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  • Accountability and Repair: Tools for Restoration When Harm Has Been Caused
    Thursday, March 23, 2023 · 12:00 PM CDT
    We all learn to approach and respond to conflict differently. What did you learn about how to intervene when you witness harm being caused? What about how to apologize when you were the one to cause it? And how can understanding your own “conflict...
  • How to Advocate for Yourself Inside and Outside Your Doctor’s Office
    Tuesday, March 21, 2023 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Learning how to advocate for yourself during a health crisis will help you get the skills you need to advocate for yourself in all areas of your life. But what does it really mean to be your own advocate? How does one get the right care? It all st...
  • Early Career in Tech: Navigating the Recruitment Process
    Tuesday, February 21, 2023 · 1:00 PM CST
    You’re a new graduate navigating the field of tech and a recruiter reaches out to you with an opportunity. Or maybe you reach out to them. How do you turn that connection into a job? What materials or questions should you have prepared? How do you...
  • New Year, Better You: Dr. Dae's 10 Keys to Healthy Living
    Tuesday, January 17, 2023 · 11:00 AM CST
    Healthy living comes from creating nourishment, connections and presence in our daily life. What we eat, drink and how we sleep nourish us. Connecting to our body, ourselves, nature and our communities keeps passion and focus alive within us. B...
  • Keeping Your Cool at the Holiday Table: A Lesson In De-escalation and Boundary Setting
    Thursday, December 8, 2022 · 12:00 PM CST
    Worried about seeing family during the holidays? Can you already picture the conflicting views and attempts to shame your choices, relationships, and body? Going home for the holidays doesn't have to feel like a headache - boundaries can help! Joi...
  • Stability Through Self-Employment in Journalism: Cultivating Versatility, Embracing Uncertainty
    Tuesday, November 29, 2022 · 11:00 AM CST
    Working for yourself is inherently risky—but so is traditional employment, as the last few pandemic years have underscored. In certain industries, like journalism, volatility and retrenchment have been the norm for more than a decade. How can we i...
  • Career Skills: Managing Up and Other Management Strategies
    Wednesday, November 9, 2022 · 12:00 PM CST
    We often think about the term “management” in a downward sense: a supervisor managing an employee or a team. However, when you start to think of management as multidirectional you open the opportunity for creating a better rapport with your boss o...
  • A Rainbow after Rain: Taking Care of Your Mental Health While Family Planning
    Thursday, October 20, 2022 · 12:00 PM CDT
    In honor of infant and pregnancy loss month, join Isabella Herrera ’21 MA and Nattalie Wolff-Tseng ’21 MA from Elevated Healthcare as they discuss how to take care of your mental wellbeing when family building doesn't go according to plan. From mi...
  • Working in a Consulting Organization: A Beginner’s Guide to Achieving Success
    Thursday, October 6, 2022 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Whether you’re a recent graduate at the beginning your career or a mid-level executive presently working in government or industry making the transition into consulting, the guide to getting started is roughly the same. With more than 40 years of ...
  • Get Started: Transitioning into Tech for the Non-Technical
    Wednesday, September 28, 2022 · 2:00 PM CDT
    Interested in making the transition into Tech, but your background is decidedly not technical? Feeling overwhelmed about where to begin? Gain insight from someone who has successfully made the transition to a technical role with a non-technical ba...
  • Conflict Resilience, Styles, and Skills
    Thursday, June 2, 2022 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Conflict in the workplace is normal and even healthy, though unprocessed conflict can lead to tension and anxiety while wasting an opportunity for learning and growth. Understanding your style of handling conflict—avoidant, cooperative, assertive...
  • The Highlights and Challenges of Being Self-Employed, through the Lens of a Photographer
    Monday, May 16, 2022 · 12:00 PM CDT
    If the name Justin Barbin ’11 sounds familiar, that’s because he’s been documenting Northwestern events for over a decade now. As a student he covered the campus party scene with STITCH Fashion Magazine, worked closely with The Daily and North by ...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • The 5 Mistakes You're Making In Your Multicultural Marketing Strategy
    Thursday, March 25, 2021 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Look, we get it. In a world where diversity and inclusion is (finally) gaining momentum, it’s scary to think that you may make a misstep and get canceled by the culture that drives your business strategy. Your typical approach to marketing will no...
  • Beginning with Pronouns
    Thursday, December 3, 2020 · 11:00 AM CST
    In this session participants will begin to understand the difference between sex, gender, and sexual orientation as a foundation in working towards trans inclusion in professional and personal settings. Participants will learn from lessons on camp...
  • Becoming an Active Bystander: A Framework and Tools for Interrupting Harm
    Wednesday, June 17, 2020 · 2:00 PM CDT
    This workshop will provide participants with a framework for understanding bias, prejudice, and oppression and how these concepts play out in interpersonal and institutional settings. Through case studies, participants will be introduced to variou...
  • How to be an LGBTQ+ Ally
    Wednesday, June 10, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Join Dr. Casey Gamboni ’16 MS, Ph.D., LMFT, a clinical staff therapist and teaching and supervisory faculty for the marriage and family therapy masters program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, for an engaging and honest conversa...
  • Intentional Diversity & Inclusion Practices
    Tuesday, January 21, 2020 · 11:00 AM CST
    Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) is a decades-old phenomenon whose evolution has run the gamut from awareness to activism. Today, D&I is more en vogue now than ever before. Individuals are demanding it, and companies are scrambling to find solutions ...
Career Skills
  • Shatter The Next Glass Ceiling: How You Benefit from a Career Goal as a Board Director
    Wednesday, March 17, 2021 · 2:00 PM CDT
    Terry Bayer ’72 will discuss the opportunity for women to join corporate boards. Terry will share her own experience on corporate boards and provide guidance on how to get started on your path to the boardroom. Joining Terry, as her guest, will b...
  • How AI is Aiding and Changing the Way We Build Teams
    Thursday, January 14, 2021 · 11:00 AM CST
    Is artificial intelligence ready to take over the hiring process?
    After using, testing, and demo'ing nearly 30 AI staffing tools, this is what the CEO of Peterson Technology Partners, Nick Shah, learned.

