer Partner Program, the Center’s relations with community agencies such as Chambers and Economic Development Councils, and the Employer Advisory Board in addition to other initiatives. Angel is passionate about learning industry trends and leadership best practices. Angel is proud that her team is changing lives, whether directly through one-on-one student engagement or indirectly through campus collaborations and employer engagement to bring more recruitment opportunities to students’ fingertips.

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Flourishing Forward

Description

Grit. Perseverance. Fortitude. Anti Fragility. How do we take these powerful concepts from the esoteric realm and operationalize them so that we can flourish forward after adversity in our daily lives? This closing keynote will be all about using adversity and storms in life as springboards to a deeper, richer and more fulfilling life.

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Outcomes

• Encourage a paradigm shift in how we view a hardship.
• Understand how to transform an impoverished environment to an enriched environment.
• Develop a personal ethos that can illuminate a way forward through uncertainty.

What Makes Your Brownie Different?

Description

Imagine being a college student tasked with pitching a brownie business at a networking meeting...Would you know how to explain what would make your brownie different?

Come join David to find out why it doesn't matter if you own a business, work an awesome career or are still trying to figure out your plan in the business world..you HAVE to know WHY your brownie is different than everyone else's and how to confidently convey that message. Learn how to "Blaze your Networking Trail" and be the best "brownie" in the business!

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Outcomes

• How to dive into what makes your brownie different
• How to be more prepared and confident when attending networking opportunities
• What NOT to do at a networking opportunity

Wellness & Resilience for Leaders

Description

Some people think, “You won’t know what you’re made of until you are faced with the worst day of your life.” We know this to be false. We absolutely can front-load resiliency in preparation for a day that we hope never comes. There is a way that we can prepare ourselves, and our staff, so that we cannot only survive a traumatic event physically, but emotionally, mentally, and spiritually as well.

This session will use personal and proven examples of how to not only recover from catastrophic events, but to flourish afterwards and experience an “upward spiral”. For leaders or those with families, developing resilience is not an option. Being resilient is a leadership requirement, and personal resilience begets organizational resilience. Wellness is the foundation for resilience. This session will cover how to develop wellness in the whole person concept (physical, mental, emotional, mental).

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Outcomes

• Assess “resilience” in the personal context, using the “Whole Person” concept of the physical dimension, mental dimension, emotional dimension, and spiritual dimension.
• Articulate the importance of developing resilience from a personal and professional perspective.
• Create a plan for developing personal resilience using research and personal examples to illustrate not only how to survive, but also thrive after a traumatic event.

Humble, Yet Fierce: The Art of Humble Leadership

Description

Katy McQuaid shares lessons learned during her 32-year career with the CIA about life and leadership. Katy weaves real-life stories to engage her listeners into a three-step process for living a life in alignment with one’s purpose and the art of humble leadership.

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Outcomes

After this talk, participants will:

• Gain inspiration to live in alignment with purpose
• Access a simple three-step process for life and leadership
• Understand the art of humble leadership

Strengthen Your Mental Fitness: Shifting from Surviving to Thriving

Description

If you’re physically fit, you’d be able to climb a steep hill without much physical stress. Same goes with mental fitness. The more mentally fit you are, the more you’ll be able to handle the stress, anxiety and frustrations that might come from work and personal life challenges. Recent events such as the pandemic, disruption in financial markets, social unrest, and political changes have overstretched many of us. Mental Fitness is the X Factor. Your level of Mental Fitness is the best predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential. It’s the key to your ability to evolve and adapt to change. So you can not just survive but thrive in these tumultuous times. The good news: just like physical fitness, you can boost your Mental Fitness with practice. During this interactive workshop, we will unpack: 1) What mental fitness is and why it matters. 2) How you tend to self-sabotage with Saboteurs like the Judge, the Hyper-Rational, the Controller, the Hyper-Achiever, the Pleaser and 5 others. 3) The 3 core muscles at the root of mental fitness along with practices to build your mental muscles

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Outcomes

• A knowledge of what mental fitness is and why it’s important.
• An understanding of the 3 core muscles at the root of mental fitness.
• A grasp of how we tend to self-sabotage with Saboteurs like the Judge, the Hyper-Rational, the Controller, the Hyper-Achiever, the Avoider and 5 others.
• Skills and practices to build mental muscles.

