2024 Convention 10

DESCRIPTION

Opening Keynote: Making Vitality Your Reality
Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Sounds great, right? But what exactly does that mean? Workplace challenges abound, and the work of associations is never completed. Member acquisition, event attendance, and staffing challenges can keep the strongest of leaders awake at night. Couple this with concerns around aging parents or angsty teenagers, and we recognize our personal lives may be lacking the peace we crave and desire. Making Vitality Your Reality isn't wishful thinking. It's well within your grasp. Plan to have fun as we learn together and gain practical tools to positively impact your work life, home life, and points in between.

Learning Objectives:

• Applying a corrective perspective to achieve peace, prosperity, and well-being
• Building bonds that support, strengthen, and revitalize
• Embracing self-care to realize resiliency

Closing Keynote: Effective Leadership Through Exceptional Communication
Friday 11:05 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Effective Leadership Through Exceptional Communication is a fun and interactive presentation designed to grow executive leaders' relationship-building capacity. Communication is often recognized as the most significant challenge within organizations. Attendees will explore the root cause of miscommunication and ways to enhance their leadership through effective communication strategies. Attendees will also learn to leverage the power of personal accountability and EQ to turn challenges into opportunities and to develop trust and the ability to truly lead through influence.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understanding Encoding and Decoding (our lenses and filters) to deliver relevant messaging.
2. Embracing the power of Personal Accountability to achieve growth and outcomes.
3. Growing your EQ to influence your team and enhance your workplace culture.

Keynote:
Michael Novakovich, CDME

Bio:

Michael Novakovich is President and CEO of Columbia Ability Alliance (formerly Columbia Industries). He holds an MBA from Washington State University, where he also graduated summa cum laude with a degree in business administration. As a lifelong learner, Michael is in an Organizational Change and Leadership Doctorate (Ed.D) program at the University of Southern California. He and his wife Shannon own a business consultancy called NovaWerx, which focuses on leadership development, strategy and human resources. They have called the Tri-Cities home for many years and are the proud parents of two boxers named Rijker and Braekhus they refer to as the “the girls.”