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Career Speaker Series

We are committed to support your career!

The greatest investment you can make is in your career.

The Career Speaker Series will introduce you to top career authors and thought leaders who will share timely and relevant ideas that will help you develop a successful career plan, as well as manage it. Our authors will share proven strategies to help you negotiate a salary increase, make a career change, deal with difficult people, and even prepare for retirement. You will also learn critical soft skills that will help you advance your career. Sign up today to participate in this free career lecture series.

We are committed to be there during each transition of your career – from graduation to your retirement!

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The Career Speaker Series includes four tracks that provide tips, skills,
and strategies to advance your career!

Career Management

Don’t wait twenty years to find out if you are headed down the right career path! Discussions on career exploration, personal strengths, career management, career planning, and creating a career-life balance.

Job Search

You can shorten your job search by learning fundamental job search strategies. Discussions on resumes, networking, interviewing, LinkedIn, cover letters, job boards, elevator pitches and company research.

Soft Skills

Managers will expect you to be investing your own time to develop your soft skills. Authors will lead discussions on leadership, teamwork, goal setting, time management, diversity issues and creative thinking

Retirement Life

Advertising reminds us to invest time and effort to develop a financial strategy for retirement. We also should also be thinking about the emotional, psychological, physical, and entrepreneurial issues.

We are here to help you LAUNCH a SUCCESSFUL career!

Grab Your Keys and Drive Your

You are not alone! In fact, nearly 1.7 million students graduate from college each year.

Career Killers/Career Builders: The Book Every

If you are between 18 and 31 you need to be aware of what John

The Art of Being Indispensable at

The fastest way to advance your career is by showing management you are the go-to

Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay

The idea of starting your own business is exhilarating and inspiring. It’s one over 30

Screw Being Shy: Learn How to

Are you shy, quiet, or nervous? Does your heart beat fast, your throat clench, or

Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman’s Playbook

ESSENCE Senior Editor and author Charreah K. Jackson interviewed and researched more than 150 professional

Let Samurai Be Your Guide: Seven

You need a “north star” a foundation to build out your character and live a

Five Keys to Job Promotion

You can take control of your career advancement by adopting proven career strategies that get

Exercising Influence: A Guide for Making

Influence is a timeless topic for business leaders and others in positions of power, but

Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your

If you’re like most women, you’ve discovered that the tasks and pressures never end in

Z-isms: Insights to Live By

What do you wish your younger self knew? What life lessons would you share to

Leveling the Paying Field: A Groundbreaking

If you suspect you are not being paid fairly you need to hear what Rick

Who Will Take Care of Me

You are fortunate to be able to handle your physical, emotional, and financial needs today,

Time-tested investing advice to secure your

Investing for your future is wise and essential, but you need to have a basic

Short Skirts and Shorter Stories: Musings

Short Skirts and Shorter Stories: Musings on Life, Love and Lust by Lisa Rene’ DeBenedictis

Mission: Career Transition: A Career Change

Alison Bouwmeester served for 28 years as a senior leader in the Central Intelligence Agency’s

Women Who Empower!

Antonia interviewed dozens of women from diverse backgrounds and occupations. All had one thing in

So, you want to be a

Joe left a promising corporate job to follow his heart and dream of becoming a

Beyond the Halls: An Insider’s Guide

When was the last time you visited your community museum? Your community has invested millions of

Creating Opportunities by Building Relationships

Your professional network is probably your most important career tool. You will learn important networking

Beyond the Job Description: How to

Management will determine how well you are doing in your current role by comparing your

Suck it Up or Go Home!

Get inspired. Hear how Simon Gray’s life was turned upside down and what he had

All Hats on Deck: Implementing a

Your career will advance faster if you have your thinking cap on at all times!

Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve

Too often we let others dictate what we should be doing and how we should

Job Search Strategies that Worked for

You look for a job so infrequently that you end up reinventing your strategies each

Résumé to Z: Common Sense Strategies

If the job search process appears overwhelming to you, spend some time with Jim to

The Safe Hiring Manual: The Complete

If you are looking for a job its’ not only your resume you need to

Telephone and Video Interview Success

The pandemic is putting tremendous pressure on our companies and it’s forcing all of us

How to Find Work . .