Generations in the Workplace - 5 Decades of Female Influence

Description

For the first time in our history female colleagues can span up to five generations. When we look at how to communicate and connect with each other especially as women: how do we see each other? what barriers to communication do we experience? do we experience these barriers differently than our male colleagues? how can we best support each other? The answers to these questions and more will open our view and break down barriers as we learn from each other the depth of diversity today's working women experience. This discussion will examine our own working relationships and the relationships with those who came before us and the legacy we expect to leave for those coming after us.

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Outcomes

• Effectively communicate with others.
• Value diverse opinions and backgrounds.
• Recognize personal strengths.

Find Your Kilimanjaro

Description

When Simone Knego left her sea-level home in Florida to climb Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, she had an epiphany: We can make a difference not by changing ourselves, but rather, by how we see ourselves. Only when we stop living for who we think we should be can we become free to reach our own personal summits. In her riveting speech, Simone takes us on a journey from the great heights of Africa to deep in our hearts, addressing the pressures of social conformity, fear of failure, and imposter syndrome. Through “mirror moments” and mindset shifts, she entertains and inspires audiences to see themselves differently, so they understand their value and see their impact in the world.

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Outcomes

• Find freedom from the pressure of social conformity.
• Create positive mindset shifts.
• Let go of imposter syndrome.

Trust Your Boots

Description

The last couple of years have challenged all of us, especially women, in the workforce in unprecedented ways. As women continue to balance their professional career and their family/home, COVID has added physical distance between colleagues in all organizations. This distance has had a direct impact on how women show up in a leadership space. This presentation will address the importance of how women shape and impact the the workplace when leading a team, function or company.

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Outcomes

• Identify examples of female leadership presence and discuss why it is so important in the workplace today.
• Define their leadership vision and their ability to communicate vision to others.
• Determine best practices that influence others to align with a vision and invoke action and execution of goals.

The Power of Vision: Creating a Soul Savvy Life

Description

Many people, while successful, don't feel as though they're living on purpose, and feel it's selfish or unreasonable for them to want more. The Power of Vision: Creating a Soul Savvy Life, will help you understand how to leverage the feeling of knowing there is more for you to create a clear, vivid, and detailed vision of what you would love for your life moving forward, in all areas. Once you have a vision that honors your purpose, Lauren will show you the powerful Soul Savvy blueprint for how to live authentically and bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to be, so you can move toward your dreams with confidence and live a life you truly love living.

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Outcomes

• Discover your true dreams and channel them into a crystal clear vision
• Reprogram feelings of fear, doubt, and worry with easy, practical tools
• Learn how results get created so you can begin to take different actions to move your goals and dreams from idea to reality

Leading from the Inside Out: Leveraging Self-Awareness to Design Your Unique Leadership Brand

Description

The glass ceiling -- the invisible barrier that prevents women from ascending to the career of their dreams. Gratefully, more or more women are adding their crack to that ceiling, creating opportunities for the women who are coming after them.

Yet there's another ceiling...the self-imposed drop ceiling that each of us erects with our own self-limiting habits and beliefs. While breaking through each of these 'top limits' seem out of reach, there ARE steps we can take to move us closer to our personal and professional goals. Women leaders need to stop focusing on external factors over which they have little control and start examining your own internal barriers to success. We can start this process by designing and expressing your unique leadership brand, resulting in the CLARITY and CONFIDENCE to go after the professional life of your dreams!

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Outcomes

During this session, we'll cover:
• The most important skill you must develop to create the career (and life!) you desire
• An important exercise that will get you on the path to developing your Self-Leadership
• The bigger picture that will allow you to see how gaining clarity and confidence can multiply your impact as a leader in ALL areas of your life!

