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Lake Forest Center for Leadership

The journey is never linear — we Bloom, we Burn, and we Breakthrough. In this keynote, Matt Sernaker will share the unique duality of his career and how his work in hospitality and entertainment has enabled him to craft impactful experiences for both audiences and employees.

From Balance to Breakthrough

Engagement &amp; Culture

Leadership

talent development

employee experience

well-being

CHIE2025

emotional intelligence

matt.sernaker

organizational culture

resilience

work-life balance

Personal Development

Leadership Journey

Leadership Insights

engagement strategy

breakthrough leadership

practical wisdom

culture design

Endeavor Health

With COVID, the wellbeing of our workforce took on a whole new meaning.  As we come out of this, organizations are being asked to provide greater support and resources to help employees thrive in the workplace.  This goes beyond the typical approach of employee engagement and workplace benefits like EAP.  Dialogue with Talent leaders across multiple industries on their approaches to address wellbeing in all its different forms–mental, emotional, and physical.  Learn and collaborate to develop new ideas for nourishing wellbeing in your organizations.

NorthShore Wellbeing

samir.desai

resilence

resilient workforce

brady.bair

recharge

recovery

healthy workforce

CARE model

leading well-being

nourishing wellbeing

CHIE2022

ELE Group, LLC

Session Focus: Embracing the diversity of workstyles and bringing equity to the core of teams.

Some companies worry that hybrid work options will result in a productivity decline. By embracing the diversity of work styles, leaders can build trust and embrace the purpose of equity. Inclusion comes when leaders invite everyone to participate in the standards to which we’ve all agreed to work in this new space. Join our discussion as we reverse engineer DEI and how your team can feel supported in the hybrid workspace of your organization.

Together, let’s explore:

✅ Leaders are challenged to differentiate preferences in a way that is equitable and doesn’t get you in trouble for treating people differently. As leaders, what is the impact on equity and inclusion if we have a “sameness” approach because we believe we have to treat everyone the same?

✅ If you are a people leader, how does your style differ from other people in your team, and what are strategies you can do to be more inclusive for those who differ?

✅ As leaders or as an organization, how are you practicing tolerance of preference of workstyles (i.e. working parent vs single employee)?

If you would like to dig deeper into Embracing the diversity of workstyles and bringing equity to the core of teams, here are two resources:

✅ <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/diversity-inclusion-post-pandemic-world-shreya-choubey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI in Post Pandemic World</a> (Fortune, May 2020)

✅ <a href="https://fortune.com/2021/06/24/designing-for-inclusion-post-covid-office-workplace-business-leadership-dei/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Business Leaders are Designing for Inclusion in the Post Pandemic Workplace</a> (Fortune, June 2021)

This Learning Circle – Culture Shaping is produced by Executive Learning Exchange.

Workstyles Diversity: Shapes Culture, Equity, Inclusion And Belonging

engagement &amp; culture

Integrated Talent Management

retention

alison.cowan

tomas.ramirez

learning culture

culture

joanne.prochnow

jesse.james

return to workplace

Empathy

employee engagement

karen.gilley

lynn.yazbec

brigette.richaerson

trust

scenario planning

betty.hart

agile leaders

ruben.abarca

return to office

hybrid workplace

hybrid professional

julie.hassel

Equitable Inclusive

erika.whyte

GoPositiv

A recent paradox has emerged as employee engagement has risen slightly, but well-being has suffered a decline. As we transition from a COVID-19 environment to a post-COVID environment, well-being is playing a key role. We’ll discuss this perplexing challenge, seek to understand these divergent realities, and discuss the role of positive psychology and its relation to well-being.

Why is Positivity Critical for Future Success?

Change Management

don.sandel

janice.simmons

kevin.rillo

strength

high performance

insights-wise-2021

annotation

Gensler

Current circumstances in our country and the world thrust organizations into the reality that the future of work is NOW. What does this mean for talent management leaders and the people in your organizations? There aren’t any playbooks or best practices for us to reference. This is a time for reinvention. What will it take to keep talent aligned with the business while addressing the health and well-being of every human being in the workplace yet to be defined?
<h6 class="font-weight-bold m-0">Discussion Points:</h6>
In this session, we will focus our discussion on two questions:

<ol class="pl-4">
 	<li>What does "ReTooling" mean regarding new key competencies, practices, and priorities for yourselves and other leaders.</li>
 	<li>What talent management strategies do you recognize need to stop, start and continue in the context of uncertainty?</li>
</ol>

Building a Resilient Workforce

future of work

integrated talent management

Strategy

brian.watkins

nick.allen

transformation

kacie.walters

upskilling

thomas.stone@i4cp.com

agility

katrina.williams

agile mindset

workforce development

LAK Group

Session Focus: Linking happiness, optimism + positivity to high performance

When we are happy, optimistic and positive, the physiology of the brain changes; it literally changes.

Research for positive psychology, effects of happiness on the brain, dates back to the 1990s. Since then, reams of data, thousands of studies, decades of research, and a serious application of the scientific method have provided irrefutable proof that we perform better when in HOP (happiness, optimism + positivity).
<blockquote>To quote Shawn Achor, “our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive.”</blockquote>
This 90-minute Culture Shaping Learning Circle:

• Engages an open discussion forum for leaders to share ideas and challenges they are facing as they seek to sustain workplace cultural norms in uncertain times and the progress they are making.

