Thursday June 8, 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Sponsored by Explore Seattle Southside
How to Confidently Connect with Anyone
This interactive opening keynote presentation is designed to engage the audience in a meaningful community building experience that helps them connect with each other in a fun and playful way. They will learn the 3 keys to be able to confidently connect with anyone at the conference and in every area of their lives. The audience will kick off their day feeling energized and ready to engage, connect, learn and grow into even better leaders than they already are.
Friday June 9, 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.
The One Degree Shift
This closing interactive keynote is designed to help the audience integrate what they learned at the event so that they can apply what they learned to their life and work when they leave. Through a series of prompts and activities, participants will get clear on the one action they will take and will walk away with support and accountability to make that a reality.
Marli Williams is an international keynote speaker, play activist, and joy instigator who has worked with organizations such as Nike, United Way, Doordash, along with many colleges and schools across the United States. She first fell in love with transformational leadership as a camp counselor when she was 19 years old. After getting two degrees and 15 years of leadership training, Marli decided to give herself permission to be the “Professional Camp Counselor” she knew she was born to be. Now she helps incredible people and organizations stop waiting for permission and start taking bold action to be the leaders and changemakers they’ve always wanted to be through the power of play and cultivating joy everyday. She loves helping people go from stuck to STOKED and actually created her own deck of inspirational messages called StokeQuotes™ which was then followed by The Connect Deck™ to inspire more meaningful conversations. Marli is also the founder and director of Camp YES!™, a transformational summer camp experience for women. Her ultimate mission in the world is to help others say YES to themselves and their big crazy dreams (while having fun doing it!) To learn more about Marli’s work go to www.marliwilliams.com or www.camp-yes.com and follow her on Instagram @marliwilliams
Arel Moodie, Brooklyn, New York
Arelmoodie.com
Thursday June 8 Keynote 9:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Creating the Ultimate Work Environment: Unlocking Your Potential at Each Stage of Adult Development
Every one of your individual team members is currently undergoing a separate and distinct stage of their adult development. As a leader, your ability to decipher and empathize with the specificities and intricacies of these stages will help you and your team understand how each individual reacts to the world around them and how these reactions drive every action we take professionally. The work of understanding these stages of Adult Development will create a roadmap for your own growth and for those around you as each stage comes with common pitfalls and traps to avoid, but also opportunities to utilize. Understanding these stages will assist in creating a culture of transparency which will inevitably lead to deeper relationships and a higher quality of collaboration organization-wide.
Arel Moodie is known as a “human development investigator” who has extensively studied the intricacies of human dynamics and relationships. He is a best-selling author who has spoken to over 750,000 people throughout 48 states and 5 countries. He is one of the expert hosts on the Disney+ show Family Reboot. He has been invited to speak at the White House twice and on the TEDx stage three times. He has been featured in The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, Essence, USA Today, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Huffington Post, and has been a contributor to the television program The Doctors. He shares the fascinating research on how to use Adult Development Theory to dramatically change how you can effectively build connections with others, understand yourself more deeply, and positively influence those around you. This information works and is proven. Adult Development Theory is based on 60 years of research and hundreds of thousands of data points. Arel grew up in the Projects of Brooklyn, NY, and knows firsthand the power of Community Action Agencies and how they can change lives, programs like yours changed his!
Dan Irvin, M.A.Ed, Dallas-Fort Worth
Danirvin.com
Thursday, June 8, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
3 Habits of Consciously Intentional Leaders
Being intentional means setting a success framework that packs a serious punch in terms of keeping you and your team motivated and structured. The problem is, most of us fall short in that mission. In this presentation, Dan speaks to leaders looking to sharpen their talents and be more intentional. Relatable insights include how to keep distractions from taking center stage, how to recognize when the same way of doing things doesn’t cut it anymore, and how to establish the SMARTEST goals. Create an ideal roadmap for a focused week.
In this session you will learn how to:
- Stop wasting time and start planning to do more of the right things versus more things.
