All Topics in Indianapolis

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  The “Work-Work Balance”: Building a sustainable career with dual work-streams

  Brooke LeBeau, Owner & Founder, Artfully Creative Studio

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  For decades, we’ve been told to strive for work–life balance. But in today’s evolving economy, many professionals are discovering that the real key to career sustainability is something else entirely: work-work balance. This isn’t hustle culture, it’s a new era of symbiotic working. In this talk, creative marketing professional and agency founder Brooke LeBeau explores how cultivating multiple professional outlets can strengthen careers, increase financial stability, and fuel long-term growth. Rather than viewing side projects, freelance work, or alternative income streams as distractions from a “primary” career, Brooke reframes them as strategic tools for professional development. MORE >

  Drawing from her experience building a multidisciplinary career and running a creative agency, Brooke will share practical ways professionals can diversify their skill sets, explore supplementary income streams, and bring new insights back to their primary roles. She will also discuss why organizations benefit when employees cultivate outside expertise and how managers can support healthy, transparent dual work-streams without sacrificing performance or focus.

  Whether you’re a designer with a freelance practice, a professional exploring creative pursuits, or a leader looking to foster more innovative teams, this session will provide a framework for rethinking career growth in a more dynamic and sustainable way.

  What you’ll learn:
  • Why diversified income streams create career resilience in uncertain economic environments
  • How side projects and freelance work can accelerate skill development faster than traditional roles
  • Why professionals with multiple outlets often bring greater innovation and perspective to their primary jobs
  • How pursuing multiple work streams can help prevent creative stagnation and burnout
  • Practical ways to identify and test potential secondary income streams
  • How managers and organizations can support dual work-streams without compromising productivity
  • Why encouraging outside creative pursuits can lead to more engaged, entrepreneurial employees

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  Collective Impact – Community Change

  Carla Biro, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Specialist, Beautifully Biro

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

  Collective Impact model is utilized as the core framework of bringing stakeholders together to accomplish an identified community and/or organizational goals. Carla utilizes the stakeholder engagement process to bring businesses, city and state officials, and community organizations to the table to maximizes the probability of achieving an identified mission and vision. MORE >

  As action groups are formulated the visitation of the “stakeholder engagement wheel” is imperative. This wheel is utilized to ensure we have the right people at the table committed to the work and creates a platform for stakeholders to “liberate” themselves when the work they have committed to is accomplished and a plan for sustainability is in place.

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  Disability Inclusion

  Cyrus Anton, President, United Spinal Association of Indiana

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

  In this presentation, I will exemplify the need for disability inclusion in workplaces, the educational system, and society as a whole. I will use my personal narrative and credible statistics to assert the need for disability inclusion. In my presentation, I intend to be funny and lighthearted to convey a personal relationship with the audience. I will further use audience participation and discussion to build on this relationship. I hope that by using these tools, I can amplify the prerogative of my message. MORE >

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  Creating Your Small Business’ Sales Plan

  Natalie Menke, Business Coach and Sales Expert, Inspire Results Business Coaching

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Natalie Menke, Inspire Results Business Coaching sales expert, will walk through how to identify your sales team’s development needs. She’ll talk about how to create accountability and ensure that your salespeople are engaged and organized, how to balance results goals with activities goals, and provide you with simple changes to implement, improving prospecting, sales, & growth & exponentially improving your bottom line. MORE >

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  Let’s Be Real: A way to become comfortable having uncomfortable conversations about race

  Marc Hardy, Executive Director / Co-Founder and Consultant, Can I Be Real, Inc.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

  We tend to live among, shop with, work with and learn with people who look just like us. This limits our meaningful interactions with people of different races and cultures. This presentation fosters a vulnerable atmosphere where Hardy explains why he feels the way he does regarding various topics of injustice but also spends time brainstorming ways that members of the audience can make an impact on topics they are passionate about. MORE >

  This presentation leaves people with the realization that you can have direct and honest conversations with people of a different race respectfully. They will also be inspired to find a way they can impact injustice in their own way.

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  Digital Marketing Expert

  Catherine E. Rubey, Owner and Creative Director, InGe, Inc.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  I help businesses succeed online using the most effective and timely tactics to implement the best digital strategy for a business. I have clients in all areas of business: legal, contracting, interior design, retail, not-for-profit, event management and even a landscaping business. I have presentations for personal branding, social networking, digital advertising and marketing.

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  Talent Optimization

  Brett Hodge, ACC, President, Organizational Effectiveness Consulting, Inc.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  This topic discusses the following: 1. Use of people data to maximize production and minimize people costs. 2. Hiring for success. 3. Designing high performance teams. 4. Inspiring talent through behavioral alignment. 5. Diagnosing for success.

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  Be like Bill

  Jeff Utzinger, Sudden Cardiac Arrest and AED Advocate, Be like Bill, LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

  We have become a society apprehensive of helping others in need - whether due to litigation or fear, we simply hope someone else will jump in and act. My message is simple - Be like Bill...don't hesitate when presented with the difficult task of doing something courageous...you might just be the hero someone needs. MORE >

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  Have That D.A.W.G.

  Eric Jones Jr., Social and Emotional Expert

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

  This educational-based program is designed to help students succeed This educational-based program is designed to show students what to do regardless of their circumstances and the different things thrown at them to become emotionally resilient in life’s adversities and be able to transform in school and outside of school.

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  Automation is for Everyone

  Jason Beutler, CEO, RoboSource

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Automation is now available to everyone – it's not just for big businesses anymore. Smaller companies can use automation-as-a-service to make it affordable. Different kinds of automation exist, everything from Zapier to desktop automations to robotic process automation to pure custom software development. Automation can improve job satisfaction (by keeping monotonous jobs out of the hands of humans), increase business efficiency, and decrease risk of losing data and knowledge with human resources. MORE >

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