    Nick shares his first-hand experience afte...
  • How to be Entrepreneurial and Innovative During a Pandemic
    Wednesday, November 18, 2020 · 11:00 AM CST
    Along with the numerous challenges 2020 has brought to the world, there are myriad opportunities to solve problems. Farley Center director Hayes Ferguson provides a look at how faculty and students have made the most of a challenging situation, se...
  • Networking for Humans
    Wednesday, November 11, 2020 · 12:00 PM CST
    Get ready to grow and cherish your network in a way that doesn’t feel sales-y, inauthentic, or gross (even when networking means sitting at home!). You'll learn how to create meaningful, authentic connections on Zoom, the mindset you need to show ...
  • sustainNU: Sustainability at Northwestern
    Wednesday, October 14, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Join Northwestern’s Director of Sustainability, Greg Kozak, who will discuss Northwestern’s sustainability initiatives, goals, and accomplishments and what’s in store for Northwestern moving forward.
  • Presenting in a Remote World
    Wednesday, September 23, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    In today’s world of remote presenting and online meetings, those who can rise above the inherent challenges will stand out and benefit their organizations and themselves. Longtime presentation expert and Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Nolan Haims will s...
  • Master the Art of Leveraging Your Network During the Pandemic
    Friday, September 18, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    When you’re dealing with a challenging problem, you might feel:
    -Isolated and alone
    -A struggle to move forward
    -Overwhelmed

    When you’re connected to the people in your network, all of this can go away. You can...
    -Feel happier
    -Be more confiden...
  • Improv @ Work: What We Can Learn from the Funny World
    Thursday, September 10, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    How can we transform today’s stressed and rushed work environment into a more collaborative and creative one – just like the improvisational comedy (“improv”) world?

    From the vantage point of one of the business world’s own, with a background in ...
  • 5 Steps to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for Recruiter Searches
    Thursday, September 3, 2020 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Even in our COVID-19 world, recruiting and hiring continues and there's no better place to showcase your skills and strengths than LinkedIn. With 1M+ recruiter accounts and 89% of recruiters checking LinkedIn profiles for applicants, if you don't ...
  • A Scientist’s Transition to Becoming a Tech CEO
    Tuesday, August 11, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Join Rheaply CEO Dr. Garry Cooper, Jr. to learn about his experience as a scientist turned tech CEO, and how his background in neuroscience powers Rheaply's vision today to scale the circular economy with technology. Dr. Cooper will walk through t...
  • Recession-Proofing Your Career
    Wednesday, July 29, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Have the realities of the post COVID-19 economy started to hit home? Many are furloughed, laid-off, fired, or living with the fear that their job is at risk, particularly as PPP funds run out and many employers face difficult decisions.