Your Identity = Your Superpower

Description

My workshop will help participants identify the many amazing cultures that make up the chosen identities that create our unique BEings. We will use some of the lesser understood components of culture which impact how we experience this world. Then we will use that information to see how chosen identities may clash with our assigned identities and those of the BEings who cross our paths particularly as women. We will then learn to intentionally craft our experiences to be for our highest good and greatest joy. We will learn tools to craft our experiences regardless of how diverse our chosen identities. Let me give you the tools to create the life of abundance which is your birthright regardless of your background, culture, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background.

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Outcomes

• To help women empower themselves to see their identity as an asset and to assist them in showing up fully in life.
• To help women empower themselves to have culture based tools necessary to craft the life of abundance they deserve.

The Power of Presence

Description

In this workshop, we will practice mindfulness meditation and practical applications of mindful leadership. We will explore ways in which our ability to create space in our day affects our ability to lead— whether we are leading a global organization, a team, our family or our own lives. We will look at our personal filters, our autopilot tendencies and the distract-ability of the mind. We will begin to see how training the mind can improve our ability to focus, be creative, and embody compassion—at work and at home.

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Outcomes

• Understand what mindfulness is and how it makes a difference.
• Experience how mindfulness can improve your well-being and performance.
• Explore mindful writing exercises and breathing.
• Experience space and presence.

Embracing the Mindful Hustle

Description

Embracing the Mindful Hustle: ​​Are you addicted to the hustle? Do you only rest when burnt out? As a therapist and recovering perfectionist, I know firsthand the highs and lows of hustle culture. You will walk away with skills to shift your mindset and to develop a burnout prevention plan. Imagine life with effective boundary setting, values-oriented decision making, and genuine REST. You will learn to appreciate effort over endgame, a skill essential for the long game. The mindful hustle is possible!

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Outcomes

• Attendees will develop an understanding of the primary contributors of burnout and learn their burnout coping style along with warning signs of burnout.
• Attendees will also walk away with a personalized burnout prevention plan.

Crisis Leadership: Learning from Practice

Description

Robust organizations and leaders understand change is constant. Separate from change is the ability to handle crises while maintaining focus on mission and ensuring core programs remain functioning. Leaders learn from practice how to adapt services and personnel in crisis situations to move organizations forward to address needs and new gaps as they arise. Participants will:
• Hear real world examples of three organizational crises that create necessary pivot points.
• Discuss the importance of crisis planning before it happens.
• Work to create a model of individual crisis leadership using past experience and future forecasting.

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Outcomes

• Understand what crisis planning entails.
• Develop personal strategies for handling crisis (big and small).
• Connect with crisis mentor(s) who can help develop ongoing planning and forecasting

The Power of Reflection: Charting your Course for Success

Description

Business moves at an accelerated pace and is only growing more intense. Winds are blowing, seas are raging, sometimes all we can do is hold tight to the ropes and hope our ship sails safely into harbor. The next deadline comes, the next project is assigned, we join the next team, with little space to pause and make sense of it all. We feel tossed, too hurried to assess where we are, experiencing burn out, and impacted by every wave. There must be a better way. Reflection is a tool within our reach to help us chart our course for success. Through pausing, asking questions, and reflecting through writing, we can untangle emotions, situations, and better plan our next steps. Reflection gives us the opportunity to pause amidst chaos, untangle our fears, determine strengths, and create meaning. Reflection gives us the power to chart our own strategic course for success. Through research-based evidence, insightful examples, and storytelling, attendees will learn the positive impact reflection can have in helping chart their own course to success. Attendees will receive tactical steps in considering the impact regular reflection can have on their lives and leave with the tools to begin this regular practice.

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Outcomes

• Attendees will come away from this time with an understanding of the importance of regular reflection as a tool to optimize success both professionally & personally.
• Attendees will consider various areas of their lives to use reflection to their benefit.
• Attendees will leave with tools to incorporate regular reflection activities into their schedule.

