Friday, July 15 2016
TO: Campus Community
FR: Melinda Crawford, Manager, Employment/Training & Development, Human Resources
RE: SAVE THE DATES 7/21 and 8/31 - All Staff Invitation to the Gaucho Growth Speaker Series for Summer 2016
Marc Fisher, Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services, in partnership with Human Resources, is hosting the Gaucho Growth speaker series this summer for staff. For detailed program and presenter bio information, visit https://www.learningcenter.ucsb.edu/. Click here for the event flyer and additional resource information (http://www.hr.ucsb.edu/sites/www.hr.ucsb.edu/files/docs/training/Gaucho%20Growth%20Series%20flyer.pdf). Supervisors are encouraged to support staff requests for professional development release time to attend these events, consistent with policy and collective bargaining agreements.
For all of you who attended Jeffrey Hanson’s presentation on Wednesday as part of the Gaucho Growth series, we thank you for your attendance and hope that you learned many new insights about preparing and delivering oral presentations.
Below are our featured speakers for July 21st and August 31st. We look forward to having you join us and please bring your cell phone or web enabled mobile device if you want to participate in a new interactive tool for live audience polling!
Speaker: Laura Kray, Professor, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Unlocking the Power of Growth Mindsets for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Time: 1:00 pm-3:00 pm at the Corwin Pavilion
Laura Kray is the Warren E. and Carol Spieker Professor of Leadership at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, where she has been on the faculty since 2002. ray’s research has been featured in a wide range of media outlets, including Washington Post, National Public Radio, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Financial Times, Slate, Forbes, Huffington Post, Daily Beast, Scientific American, Business Week, and Time.com. She is the founding director of the Women’s Executive Leadership Program of the Center for Executive Education at UC Berkeley.
Speakers: Jason and Jodi Womack, co-authors and executive coaches (and UCSB alumni)
Getting Momentum: How to Start When You’re Stuck
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Time: 1:00 pm-3:00 pm (followed by book-signing) at the Corwin Pavilion
Jason and Jodi Womack met in the front row of a California History class here at UCSB. Almost 10 years ago, they founded their own consulting firm, the Womack Company. In more than 40 states and 23 countries, Jodi and Jason have met with and helped busy professionals be more productive through coaching, consulting, their Get Momentum Leadership Academy, and now their book, Get Momentum: How to Start When You’re Stuck (Wiley, May 2016)*.