    You mig...
  • Career Management in Uncertain Economic Times
    Thursday, May 21, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Many professionals today are understandably concerned about job security. Furloughs and layoffs are happening regularly, entire industries are on the ropes, and no one knows for sure how long the economic downturn will last. Whether you're current...
Transitions
  • Uncertainty, Attention, and Flow
    Thursday, May 28, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    In a world of extreme uncertainty, we must better manage what we pay attention to. Attention management is the mindful practice of daily flow: being present, resisting distractions, navigating situations, and staying focused on what matters most. ...
  • Ask the Expert: Answering Your Questions About the Graduate School Research/Application Process
    Wednesday, April 22, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    In this webinar, Dr. Don Martin, former graduate school admissions dean (including at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business), will answer que...
  • Create Your Own Personal Economy
    Tuesday, April 7, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Do you know you have the power to create your own personal economy? The novel COVID-19 (aka, coronavirus) is a great reminder of why we must do so. Fact is… money is a major component of our lives. Yet so many people shy away from developing syste...
  • 3 Secrets to Successful Aging
    Wednesday, March 11, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Marianne Oehser, author of Your Happiness Portfolio® for Retirement: It’s Not About the Money, will tell us about how to age successfully. You will hear about:

    • How and what you think about aging affects how you age
    • Myths about aging that do n...
  • Career Transitions: Finding Your Fulfillment
    Thursday, September 12, 2019 · 11:00 AM CDT
    For those of us considering the prospect of a career transition, change can be daunting. In this engaging webinar, Stephen Kohler, NU alum & certified leadership coach, will describe his own journey of facing and thriving through a career transit...
  • Researching Grad Schools & Making the Most of Informational Interviews
    Thursday, June 6, 2019 · 11:00 AM CDT
    The graduate school experience is in many ways about finding the right program. In other words, a match for you and the institution at which you enroll. Sadly, many prospective graduate students tend to focus most of their attention on preparing...
  • Career Transitioning: What You Need to Know
    Monday, April 29, 2019 · 11:00 AM CDT
    With today’s low unemployment rate, more people are considering changing jobs than ever before. However, it can be hard to know where to start. This webinar will inform viewers what to consider before leaving their current role and strategies to h...
  • Humanity Works: Future-Proofing Your Organization and Career
    Thursday, March 7, 2019 · 12:00 PM CST
    The business world is in the process of rapid transformation. The only way to have a sustainable competitive advantage in a constantly evolving, uncertain, virtual, global, automated environment is to be prepared. In this webinar hosted by interna...
  • Financing Graduate School or a Career Transition
    Tuesday, February 19, 2019 · 11:00 AM CST
    Thinking about pursuing a graduate degree or making a career change, and wondering about how to make the transition, in particular, on the financial end of things? We invite you to join us for an insightful and practical webinar that will address...
  • A Breakthrough Vision & Goal Setting Process to Create a Life You Love
    Wednesday, January 16, 2019 · 12:00 PM CST
    In this workshop you will clarify your business and personal dreams and design your freedom pathway to a breakthrough year in 2019. (Includes guided coaching, exercises, and a helpful workbook to take home with you.)
  • How to Do More and Make More with your Retirement Account
    Tuesday, October 16, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Find out how to combine the tax advantages of your IRA or 401(k) with the returns generated by Real Estate, Private Equity (including crowdfunding), Gold, Private lending, cryptocurrency, and more. Join us for this no-nonsense, fact filled presen...
  • What's Next After Finding Success
    Tuesday, September 25, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    We spend such an inordinate amount of time trying to define and become successful in our personal and professional lives that we are often unaware of when we have achieved our goals. Furthermore, many of us often look back and realize that we have...
Leadership
  • Executive Presence During a Time of Crisis
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Do you ever have that feeling that things just “work out” for some people while others struggle to move forward? Executive presence is that mysterious “soft” skill that tends to elude and confuse professionals. In the midst of that confusion, many...
  • Leading, Remotely, During a Crisis
    Tuesday, May 12, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    The aftereffects of the current pandemic are going to be with us for a while. Understanding how to lead teams during a crisis, balancing the emotional health and productivity of your team, is even harder when people are distributed and remote. Lea...
  • Critical Leadership Skills for the New Normal
    Wednesday, May 6, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    2020 has ushered in truly unprecedented challenges as businesses struggle to keep up with demand for necessary goods and services or fight to reduce costs, shift focus and survive the disruptions caused the Covid pandemic. Globally, millions are a...
  • Accelerate the Development of Emerging Leaders
    Thursday, April 30, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    There is an urgent need for effective leadership in our institutions of higher learning, government and corporations. Emerging leaders are all around us, but they need help developing into effective leaders. This session will explain what it means...
  • The Extraordinary Impact of Best Bosses
    Thursday, January 9, 2020 · 11:00 AM CST
    Every leader should strive to create followership and engagement with their people. This is a central tenant to Duncan Ferguson’s leadership philosophy and coaching approach.
    Utilizing Vantage’s Accelerated Development Model (ADM), Duncan helps le...
  • Let Go of Doubt & Become the Leader of Your Life
    Wednesday, November 6, 2019 · 11:00 AM CST
    Do self-doubt, exhaustion, and stress keep you from living your best life? Discover an easier way of living – – where you can experience better results for your life and career with more ease and joy.