Resilience Her Way: Leading with Confidence

Description

Have the challenges of leading during a pandemic, rocked your confidence? Discover the keys to increasing your confidence through the power of resilience and prepare to lead audaciously in this new normal. Come and learn from a resilience strategist and female leadership coach, how to confidently lead your team while staying ten steps ahead of imposter syndrome. Leave prepared to face the varied challenges of leading while female without sacrificing your peace, passion, or power.

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Outcomes

• Identify factors that contribute to loss of confidence.
• Identify characteristics of imposter syndrome.
• Illustrate ways to promote confidence as a female leader.

Maria Jose Toro

Development Specialist

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE​

Maria Jose joined Haskell in 2018 as a Marketing Specialist for the Consumer Packaged Goods Group. She transitioned to the HR team in 2020 and has since brought her design knowledge along with her communication and facilitation talents to the team. Maria Jose believes that the most sustainable way to create a better world is to help other’s help themselves by helping them develop personal / professional tools they can use to elevate the quality of their life. She uses her skills to ensure Haskell is effectively “walking their talk” by helping create and deliver quality content & resources.

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EDUCATION​

Bachelor of Design, University of Florida, 2015​ & Certified in DISC and Emotional Quotient (EQ) and 12 Driving Forces

Brooke Jones-Chinetti, MBA

Director Learning Development and Engagement

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE​

Brooke Jones-Chinetti joined Haskell in 2020 and currently serves as the Director of Learning and Team Member Engagement. She brings both military and corporate experience to Haskell. Most recently, she was the Director of People and Operations of Werk, a tech company focused on the future of work, and previously a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase. Prior to her transition to corporate America, Brooke served in the Army for six years as a Human Resources officer, completing two combat deployments.​

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EDUCATION​

Brooke holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. ​

David Hanscom

David has been trusted by the world’s top client base and humbly became one of the most in-demand event DJs across the country. He travels the country providing the soundtrack for celebrities, companies, organizations, and industry professional events.

He has appeared and been featured on television, radio programs, and industry magazines.

He founded Y? Entertainment in 1998 and built it into a multi-million dollar entertainment business. He has established an extraordinary resume not only personally as an entertainer, but also as a respected entrepreneur and industry influencer.

As an Event Industry Thought Leader he co-hosts multiple podcasts including Wedding Business Growth, In the Cue. and The Rookie & The Vet as resources to support business owners starting or looking to find success in entrepreneurship. He also serves on the boards of the Saint Augustine Wedding and Events Association, Jacksonville, FL Tuesdays Together, and North Florida MPI.

Tiffany Pineda

Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a poet, comedian, author, orator, radio personality, educator, and writer. She is the mother of three amazing children Gregory II, Courtney, and Noah. Tiffany Danielle graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville where she still resides with her family. She holds certifications in Minority Mentorship from the University of Florida; Cultural Competence from Albany State; and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity in the Workplace from University of South Florida. Tiffany Danielle has created a certification for Obtaining Consent for Research Participation with an emphasis on cultural competence and many other trainings related to diversity, equity, and inclusivity. She is the Chair and co-founder of the University of Florida’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Diversity and Cultural Competence Council known as DC3. Tiffany Danielle is a Regulatory Specialist at the University of Florida where she has been blessed to work in various positions for over 24 years including having been an Institutional Board Member for almost a decade. She has been a Board Member of Kids n Capes a non-profit dedicated to protecting children for over three years.

Theresa Beachy, Ph.D.