Chaz will help you find the confidence in yourself to go after the work and

Optimize Your Resume: DOs and DON’Ts

Is your resume reflective of your market value? Is your value proposition strong? Is the

Build Resumes that Even the Federal

Interested in working for a federal agency? They have a unique way of hiring and

101 Small Rules for a Big

Career experts suggest it takes one month for every $10,000 in salary to find a

LinkedIn is Your Job Search Friend.

Brenda knows her stuff. As an Amazon #1 Best-Seller, her book is the “bible” to

You’re Hired! Resume Tactics: Job Search

Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially, if you

Your Career Strategy And Your Elevator

Research shows that hiring managers spend as little as 6 seconds reviewing the average resume.

Successfully Navigating Today’s Complex & Confusing

The job search process takes an enormous amount of time, effort, and concentration. Along the

Networking for Nerds: Find, Access and

If 80 percent of us land jobs through our personal networks, why don’t we spend

Introducing Getting the Job You Want

Few people invest the time in developing a career plan. Yet, it’s probably the most

Five Mistakes Job Seekers Make and

The job search process if actually fairly simple. You need to know some fundamental strategies

Get Hired Guarantee: Yesterday’s Job Search

The job search process does not have to be so painful. You just need to

Five Steps to Rapid Employment

It’s no surprise that most people feel fear, uncertainty, and doubt regarding their job search

Managing UP, How to Move UP

Managing up is good for you, good for your boss, and good for the organization

True Grit and Grace: Turning Tragedy

Some days are so bad we don’t want to even get out of bed because

Mentoring Lifts and Inspires: Women Empowering

Are you looking to fast track your professional goals? How about discovering a clearer path

How to Finish Everything You Start:

All of us are expected to do more in less time and do it better

Leadership Step by Step

Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas–but they rarely leave the page. Practice is

Be Bad First: Get Good at

We are operating in a world defined by constant connection, rapid change, and abundant choices.

Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to

Henna Inam will share with you proven strategies based on neuroscience research and her work

Ditch Your Inner Critic At Work:

They say we are our own worst critics. If you are like others, you have

Connect like a Boss: Developing the

Your soft skills will help you land your next promotion. Are you doing anything to

Small Acts of Leadership: Start with

While some of us come equipped with natural leadership abilities, the rest of us need

Softening the Edge: Empathy: How humanity’s

Empathetic influence is this decade’s most critical human and scientifically validated skill set. The ability

All You Have to Do Is

Imagine you’re on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overwhelmed. Or you’re looking

Powerfully Simple Meetings

We all hate meetings. They drone on too long, they tend to repeat the same

Storytelling Strategies to Build Your Brand

the Adaption Advantage

COVID is causing firms to look for ways to do business in a rapidly changing

Soft Skills that Make or Break

You can advance your career and better support your department and firm’s goals by investing

Couple’s Retirement Puzzle 10 Must-Have Conversations

Retirement can be the best time of your life, but for couples, there’s far more

Reinvent Your Career: Beat Age Discrimination

You still have golden work years left in you. Learn proven tips and strategies that

Mama Is Still Here!: A mother

This talk is for Alzheimer’s patients, caregivers, and their loved ones. Alzheimer’s is a fatal

Downsizing the Family Home: What to

Pick up tips and strategies to ease into downsizing your family home and learn how

Social Security: The Inside Story

Social Security and Medicare form the bedrock of your future financial security. You paid for

Hired for Youth Fired for Age

The employment market offers no guarantees for boomers. Organizations are under significant pressure to find

Shifting Gears to Your Life &

Thirty years with lots of time and not so much money makes for a VERY

Retirement Fail: The 9 Reasons People

Every day, people just like you, people who have worked hard and saved carefully for

Moving Forward in Mid-Career

You have more experience, more expertise, and yet decreasing options as you come to the

Encore: A Boomers Guide to Rocking

You sailed through the 60’s and 70’s living and loving your music, got down to

Step-by-Step Planner for Maintaining Your Financial

You need to organize your finances! Learn how you can effortlessly keep your finances organized

Your Complete Guide to a Successful

Create a retirement plan that provides the comfort, security, activity, and health you not only

Victory LAP Retirement: Work While You

Do you have a retirement plan? Why completely retire when you are in your prime.

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Rock Concert of the Gloria

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