    We’ll work on the following:
    o Understandi...
  • The Leadership Paradox: Building & Maintaining Trust
    Wednesday, April 10, 2019 · 12:00 PM CDT
    A leader’s behavior molds the culture of his or her team, while the leader themselves is molded by the culture of their organization at large - something at times referred to as the Leadership Paradox. But this paradox goes deeper; it reaches eac...
  • Next-Generation Management: What You Need to Lead into the Future
    Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · 12:00 PM CST
    As Boomers retire, Millennials take over the majority of the workforce and a new generation comes in, the expectations and demands of a manager have changed and continue to change. What employees want is different. What keeps employees loyal to or...
  • Executive Presence: What Is It and Can You Get More
    Wednesday, December 5, 2018 · 12:00 PM CST
    Ask business leaders what it takes to get to the top, and invariably “executive presence” will be on the shortlist. Sometimes it’s called charisma, other times leadership, and most generally it’s simply called presence. Is this something you have?...
  • The Next Play: Leadership and Career Development for Athletes
    Tuesday, October 30, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Athletics at any level can help to develop critical leadership and career skills. Employers love to recruit high school and college athletes for their skills in teamwork, resiliency, time management, discipline, and communication. However, athle...
  • Finding and Keeping Your High Potential Employees
    Wednesday, October 10, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    In today’s increasingly competitive market place, employees often have many choices and are not afraid to leave a job for one that gives them more chance to grow and shine. Identifying and retaining the rising and future leadership stars in your o...
Self-Care
  • A Playbook for Self-Care in the Workplace
    Thursday, February 11, 2021 · 2:00 PM CST
    According to the World Health Organization (WHO), self-care is “what people do for themselves to establish and maintain health, and to prevent and deal with illness.” Soft-tissue injuries are treated with compression and ice, so what resources are...
  • Mindfulness & Mindset Tips to De-Stress and Cultivate Wellbeing
    Wednesday, October 21, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Many of us, as Henry David Thoreau famously said, “lead lives of quiet desperation,” and these days, stress, anxiety, and overwhelm have been increasing at alarming rates. Part of the problem is the relationship we have with our brains – many of u...
  • Getting Calm in Our Burnt-Out World
    Tuesday, March 10, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    While stress and burnout have been stigmatized since the Greek Classical era, the desperate calls for help among current generations has made stress and burnout relief a hot topic across all professions – including students and athletes.

    But is t...
  • Food as Medicine
    Friday, March 8, 2019 · 12:00 PM CST
    This presentation provides an overview of the power of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle habits that promote wellness. You will learn evidence-based information about foods that have been shown to prevent and reverse diabetes, heart disease, and...
  • Align With the Power of Your Voice
    Thursday, January 24, 2019 · 12:00 PM CST
    Voice is the wave of the future…

    Explore how Voiceover and your expertise can open opportunities that:

    • Align yourself with the power and possibilities of your voice

    • Enrich your life

    • Diversify your income

    and

    • Get your voic...
  • Anxiety: Benefits and Drawbacks
    Wednesday, December 12, 2018 · 12:00 PM CST
    Dr. Thomas Alm, Clinical Psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern, will discuss how our brains evolved to be primed for threat but how often our level of response doesn’t match the threat we are facing. He will talk about the benefits...
  • Emotional Fitness: Well-Being in the Midst of Strong Emotions
    Thursday, November 15, 2018 · 12:00 PM CST
    Difficult situations can become manageable, in your personal or professional life, with emotional fitness. In this webinar, you’ll hear what it takes to be emotionally fit, so that you can re-connect to yourself and others. You will learn:

    • Th...
  • Live Longer and Better: 9 Lessons from the Blue Zones Project!
    Wednesday, October 17, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Want to live longer, better? Living an active, fulfilling life well into your 90’s – and possibly your 100’s- may be easier than you think! Longevity expert Dan Buettner traveled the world to meet the planet’s longest lived people in unique commun...
  • Manage Stress by Improving Your Self-Talk
    Wednesday, September 12, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Let’s face it, life isn’t always easy. Many of us spend our days running from one thing to the next with little time to breathe, leaving us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Although our stress is often triggered by events outside our control, th...
  • Mindfulness & Self Care for Busy Professionals
    Wednesday, June 20, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Many find that the beginning of summer offers an opportunity to slow the hectic pace of professional life down, at least a bit. Whether your pace will slow down or not, this time of year can provide an opportunity to do some self-care and start so...
  • Can We Really Have It All?
    Tuesday, March 6, 2018 · 12:00 PM CST
    During the past 40 years, dual-income households have nearly doubled, and female breadwinning households are on the rise. In this discussion, we will cover the unique challenges dual-income couples face from the “second-shift” to the current child...
  • How to Find Success in Balance
    Wednesday, November 15, 2017 · 12:00 PM CST
    Do you crave better work-life balance but aren't quite sure how to make it happen without jeopardizing your goals? Join Apryl Zarate Schlueter '02, Happiness/Productivity Coach and Author of Finding Success in Balance: My Journey to The Cheerful M...
Relationships
  • How to Crush Your 2021 Goals and Resolutions with a Mentor
    Thursday, January 28, 2021 · 11:00 AM CST
    You’re a high achiever and you have important goals you’re striving for in the New Year. Whether these goals are personal, professional, or both, we’ll explore the power of mentorship to accelerate your success in reaching and exceeding these goal...
  • Strategies to Manage Parenting, Remote Schooling and Your Career
    Thursday, October 8, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Living in the midst of the COVID pandemic has exposed us to how connected we all are and how much we depend on one another. It has also pushed us into needing to learn how to navigate trying to be all things to all people - namely our families and...
  • Surprising Support Techniques for Your Teen’s Pandemic Angst
    Friday, August 7, 2020 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Stay-at-home during this COVID-19 pandemic just shifted from “let’s try to flatten the curve for a few months” into a long-haul situation with so many unknowns. And a huge unknown is this: How are our teens really handling the series of disappoint...
  • How to NOT Take Things Personally
    Tuesday, February 11, 2020 · 11:00 AM CST
    It can be hard to maintain objectivity when our insecurities and angst take over—especially if we are unfamiliar with our feelings and how to regulate them. If you find yourself holding grudges, ruminating on how you’ve been wronged, or cutting pe...
  • Building Strong Relationships between Emerging Adults & Their Parents
    Tuesday, April 23, 2019 · 11:00 AM CDT
    Young people are taking longer to transition from adolescence into full-fledged adulthood – this new developmental phase, called emerging adulthood, can hold great opportunity but presents unique challenges to modern families. In this webinar I’ll...
  • We Teach People How to Treat Us
    Monday, March 4, 2019 · 11:00 AM CST
    Amy Freed, Core Faculty for the Master’s Program in Counseling at The Family Institute of Northwestern, will share insights into how our past relationships and experiences impact how we allow ourselves to be treated in the present. Freed will shar...
  • Resolving Conflict Effectively: How to Establish Respect & Connection
    Wednesday, February 20, 2019 · 12:00 PM CST
    Jayne Kinsman, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, will discuss common scenarios that create conflict in relationships with loved ones, friends or at work. She will then describe specific skills and tools anyone can use to resolve a conflict ...
  • Sick and Tired: Marriage in the Face of Illness.
    Tuesday, December 4, 2018 · 12:00 PM CST
    This webinar will address the chronic strains and stressors of both living with a romantic partner who has a serious illness and being a person with a serious illness who is married. We call this webinar Sick and Tired to connote the stressors as...
  • Creating and Maintaining Intimacy in a Long-Term Romantic Relationship
    Friday, April 13, 2018 · 12:00 PM CDT
    Love takes work. We know that to be true, yet with the demands of kids, jobs, volunteer work, and family, it is all too easy to put our romantic relationships on the back burner. In this webinar, Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon will discuss what it takes...
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