Recover and Thrive

Recover and Thrive

Emerging Technologies Speaker Series presents:

RECOVER & THRIVE PART 1 & 2:

PART 1: MY CALLING TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR SOCIAL GOOD

OCTOBER 15, 20202 PM – 3:30 PM

Kelly Lyndgaard
CEO & Founder
unshattered.org

How can your business solve a social problem while also making a great product? Kelly Lyndgaard shares her journey from corporate executive in the IT industry to starting a non-profit – Unshattered – that employs women in recovery from addiction.

Unshattered provides pathways toward economic independence and sustained sobriety and boasts a ZERO percent relapse rate for their team. Kelly’s “Theory of the Universe” will help you make the most impact with your limited time and resources. You’ll also hear how the women of Unshattered – previously addicted, incarcerated, and homeless – led the shift of Unshattered’s business model to serve their community, skyrocket their online sales, and achieve their highest revenue ever. Unshattered has been featured as #5 on Huffington Post’s Style and Beauty Gifts that Give Back. Their team is proving that women in recovery can thrive and that entrepreneurship can change lives.

PART 2: VIRTUAL SPINNER OR WINNER?
COLLABORATION AND WORKFLOW IN THE NEW ABNORMAL

Paul Zikopoulos
Paul Zikopoulos
IBM VP Cognitive Systems
Professional Speaker & Author

Some wonder when we are going back to “normal”, some call it the “new normal”, for now, I’ll call it the “new abnormal”. Whatever your definition of normal is (or will be), things have changed — making a virtual collaboration and workflow game essential within your business, across your value chain, and with your clients. 

In this talk you’ll hear about four special software categories you have to have on your COVID checklist so your business operations can thrive rather than dive. This isn’t a talk about how to build a digital presence … but more so about how to operate digitally. You get a bounty of proven hints and tips that will make you feel confident when operating in a virtual environment and some proven best practices to virtually engage any audience. But here’s the thing: no matter what the future holds, does COVID go away, is there a second wave, did you time warp to a world where COVID never existed (please take me with you) … what you’ll learn in this talk will have you well positioned as a virtual winner with skills for any world.


RECOVER & THRIVE PART 3

BEND IT LIKE HELEN
THE NOT SO FAIRY TALE JOURNEY TO A FAIRY TALE ENDING

OCTOBER 29, 2020 • 2 PM – 3 PM

Helen Stoumbos
President/CEO,
the Guelph Games
Co-Founder, Canada Women’s Soccer Alumni

Helen Stoumbos, Canadian World Cup Soccer star discusses her time on the national team and her paralyzing struggle with anxiety and confidence.  Helen shares how she overcame her negative mind chatter and went on to become one of Canada’s most well-respected female soccer player and a member of the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. 

Find out how her journey as an athlete paved the way for her life as a business leader and how her biggest struggles became her biggest lessons. Lessons that have helped her navigate through some of life’s toughest challenges and continue to guide her through these unprecedented COVID times.


RECOVER & THRIVE: PART 4 & 5

PART 4: HOW TO RAISE FUNDING TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS

NOVEMBER 12, 20202 PM

Roshawnna Novellus
Dr. Roshawnna Novellus
Founder and CEO
of EnrichHER

The Inspiration behind what I do and EnrichHer’s dedication and purpose comes from the story of women named “Barbara Jones,” who built her IT consultancy into a $1.2M business from the ground up. But when it was time to get capital for her business, she wasn’t able to access it from the banks. It wasn’t because she didn’t have revenue or cash flow – it’s because there aren’t enough resources dedicated to women led businesses. 

As the CEO and founder of EnrichHER, I’m going to share with you my tips and tricks about getting financing for your company! I’ve learned this through my experience raising money for my own education (which includes a PhD in Systems Engineering and three other degrees) and business. You’re going to hear about proven strategies for accessing capital from all kinds of avenues, Philanthropic, venture, and so on.

PART 5: INTO THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF A THINKING BUSINESS

Paul Zikopoulos
Paul Zikopoulos
IBM VP Cognitive Systems
Professional Speaker & Author

No question about it …we live in a world that collects data: every action, reaction, and process can be instantly digitized …but does that yield knowledge? After all, Big Data without insights is, well, just a bunch of data. And if we are collecting more and more data, and we aren’t getting more and more insightful, then quite simply, we are getting dumber as organizations: we are more and more guilty about not knowing what we could already know!