Dr. Beachy came to Gainesville in 1989 from Sarasota in order to attend the University of Florida, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science (1991), a Master of Education (1992), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership, Policy and Foundations (2000). Dr. Beachy pursued a career in education from 1992-2000, working in rural and at-risk programs. She taught high school social studies in rural Hardee County, FL and was the principal at Eckerd Youth Alternatives’ Camp E-KEL-ETU, a wilderness education program for at-risk boys located in the Ocala National Forest, from 1993-2000. She has served as the Executive Director of Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network, Inc. the certified domestic violence center serving Alachua, Bradford, and Union counties since July 2000. In that time, she has grown the agency from a small, rural center with 18 staff and a budget of $950,000 to a thriving model of best practice with 47 staff and $2.4 million in annual grant and locally generated funds. Dr. Beachy is involved in numerous local community projects that address family violence, homelessness, and social justice. She is a member of the board for the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Homeless Continuum of Care, the Gainesville Woman’s Club, and a member of the Vestry for Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Her passion is for social change work that creates advocacy for issues related to violence against women and promotes the empowerment of women and the feminist philosophy. Her greatest joy is her family – husband Don and her son Nate - with whom she enjoys the Gainesville community and the Florida lifestyle.

Simone Knego

As an international leader, best-selling author, and keynote speaker, Simone Knego has the uncanny ability to both motivate and inspire others to be the good in the world. If you were to ask her, Simone would tell you that she leads an ordinary life filled with extraordinary moments. As a mother to both dogs and children, a serial entrepreneur, and a popular speaker and author, Simone treasures each small moment she gets to make a difference. Splitting her time between her family, businesses, and personal growth, she’s realized that the small choices she makes every day to do good actually have the power to inspire others to see the extraordinary moments in their own ordinary lives.

In her best-selling book, The Extraordinary Unordinary You, Simone details her journey of adopting three of her six children, recounts her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, and shares all of the funny, scary, and inspiring stories that came along the way. Simone believes deeply that changing the way you see yourself can help the world around you change. Through her book, she hopes to show people how they are unordinary in the best possible way. She knows that through these realizations, people can redefine what they believe themselves capable of and impact the world the way they were created to.

Simone holds both a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Accounting from the University of Florida. In 2015, she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise funds and awareness for the Livestrong Foundation. Simone served as the 2018-2019 Co-Chair of the Jewish Federations of North America’s National Young Leadership Cabinet and has travelled around the world on several philanthropic, international missions, including medical missions with her husband Rob, who is a Neurosurgeon. They have been married for 28 years and have six children.

Rasheda Hatchett, MN, RN

Best-Selling Author | Speaker | Resilience Coach & Strategist

Rasheda is the Owner and CEO of Rasheda Hatchett Media, LLC, a coaching and consulting firm steeped in her passion for wellness. She is the creator of Audacity To Thrive! TM a coaching program for women on the rise who are ready to lead audaciously in the world.
Rasheda is also the CEO of Panacea Nurse Delegation Services, providing education, delegation, and consultation services to adult family homes in the Seattle area.
Rasheda is an award-winning nurse leader and was the recipient of the 2019 Federal Way Public Schools Hero award for her community work and the 2019 Black Nurses Rock Leadership Academy- Fellowship Challenge Winner, for her outstanding leadership. She is also a John Maxwell Team member and National Wellness Institute Certified Resilience Trainer.
She is a best-selling author, and the author of Sis, It’s Time to Thrive: A Unicorns Guide to Loving Yourself Audaciously, Living Large: A Nurses Journey Toward Resilience, and The Power of Organizational Resilience: How to Retain Talent and Increase Your Bottom Line. Rasheda is a talented speaker who has graced the stage of a major university, served as a breakout speaker for conferences, and she trains on an array of topics ranging from burnout prevention to building a culture of resilience. She specializes in resilience based leadership, helping people discover their bounce back blueprint to thrive in the face of adversity.

Payal Khurana

Like many entrepreneurs, Payal considers herself devoted. Her deepest devotion? Supporting others to serve the moment with intention and unwavering presence. She was born in India, raised in Tampa, Fl and went to the University of Florida to get her BS in Computer Engineering. She spent 8 years working in healthcare IT and living all over the country, until she realized that something was missing. With a self-reflective lifestyle and over 9 years of a meditation practice, a growing awareness of her discomfort in the corporate world led her to leave New York City. Back in Gainesville after a long hiatus, she co-founded Starter Space, a co-working space. She later created a 6-week mindfulness program to support others with tools to move through disconnection, distraction and dissatisfaction.

