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Minneapolis Series of Experts

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Minneapolis Series of Experts Calendar:

Awakening the Entrepreneur Within:  Starting With a Practical Business Plan

If you’re ready to translate what you know and who you are into your own successful business, this interactive session will give you the inside scoop on the strategies, systems, and tools you need for planning your start up and keeping it on the path to success. 

Becoming Promotable: Creative Career Tips for What’s Next

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Don’t wait another minute! Using entertaining personal anecdotes and advice from successful women she has interviewed for her books and articles, Lindsey Pollak will share tips and secrets for finding your perfect career field and using expert networking and communication tips to achieve your loftiest goals. Learn top strategies for developing online and offline connections, making the most of networking events, branding yourself in your industry, and other creative strategies for success. Get ready to be inspired to take specific, strategic action to achieve your career dreams…today!

Career Transitions: Strategies for Successfully Changing Lanes

Whatever your circumstances, transitions affecting your career may be frightening and confusing.  April knows that a career transition can erode your confidence.  She is passionate about helping women have the confidence and moxie to transition successfully.  April will help you clarify your career path and give you practical strategies for identifying your passion and purpose, implementing new interviewing tips, negotiating your salary and writing powerful resumes.

Creating Presence:  Your Get-Anything-You-Want Image

Closet full of clothes and nothing to wear?  Do you have clothing hanging in your closet with the tags still on?  Robin’s workshop will take you through the top 10 tried and true wardrobe strategies that can be applied to anyone regardless of age, weight and size to discover their best style and image, ultimately helping both men and women discover, define and enhance their personal style. These insider tips can be used to consistently look and feel great everyday and use your clothing and visual appearance to support your professional and social goals.

Dealing With the Pink Slip:  How to Create Possibility from Life’s Disappointments

Whether you’ve been fired or laid off, or had a business or marriage that went belly-up, you probably think that they were devastating failures. If you’ve ever been in this position and felt like you’ve been left to the wings of fate – think again!  This is the kick in the butt you’ve needed to push yourself in the direction of a more authentic and fulfilled you!  Listen to Kristina Leonardi as she explains how dealing with the “pink slip” and other unplanned life transitions could be the very best thing that has ever happened to you!

Decoding the Business World:  Understanding Financial Statements

So, you are interested in starting a business, finding investors, applying for funding, or investing in a business? Or maybe you’d like to get a handle on how your current business is doing? Then it’s time to jump in and learn what financial statements tell us about a business‘s health, growth and potential.  Learn how to read them, how to use them and what to focus on to improve your business.  Use them to help decide what your next move should be. Lisa Kramer’s approach to this topic is informed by a wealth of experience as a Business Management Consultant to many different types of businesses.  We’ll look at how financial data is set-up and maintained in order to create meaningful financial statements that address so much more than just getting your taxes filed.  Obtain a basic understanding of “Financial Statements 101” to unlock your financial potential… and we’ll actually have fun doing this together!

Funding Your Dreams:  Starting a Business With Only $100

How many times have you wanted to start a business or a special project, but felt that it would be impossible to do? Wild Women Entrepreneurs president/founder, Ja-Nae Duane, will show you exactly what she did: Start a Successful Business with $100.  Ja-Nae will show you vital tools that are essential to every business, that will cost you virtually nothing. Ja-Nae will also take you step by step on how to begin on your exciting new venture.  Come and let Ja-Nae unlock the WILD business woman in YOU!

I am a Brand!

Have you ever thought of yourself as a brand?  If not, you’re missing out on an opportunity to live the life you imagine for yourself . . . professionally and personally.  Defining who you are as a brand is an important aspect of self-development.  It’s an exercise that you’ll find empowering and fascinating.  During this presentation, Fran & Bill will share behavioral insights and tools that will enable you to brand yourself, and understand other people’s brand.  It’s a life-changing presentation of discovery . . . and it’s fun!

It’s Always Something:

Strategies to Stop the Excuses & Start Living at Your Potential 

Have excuses kept you from creating the life and career that you desire? In this empowering, interactive workshop, Certified Life Coach, Jennifer Sherman will help you shatter the cycle of excuses that are holding you back from tapping into your true abilities and reaching your goals. You will learn powerful strategies to:

*Move from problem-focused to solution-oriented

*Get honest with where you are in your life and how you may be standing in your own way.

*Break the cycle of excuses through awareness, planning and commitment.

*Design an action plan for creating powerful, positive change in your life.

Jumping Off the Teeter Totter: Putting the Life Back in Work-Life Balance

Living your Life Inspired by Living it Your way! You choose! Everyone makes choices every day. Some are conscious, some not so. By exploring choices and making the best ones, we become empowered. Life, jobs, relationships and finances all become choices rather than chance. This is as important in business as in life. While this may seem like common sense, it is often difficult to incorporate into daily thinking. Through speaking and training it is my goal, my mission, my pleasure to help others realize their ability to make choices and allow themselves to thrive rather than simply survive.

Learning Lessons from Women Who Have Followed Their Dreams

What does it mean to be an entrepreneur and what does it take to run a business?  Lifelong Social Entrepreneur, Melanie McEvoy, will discuss her experience as an organizer for social causes and then as a business owner representing social cause oriented non-profits and progressive candidates. 

Productivity- Move It or Lose It!

In today's hectic workplaces time management is out the window and it's super-productivity that gets the results. The secrets of super-productivity are not about working more; they're about focusing your time, effort and energy on the things that will deliver the best results for you. Neen's session is jam-packed full of super-productivity tips and techniques that you can use today! You need to stop being so busy and start achieving. What's the difference? Super-productivity is not about time management. It is about doing less of the things that don't make any difference, more of the things that create an impact – and being able to tell which is which!

Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is

Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is encourages women to take charge of their financial future in order to achieve their dreams.While women have made many strides, they continue to live longer, earn less, have fewer earning years due to child birth and receive less money in retirement. Whether your goal is to buy a home, fund your children’s education or retire comfortably, taking control of your finances is critical. This special workshop addresses women’s unique financial issues from their 20’s to retirement. Topics include 3 steps to financial freedom, solutions for every stage of your life and creating a plan that’s right for you.

Sales Skills:  The Art of Selling Ice Cubes to Eskimos

“Selling is the transference of feeling,” Zig Ziglar

So how do you accomplish the transference of feeling when you go to sell ice to Eskimos, or sell an idea to your boss, or sell a product or service to a prospect, or sell the movie you want to see to a group of friends? This breakout session will introduce a six step sales process from the introduction through the close and follow-up. Participants will understand the importance of focusing on the wants and needs of others and transferring the feeling.

Show Me the Money: Negotiating for More of What You Deserve

Almost every interaction we have involves some form of negotiation whether it’s who will take out the trash to what raise you are going to receive to the price you will pay on your next new car. Participants will learn how to create opportunities for mutual gains that enhance relationships, identify ways in which we get in our own way, and learn strategies for getting out of our own way. Through self-analysis, case studies and discussions, participants will learn the basics of negotiating with an emphasis on improving their bottom line.

Strategic Planning for Your Financial Life

Women can empower themselves to take control of their financial futures. Kim will be discussing how to do this using an holistic model that allows you to view your entire financial landscape on a single “blueprint”, and understand the inter-relationships of each component of your financial world.  This process is called the yourPFO and the Personal financial Engineering Process.  Kim will be focusing on 4 general concepts: Lost Opportunity Cost, Velocity of Money, Leverage, Liquidity, Control and “Permission Slip”, as well as guarding against dangers that erode wealth: Premature Death or Disability, Increased Taxes, Inflation and Volatile Markets.