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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: How to Activate Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Catalyst Ranch continues its series of lunch-hour workshops focused on the ins and outs of Meeting Planning with Lunch & Learn: How to Activate Leadership! \nWe are the authority on everything Meetings-related\,\nand we invite Facilitators\, Meeting Planners\, Retreat Programming Coordinators\, Administrative Assistants and everyone in between to get insider insight over a delectable meal. \n \nLunch & Learn: How to Activate Leadership Through Planning and Facilitating Your Meeting\nA meeting can be a powerful leadership tool driving change in your culture\, bringing out the best in people\, expanding what’s possible. Yet\, often people don’t like them or know how to use them strategically. How you think about and approach them makes all the difference. When your meeting really\, really needs to make a difference\, what can you do to shift how people think and act? \nJoin us to explore:\n\nCreating an environment in which others are engaged and own the meeting outcome you seek to produce\nActivating ownership\, leadership through how you plan and conduct meetings\nA model for using a meeting as a focal point for a process to shift mindsets and have conversations you have not had before together\n10 common meeting traps to avoid\n\nThis session is ideal for anyone involved in planning a meeting – meeting planners\, administrative assistants\, office managers\, department or firm managers or leaders\, facilitators. \n\nAdmission price of $10 includes:\n\na two-page handout summarizing key points;\na mouth-watering meal from our catering partner Big Delicious Planet!\nall ticket surcharges.\n\nPlease purchase your admission by Wednesday\, April 24!\n*Please email bryan@catalystranch.com with any dietary restrictions\nClick here to purchase admission!\n\nAbout the Facilitator: Jackie Sloane\, MCC  \n Jackie Sloane loves working with people to cultivate leadership around them and expand what’s possible through how they use meetings\, and engage others. She is a seasoned executive coach and consultant\, specializing in enhancing ability to achieve greater well-being and significant results through how clients communicate\, cultivate relationships\, and lead key initiatives. Jackie has over 25 years’ experience in executive coaching\, leadership development\, communication and organizational engagement consulting. \nThe Transformational Leadership Retreats she co-created\, based on a 6-question coaching model\, have provided leaders a powerful way to utilize the focal point of an event to lead a process to “change the conversation\,” set a new tone\, and co-create new behaviors and practices\, launching culture change in their organizations. She has a background in marketing and has served clients at privately-held\, nonprofit\, public sector and Fortune 100 firms\, in most industries. She has served clients at Abbott\, Accenture\, American Society of Anesthesiology\, Bank of America\, Comcast\, Deloitte\, Exelon\, Grant Thornton\, Hollister\, Navistar/International Truck and Engine\, PepsiCo\, Plante & Moran and Purdue University Northwest among others. \nShe has two coach certifications\, including Master Certified Coach. She completed the graduate-level Mastering the Art of Professional Coaching in 1994\, and many leadership\, communication and coach training programs\, and is a member of the International Coach Federation. Jackie has a B.A. in political science and completed graduate work at Columbia College. She is a mentor for Chicago Innovation’s Women’s Co-op. \n\n\nLearn more about Chicago’s Most Creative Meeting and Event Space Catalyst Ranch!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/lunch-learn-how-to-activate-leadership/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn,Meetup,Networking,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Brainstorming: Creativity - real people\, real conversations
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Benjamin Ritter brings the Brainstorming series to Catalyst Ranch to discuss Creativity. \n \nHave you ever had an open and honest conversation with someone you didn’t know and felt completely energized?\nHave you ever wondered how to find people to discuss meaningful topics that don’t relate to sports or the weather?\nBrainstorming is an event that is focused on bringing people together to talk about a specific theme\, cultivate community\, and hopefully inspire personal and professional growth. This month we are focusing on the topic of Creativity. \nThere is so much power to getting strangers in a room\, with varying cultures\, background\, and experiences\, to brainstorm around specific topics.\nThe event (doors open at 6:15 PM\, to provide time for refreshments and icebreakers) consists of breakout and group brainstorming sessions and to discuss specific questions related to the theme of the event. \nBrainstorming events are limited in size to promote authentic relationships and building community. Get your ticket ASAP if you are planning to attend. \nTicket prices increase on the Friday before the event.