Payal leans into her rich Indian heritage of meditation and travels the world to share the transformative power of presence and deep listening. From individuals to corporations to top rated universities, her work has been a driving force in bringing meditation to modern culture. Payal’s thoughtfully crafted, immersive experiences invite self-discovery, inspire transformation and creativity, and provoke meaningful connection. In 2018, she founded and invited thousands of people into the doors of Gainesville's very first mindfulness studio. Currently, Payal is working on her first book and continuing to focus on supporting others to do power differently through presence.

Lauren Ruth Martin, LPC-MHSP

Lauren Ruth Martin is a licensed therapist and owner of Novel Counseling in Tennessee. She is a woo girl gone mild who has experienced all levels of work culture in her lifetime. Lauren specializes in chronic depression, unhelpful perfectionism, and burnout. Her goal is to help people declutter their lives with compassion and to get unstuck. Lauren hosts a Novel Life, a podcast on all platforms, in addition to her speaking engagements in order to educate and relate on mental health.

Lauren Brollier Newton

Lauren is an award-winning inspirational speaker and transformational coach, certified through the Brave Thinking Institute. She works with organizations and individuals, helping them build their dreams, accelerate their results, and create richer, more fulfilling lives.

Faced with devastating news, Lauren had a choice: rebuild her life from the ground up in a way she would love or stay with the status quo. Taking the road less traveled, she decided to live her dream. Lauren founded Soul Savvy to help others connect with the most infinite side of themselves so they can life a life they love.

Lauren has spent over a decade as an educator and coach. She started her career in California public schools first as a teacher, then as a coach helping teachers to deliver the best instruction. Her ability to break down overarching spiritual and success concepts into bite-sized pieces is what makes her a standout in her field. Through her coaching and speaking, she has inspired thousands of people to live a life they love.

Out of 3,500 eligible coaches, she won the Outstanding Impact Award for 2021 from Brave Thinking Institute, recognizing her impact on clients and reach in the industry.

Lauren lives in northwestern Wyoming with her husband, Cameron, and their two cats, Little and Cadbury. She loves exploring the beautiful landscape of the Wyoming mountains, reading, and riding horses.

Katy McQuaid

Katy McQuaid is an award-winning author, presenter and leadership consultant who spent more than three decades in the CIA, including 12 years living abroad. Her work in communities all over the world inspired her to share the art of humble leadership with her clients.

Katy is the founder of McQuaid Corporate Performance, LLC and a graduate of Penn State University where she attended on a full scholarship, lettered all four years as a swimmer, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance. Katy’s goal is to support people and organizations in experiencing successful, meaningful, and empowered transformations.

Katy was the first female Senior Executive in the CIA’s Logistics Career Service as well as the first Senior Executive Support Officer in a South Asia War Theater. She held a key Support Officer position during the transition of US intelligence activities from one city to another in one of the largest European offices. Katy served as an Elder at Pathways Church in Denver, Colorado and currently serves as Chair of the Dorcas Aid America Board of Directors. Learn more at www.katymcquaid.com

Camille McKinney

Camille McKinney is a Leadership Coach, consultant and speaker at Leveraged Leaders; she helps women explore, embody and express their unique leadership brand so you can up-level your results and get what you REALLY, REALLY want!

In Camille’s experience, women often come to coaching with a very specific goal around changing the results they’re currently getting, wanting the ‘how to’ to change those results. What coaching quickly reveals is that it’s less about what you need to do differently, and more about how you are showing up, driven by limiting beliefs that get in the way of you showing up INTENTIONALLY. What you’ll also come to realize is that the changes you make through coaching multiply throughout your life, allowing for an expanded level of transformation.

