Are you suffering from “inner kill’ - the art of dying without knowing it? What's next? What's calling you? This inspiring presentation will help you address these questions and create a vision for “what's next’ in your work life. Based on a sneak preview of Richard's newest book, Something to Live For (June 2008), this presentation provides the direction and the practices to help you reinvent, renew or revitalize your work life and capture that elusive worklife balance that we all strive to achieve.

Your Takeaway: Actionable Insights Into Your Personal & Professional Callings, Ambitions & Future Goals

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This session will draw on the speaker’s experience in co-founding two successful employment/career industry ventures, both of which became leaders in their fields and provided critical lessons for building a profitable consumer-facing venture. From team building, fundraising, product development, marketing, sales and business development, you’ll gain insights to help you learn what is relevant and what is not for building your own successful business or organization.

Your Takeaway: Industry-Leading Best Practices for Building Business & Organizational Success

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Ten years ago, the internet was an interesting new tool for recruiting and talent management.  Today it is the #1 medium for recruiting in organizations.

What do the next 10 years promise for the world of talent? This presentation will cover the new tools used by organizations to source, screen, and manage talent and discuss ways you can best prepare your clients for them. It will also highlight the differences between career management and talent management and how they can be addressed.

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In a world hungering for fulfillment, this session is an invitation to experience techniques and practices that catalyze the human spirit and close the gap between what your clients imagine and what they communicate. This innovative coaching methodology is based on the belief that every person has a purpose in life, a vision, and a high dream. Collectively, living our high dreams brings hope and action. During this program, you will be touched by the powerful message of inspiration and delight in a presentation that will allow for deep reflection about what is possible. We CAN create a world where all people experience their promise of greatness if we each begin with a high dream. What’s yours?

Your Takeaway: Your Own High Dream & Plan of Action

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With more than 100 years of experience hiring top talent and developing them into financial leaders throughout the country, Ernst & Young is an organization that truly appreciates that its greatest assets are its people. During this presentation, you will learn about a number of internal processes E&Y uses to onboard, develop and retain its people. In addition, through real-life examples, Jim will share some of the challenges their people experience as they grow personally and professionally and how E&Y supports them through these critical moments in their careers.

Your Takeaway: Insider Information on Best Practices in Recruitment, Hiring & Career Management

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Client Relationship Management
Entrepreneurship
Career Coaching
Resume Writing

Join this highly interactive program filled with multicultural best practices, tools and resources for career coaches and professional resume writers, essential for delivering dynamic career management services. Topics include building a multicultural client base, delivering culturally sensitive services, leveraging client cultural assets, and using the R.E.S.P.E.C.T.™ career management model and MICASA™ career inventory. You’ll also receive directories of diversity resources for coaches and clients, and career roadmaps for multicultural clients.

Your Takeaway: Your Specific Steps to Become A Career Management Expert of Choice for Multicultural Clients
 
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The education of a professional resume writer is in discovering and applying many rules of thumb. Among them are:

• What is the 5-5-2 rule?
• How do junk mail and Dr. Phil contribute to your potential as an expert resume writer?
• Why is the power of the pen still a valuable weapon?
  

Recognized for many years as one of the true creative forces in the field, John Suarez will share his valuable and often uncommon ideas for improving your skills in the art and craft of resume writing.

Your Takeaway: Truly Creative & Innovative Resume-Writing Strategies for Your Clients’ Success

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This workshop offers a myriad of insights and ideas on how to best serve the needs of a multigenerational population in today’s competitive workplace. Attendees will explore how age intersects with societal forces to produce opportunities for positive, constructive outcomes and results. As this multigenerational trio facilitates the session; participants will share perspectives and engage in activities to help them connect with the diversity that exists in today’s workforce – from Traditionalists and Boomers to Gen X’ers and Millennials.

Your Takeaway: New Insights & Appreciation for the Differing Dynamics of Multigenerational Clients

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Boomer: Karen P. Katz, M.Ed.
As a career strategist, Karen motivates clients to seize control of job and career transitions. The Career Acceleration Network (CAN) is Karen's channel; she shares her insight and experience as an HR professional, teacher, entrepreneur and career professional. A proponent of lifelong learning, she completed her M.Ed. in 2005 and industry-recognition as a CCM.

Millenial: Sarah R. Sucher, M.Ed.
Sarah Sucher is an Enrollment Advisor at Loyola University Chicago School of Education, where she assists prospective students pursuing doctoral and master’s-level programs. With a Master’s Degree in Higher Education (Student Affairs Emphasis), she has lived, studied and traveled throughout London, Rome and other European cities, pursuing a never-ending passion for learning.