\n \n— \nHosted by:\nDr. Benjamin Ritter is a Chicago based social entrepreneur\, coach\, consultant\, mentor\, and expert in the fields of personal and professional internal leadership development. \nThroughout his career he has worked in the areas of hospitality\, the entertainment industry\, public health\, education\, childcare\, healthcare\, and personal and professional development\, constantly seeking new experiences to learn more about the world\, and himself. \nThe culmination of his previous personal\, professional\, and educational experiences led him to create Live for Yourself (LFY) Consulting\, a coaching/consulting company that is focused on helping successful professionals find more meaning at life and in work. \nLFY Consulting bases its coaching practices on the unique LIVE system\, which integrates doctoral level applied learning theory\, and curriculum and leadership development research. \nDr. Benjamin Ritter is also the host of the Live for yourself podcast and Live for Yourself events\, author of The Live for Yourself Workbook\, and The Essentials\, creator of The Breakup Supplement\, and a freelance expert and writer. \n\nSee all of Catalyst Ranch’s Public Events here!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/brainstorming-creativity-real-people-real-conversations/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Surge for Water: Break the Barriers Tea Party
DESCRIPTION:Surge for Water hosts an afternoon tea party to promote women’s health and sisterhood. This is a FREE event\, and attendees have the opportunity to be fundraisers. \nBreak the Barriers: a Women’s Wellness Event\nSurge for Water is a nonprofit organization which invests in communities around the globe: through safe water and sanitation solutions to help end the cycle of poverty\, and by delivering women’s health and hygiene education to empower women and girls. \nJoin us for a day that changes the way you think about women’s health and sisterhood. Feel the empowerment! \n\n\n\nSurge for Water’s afternoon tea party will include:\n\nengaging conversations\ninsights into self-care and wellness\nopportunities for guided movement and mindfulness\nan expressive interactive art session\n\nCommit to truly breaking barriers.\nSaturday\, May 18th  2 – 4:30 pm\nCatalyst Ranch\n656 W Randolph St.\, Ste 3W\, Chicago\, IL 60661 \nThank you to Surge’s Sponsors:\n\nSpaRitual\nCatalyst Ranch\nHonest Tea\n\nThank you to Surge’s Partners:\n\nJubilant\nPhotoserve\nThe Simple Good\nTiny Space to Breathe\n\n \n\n  \n\nLearn more about Chicago’s Most Creative Meeting and Event Space Catalyst Ranch!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/surge-for-water-break-the-barriers-tea-party/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Networking,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Ignite Chicago: Talks at Catalyst Ranch in May
DESCRIPTION:Ignite Chicago packs the house. Come to Catalyst Ranch May 28 for a night of great ideas!\n \n\n  \nIgnite Chicago is a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have a burning idea—and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd.\n  \n  \n \nAttending this evening’s Ignite Chicago does good for the city and for your neighbors. All proceeds from Ignite Chicago at Catalyst Ranch in April go toward funding the volunteer-run\, nonprofit organization We All Code (formerly CoderDojoChi)\, which teaches web\, game and app development to youth ages 7 to 17. So when you buy your ticket to expand your mind at Ignite Chicago\, you effectively contribute to expanding the minds of young people in our beloved city! \n \nSpeaking at Ignite is an unforgettable experience. You step up to the mic. Your palms sweat. You can hear the thump of your blood rushing. Your voice cracks for an instant and then you launch into a rant for 300 straight seconds\, wearing your passion on your sleeve\, barely pausing to breathe. The crowd goes wild. \nIgnite Chicago at Catalyst Ranch in May is open to everyone. All talks are 5 minutes (20 slides x 15 seconds/slide). \n \nThere is no theme for Ignite. You can talk about virtually anything as long as you can show us your passion for it. What’s the thing you most geek out about? What’s the topic of conversation that quickens your pulse and sets your toe a-tappin’? That is what we want to hear you speak about. \nAll speakers get equal time and equal billing. All talks are 5 minutes. You create 20 slides\, and we set them up to auto-advance every 15 seconds. \nWant to speak?\nThe audience at Ignite is generous and patient. They know the Ignite format is difficult\, and they realize you might be an absolute beginner at public speaking. Don’t worry – they’ve got your back. You’re giving them your passion and your vulnerability\, and they love you for that. You won’t find a more appreciative audience at any other event. \nSome people think Ignite is about self-help talks. It isn’t. Nobody wants to hear a preachy pep talk. We’re already “good enough and smart enough\,” so let’s keep this about you and your passionate ideas. \nFinally\, we’re serious about the no pitching thing. We know that sometimes a speaker must mention their profession in order to give their talk context\, which is totally fine. But Ignite is not the place to tout your organization or to troll for clients. \nClick the logo for tickets.\n \n\n \nFind out more about the maestro behind both Ignite Chicago and CoderDojoChi\, Ali Karbassi\, by clicking here! \n\n\nLearn more about Chicago’s Most Creative Meeting and Event Space Catalyst Ranch!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/ignite-chicago-talks-at-catalyst-ranch-in-may/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
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