Business Breakfast Bootcamp: Networking and Professional Development
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There are NO BORING POWERPOINTS in this dynamic and interactive professional development event. Join Karen Hough, Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge, for an engaging and thought provoking breakfast about professional development in a techie world. ImprovEdge is a company that creates learning experiences, training and consulting using improvisation to teach business skills. This workshop is about demystifying the process of building relationships and building business. Business development, networking and the art of conversation are all critical skills in successful development.
Through high-energy, non-traditional teaching methods, we will focus on individual networking skills – introductions, working a room, pitching your ideas, and the art of conversation. Specifically, we will look at the value of positive verbal and body language and how to pause the internal agenda to listen more effectively. Program participants will even have the opportunity to help guide the program to discuss hot topics of concern to them.
Through improvisation, ImprovEdge will teach business skills and challenge you to reconsider how you work and relate to colleagues and clients. Learn first-hand techniques that will take you, your career, and your company to the next level. Battelle, Lexicon Genetics, JPMorgan, Limited Brands/Victoria’s Secret, Nationwide Insurance, Jones Day, the U.S. Army, Duke University, and Ross Products to name a few, have all benefited from ImprovEdge’s creative approach to business training.
Speaker Details:
A graduate of Yale University, Karen Hough originated and expanded the sales and management efforts of three separate technology start-ups and launched partner programs. Hough has been a professional improviser and actor for 20 years and has been a keynote speaker for events such as PricewaterhouseCoopers Metro Women’s Initiative Conference, the Legal Marketer’s Association National Conference, the International Computer Negotiations US Conference, and she is slated to speak at the BioOhio Annual Conference. The ImprovEdge training material was developed in tandem with the Wharton School of Business, Otterbein College, and Capital University during ten years of ongoing research and development.