Boomer: Billie R. Sucher, MS, CTMS, CTSB, JCTC
Billie Sucher has provided career management services to individuals, executive-level to entry-level, coast-to-coast for 20+ years. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling and industry certifications, and blogs for both CareerMastersTalk and CareerHub. Billie is the author of Between Jobs and Baseball for Life, and her work appears in numerous resume/cover letter books.

Providing a comprehensive overview of each client’s expertise, work history, accomplishments, project highlights, innovations, education, honors, awards and more, the career portfolio has become an essential self-marketing tool. While a well-designed resume and cover letter can help land the interview, an effective career portfolio can help secure the job offer. Portfolios greatly enhance credibility and confidence by offering proof of an individual’s qualifications and signature “brand attributes.” Attend this session and learn from the best!

Your Takeaway: Pioneering Strategies for Career Portfolio Design, Development & Delivery

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Top career professionals use “career consulting systems” that are comprehensive, consistent and repeatable. These systems give your business leverage! When your clients are working through a proven, structured system, rather than a conventional career counseling relationship, your credibility and value increase dramatically. In this session, you’ll learn how to systemize your career consulting to make your work easier, more effective and expandable; reduce and/or eliminate factors that frustrate, overwhelm and paralyze your clients; and develop your own career consulting system that increases clients’ sense of progress, motivation, commitment and satisfaction.

Your Takeaway: A State-of-the-Art Coaching System & Methodology That Makes Your Work Easier & Speeds Your Clients’ Progress

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The disappearance of job security, the acceleration of change in the marketplace and other dynamics have caused people to realize their need for career assistance. However, they are typically unaccustomed to paying for career management coaching or services. In this session, Don will present key elements to communicating your value so that you can increase your income and get paid what you’re really worth.

Your Takeaway: New Strategies To Communicate Your Worth & Make More Money

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“Now what do I do?” If you’ve ever had a 50-something client who asked you this question, then you know the dilemma facing many Boomers and those who coach them. It’s not just financial decisions; many older clients are realizing, often for the first time, that career issues will continue to be a large part of their lives as they go forward. But just what does “career” mean and what does it look like for those entering the third quarter of their lives? This session offers strategies, tips and new approaches to coaching your older, but still highly motivated clients.

Your Takeaway: Strategies to Shift Your Clients’ Thinking About What It Means to “Age” in Relation to Career

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Solo-professionals agree: The quickest way to a passive revenue goldmine is your own audio CD products. But aren’t the high-tech hurdles insurmountable? Don’t you have to be a geek to reap the windfall? Not so! Join this rollicking romp through easy, affordable steps to your own CD products. You’ll learn the simple production tips, free audio creation tools and the real stunner: the crucial key to creating profitable CDs happens with pen and paper, not mouse and keyboard! Learn the secrets to making your knowledge available worldwide 24/7!

Your Takeaway: An Entirely New & Easy Revenue Stream

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Some say great communicators are born … we say they’re made. In this powerful presentation, filmmakers and professional skill developers apply key principles of screen acting to the concept of professional presence, suggesting that it’s not what you do, it’s how you are that attracts others to you and provides them with a powerful and positive impression. This fun, engaging and interactive session that will give you the means to communicate with true power and substance and to relate this skill towards expert interviewing and networking.

Your Takeaway: Improved Communication, Negotiating & Public Speaking Skills For Powerful, Positive Impressions

About SagePRESENCE

Is success evident or elusive in your life? What will it take to move into the future and experience radically rewarding results? Yes, it takes dreams and desire. Yes, it takes systems and strategies. Yes, it takes technology and tools, products and passive income. But what are the critical factors in the success equation that are often ignored or even swept under the rug? Join this look at the hidden side of success, as well as inspiring stories of those who have made it!

Your Takeaway: Renewed Energy, Clear Vision & Unyielding Commitment to Reach Your Pinnacle of Success

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The careers of the future are being shaped by globalization, intense competition and shifting demographics. These critical issues demand better management, the best people and a measure of organizational flexibility to effectively deploy and leverage human capital. Join this recruiting market expert for a look at the hiring trends and talent management challenges that are redrawing the business landscape and changing the course of the modern-day career.

Your Takeaway: Insider’s Information on Future Hiring & Employment Trends to Shape Your Clients’ Future Strategies Now

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