Before becoming a professional Leadership Coach and Consultant, Camille worked for over 25 years as a training and performance consulting professional in the banking and healthcare industries, most recently leading a team of sales training professionals. Camille’s commitment to demonstrating effective leadership and empowering her team to be their best resulted in Great Place to Work employee engagement scores of 100% two years in a row! Camille brings her experience in leadership, Emotional Intelligence, performance consulting and training to support leaders in revealing your personal leadership advantage, both in business and in life.

She has a degree in Business Management and has completed Coach U’s Core Essentials and advanced coaching programs. Camille is also a certified facilitator for Linkage’s Advancing Women Leaders Academy, a nine-module learning experience, delivered on site, that seeks to equip women with actionable steps and practices to address the barriers that impede their advancement in the workplace.

Camille is active in the Los Angeles International Coaching Federation (ICF) community, holding various Board roles including Chapter President

Barbara Cotes

Background and Experience

Barbara Cotes serves Haskell by leading the Onboarding and Engagement strategies. She is retired Navy Veteran and an Instructional Designer by trade.

Prior to joining Haskell in 2020, Barbara led project teams designing courseware for the Department of Defense Including curricula for the U.S. Army Engineer and CBRN schools. She also led and designed award-winning curriculums for Intermodal rail transportation.

Education

Barbara earned a bachelor’s degree in Technical Operations, a master’s degree in Aerospace Science with a certification in Instructional Design from Embry Riddle University. And holds a certificate in Human Resources and Lean Six Sigma from the University from North Florida.

Professional Affiliations

Barbara is on advisory boards for Keiser University and the University of Florida, she is a member of several trade associations and is a frequent speaker at conferences including DevLearn, Mobile Learn Con and Global Sim.

Andrea Pence, PMP

Senior Manager of IT Business Solutions

BACKGROUND

Andrea Pence is a Senior Manager of IT Business Solutions at Exact Sciences in Madison, Wisconsin. As an IT leader and business partner, she uses relationship-building, honesty, and a proven track record of success to form strong partnerships between IT and business teams. As a natural connector, Andrea is constantly seeking to identify new ways to bring groups together, drive clarity, and achieve objectives.

As a team leader for over 20 years, Andrea has mentored Project Managers, Business Analysts, and future leaders in career growth. Recently Andrea was a speaker at Business Relationship Management Institute’s annual BRMConnect conference where she presented “Beginning BRM with a New Business Team.” She delivers insightful perspectives through storytelling and tangible next steps.

Throughout her career, Andrea has used the practice of regular reflection to untangle chaos, gain perspective, and plan action. Reflection is a tool within our reach to drive clarity and bring results, however seldom emphasized for its impact. Join Andrea in this year’s IWL conference to learn the powerful impact regular reflection can have on you!

EDUCATION

Andrea is a graduate of the University of Florida holding a bachelor's degree from the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences.

Amy Yip

I’m a Life Transformation and Mental Fitness coach who works with high-achieving, ambitious women going through transitions to tap into their potential and bridge the gap between where they are now and where they want to be (even if that destination isn’t totally clear yet).

My passion for coaching is to empower people to realize their full potential, let go of the ‘shoulds’ and be the author of their own life story because if you don’t tell your story, someone else will.

In January 2020, after 16+ years of building and leading global teams in organizations like Google, Clorox, and Booz Allen, I left the corporate world, sold everything, and took a 1-way flight to Ghana with my husband to volunteer at a breast cancer non-profit and travel the world. COVID shifted our plans; we got stuck in Ghana for 7 months.

One of my greatest learnings:

Your mindset, NOT your circumstance, makes all the difference in your happiness and success.

Through this lens, I work with clients to find their voice and the courage to speak up, build self-confidence, navigate change, and discover what they REALLY want next in their life and career.

I’m an ICF PCC, Certified Hudson Institute Coach, and a pioneer Mental Fitness Coaches certified through Positive Intelligence. I hold a MBA from Anderson UCLA, and a BS in Computer Science, BA in Communications from UMD.