• Explores challenges striving to develop a culture of continuous learning by developing coaching strategies and fostering a collaborative working environment.

• Encourages Case studies on how member companies working to sustain design thinking practices in a virtual and remote workplace.

Balancing Well-Being with Happiness & Positivity

michael.grubich

teresa.oliszewicz

happy

happiness

Session Focus: Embracing the diversity of workstyles and bringing equity to the core of teams.

Some companies worry that hybrid work options will result in a productivity decline. By embracing the diversity of work styles, leaders can build trust and embrace the purpose of equity. Inclusion comes when leaders invite everyone to participate in the standards to which we’ve all agreed to work in this new space. Join our discussion as we reverse engineer DEI and how your team can feel supported in the hybrid workspace of your organization.

Together, let's explore:
<ol>
 	<li>? Leaders are challenged to differentiate preferences in a way that is equitable and doesn’t get you in trouble for treating people differently. As leaders, what is the impact on equity and inclusion if we have a “sameness” approach because we believe we have to treat everyone the same?</li>
 	<li>? If you are a people leader, how does your style differ from other people in your team, and what are strategies you can do to be more inclusive for those who differ?</li>
 	<li>? As leaders or as an organization, how are you practicing tolerance of preference of workstyles (i.e. working parent vs single employee)?</li>
</ol>
If you would like to dig deeper into Embracing the diversity of workstyles and bringing equity to the core of teams, here are two resources:
<ul>
 	<li>✅ <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/diversity-inclusion-post-pandemic-world-shreya-choubey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI in Post Pandemic World</a> (Fortune, May 2020)</li>
 	<li>✅ <a href="https://fortune.com/2021/06/24/designing-for-inclusion-post-covid-office-workplace-business-leadership-dei/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Business Leaders are Designing for Inclusion in the Post Pandemic Workplace</a> (Fortune, June 2021)</li>
</ul>
This Learning Circle – Culture Shaping is produced by Executive Learning Exchange.

Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-exchange/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Workstyles Diversity: Shapes Culture, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

single-event

Team Leaders

Learning Circles

kym.anglin

online event

Session Focus: Linking happiness, optimism + positivity to high performance

When we are happy, optimistic and positive, the physiology of the brain changes; it literally changes.

Research for positive psychology, effects of happiness on the brain, dates back to the 1990s. Since then, reams of data, thousands of studies, decades of research, and a serious application of the scientific method have provided irrefutable proof that we perform better when in HOP (happiness, optimism + positivity).
<blockquote>To quote Shawn Achor, “our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive.”</blockquote>
This 90-minute Culture Shaping Learning Circle:

• Engages an open discussion forum for leaders to share ideas and challenges they are facing as they seek to sustain workplace cultural norms in uncertain times and the progress they are making.

• Explores challenges striving to develop a culture of continuous learning by developing coaching strategies and fostering a collaborative working environment.

• Encourages Case studies on how member companies working to sustain design thinking practices in a virtual and remote workplace.

This Learning Circle – Culture Shaping is produced by Executive Learning Exchange.

Linking Happiness, Optimism + Positivity to Balance Well-Being & Stress

Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.

In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Designing Your Life - How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life

design thinking

newton.moore

innovation

heather.tunison

Coaching

purpose

yolanda.mangram

Creativity

Mindfulness

Personal Growth

Self-Discovery

meaning

Life Design

Career Design

Prototyping

Experimentation

Life Coaching

laura.sandera

deepa.kartha

ali.glaser

Exercise and diet are critical factors in the etiology and prevention of chronic disease. While most books on chronic disease have a decided clinical approach, Diet, Exercise, and Chronic Disease: The Biological Basis of Prevention brings together the latest cellular- and molecular-based research on the etiology of chronic diseases and the impact of various aspects of diet and exercise on the causal mechanisms. Focusing on cellular biology reveals details of the integrative nature of the many different underlying factors―elements that are not evident in the general clinical approach to chronic disease.

This book highlights chronic diseases that are significant causes of mortality and have sufficient molecular evidence for dietary and activity-related components to their etiology. Individual chapters examine the role of diet and exercise in diabetes, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease. They cover aspects such as disease etiology, effects of diet and exercise, and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of how various dietary components and repeated exercise alter disease etiology to contribute to disease prevention.

This reference translates molecular-based data on etiology and prevention into a clinical prescription for chronic disease prevention. Since inflammatory signaling is a fundamental component of the chronic diseases discussed, the book includes a separate chapter on inflammation and innate immune responses. The book also reviews what is known about the factors that influence human food intake. Obesity as a contributing factor is addressed within the specific disease chapters.

Diet, Exercise, and Chronic Disease: The Biological Basis of Prevention

Uncategorized

evidence-based research

wellness

murray.ardies

wellbeing

From the world’s leading thinker on innovation and New York Times bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, comes an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom for achieving a fulfilling life. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, notably the only business book that Apple’s Steve Jobs said “deeply influenced” him, is widely recognized as one of the most significant business books ever published. Now, in the tradition of Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture and Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life is a book of lucid observations and penetrating insights designed to help any reader—student or teacher, mid-career professional or retiree, parent or child—forge their own paths to fulfillment.

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