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SUMMARY:INTRAPRENEURSHIP: Leveraging Team Creativity for Innovation & Growth
DESCRIPTION:General Assembly Chicago brings a FREE event to Catalyst Ranch – INTRAPRENEURSHIP: Leveraging Team Creativity for Innovation & Growth. \nThe landscape of economic\, social and environmental issues in the world calls for new\, creative and innovative approaches to business. Markets are shifting as people and technology are driving trends that leave behind the traditional model of profit-maximizing businesses. Creatives now possess an important competitive advantage that they can put to action at their organizations\, not only for their own success\, but also for profit and social impact. \nWe can leverage creativity by nurturing entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship\, or simply developing our own creative leadership skills to benefit career advancement or bring innovative approaches to our organizations. \nThis event seeks to inspire creative leaders through the success stories of real people and companies that are using creativity as a catalyst for innovation and growth.\nLearn about:\n\nMultidisciplinary collaboration that leads to innovation\nThe integration by design of sustainability in business\nSocial responsibility beyond checking a corporate box\nUsing culture as differentiation and competitive advantage\nAdapting new technologies to local realities\nCreative thinking to build talent\, consumer base and new markets\n\n\nGeneral Assembly is a pioneer in education and career transformation\, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills. The leading source for training\, staffing\, and career transitions\, we foster a flourishing community of professionals pursuing careers they love. \n\n\nLearn more about Chicago’s Most Creative Meeting and Event Space Catalyst Ranch!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/intrapreneurship-leveraging-team-creativity-for-innovation-growth/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Class,Meetup,Networking,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:AMA Chicago's Connex: Marketing Networking\, Morning Session
DESCRIPTION:AMA Chicago’s Connex marketing networking events are the place to be! You’ll meet up with colleagues\, friends\, entrepreneurs\, and creative professionals from the best companies in the Midwest. Mix\, mingle\, make connections\, reconnect with friends\, and build your network at the premiere marketing networking event in Chicago. \n \n\n\nAMA Chicago brings together colleagues\, friends\, entrepreneurs and creative professionals from the best companies in the Midwest. Meet your Chicago Chapter Board and learn about what we’ve got planned for you. Mingle with current and prospective AMA members or chat up the leadership team over drinks in a casual setting. Simply bring yourself\, your charm and your business cards. Continental breakfast will be served. \n\n\nNew: Round Robin Discussion Tables\n\n\nAMA Chicago makes networking easier and focused on sharing your marketing skills. This event features four round robin discussion tables\, each dedicated to a popular marketing topic and hosted by a thought leader. Join this small group discussion to share your knowledge and gain new insights from your peers. Rotate tables every 20 minutes\, stick with one\, or opt out – traditional networking is always an option. \n\n\n\n\n\nTable Discussion Topics planned: Connection Through Social Data\, The New Model for Brand Building\, Disruption and Relevancy of Marketing Insights \nMore details to come on table hosts at this event. \nFor more information and tickets\, click here!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/ama-chicago-connex-networking/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Hacking HR Meetup: Collab Lab
DESCRIPTION:The Hacking HR Chicago chapter convenes at Catalyst Ranch for their Collab Lab meetup event! \n \nIn this VUCA environment\, the old adage rings true: The only constant is change. Our ability to effectively navigate it\, depends largely on asking meaningful questions. \nBut how can that be? As children\, many of us learned that the answers are what’s important. So\, not surprisingly as professionals\, we often shy away from asking or being witness to uncomfortable questions. Regrettably\, this nearly universally acquired discomfort with uncomfortable questions creates an answer-centric world rattled with blind spots for all of us. \nThis session explores how to escape the dangerous blind spot of “not knowing what we don’t know” by learning to unlock our innate curiosity and push past the discomfort that will help us craft better solutions for our most challenging problems. Join this workshop to learn and practice how to become a better questioner at both work and in life. \nFacilitators\nChris Broderick Founder & President\, B.near Global \nDafna Aaronson\, Founder\, Be Sports Minded \nHeidi Glickman\, Consultant and Executive Coach
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/hacking-hr-meetup-collab-lab/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Brainstorming: Friendships - real people\, real conversations
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Benjamin Ritter brings the Brainstorming series to Catalyst Ranch to foster real conversations among real people. The evening’s theme: Friendships—from making\, sustaining\, and breaking up. \n \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? \nThis isn’t an event where you are given a drink ticket and thrown to the wolves. \nWe have real conversations and meet real people. \nNone of that “what do you do?” or “wow that weather outside was something”… \nThis is a brainstorm\, where people come together to think deeply and speak openly. \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 friendships. \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 Monday before the event.  \n  \n— \nHosted and facilitated 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-friendships-real-people-real-conversations/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Networking
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SUMMARY:Ignite Chicago at Catalyst Ranch in July
DESCRIPTION:Ignite Chicago packs the house. Come to Catalyst Ranch July 30 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 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 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. \nRefreshments are generously provided by sponsors Giordano’s Pizza and Lagunitas Brewing Company.\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-at-catalyst-ranch-in-july/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Talk
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