- Gain clarity around goal planning, progress, and achievement using Dan’s SMARTEST framework.
- Know, remind, write down, and live your priorities in your life to set daily success indicators that result in immediate success!
Dan Irvin is an experienced leader in sales, operations, and building peak performance teams. For over a decade, Dan Irvin has brought proven excellence, experience, and commitment to leadership roles within nationally positioned organizations. Through his dynamic emphasis on sustainable enterprise growth through disciplined focus on leadership development and process efficiencies, Dan has created award-winning results in sales revenue, team growth, employee retention, and internal and external customer relations.
Dan Diamond, Bremerton, Washington
DanDiamondmd.com
Thursday, June 8, 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Resilience, Purpose, and Innovation: The Keys to Making a Difference When it Matters Most
In this dynamic session, Dr. Dan Diamond, an international disaster physician, will share his proven strategies for thriving in high-stakes environments. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dr. Diamond will reveal how to leverage resilience, purpose, and innovation to overcome obstacles and make a meaningful difference, even in the most challenging circumstances. With unforgettable stories, practical insights, and hands-on tools, you'll discover how to break through barriers and get stuff done. Whether you're part of an association team or hosting big events, this session will equip you with valuable insights and strategies to excel when it matters most.
In this session you will learn how to:
- Feel connected again!
- Reconnect to your purpose.
- Describe a four step strategy to innovate under pressure.
- Apply the 5-I Appreciative Inquiry strategy to generate some practical solutions to an current issue you're facing (before you leave the room!)
Dr. Dan Diamond is a distinguished physician, speaker, facilitator, and disaster response leader renowned for his ability to create transformational
learning experiences. He works with corporate healthcare, and ministry leaders who aspire to make a difference, empowering them with practical trench-
tested tools that work. Following Hurricane Katrina, he played a strategic role as Director of the Mass Casualty Triage Unit at the New Orleans Convention Center and he has responded to some of the greatest natural disasters of our times. He is recognized as an expert in how to lead high performing, resilient teams.
Tamara Ghandour, Denver, Colorado
LaunchStreet
Friday, June 9, 8:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m., and 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Moving at the Speed of Innovation: How to navigate change and drive innovation in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.
Today's marketplace demands razor edge thinking and nimble responses to change. Strategies change frequently, businesses rise and fall overnight, and leaders adept at thinking on their feet are best positioned to leverage change. Yesterday’s success playbook will no longer suffice to deal with the new pressures, challenges and urgency facing association leaders today. Today, you, and your teams, need to know how to navigate uncharted waters and pivot fast to meet the new demands and be inspired to bring out your best effort and focus, despite the disruptions and distractions. In this high-energy, high-value session, Tamara will show you how to be the confident Everyday Innovator that navigates forward, finds break-through opportunities and leads strong. Through her pioneering work in human-centered innovation, Tamara will show you how to have the confidence and the tools to step up and meet the demands of today’s “next normal.”
In this session you will learn how to:
- Leverage your unique style of innovation to be the strong leader your team, members, and community needs to navigate uncertainty with vision and clarity.
- Overcome your three major internal resistors to change, minimizing the resistance, stress and push-back that keeps teams spinning in place and unable navigate change.
- Build and lead a high-performing team of innovators that solve challenges and unearth new opportunities at the speed the marketplace requires.
- Discover the keys to influencing others, having a strong voice and getting buy-in for your ideas.
Tamara Ghandour: The impact of Tamara’s break-through work on human- centric innovation can be seen in individuals, teams, and organizations across the globe. As the creator of the proprietary Innovation Quotient Edge (IQE) assessment, host of the popular business podcast – Inside LaunchStreet, and the president of LaunchStreet Consultancy, Tamara has helped thousands gain the competitive edge by unlocking the power of innovation. With 25 plus years of business experience, Tamara knows what it takes to truly drive innovation and growth in an ever-changing marketplace.