What’s more, we’ve left a world where everyone talks to everyone and morphed into one where everything can talk to everything …the Internet of Things (IOT) is truly the birth of the trillion-sensor economy … and this will make that data collection curve we can’t tame even steeper. Enter chat bots, weather, drones, 5G communications, wearables, autonomous, and more to our technology years (which are like dog years in terms of advancement) and there is cause for concern but also optimism for opportunity.

Pause for a moment and consider the analytics journey in the last two decades. We started by finding needles in haystacks (data warehousing, columnar databases); then we thought we could find the needle if we added more hay (Hadoop and the big data lake); today we are left to find needles in stacks of needles and this conundrum quite simply has presented us with a pivotal moment: LIFT, SHIFT, RIFT, or CLIFF? 

S.O.S. We’re going to need some help: enter the world of deep learning, cognitive computing, and AI. After this talk, you’ll have a good foundation on the trends and opportunities that have created this unprecedented era of ideation, innovation, and renovation. You’ll learn about Deep Learning and AI, bots, streaming data, IOT (and a couple of other buzz words people tried to impress you with but never do) and how these technologies have been applied across a myriad of forward thinkers across multiple industries – including your own. 


RECOVER & THRIVE: PART 6

CHAOS, CONTROL AND MY JOURNEY TO EMPOWERMENT

NOVEMBER 24, 20202 PM

Jennifer Gibbs
VP, Global Chief Data Officer TD Bank, CEO Jennifer Gibbs Coaching

Building a business can be messy and full of uncertainty in the best of times. Throw in the social and economic impacts of a global pandemic and it can feel like utter chaos. When chaos hits, I look to take back control and fast. For 20 years, my form of control involved hammering through issues while carrying the heavyweight of anxiety and insecurity. This approach allowed me to continue to achieve but left me feeling exhausted and unfulfilled. At 45 years old, I broke that cycle and began my journey to empowerment – to having my own back no matter what. 

In this session, I will share with you the tools I used to transform my thinking, and the impact they had on the way I experience my career now – from public speaking, selling, presenting to C-suite and Board level executives, leading my team, and launching my own business in the midst of a pandemic. Are you ready to achieve with wings on your back instead of weights on your shoulders? I’m so ready to teach you how! 


RECOVER & THRIVE PART 7 & 8:

PART 7: BEFORE AND AFTER SUCCESS IN THE BEST AND WORST OF TIMES

DECEMBER 03, 20202 -3PM

Kate Brodock
Kate Brodock
CEO, Women 2.0 & Founding Partner of W Fund

There are few harder jobs than being an entrepreneur. It comes with days that excite you, days that overwhelm you, days that make you feel brilliant, and days you forget why you’re even there in the first place — and sometimes if you’re even the right person for the job!  As if it’s not already hard enough, along comes a global pandemic. 

As the CEO of Women 2.0 and an active entrepreneurial ecosystem advocate for over a decade, I’ve seen great successes and missed marks. In this talk, I’ll share common denominators of success I’ve seen over and over again. The things I’ve seen entrepreneurial women do, and actions that correlate with success.

PART 8: CHANGE FASTER: TRANSFORMING WITHOUT FEAR

Stephanie Trunzo
Stephanie Trunzo
GVP Transformation & Offerings, Oracle Tech & Nonprofit Board Advisor/Founder

Instinctually our hardwiring tells us to avoid change. Survival mechanisms biologically prompt us to seek comfort and constantly return to stasis. Whether from the viewpoint of a change agent, or someone adapting to consume change, this session will help you intentionally understand your change resiliency. 

It’s time to reframe the conversation around change, the way we think about it, respond and pre-empt it. Attendees will learn practical tools and leadership models to build a culture that’s structurally sound enough to not only withstand change but evolve with it. Set roadmaps around learning and implement them in terms of learning velocity. How fast can you change once you learn?


RECOVER & THRIVE PART 9:

FORMING NEW HABITS FOR A HEALTHIER, WEALTHIER YOU! 

JANUARY 14, 20212 – 3PM

Natasha Tolub
Natasha Tolub
Co-founder Hi-Lo Lifestyle, Owner Richmond Hill Art School

If the most important trait of a businesswoman is self-confidence, why do we allow it to be destroyed? In these challenging times of global change, how do we not only survive, but actually thrive? How do we develop physical and mental immunity to the stresses of everyday life? What can be done to get our confidence back up as healthy, strong women, living in a body that we envision for ourselves? 

 Join Natasha Tolub, a serial entrepreneur, to find her answers to these important questions. Learn about the journey of her health and wellbeing, fitness, and improved body image. Discover how new and simple lifestyle habits can produce a strong and confident woman entrepreneur, ready to take on the world.


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