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You see others showing up in life and owning who they are. They have a certain walk and a certain air about them and appear to be the most amazing and most confident people in the office—the most amazing and most confident people on the planet! How do they do it?!

This webinar will show you how to take control of how you show up at work and in life every day. You will learn the four pillars of communication that determine your overall effectiveness and how well your image and message leave a memorable impression on others. You will also learn how to go from being ordinary to extraordinary and get practical action items that you can turn into habits that position you to show up and show out in business and in life.

The webinar will be presented by Bridgett McGowen, an award-winning international professional speaker, a publisher, and popular business author. Bridgett has been a professional speaker since 2001 and has spoken on programs alongside prominent figures such as former President Barack Obama, Deepak Chopra, Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod), Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, Katie Couric, and Janelle Monae. She is the author of Show Up and Show Out: 52 Communication Habits to Make You Unforgettable, Rise and Sizzle: Daily Communication and Presentation Strategies for Sales, Business, and Higher Ed Pros; and REAL TALK: What Other Experts Won't Tell You About How to Make Presentations That Sizzle.

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Join us for a conversation about the reopening of K-12 schools with education professors Beth Elliott and Diane Kratt.

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A wise woman once said, “What difference does it make if you have a seat at the table if you don’t effectively use it?” The literal and proverbial “seat at the table” represents your ability to have a voice in your organization and successfully influence others. Some women struggle to get to the table. Others experience challenges maximizing their seat when they get there. To expand your influence, make a bigger impact and more effectively achieve your professional goals, you need to make your voice heard. As women, however, many of us struggle to find our voices in the workplace.

This webinar will show you how to examine key internal and external challenges to strive to make your voice heard, how to maximize your influence before, during and after presenting your ideas, and how to discuss actionable strategies to boost your confidence and improve your leadership presence as you engage with others. With increased confidence, communication skills and political savvy, you can maximize your seat at the table.

The webinar will be presented by certified executive and leadership development coach Kim Meninger. Kim has coached hundreds of clients and has presented on career advancement and leadership topics to corporate, non-profit and academic audiences. She is especially passionate about helping women leaders to develop their confidence, visibility and influence in order to maximize their impact and advance to higher levels of leadership.

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Join us for an insightful conversation about implicit, conscious and unconscious biases, how it impacts careers, plays out in athletics and relationships with Director of Equity, Ethics & Compliance and Title IX Coordinator, Precious Gunter and FGCU Alumna and Women’s Basketball Associate Head Coach Chelsea Lyles ’10.

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In today’s high collaboration workplace, where you must deal with people up, down, sideways, and diagonal, the Go-to Person is the closest thing to indispensable.

Join talent guru and bestselling author Bruce Tulgan for a talk where he shares his guidelines on how to succeed in today’s high collaboration workplace in which lines of authority are often unclear and his insights into how to be the indispensable Go-to person.

Bruce will cover how to:

• Lead from wherever you are—align up and down the chain-of-command
• Make good choices—learn when to say ‘no’ or ‘not yet,’ and how to say ‘yes’
• Work smart—professionalize everything you do, specialize in what you do best, and steadily expand your repertoire
• Finish what you start—don’t pretend to juggle; eat one bite of the elephant, chew and swallow
• Keep getting better and better at working together—it’s not personal, it’s not politics; it’s business
• Be a Go-to Person, find Go-to People wherever you need them, and build up new Go-to People whenever you have the chance

Bruce Tulgan is an adviser to business leaders all over the world and a sought-after keynote speaker and seminar leader. He is the founder and CEO of RainmakerThinking, Inc., a management research and training firm, as well as RainmakerLearning, an online training resource. Bruce is the best-selling author of numerous books including Not Everyone Gets a Trophy, Bridging the Soft Skills Gap, The 27 Challenges Managers Face, and It’s OK to be the Boss.

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Moderated by Vice President Kitty Green, President Martin will provide FGCU philanthropist and alumni updates on the Fall 2020 semester and engage with the audience through questions and answers.

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