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  • Connecting youth with nature: The Bicentennial Nature Center Network at Conner Prairie’s Treetop Outpost

    Norman Burns, President and CEO, Conner Prairie

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

    Youth today spend less than half as much time outdoors as children did 20 years ago yet several studies have shown that children need plenty of time outdoors to live happy and healthy. Just as concerning, the average American child today spends at least 45 hours a week staring at some kind of electronic screen which has led to the appearance of what some are calling ‘nature-deficit disorder’ in many children. MORE >

    Along with expanding its outdoor programming opportunities, Cope Environmental Center, located in Centerville, Ind., has been reaching out across the state to ensure that every child in Indiana is within 60 miles of a partner nature center that will provide environmental education and creative outdoor experiences.

    Conner Prairie is a partner in the network and in July opened a new outdoor nature experience called Treetop Outpost. I'll share what this four-story treehouse surrounded by hands-on, immersive activities is, its intent to connect children and families with nature and how it fits into both the missions of the network and Conner Prairie.

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  • Connect & Succeed: A Communication Style to Engage and Motivate Your Employees

    David Bennett, Owner, Common Ground Communication

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    Those in management are constantly seeking ways to relate to and work with their direct reports. This presentation, based on the book by the same name, provides managers with guidelines for developing a communication style that will enable them to engage and motivate those people with whom they work. MORE >

    All people in management start with basic communication skills which they use as their default. Some of those skills work for them, some of them do not. A Connect & Succeed Communication Style helps managers to identify the communication skills that work for them and enhance those skills even further. This approach also helps those in management find common ground and connections with all of their employees/associates making the work more rewarding and productive for everyone.
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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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  • Business Trends 2016

    Mark A. Roger, Business Broker, FranNet MidAmerica | Indiana

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    A practical guide to business trends important to successful entrepreneurship in 2016. Mark will identify these trends and teach how to use them to your advantage as a business owner. Highlights include: MORE >

    - identifying the state of entrepreneurship marketplace,
    - evaluating the new business fundamentals and “profit models,”
    - understanding the new strategies of business ownership,
    - exploring the teachings of Shark Tank and The Profit, and
    - discussing opportunities available for entrepreneurs in Indiana.
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  • Business Ideation, Strategy, Implementation

    Alexandrea NeSmith, MSc., Founder & Strategist, Cancer Survivor, Patent Owner, Life Enthusiast!, Rocket Profit Group, LLC

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    Looking at your business objectively and finding ways to capitalize on more profitable revenue is a key opportunity for most business owners. Business owners started with a passion, and work hard and invest significant amounts of time into their business, only to be strapped for cash due to poor profit margins, but often these business owners don't have or don't know how to read their profit statements. MORE >

    Learning how to deconstruct your business into specific profit verticals is one area Alexandrea will discuss. Followed by understanding your conversation equation which is where success is measured at your current strategy and implementation program.

    Bringing all of this together to understand your market dominating position is where change will happen.

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  • Build, Buy or Franchise

    Mark A. Roger, Business Broker, FranNet MidAmerica | Indiana

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    A practical guide to evaluating business concepts from an owners' perspective. Mark will discuss trending business strategies, hot concepts in today's marketplace, and evaluate the three strategies behind business start-ups. Highlights include: MORE >

    - understanding the strategies behind fundamental business models,
    - evaluating pertinent due diligence issues and business owners’ concerns,
    - identifying trending variations to traditional work environments,
    - exploring the teachings of Shark Tank and The Profit, and
    - discussing opportunities available for entrepreneurs in Indiana.
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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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  • Avoid Business Failure By Enabling 3 Essentials In Your Marketing Strategy

    Troy Sandidge, Fractional CMO, Podcaster, Author, Strategy Hackers

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    Synopsis: 65% of businesses fail because of three things - complexity, confusion, and chaos. To avoid failure, modern day success requires businesses to relinquish expired “best practices” and embrace modern marketing and sales frameworks while leveraging fundamentals to succeed. MORE >

    Breakdown:
    • The 3 Cs Causing Marketing Strategies to Fail & How to Avoid Them
    • Improve MarketingOps Using the D.A.R.T. Marketing Methodology™
    • 5-Point Customer Success Journey Blueprint for Better Conversions
    • Apply the E.A.S.T. Framework to Operate Marketing Campaigns Efficiently
    • How to Increase Sales Velocity Using the L.E.A.D.S. Generator Blueprint™

    Intentional Themes That Will Be Amplified:
    • Business Growth Strategies
    • Customer Success Journeys
    • MarCom + MarTech Integration
    • Marketing Optimization
    • Sales Velocity Tactics

    Actionable Takeaways:
    • Activate Blueprints to Increase Customer Success & Sales Velocity
    • Apply Strategies to Obtain & Maintain Clarity to Stay in Alignment with Goals
    • Clarity. Refocus. Realignment. Revitalization of Passion & Action

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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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  • Authentic Masculinity

    Gregory Mayo, Award Winning Author, Speaker

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

    Is there Toxic Masculinity? Of course. But masculinity isn't toxic. In this talk, Greg explores how the presence of a Father Wound impacts how men communicate, relate, heal and live and how lack of understanding of authentic masculinity can lead to toxic masculinity or lack of masculinity at all. MORE >

    More and more men grew up in a home without their father or a right example of what being a man looks like. So they try to look like a man and act like a man... but with no one deliberately showing the way, how do we know if we’re doing it right?

    Well, we don’t.
    We grow a beard
    Shoot guns
    Fight
    Drink whiskey
    Chase women and other myths

    But they’re all just behaviors... actions to cover up the little boy inside who is deeply confused and hurting. The world needs men to stand up, to lead and to train up the next generation of men.

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